Sui And Tang Dynasties' View Of Life And Death

The paper attempts to discuss the relationship between the ideas of life and death on social life in Sui and Tang Dynasty. Guided by Mr.Chen Yinque’s ideas’seeing history from the perspectives of people at that time’, this paper tries to seek facts from trivial things on the basis of historical materials. This paper not only has a panoramic view on the backgroud, but also pays attention to microcosmic evidences so as to keep it strict and credible. Except for the introduction part, this paper is composed of three chapters.The first chapter discuss the history of witch doctor. There is a thorough analysis about the origin and history of witch doctor in Chinese medicines. And Chinese medicine thinks that people fall ill for some witch reasons which are cause by some external evil forces. People in Sui and Tang Dynasty shared the same views about sickness, so they consider life and death in their special ways.The second chaper is the major point of this paper. The author thinks that there are two different points of view to define medicine and treatment in ancient time of China:first, it consider as witch doctor; second, there are some historical examples about how people treat illness in rational intelligence. Also religions are another main concept in normal people’s mind which should be considered as the reaction of the society. People’s knowledeg about illness are exlpored with the assistance of historical record.The last part concludes the whole paper.