Research On Sorcery And Ghost Culture Of Jing Chu Sui Shi Ji

The sorcery and ghost culture is the universal faith and behavior in Chinese community, and it is pierced through the whole history of ancient Chinese culture, whose metaphor core is even still surviving in the contemporary community. So far, the research on the academic theories of sorcery and ghost culture is still immaturity, however, some scholars of religions, ethnology, anthropology and ethnology have already focused on this field. Xu Hua Long has proposed"Establish a new subject——Study in Ghost". This is a great turn to the study of sorcery and ghost culture.This essay is based on the book"Jing Chu Sui Shi Ji", studying the sorcery and ghost faith in the festival celebration, trying to show the representation of sorcery and ghost faith, and making use of the theories of semeiology, hermeneutic, comparison and function to explain the culture. Try hard to dig out the hidden content from the complicated folk matters, and thus draw a picture of Jing Chu people's living.There is an introduction in front of the essay, a conclusion at the end, and the text is totally divided into five chapters.The introduction gives an account to the purpose and meaning of the essay, the definition of the research object, the research fruit and the research shortage.The first chapter is the summary of Jing Chu Sui Shi Ji. It mainly introduces the author and the scholiast; tidies up the background; describes the character of the style.The second chapter firstly defines the cultural foundation of Jing Chu Sui Shi Ji——Jing Chu Culture, and then makes use of the comparison to tidy up the Jing Chu people's living. And thus it is easy to know that Jing Chu culture has an effect on the Jing Chu people's living.The third chapter is a idiographic show on the sorcery and ghost faith in Jing Chu Sui Shi Ji. And folk matters is classified as ghost world, ghost expulsion and magical ceremony.The fourth chapter explains the deep cultural content of sorcery and ghost idea of Jing Chu Sui Shi Ji. Firstly, hermeneutic is used to explain the history source of sorcery and ghost culture's creation; secondly, semeiology is used to dig out the meaning behind the folk matters; thirdly, psychoanalysis is used to analyse the motivation of the sorcery and ghost faith; lastly, function theory is used to explain two folk function of the sorcery and ghost faith.The fifth chapter introduces the circumstances of sorcery and ghost faith in contemporary, and then explains the worth and the way to rebuild the sorcery and ghost faith under the view of non-matter cultural heritage, and thus reconsider the trend of the sorcery and ghost faith.The search point of this essay is to learn the folk matters from the literature, and then delineate the civil folk's life at that time, and more the research method expand the field of the folklore. So the author makes an analysis at the conclusion.