Sorcery Culture In The Visual Field Of Literary Anthropology

As an important constituent part of Chinese traditional culture, the sorcery culture have a great effect on the every aspects of Chinese culture development, the literature creation is no exception. From the witchcraft occurrence theory of the literature origin, to the occurrence of Zhouyi and Classic of Mountains and Rivers, to the creations of numerous stories about the ghosts and gods during some thousand history, to the rise of the newly arisen magic novels which integrate foreign magic mode and traditional myths and legends of our country, we can see the shadows of the sorcery culture everywhere. The sorcery thought has an important relationship with the germination of literature. The sorcery and sorcery ceremony also greatly affect the appearance and development of the literature. As the source of many literary works, myth, from its birth, has a connection with the sorcery culture. The sorcery culture plays an important role in the literary creation. Not only from Zhouyi and Classic of Mountains and Rivers, but also from Quyuan's works, we can see the influence of the sorcery culture. It offers the creation background to a lot of literary works, and exerts a neglectable influence on shaping characters and promoting plot development, even there are many literature works use tools with sorcery colour as important clues. From the ancient sacrifice ballads to contemporary magic novels, although the sorcery culture combines with the literature in different forms, they aren't apart all the time. On the way of the literature's development, the sorcery culture might look for a new link to converge with the literature, but they will never each go its own way.