| The reason that the witchcraft arise is the in development of the technology in ancient society. The intention of witchcraft is to provide the serve for the security needs such as avoiding crisis and seeking profit, we can see witchcraft even nowadays in some areas of social life. Witchcraft gradually integrated into human culture as an ideology, there is some certain influence to social action of human.Witchcraft prevailed in Song due to various reasons, and then permeated to all areas of life. Among the feudal hierarchical society, witchcraft has played deferent roles for the ruling class and civil, the police of performance and banning to witchcraft shows that the deference of the function and the meaning for them.Witchcraft is generally advocated in Song and prevalent in both the upper class and the private though the forms are not identical. The upper class pays more attention about witchcraft in the age of solar term, political interest and officials need to worship these three aspects. The upper class at the age of solar term witchcraft is an extension of traditional witchcraft, the expression of the upper class for a better life expectations of success; ruling classes use their own mysterious magic, to consolidate its dominant position, is a political interests; the officer as the fans of witchcraft, witchcraft has expressed great expectations for them and show off the dual identity level required. Witchcraft in folk in Song is still mainly in the solar term seasonal, wedding and other witchcraft seriously. The meaning of witchcraft in folk is still the same with the tradition such as avoiding misfortune and seeking profit.The general attitude of respect to magic in Song had a profound impact on social life in lots of areas. Witchcraft is not only prevalent in the upper class, even more widely in the folk and cause a large number of witches, witchcraft top-down model of development makes it even more integrated with the religious influence of social ideology.The reason that the upper class in Song advocate witchcraft are showed followed: firstly, witchcraft can satisfy the ruling class to consolidate rule of rights; Secondly, the atmosphere is closely related to the prevalence of Taoism; thirdly, Finally, the atmosphere can't separated from the practice of the upper class, as the prevailing social elite, they have a profound impact on civil society. The reason that the witchcraft is popular in the folk lies in the following two aspects:First, under the conditions of backward technological level, people can not control illness and death, they make them afraid; Second, long-term war of social conditions, people living in poverty and witchcraft can provide the folks spiritual needs of security; Finally, the war have promote the integration of national and regional culture, witchcraft is same with the process of cultural prosperity.The prevalence of witchcraft increased the suffering of people's lives, but also a threat to the interests of the ruling class in some extent, which make them use witchcraft while taking some measures to ban it. Ruling class try to improve the civil medical condition and control the environment of witchcraft, they also promote Confucian culture in folk, to improve the customs. They say" witchcraft recipe for disaster", and have take some manners to refrain witchcraft. However, especially the ambiguous attitude of the ruling class, it have few results.The prevalence of witchcraft in Song has a big negative effect, which make the ruling class to take measures to fight against with it. Firstly, many armed uprising in Song use witchcraft for their own armed action and gain the support from the folks, which really be a direct threat to the interests of the ruling class; Secondly, witchcraft in the upper class and civil society, not only make increasing awareness of conflict, but also increased civil conflicts between different interest groups,, the intensification of social conflict also threatens the established social order in the Song.
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