Eidolons Symbolize People's Desires And Regrets

The novols about eidolon writeen before Song Dynasty are different from what are writeen after Song Dynasty,especially in Qing Dynasty,the last upsurge time of the novols about eidolon, on the image of eidolon and the relationship between eidolon and human.In the novels,the love stories between eidolon and human are always loved by people.This paper just want to compare the difference and alikeness between the novols writeen in Tang Dynasty and before about the sexual relations between eidolon and human.By analyzing the depth meaning of sexual relations between eidolon and human and the social conditions of these Dynasties,this paper want to find reasons why the image of eidolon and the relationship between eidolon and human in novels changed.I hope this analysis could help us to understand the change of the image of eidolon and the relationship between eidolon and human in novels from Tang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty better.The paper consists of three chapters:The first chapter summarize the process of the image of eidolon forming and growing.It consists of three parts:first, summarize the precise meaning of eidolon by discussing the difference and alikeness among god,ghost,monster and eidolon;second,summarize the clues of the image of eidolon forming and influention of god,ghost,monster to the image of eidolon by checking out the evolvement skeleton of the image of god,ghost and monster;at last, summarize the evolvement of eidolon in the mass by listing all novels about sexual relations between eidolon and human writeen before Song Dynasty.The second chapter summarize the extramarital sexual relations between eidolon and human into five kinds,and search depth meaning of every kind of stories by suming up intercommunity of storyline and image of eidolon,and doing spiritual analysis.Stories about"fraudulent extramarital sexual relations"reflect withstand between men's eager for love and nous or social discipline. In stories about"compulsive extramarital sexual relations", stories abouf"eidolon stealing women "reflect people's hatred to bandit, stories about"eidolon charming human" reflect struggle about intermarriage between the Second and the Third Estate. Stories about"freewill extramarital affair"reflect men's and women's eager for ideal marriage. Stories abouf"freewill one night stand"reflect the most instinctive lust in men's lives. Stories abouf"homosexual relation"reflect the homosexual appearance and people's opinion about it at that time.The third chapter summarize the marital sexual relations between eidolon and human into four kinds,their depth meaning are:Stories about"fraudulent marital sexual relations"reflect marriage problems women need to face and women's struggle to solve out them. Stories about"marriage without love"reflect realistic marriage situation at that time,and the mode of "eidolon impulsing to marriage" reflect struggle about intermarriage between the Second and the Third Estate. Stories about"marriage with love"reflect men's eager for and dread of succession in Tang Dynasty. Stories about"informal marriage"reflect people's disapprove of marrying concubine and men's self-conscious constrainment to lust in Tang Dynasty.The last chapter points out that from period of Wei,Jin, the Northern andSouthern Dynasties to period of Tang and Five Dynasties, the number and proportion of stories, assembles and modes in stroies changed differently.It discusses social reasons such as whether the society is peaceful,the change of social hierarchy,the change of proportion between male and female,the change of social atmosphere,the strengthening of writer's autonomous creation consciousness which cause stories' change.