Taoism And Mythical Novels Of Ming Dynasty

Taoism, one of the three backbones of Chinese traditional culture,Actually makes great effect to Chinese culture. After Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, Taoism speeds up its secularization process. Meanwhile,Evil fiction, as the production of Taoism, comes into the world. This article takes"Taoism and Evil fiction"as the main object, beginningwithliterature and religion point of view, having gathered many kinds of data information. Seeking trut from facts is the fundamental of this article, and being cautious and liable is the attitude. The studying method of this article is hanging together microcosmic and macroscopic, history and modern. The aim of this article is to present the idiographic effect which is taken by Taoism to Evil fiction.This article also indicate that, Evil fiction becomes a important genre when Ming Dynasty, especially after the fiction"Journey to the West"and"Senkaiden Houshin Engi". Why so many Evil fictions well up in that period? The reason is: impetus of the history; advocate to religion of the government; promotion to people's ideology of the society convulsion; economic development of Ming Dynasty.Based on above, this article mainly discuss the effort Taoism takes to Evil fiction and the central effort of Taoism is about the fiction character's visualize. Then"fairyland scenario"appears due to the effort of the Taoism ideology. On the other hand, as Taoism believes everything has the God, so there are kinds of origin of the fiction's character. The character has the appearance different from others, and also has supernatural power. Taoism inosculates life, enjoyment, freedom as a whole, which is the kernel of the"fairyland scenario". So Taoism faerie form there own life and value perspective.Two chapters of this article emphasize on the life and value perspective of the faerie. Forever life is not only what the Taoism's characters are seeking all the life, but also their final goal. Taoism's every character wants to have a longer life. Evil fiction tells us the details that characters want to become faerie,how they become faerie,the process they become faerie and the fundamental in the process and so on. Meanwhile, with the effort of Taoism, Evil fiction faerie character also forms the value perspective of helping people who are in puzzle. These value perspectives mainly about cure the disease of others, helping others to fight back natural disaster, or helping others to become faerie. And these help is also the indirect pursue for life, enjoyment, freedom. This is just what the Evil fiction makes great effort to disseminate. All the above is validly reflected in the Evil fiction.