Folk Belief And Communication Value In Movie Drama

China is a country with over thousands of years’ history. Folk Culture has beenin effect of people’s life through generation by generation as a traditional culturalphenomenon. Folk Belief has enjoyed as long as over thousands years’ sediment. Thiskind of custom cultural belief has been built in people’s daily life. The so called “FolkBelief” is part of Chinese traditional cultural belief; however, compared withConfucian Cultural Belief, Buddhist Cultural Belief and Taoism Cultural Belief,“Folk Belief” seems to be more varied and unclear. Even if so,“Folk Belief” is themost direct belief when connects with the fact.“Folk Belief” comes from people’s labor life, which results from human’s mostoriginal worship and fear. In the formation process, it consists some feudal andsuperstition elements. That’s why during the long period before the reform andopening-up policy was carried out,“Folk Culture” and “Folk Belief” was prohibitedin society. After reform and opening-up policy was carried out, with people’s progresson science, scholars began paying attention to Folk Culture and Folk Belief. Aftereliminating the negative elements, they found that this kind of belief was somethingwe could not avoid; this belief also made a common realization among people as itwas the closest belief to people’s life.“Fairy Ghost Vixen” is popular in modern film production both as the wholework or a single chapter of it. For example,1987“Fairy Ghost Vixen” TV series,“AChinese Ghost Story” from “Fairy Ghost Vixen”,“The Fairies of Liaozhai”, and“Painted Skin” are very successful films. The adapted dramas of “Fairy Ghost Vixen”are not only satisfied people’s aesthetic appreciation, but also focus on story features.The works also help to spread Folk Belief. This research is based on “Fairy GhostVixen” film drams, by analysis the adaption of the work to explore how Folk Beliefexhibited in modern work, and by analyzing the popularity to explore the FolkBelief’s communication value.