Penny Dreadful-Ghost Stories In The Network

When talking about the folklore, people always thought it was just an old story or an antique only mentioned by books. Such opinions caused by limited ways of cultural transmission in the old times. One is a vivid interpretation------reality show. The audience is only a part of villagers in some village. The others are written records collected by some scholars who compiled cultural folklore and handed them down. However, in the time of Internet, the cultural transmission and exchange have become much easier than before, the range of cultural transmission was no smaller any more. A performance record can be watched by thousands of people. It shows that the audience is no longer limited by location and time. A story can be posted on the network and read by thousands of people. Under such a circumstance, folklore, especially many different kinds of folk literature composed by important elements of the motif have become more and more vivid. Among these, there is one important theme------the ghost story. Ghosts and ghost stories are important parts of modern folk literatures. The storyline of the ghost story and people’s spirit of soul hidden in the story are two important research objects for folklore scholars. The time of network makes these stories spread faster, wider and much well-completed. The author wants to break through the barriers of the real world and the spiritual world, and take a furtive glance at the actions of these ancient beings in the spiritual and cultural fields. We always think that we have to go to remote mountainous area, barrier inhabited areas finding the "true" folk story, but in fact in the practical field investigation, people who live in most remote places can still have connections with modern society with modern social communication devices. The author believes whether folklorists, scholars or students have more options in the selection of the research objects, not only from the old materials but also study the culture of farer places through the Internet under the times of an information explosion.The ghost story of modern folk literature is an important part of the story, ghost stories and hidden in the story under the concept of the soul is an important research object of folklore scholars. The popularity of the network makes these stories spread faster, wider spread area, the story retains more complete. The author chooses network community for fieldwork to collect users tell ghost stories, the collected ghost stories to space for classification, divided into the ghost story of private space, transitional space ghost stories and public space ghost stories were listed and analysisThis paper is composed of five chapters. The first part is the introduction, including the reason why the author was interested in the Internet users’supernatural experiences; the domestic and foreign anthropologists and folklorists’researches and theories; the author’s research methods and difficulties in the process of writing difficulties. The second chapter mainly discusses the ghost story happened in the private space, which can be divided into three sections, the ghost stories in the home, the ghost stories, the ghost stories. Each section to draw form listing the story, accompanied by a short analysis of each kind of ghost story. The third chapter discusses the occurrence in the transition space ghost stories, the transitional space is the fusion of two spatial characteristics of ambiguous area between private and public space, transitional space ghost story also into three sections, respectively for hospital ghost stories, the temple of ghost stories, casino ghost story. The fourth chapter discusses the occurrence in public space ghost stories, public space ghost story also into three sections, respectively is the crossroads of ghost stories, drive the ghost stories, hotel ghost story. The fifth chapter is the conclusion part of the three space ghost stories are analyzed and summarized, and then discusses the main ideas of the author.The main points of the paper are four aspects:first, the ghost story is caused by spatial variation about the mental pressure, the degree of risk of ghost stories content with the ambient pressure becomes larger and higher, the ghost story structure of opposition and the narrator of real life and the internal and external environment of similar structure of opposition; second, family the spirit of modern people care can ease the pressure, but too close family relations will lead to the narrator’s self consciousness and self loss, lack of personal treatment leads to a decrease in mental pressure, so the family is not only about the human spirit and comfort, is the story of man’s sense of bondage, this kind of contradiction from the content and tells a ghost story people in the psychological embodiment; third, mild network helps the narrator to ease the psychological pressure, severe Internet addiction will tell a ghost story made more precise God hurt; fourth, the ghost story as a spread in the network of oral literature, has important social functions, including alarm function, entertainment function and comfort.