Research On The Sorcery Of Dispelling Ghosts In The Unearthed Bamboo Slips And Silk Manuscripts

For a century,a large amount of bamboo slips and silk manuscripts which provided valuable “first-hand information” for us to study our ancient society were unearthed from the underground.It's worth noting that some contents about sorcery of dispelling ghosts were found among the precious materials.Sorcery of dispelling ghosts is one kind of sorcery activities whose aim is to dispel all kind of diseases and fatalities in the form of dispelling ghosts.What's more,the contents are centered on ‘Ri Shu' and medical books of the unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts.Now we will try to make a systematic arrangements and studies about the sorcery of dispelling ghosts in the unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts in some degree.Meanwhile,we hope that it can be beneficial to the study of folk history and intellectual history.Chapter one : Introduction.It briefly introd uces the meaning of the significance of the research topic,research methods and relevant style.Chapter two: The definition of “ghost” and introduction of the sorcery of dispelling ghosts in the unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts.It's main content is to discuss and define the connotation of “ghost” and make a comprehensive introduction about the sorcery of dispelling ghosts in the unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts.Chapter three: Magical things to dispel ghosts in the unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts.We will conduct classification and intensive discussion mainly from the four types: plants,weapons,filthy things and minerals.The content of arrangements and research involve the usage of magical things in the unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts,the reasons of magical things which were used to dispel ghosts and so on.Chapter four: The actions,languages,numbers,time points and locations to dispel ghosts in the unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts.It mainly conducts quantitative statistics and qualitative analysis on the usage of actions,languages,numbers,time points and locations to dispel ghosts in the unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts in order to deeply understand the back cultural connotations of them.Chapter five:The type of dispelling ghosts in the unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts.We will make a classification discussion and principle analysis to the type of Antipathy sorcery and Imitable sorcery which were embedded in the unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts from the angle of professional sorcery.Chapter six: The sorcery of dispelling ghosts between the unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts and the Taoist scripture.It emphatically discusss and analyze the sorcery of dispelling ghosts between the unearthed bamboo slips and silk manuscripts and the Taoist scripture from the following three aspects: the connection of them,the comparison of them and their influence on the later generations.