A Study Between Shangqing Taoism In Six Dynasties And The Literature Of Recording Dream

The literature of recording dream,is the narrative work to express the dream though the form of literature,which shows the endless imagination and spiritual movement.Since the six Dynasties,Shangqing Taoism gave the literature of recording dream a special meaning and connotation with its unique religious context and thoughts.Subsequently,the special mode of the coming of immoral in the dream about Shangqing Taoism was born and affected the development of similar works.The literature of recording dream used the dream as platform,the psychic as lead and combined the mundane world and fairyland,the Daosim and literature,composing many fantastic literatures.In this paper,by using the development of Shangqing Taoism as clues and from the born of the mode of the coming of immoral in the dream,the author explored the relationship between Shangqing Taoism and the literature of recording dream and tried to draw skeleton contacting the idea in six Dynasties and literature.The part of introduction summarizes the early works before six Dynasties,and analyze the characteristic of efficacious dream in this time’s work and the trait of close contact with real world and the literature of recording dream,so as to distinguish the literature of recording dream affected by Shangqing Taoism from entering the six Dynasties.The first part introduces the development of Shangqing Taoism in six Dynasties and analyze the team relationship between Yangxi and the originator Xumi and Xuhui.At the same time,this chapter investigate their nature of creating Taoism classics and summarizes the religious motivation of Shangqing Taoism’s birth,which prove and emphasize the rationality of Shangqing Taoism.In this kind of motivation,a creating mechanism source stemmed from "skills of saving thoughts" was appearing and a special mode of noting dream called "the coming of immoral in the dream" was forming gradually.Tao Hongjing,a character who is a connecting link between the preceding and the following in six Dynasties,enriching the mode of noting dream"the coming of immoral in the dream" and helping Shangqing Taoism out of the predicament at this special historical period.The second chapter mainly research Zhengao and ZhoushiMingTongJi and introduces the literature of recording dream influenced by Shangqing Taoism.Among them,Zhengao notes the dream primarily by the form of traveling notes and the recording of the coming of immoral in the dream.The main purpose of Zhengao is to do missionary work,but it has been some literary and shows the author’s imagination and the abundant forms of dreaming image.Including the unique first-person perspective,the vivid plot of noting dreams and the motif of supernatural stories about the coming of immoral and cultivating one to become on immoral,ZhoushiMingTongJi is more of literary and meaning.On the narrative,ZhoushiMingTongJi is full with intense fantasy art and imagination and combines the religious and real world,expressing the emotional changes and the ideas of a religious believer.By analyzing the work ZhoushiMingTongJi and Zhengao,we can see the special images of Dao noted by the literatures in the six Dynasties and its literary creation and imagination.The third part mainly introduces the development of the literature of recording dream affected by Shangqing Taoism in dynasty Tang,Song.Among these works,the main investigating text is the mode of noting dream inherited from Shangqing Taoism in TaiPingGuangJi.