A Ritual And Literary Study Of The Faith Of Water-Officer In Tang Dynasty

The Faith of Water-Officer is about one kind of Ancient Chinese religious spirit's carrier of profound historical and cultural deposits.Around the topic of the Faith of Water-Officer,Ancient Chinese not only constructed a complex religious ritual system,but also formed a broad form of literary description and expression.This paper will conduct a systematic and in-depth interpretation and research on the ideological and cultural connotation of the Faith of Water-Officer,which based on related rituals and literary texts on the time period of the Tang Dynasty.Research shows that the Faith of Water-Officer in Tang Dynasty has already had a fairly complete system of Taoism,which produced a profound influence on the society and culture of Tang Dynasty,and supported mutually with the national sacrificial system.Not only that,it also has an extensive literary expression in the novels of Tang Dynasty.Thus,it can fully have reflected the influence on the social life and people's emotion in Tang Dynasty.