A Study On The Disease Story In Yi Jian Zhi

Yi Jian Zhi has preserved a large number of stories of people suffering from diseases,which have been noted by existing researches,but are mostly studied by the method of social medical history because of their medical value.These stories are systematically sorted out and analyzed in order to explore their value and significance in literature and culture.The first chapter is the introduction.Define the research object and clarify the research status and ideas.The second chapter is the development of disease stories before Song Dynasty.The pre-Qin and Han dynasties were the embryonic stages of disease stories,and there were simple descriptions about diseases in various literary genres.In the more narrative historiography,some accounts can be regarded as disease stories in their entirety.From Wei jin to Tang dynasty,the disease story gradually improved.The number of stories describing diseases has increased,and the narrative and fiction have been significantly strengthened.With the addition of Buddhism and Taoism,new connotations have been added.The third chapter is the type research of disease stories in Yijian Zhi.The 313 disease stories in Yijian Zhi were classified into four categories: secular life,ghosts and spirits,karma and fairy formula.First,secular life category.It describes the suffering of individual diseases in the world.Diseases are caused by physical suffering and mental damage,and are treated by medicine and acupuncture.Second,ghosts and deities.This kind shows people’s fear of ghosts and gods.Disease is caused by the punishment of gods and ghosts,and the cure of disease needs to be exorcised by religious forces.Third,the class of karma.Diseases are closely related to the causes of good and evil karma.Killing an animal,blaspheming Buddha and corrupting virtue will cause disease,while believing in Buddha and reverting to Buddha and reforming past wrongdoings will cure disease.Such stories are tools for preaching and enlightenment.Fourth,immortal fang shu class.This story is mainly about the treatment and rescue of individual difficult and evil diseases by monastics.This kind of story is the embodiment of Taoist thoughts of helping others and benevolence and doing good deeds.The fourth chapter is the narrative analysis of the disease story in Yi Jian Zhi.In the writing of disease stories,disease,as an important component,has two important functions: structure and expression.First of all,as the motive force of the story structure,disease can generate and promote the development of the plot,and it is connected with life and death.It is a bridge between the real space and the non-real space,and plays an important role in the extension of the narrative space.Secondly,in the narration of disease,it highlights and depicts two kinds of figures,the patient and the rescuer,and also shows some conditions of the secular society in song Dynasty.The fifth chapter is the cultural connotation of disease stories in Yi Jian Zhi.It mainly explores the Confucian culture,religious culture,life consciousness,traditional Chinese medicine culture and civil society presented by the disease story.First,Confucian culture.In the story of punishing and civilizing the world by disease,Hong Mai’s advocation of Confucian morality is evident.Second,religious culture.The origin of all kinds of evil diseases in the story reflects the religious thoughts of Buddhism and Taoism,and people and gods from the two religions also cure evil diseases for the world.Third,life consciousness.In the face of the pain and death threats brought by disease,people have the struggle desire under the survival instinct,and also have the prefixed destiny,which cannot be changed.Fourth,traditional Chinese medicine culture.The disease story shows Hong Mai’s grasp of traditional Chinese medicine culture,as well as the corresponding holistic view of heaven and human in traditional Chinese medicine culture and the law theory of the balance of Yin and Yang.Fifth,civil society.The disease story also shows the material and spiritual characteristics of the civil society in song Dynasty,namely the prosperity and development of commodity economy and the value orientation of utilitarianism.