Interpretation Of The Economic Evolution Of The Public Story And Its Culture

Jigong whose religious name is Daoji, is a peculiar Buddhism monk of the Linji sect in South Song dynasty. Jigong's usually called Crazy Ji for his madness in the folklore. The documents about Jigong are mainly conserved by the means of the poets, notes, chorography and light literature. Light literature plays the most important role in the origin and development of Jigong's stories, by which the mass know about Jigong.Jigong's stories have been prevalent for 800 years from South Song Dynasty to the Repbulic of China. There are lots of documents about Jigong in different areas. This dissertation employs the Thematics strategy to analyze the evolvement of the Jigong's stories in the base of a mass of coordinated documents, which as follows:Firstly, Jigong's stories evolve from histories to literature. In the process of added more and more by the folklore, Jigong is changed from the true monk to the protagonist of the romance. Meanwhile the influx of different Jigong's stories make it more and more complex. Jigong's stories develop from the ordinary biography to romance.Secondly, Jigong's stories evolve from light literature to high literature. There are Hangzhou's and Beijing's systems of Jigong's stories, both of which evolve in the same track that's from light literature to high literature. The original stories of Jigong are folklores, which diffuse from the mass to the intellect, from the folklore to the novel. Hangzhou's system is from Crazy Ji Taozhen to Shenmengban's The Ana of Crazy Ji in Qiantang Lake; Beijing's system is from some oral performance to the romance called Biography of Jigong. In the process, Jigong's stories contain more and more moral values gradually.Thirdly, the religious faith transforms in Jigong's stories. Jigong is a Buddhism monk in the beginning. For example there are many Chan's ideas in the The Ana of Crazy Ji in Qiantang Lake. And then, the Buddhism ideas are fading gradually and disappear ultimately in the Bodhi and Biography of Jigong. The folk faith on Jigong changes from dagoba faith to divine son and to the necromancy. The faith on Jigong culminates in Yiguan Dao in the late Qing Dynasty. In this religion, Jigong is the main god and has many magic abilities. Jigong is recorded in most of the religious books in many folk religion, which indicates that Jigong is very important. And we should pay more attention to the arhat faith about Jigong, which comes on to in Song and Qing Dynasty.There are many cultural meanings, such as history and literature, light and high culture, folk faith and religion, in the transform of Jigong's figure and stories. Thecultural power of the society——the intellect, Buddhism group and localpeople——makes Jigong's figure and stories change from one to another.