Ghosts And Goblins, Black Art And The Novel Of Spirit And Goblin In The Ming Dynasty

The novel of spirit and goblin, which is one of the types of traditional Chinesenovel with each chapter headed by a couplet giving the gist of its content in the MingDynasty, has an important position in literatural history. This paper regards the novelof spirit and goblin in Ming Dynasty as the research object, and regards ghosts andgoblins, black art as the breakthrough point, tentatively probing into the literaturefunction of ghosts and goblins, black art in the novel of spirit and goblin.I Defining the Novel of Spirit and Goblin in the Ming Dynasty and Ghosts andGoblins,Black Art According to Lu Xun's qualitative definition and Lin Chen's quantitative standardof defining the concrete range of the novel of spirit and goblin in the Ming Dynasty,there are 24 works. Ghosts and goblins mean various kinds of living things stored for a long time tobe "experienced and magical" " but unreal to take body and shape". They are strangeand weird, being human dissident's strength, and can bring the disaster to somebody.Ghosts and goblins are the existence of concept, belonging to the creation of humanculture. Black art, refers to superb fairy, which is free from worldly cares described inthe novel of spirit and goblin, abnormal and mysterious magic arts.II the History and Cultural Origin of Ghosts and Goblins, Black Art Ghosts and goblins culture enters the region of literature gradually, and becomeliterature arts. Black art is through witchcraft sorcery, square skill, historicaldevelopment of a skill, and it is a kind of history and culture phenomenon too.Various kinds of magic arts were played up in the novel of spirit and goblin in theMing Dynasty, always called the black art.III Ghosts and Goblins, Black Art and the Novel of Spirit and GoblinThe oddness of ghosts and goblins and people's strange and different naturalaesthetic psychology is agreed with, and the deep and broad influence power ofghosts and goblins on people have promoted the birth of the novel of spirit and goblin.The development of ghosts and goblins in the novel of spirit and goblin contributes alot to the establishment of the novel type of spirit and goblin. The existence of ghostsand goblins is the prerequisite that the theme of the works announces in the novel ofspirit and goblin. The description of the black art in the novel of spirit and gonlin is a basic meansto mould personage's image, also contributing to the representing of theme of theworks.IV Another Theme: The Influence of Literature of Ghosts and Goblins, BlackArt -- Plots of Ghosts and Goblins "Plots of ghosts and goblins" play a very significant literature role in the novelsother than spirit and goblin ones, e.g. to help molding characters, changing the plotand developing the story.