Research On Notes On Searching Gods

Notes on Searching Gods was completed in Wei&Jin Period. And it has been considered as an outstanding representative work of Zhiguai Novels. Through gathering and recording plenty of fantastic and strange things, the author of the book"proved that gods and ghosts really exist". Supernatural and history originally began with the same thing. The supernatural atmosphere then was greater in influence, so under this kind of social background and with the supernatural culture involving in it, a great deal of recordation of supernatural and its customs appeared in this book. These content,as well as the supernatural thought which came into being relating with them, had widely expanded the ancient novelists'imagination space and creative thought. All of these established the foundation for the truth that unofficial novel finally got rid of historical biography and became conscious. At the same time, historiographer Ganbao narrated and spreaded out strange things by virtue of mature ways of narration, depiction experience and means of writing of historical biography literature as well as varies of time change order. Moreover, the author figured a great many lively characters and further provided abundant subject matter for the novel and opera in later generations. This article tries to start with the two aspects of supernatural and history to discuss the questions mentioned above.The paper consists of four sections. The first part generally tells of Ganbao and his Notes on Searching Gods and points out the primary orientation of study in this article. In second part, the writer will analyze the of-course relationship between supernatural and history, and is going to discuss the close relationship between the book and supernatural & history. Well in third part, a conclusion about supernatural culture's performance in this book and its influence on the producing of the book will be drawn. As regard to the last part of this article ,the author will address herself to the historical biography literature's effect on this book ,referring to several aspects such as the style of narration ,content of author's work and figuration of character and so on.