The Witchcraft Miraculous Objects In The Jin Ghost Stories

In the long history of Chinese culture, witchcraft played an important role. It gave the primitive human courage and determination to solve problems. During the Jin Dynasty,people suffered from war and hardship.So the Jin Ghost Stories appeared in a variety of magic to soothe the hearts of the people. The magic constantly enriched and developed the Jin Ghost Stories. This thesis will select witch witchcraft culture's miraculous objects to dig a new connotation of the Jin ghost Stories.The first part is to establish the thesis's topic, the cultural connotation of the witch, and the concept of witchcraft miraculous objects.Magic had a great impact in ancient China's political, economic, military, medicine, music and dance. However, the scholars still have different kind of definitions for witchcraft. In order to write the commencement of this thesis,I mainly choose "to use the supernatural power, through a specific instrument method to influence or control objects" as witchcraft's definitions. THE miraculous objects, which had impacts on the Jin Ghost Stories, were supernatural power plants,animals,products.The second part is to sort separately and analyse the miraculous objects of Jin Dynasty's Ghost Stories.Such as plant witchcraft miraculous objects, animal witchcraft miraculous objects, product witchcraft miraculous objects ect.The third part of the combing the relationship of magic and mystic novels. Then I will analyse miraculous objects'impact on the content and artistic character of Jin Dynasty's Ghost Stories. The Witchcraft miraculous objects of Jin Dynasty's Ghost Stories not only left precious witch material for offspring, but also through the imagination to show people's desire of escaping from the dark times. At the same time, the miraculous objects of the Jin Ghost Stories has a great breakthrough in dealing with novels'conflict and image's creation. So the Jin Ghost Stories'story and art form have more creative and imaginative. The miraculous objects laid the foundation for descendant's literary creation.The last part focuses on the human self-rescue and Utilitarian psychological which hidden behind the miraculous objects of Jin Ghost Stories.The Jin Ghost Stories used witchcraft miraculous objects to organize stores had played an important impact on the later novels'creation. So we can not underestimate witchcraft miraculous objects's position in the history of Chinese fiction.