Play. Faith And Zhong Kui Zhong Kui

The article is divided into three parts: zhongkui play, zhongkui belief, and zhongkui play and zhongkui belief aborad. The article mainly talks about the developing of zhongkui play and zhongkui belief in history and their interinfluences on each other. The first part talks about the zhongkui belief. The history of zhongkui belief can be divided into four periods: the gestation period, the period of taking shape, the developing period, and maturity period. During the gestation period, I approached the archetype of zhongkui image in detail through analyzing some relative materials of the early history so that we could have a general idea about zhongkui's origin. During the period of taking shape, I revealed the earliest image of zhongkui mainly through analyzing changes caused by the integration of nuo ceremony and daojiao. In the third period, there were a lot of changes in the zhongkui's image, among which worldliness and entertainment were the most obvious features. From then on, zhongkui began to appear in some entertaining activities. During its maturity period, zhongkui's image appeared more and more in the entertaining activities. Zhongkui legend came into being finally. The second part of the article mainly deals with the developing of zhongkui play, which is classified into two types: one is for the nuo altar, and the other is for the stage. And the later mainly refers to the development and inheritance between the plays written by different writers.The third part makes a brief introduction about zhonghkui belief and zhongkui play aboard, especially in Japan. The main purpose of this part is to enrich the relative materials and research methods for zhongkui study through comparing the development of zhongkui belief and zhongkui play in China to their development aboard.