Ghost Drama Of The Yuan Dynasty In The Perspective Of Literary Folklore Studies

The ghost dramas in the Yuan drama relying on its own obvious characteristic and unique charm, has considerable research value, just like a certain particular flower in the whole Yuan drama garden.This paper on the basis of predecessor's research, profits the research achievements of folklore, unifies the literature and folklore, and scans the ghost dramas in the Yuan drama newly from the folklore culture point of view in the direction of the theory frame constructed by the literature folklore, which takes the invisible mind folklore of the ghost consciousness as the researchful base point, views the multiple folklore cultural factors contained in the drama works, and discovers the mutual relation and characteristic between various folklore cultural factors, in order to review the unique ways of the world and folklore life showed in the drama works, simultaneously to investigate the intrinsic association between the rich folklore cultural meaning in the dramas and its profound thought and purpose.The main body is made up of four chapters.Chapter One: states briefly the research point construction of the literary art and folklore and its signification to the study of the ghost in the Yuan drama, and introduces the breakthrough point of this research.Chapter Two: searches about the concept of "ghost", and "soul", discusses the ghost consciousness as the prominent manifestation of invisible mind folklore, frames the research area of the ghost in the Yuan drama in this paper, and introduces the related text generally.Chapter Three: unfolds respectively the multiple folklore cultural factors contained in the ghost dramas of the Yuan drama on four aspects such as the direct demonstration of the ghost consciousness, the intentional alternation of the ghost-driving and evil-escaping customs, the elaborate building of the season habitude background, and abundant combination of revenge customs and so on. Chapter Four:on the basis of showing the multiple folklore cultural factors contained in the drama works in last chapter fully, reviews the unique ways of the world and folklore life showed in the drama works, discovers the mutual relation and characteristic between various folklore culture factors, tries to find the folklore culture implication in the ghost drama of the Yuan dramas, and investigates the inner connection between the rich folklore culture implication in works and its profound thought and purpose.