Study On Praying For Rain In The Collection Of Spirits

China is one of the most developed countries in agricultural civilization. The favorable weather is important for the state, society, and people's life, so we paid much attention to fighting against drought for rain in all the past dynasties, and formed a complicated ceremony in praying for rain. On behalf of the novels, Collection of spirits shows the social life-style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, which includes some customs about praying for rain at that time and before; involved some rain wizards who are Emperors with Politics and Religion and some professional and religious rain wizards. Beside there are some rain objects like immortals, hills, woods, and dragon;some places for praying rain like mulberries and lairs and some ways like Sympathetic Magic, Heaven and Man, and Abuse of the gods. All of these show the special customs of praying for rain.The paper is on the basis of collection of spirits and uses many literatures in Han,wei Jin and before Qin. It mainly analysis cultural factors about rain pray and further discovers social reasons for the r changing of the rain pray customs. Drought is serious in Wei Jin period.The wars happened and the regime changed frequent, that makes the people lived in tribulation. To better maintain the power, they prayed for mountains, even sacrifice and reflect themselves. For surviving, the masses asked all the God Tube Division who can bring them benefits for help. The prevalent witchcraft, the developing Taoism and the afferent Buddhism inject fresh power to customs of praying for rain. A variety of natural factors and social factors make the customs develop together.