Witchcraft And Literary Significance Of It In Soushenji

Ganbao’s Soushenji, from the Eastern Jin dynasty, is one of the most outstanding representatives of the zhiguai stories. Soushenji contented a lot funny stories, used beautiful writing practices, had unique charm, and made a big success significantly.Soushenji is a collection of exotic zhiguai stories, which has an contents of all-inclusive everything:immortal and alchemists, prediction and fortune telling, Buddhism and Taoism, love and marriage, good people and bad people. Superstitiously, Soushenji does not just only a story record of wacky adventures, but also has close contact with social realities. It wears a supernatural ghosts and eerie blurred the outer skin, also has a smart fun, bright and beautiful colorful clothing inside. Through out the heavy fog, you’11see a different world with a different perspective. Author of this paper always take a keen interest in the mysterious "witchcraft".And,Soushenji involves many stories relating to witchcraft, furthermore, many of this witchcraft stories are the most famous stories of Soushenji. Thereupon, this paper uses the perspective of "witchcraft thought" to study on Soushenji, which is different from other studies on traditional stories. First of all, this paper sorts out the definition on witchcraft and defines the discussing scope. Sencondly, analysis on the function of the witch and the types of witchcraft stories in Soushenji. Moreover, the paper summed up the story types and found out their literary significance in Soushenji. This paper attempts to explore the relationship between witchcraft and literature through analysis of the witchcraft stories in Soushenji.