The Study Of The Folk Belief In The Two Jin Dynasty

The folk belief is popular in the folk spiritual belief.It has not only relation but also difference between the folk belief and the folk religion, and they haven’t obvious boundary but just the same.As for the folk belief of the two Jin Dynasty, it is based on inheriting the predecessor’s belief and has also its unique connotation. As the heights of mythical stories in the two Jin Dynasty,Gan Bao’s “Sou Shen Ji” is an anthology of stories containing kinds of ghosts and spirits stories.Its contents deal with not only the immortality and auspicious sign,but retribution for good and evil,love and communication between human and ghost and so on,which reflecting the issues in society, ways of the world and having an important effect on the study of the people’s spiritual belief in the two Jin Dynasty.The social environment in the two Jin Dynasty has an important impact on the folk belief. From the two Jin Dynasty Si Ma regime replacing the Wei Dynasty to establishing of the Liu Song power, it spans one hundred and fifty years, so the social environment is relative complexity.During this period, due to frequent natural disasters, violent social unrest, difficulties and hardships of the social environment,numbers of people live pain and expect to have a better life by believing in empty spiritual belief which has an important influence on the folk belief.It’s also an important influence to the folk belief which social and cultural environment is also more open and changes quickly in the two Jin Dynasty,for example decline of the Confucianism,development of the Buddhism and Taoism.In the two Jin Dynasty,the folk belief contains a lot of content. The folk belief is a psychological concept that people misunderstand and fear some natural phenomena and social problems or have some strong desires and needs.Its core is animism.This simple concept creates the supernatural worship of gods and fairy tales.The folk belief contains a lot of content, but it is divided into three part. The first is the natural belief which is divided into plant belief,animal belief and star belief three small classes; The second is people worship which is divided into celebrity worship andordinary people worship two small classes;The third is ghosts-gods belief which is divided into god belief and ghost belief two small classes.The folk belief in the two Jin Dynasty reflects some thought ideas,too. Due to the folk belief being quite complex in the two Jin Dynasty, it has many unique features on the thought ideas of people, especially the folk belief reflects the people’s life and death view, Hu Yao view, marriage and love view. In the two Jin Dynasty,people’s life and death view is mainly reflected in the three aspects on longevity view,second birth view, foreseeable life and death view; Hu Yao view is mainly reflected in the three aspects on foreseeable fortune or misfortune view,knowledge view,victimization view;Marriage and love view is mainly reflected in the three aspects between people on god,ghost and monster.