The Duke Of Zhou’s Dream Interpretation In The Anthropological Perspective

Mankind has created splendid civilizations, as well as many unsolved mysteries-in the development of human history. Yet, mankind never give up on searching and discovering the answers to these mysteries. The dream of human is one of the typical mysteries. As an important part of the traditional Chinese culture, dream culture has its own unique history of development and considerable distinctive research-findings. The Duke of Zhou’s Dream Interpretation is one of bright research achievements of dream culture.The Duke of Zhou’s Dream Interpretation has exerted a great influence on civil society in China. For a fairly long period of time,there has been a lot of debates about who wrote the book and when the book had been written, the details will be discussed later. On the basis of the dream scenarios, this book classified dreams into different types in accordance with corresponding omens of bad and good luck. This book contributed certain predictive role to people’s daily lives.The author consulted a considerable number of books about dream culture and typical arguments during the development of dream culture. In the perspective of anthropology, the author mainly uses study methods such as text analysis, field research, unstructured interviews and personal experience to analyze the book in multiple levels such as physiology, psychology, religious studies, and anthropology. Starting from the basic facts of The Duke of Zhou’s Dream Interpretation, dream types, dream experiences and its development in the present period, the author deeply analyzes the social functions of the book such as moralization, psychological adjustment and cultural integration from different perspectives like anthropological, symbolic, soul and idolatry worship.This study promotes positive impact on people’s acknowledge of dream culture and improvement of public science literacy. Furthermore, the study of The Duke of Zhou’s Dream Interpretation has important practical significance to the inheritance and development of the outstanding traditional Chinese culture in the present.