Anthropology Research Of Han Dynasty Calamity And Abnormality Thoughts

Han Dynasty is the period which the “penitence rescript” formate and develop, in more than 400 years of history, Han Dynasty has released a total of 80 copies of "penitence rescript", which has 45 copies of "penitence rescript" are released by calamity and abnormality, others also represent the mind of Calamity and abnormality. As a research text of specific topic, "penitence rescript" has a high value of research value. In this dissertation, anthropological theories and methods are the most important explanation tools, "penitence rescript" is used by first-hand information, On the basis of interpretation of the calamity and abnormality in "penitence rescript", further understanding will be done.This dissertation is divided into six parts. The first part is an introduction, including the reason why I selected the topic, the current study situations and the research ideas and methods. Through the analysis of this part has been clear about the “penitence rescript” to the calamity and abnormality of the text as a research of the large research space, and the Interpretive Anthropology theory and methods, such as, great traditional and little tradition, primitive mentality as the core theory of Anthropology and Ethnology, to the Han culture very different from our culture to provide the analysis frame of cultural studies. The second part, first of all, to define the Han people’s calamity and abnormality view, think in the eyes of the Han Dynasty, calamity and abnormality events and phenomena are contrary to nature and the social normal order of the events and phenomena, has the function of the early warning, it is damaging, the harmfulness of both physical and mental aspects. Then, on this basis of the earlier research, outline the calamity and abnormality thoughts of high-level culture of great tradition and little tradition for explanation of “ penitence rescript” provides background. The third part introduces the situation when the “penitence rescript” released in Han Dynasty, including the difinition、type、details and released reason, in order to have a good knowledge of context. The fourth part, has a concrete analyse of the calamity and abnormality minds in “penitence rescript”, including the concept 、connotation、coping measures and the features. According to the research of the context, Han people’s eyes are drawn calamity and abnormality mode is people’s action leads in happened by the "Heaven", this "Heaven" contains natural and religious meaning on the second floor. The fifth part has a deep understanding of the explanation, make use of primitive mentality, great traditional and little tradition theory, combined with social background to explain the topic. On the basis of the theory of primitive mentality, from the Han people’s way of thinking and the perspective of religious, believe in the world of Chinese itself is a complete whole, the world is full of all kinds of gods, ghosts, human is in such a whole, the overall itself is highly order, violates the order of whole calamity and abnormality occurs. In addition, the cultural game between great tradition and little tradition and different social background are the cause of the calamity and abnormality associated with personnel. The sixth part is summary.From the perspective of Anthropology, the minds of calamity and abnormality in Han Dynasty was viewed as a "different culture",,to acknowledge that we have the same disposition and mind as the Han people. The reason why the ruling class cultural which is the most important represence of Han culture, represents the run schema of calamity and abnormality is people’s action leads it happened by the “heaven”, it is decided by the thinking method of Han people, the cultural games between great traditional and little tradition and the profound social background.