A Study Of The Relationship Between Witchcraft And The Imperial Authority Of The Jin Dynasty

Witchcraft stems from human anxiety about reality.It is a collective consciousness about supernatural forces that aims to predict and influence the development trend of real things by means of the relationship between human and God.Also It has the cultural phenomena of practical,technical,empirical and unorganized.This phenomenon throughout the Jurchen social development has always been.As a potential and profound spiritual strength,to a certain extent,it promoted the evolution of the social political civilization among the establishment of the formation and development of the Jurchen tribe Union military Jin imperial power and consolidate and play a major role in them.First of all,in the development process of the formation of Jurchen military tribal alliance,the head of the Wanyan Clan from unstable“Witch-King system”to monopoly of witchcraft,Cooperated with the powers of the Head of the League and witchcraft.Though witchcraft,the chief power of the alliance got rid of the primitive military democratic system,and the individual authority formed and appeared the authority figures.In this process,the function of witchcraft is: firstly,this authority and military authority formed a cohesive force,the birth of authority figures;secondly,as a common psychological clan,clan cohesion witchcraft strengthened group identity and became the power of the spirit of cohesion of clan organization.Secondly,The Jurchen nobles led by Wanyanaguda started the process of fighting against Liao.In the process of the transition from the chief power of the alliance to the imperial power and the establishment of imperial power,Witchcraft has played an important role.The head of the League used the witchcraft thinking to shape the deified individual power,and provided the spiritual power in the war of foreign countries,and laid the foundation for the establishment of the imperial power.After the establishment of Jin Jurchen,rulers,in order to consolidated the rule of the transformation of witchcraft by imperial power,embodied in two aspects: firstly,the combination of heroic political system security and power,to strengthen the imperial power;secondly,the etiquette and the primitive witchcraft belief combination,will be injected into the spiritual core of moral and political ritual,and monopoly to explain the celestial phenomena,regulate the expression of witchcraft.Finally,the witchcraft did not fade with the decline of the dynasty,but had a substantial change.Reflected in the public affairs to replace the original acts of witchcraft ritual,Confucian morality instead of miraculous phenomenon.In the middle and late period,The Jin Dynasty started to use witchcraft thinking and Confucian political ethics to maintained imperial power.On the basis of political power,with the combination of the legitimacy of the supernatural and the legitimacy of the political system,it became the standard expression of the state's will.Witchcraft gradually faded the means of belief and retained the form,and became a spiritual tool for consolidating the imperial power and shaping the legitimacy of the regime.