The Research Of Zhen Gao's Fengdu Hell Ghost Officer

In Zhen Gao,which was written in Wei,jing,South and North dynasties,Ghost officer is a kind of staff which help 'Sanguan' to control the ghost and the dead in Fengdu hell.In the theological system constructed by Zhen Gao,Ghost officers come from the person whom have hope to become a officer in Fengdu hell after death,the position of Ghost officer is lower than gods and 'Dixiazhu'.The records of Ghost officer mainly come form Fengdu gong ji,which was written into two volumes of Zhen Gao.Previous studies have talked a lot about the social and religious concepts which reflected by Zhen Gao's Fengdu hell and it's Ghost officer.But they do not pay attention to the basic questions like where the record of Zhen Gao 's Fengdu Hell come form and what is Zhen Gao's Fengdu hell Ghost officer.The former researchers have noticed that Tianshi Taoism,as most influential Taoism sects during the period of Zhen Gao's compilation,influenced the Shangqing Taoism.But they did not noticed the phenomenon that many believers of Tianshi Taoism hold the post of Ghost officer in Zhen Gao's Fengdu hell after death.So,make a research on the text which record Ghost officer and discuss the historical information hidden in this texts is still have research space.This paper will make a text analysis on Zhen Gao.After making a text analysis on Zhen Gao,this paper will discuss the text sources of Fengdu gong ji,what is Zhen Gao's Fengdu hell Ghost officer and why many believers of Tianshi Taoism hold the post of Ghost officer in Zhen Gao's Fengdu hell after death.This paper is divided into 5 chapters.Chapterl is the research of Fengdu gong ji,this chapter will analyze the writing time of Fengdu gongji from the angle of text analysis and comparative text analysis.The theme of chapter2 is the definition of Fengdu hell's Ghost officer and it's source.This part will use Tao Hongjing's annotation in Zhen Gao and texts form the book Ture spirit position diagram and the volume83 of Wu Shang Mi Yao to talk about the definition of Fengdu hell Ghost officer and it's source.Chapter3 will analyze the recording time of different parts Fengdu hell's Ghost officer form the angle of text analysis and comparative text analysis,and represent the result in a table text way.Chapter4 is mainly about the numbers of Fengdu hell's Ghost officer and Taoism belief of some Fengdu hell's Ghost officer..Chapter5 will analyze why there are many Tianshi Taoism believers act as Ghost officer in Fengdu hell.