Weird Novels In The Six Dynasties And Folk Beliefs

The mystery novel is an independent literary genre developed by the tradition of inheriting mythological novels,The Six Dynasties is the maturity and heyday of the mysterious novels.At this time,there are many works of Zhiguai,and the authors are huge.From the emperor.down to the sage,everything is there.Although most of the mystery novels in this period are still "short books",the length of the text has become longer,the means of description has been greatly improved,and the subject matter is extremely wide.Many story models of future generations can be found here,and the content of the thought reflects the social life and political situation of the Six Dynasties to a certain extent.The six dynasty mystery novels mainly record the strange stories of ghosts and ghosts.As an independent style,their artistic value is very rich.The mystery novels are based on ghosts and monsters,which makes it necessarily have some superstitious colors.Folk belief is a set of concept of worship of the gods spontaneously generated among the people in the long-term historical development process.Folk beliefs are closely related to people's daily life,because their concepts are related to ghosts and gods,and their activity space is closely related to the real space in which people live.The core of folk beliefs is the concept of ghosts and gods,which has the same surreal elements as other institutional religions.But its main purpose is not religious cultivation,that is,to achieve spiritual and physical detachment,but to help people achieve some practical purpose,such as home security,wealth status and so on.At the same time,at the beginning of the novel,the novel was connected with the civilians in the streets and lanes,and the content was mostly from the daily life of the people.In addition,the novel's rhetoric and hearsay characteristics also deternine the inevitable combination of the novel style reflecting the "street talks" and the folk beliefs reflecting the people's most basic desires.The study of the bizarre novels of the Six Dynasties belongs to the field of Chinese classical literature research.The study of folk beliefs belongs to the field of ancient Chinese culture studies.Although they belong to each other,there is always a deep connection and mutual influence between them.There has been no shortage of classics in the study of the essays and theories on the mysterious novels of the Six Dynasties.There has also been a relatively mature accumulation of individual studies on the folk beliefs of the Six Dynasties.On this basis,the author believes that from the perspective of stylistics,there is still a broad research space for combining the six dynasties and the folk beliefs as a new perspective.Whether it is the innovation of artistic techniques or the development of subject matter,folk beliefs have played a certain role in promoting the development of the mysterious novels of the Six Dynasties.This article mainly includes the "Ancient Novels",the "Han Wei and Six Dynasties Notes Novels" of the Six Dynasties,and the "Ancient Novels Series" of the Zhonghua Book Company and the "Books of Ancient Novels" by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House.The paper is divided into four parts by analyzing the existing testable documents.The first chapter mainly analyzes the stylistic features of the six dynasty mystery novels from the perspective of stylistics,combined with the original text.The second chapter lainly analyzes the folk beliefs as the soil for the growth of the mysterious novels of the Six Dynasties.It explores the origin and basic characteristics of folk beliefs from three aspects:ghost belief,god belief and strange belief.The third chapter mainly discusses the influence of folk beliefs on the mysterious novels of the Six Dynasties.This chapter will be divided into three parts:the ghost story,the god story,and the strange story.The fourth chapter mainly discusses the influence of the six dynasty mystery novels on the styles of the later generations from the perspective of stylistics,mainly on the influence of Tang legends,magical novels and dramas.By analyzing the basic representations of the three roles of ghosts,gods and monsters in the folk beliefs in the six dynasties,this paper discusses the connection between them and the six novels,It is concluded that the six dynasties blame the "ghost beliefs" in the folk beliefs and project the character characteristics of the real people onto the ghosts.There is not much difference between the world of ghosts and human beings.The inequality in the world of ghosts reflects the absurdity of human beings.The story of human and ghost love shows the resistance of young men and women to the feudal marriage system during the Six Dynasties and the pursuit of freedom and equality.Longing for.The worship of the gods by the people is nainly the pursuit of the power possessed by the gods.The gods enshrined in the folk beliefs are closely related to the daily life of the people.The gods walked down the altar in the mystery novels,and gradually became humanized.In the story of the gods in the six dynasties,there are a lot of stories of the bottom people becoming gods.These stories reflect the unfortunate encounters of the people at the bottom.The strange stories in the Six Dynasties frequently appear in the turbulent and disorderly social environment,and the existence of such "harmonious"stories also reflects the literary concept of "re-entertainment" in the Six Dynasties.