The Implication of the Lifesavers and the Stories of Rescue in Soushenji

• Main Authors: Miao-Wan Liao, 廖妙婉
• Other Authors: 尤雅姿
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60282084520968814659

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 中國文學系所 === 100 === As Wei Jin Nan Pei Dynasty was in turmoil, people were suffering the disasters and wars. Frequent wars made a mass of people feel ignorant to the natural world and sense hard to survive. The more the wars were, the more the death increased. Because of the fear to death, Taoism, Gods and Ghost became peoples’ religious believe. With the cultural background then, those religious thinking created the splendid stories in “Soushenji”. “Soushenji” was a program which was extended from “Shi Juan” and “Wushingchi”. All of those were the story about the ghosts and the records about and disasters. The author of “Soushenji”, Kan Pao, thought that many religions preached their doctrines by saving and helping people. This was the reason the stories in “Soushenji” often arranged the super hero to save and to help people. Like the lifesaver in drama, the super hero turned the risk into a perfect conclusion. The suffering stories in “Soushenji” created different rescue story types. Those multiplied rescued types indicated that people thirsted for the lifesaver to appear in their lives. The lifesaver is important to the story. Those stories were from the suffering environments then. Even those recent stories adopted the same story types, like those justice stories, religious stories and animal paying back stories. To reward the charity and to punish the wickedness are the religious implications. Gods or Ghosts might use the power to rescue or to destroy. Those believes strengthened the morality, and comforted the suffering people.