文史并举:中国古代鬼故事的传播初探——以古代文人创作与传播为例

Preliminary Study on the Communications of Ghost Stories in Ancient China

中国古代鬼故事历史悠久,内容丰富,其传播经历了文史结合以及文史分离的过程,其传播特点是传播者以史官、文学家居多。在宋代以前,这些鬼故事直接显示当时的现实;宋代及以后,知识分子的理性思想成长较快,开始借鬼故事来折射社会生活,批判现实,本质上反映了当时人们对现实的不满,显现了古代中国人的精神生活和文学创造力。

Ghost stories in ancient China are a part of ancient Chinese culture and China is abundant in ghost stories. The article is a study chiefly on the communications of ghost stories through ancient history and literature in ancient China. The characters of their communications were that communicators were often historians and literators. Before the Song dynasty, these communications were personal communications among intellectuals. They were classical Chinese stories chiefly in literature communication field.