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Witchcraft Hidden Under the Myth of Color - Take Yang Shen's Shanhai Jing Supplement for Example

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DOI: 10.23977/iemb.2019.070

Author(s)

Jiawei Ou, Shuyan Yi

Corresponding Author

Shuyan Yi

ABSTRACT

Yang Shen to the poor through the history of governance, seeking truth from facts, and its special research and compilation of the "Shan Supplement" to maintain the common myth of national culture and future witch culture research have a profound impact. By choosing the myth examples of the text of Shan, this paper introduces the different viewpoints in the Yang Supplement, combines the practice of Yang personal exile experience and the analysis of the witchcraft characteristics under the myth color, thus textual research the grotesque witchcraft activities and the witchcraft thought embodied in the mythological cloak, and reflects the cultural value of the witch culture. By studying the "witch" culture of Yunnan minority nationalities, we can see that the witchcraft and mythology are inseparable, and the characteristics of sorcery have already become a part of folk belief, and the visual witch culture has the pursuit of beauty in the examination.

KEYWORDS

myth, Yang Shen, Witchcraft, Shanhai Jing Note

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