The Influence of Taoism on Love Stories of Human and Ghost in Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties
The novels recording strange and supernatural events of Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties occupied an important status of literature of that time. In these novels,human-and-ghost stories held a quite great proportion. Taoism had an important influence on the human-and-ghost love stories in the novels recording strange and supernatural events. The formation of these love stories,the richly colorful contents and the ideas of the strange plot,which were influenced by Taoism,expanded the theme domain of the human-and-ghost love stories,and,therefore,had very high thought value and artistic value.