Why is the image of Chinese female ghosts so y rooted in people's hearts, and where have all the male ghosts gone?

As the saying goes, it's easy to draw ghosts and difficult to draw people, because ghosts are ethereal and have no certainty. But the ghosts in the minds of the Chinese, but has a vivid image, they are long-haired Nie Xiaoqian

, is the deep love of Du Liniang, is the smiling Yingning?

Why are there so many female ghosts with personalities in China when male ghosts pale in comparison with these kind and beautiful female ghosts? Mr. Xu Hualong, a famous Chinese folklorist and ghost culture researcher, answers this query for us.

Chinese female ghosts love and hate clearly, Chinese male ghosts have no personality

Chinese ghosts leave the impression that there are more female ghosts. Ghosts in traditional dramas tend to have more female ghosts as well, such as Tang Xianzu's "Peony Pavilion" Du Liniang, which leaves a favorable impression on people. These traditional plays have been passed down through generations or even dozens of generations, leaving deep memories in people's minds and becoming more of an oral tradition for everyone, which also makes female ghosts appear to be plentiful.

Chinese female ghosts have beautiful, virtuous, upright, kind and other character traits, as well as the courage to speak out, love and hate clearly, not to achieve the goal of determination and courage, which occupies a large place in the female ghost character, very different from male ghosts.

The representative character of female ghosts, such as "Wang Kui negative Guiying" in the traditional drama Ao Guiying. She loves and hates and is never ambiguous. In order to help the sweetheart Wang Kui to go to the examination, that is, pouring money to help, and once the negative in my heart, to fall in love, is to become a ghost also want to claim his life. This kind of love deep, love reckless character, only in the body of female ghosts reflected very prominent.

In fact, there are quite a lot of male ghosts in China, and in terms of absolute numbers, there should be far more male ghosts than female ghosts' images, but on the whole, there is not as strong and almost **** the same thing as female ghosts. This is because male ghost images are so abundant that it is difficult to summarize them in a single sentence. Compared to female ghosts, male ghosts appear to be more powerless and pale, and in many cases, except for the roles of Yan Wang and Zhong Kui, they play the role of a wimp. For example, water ghosts, city gods, gambling ghosts, debt collectors, and impermanent ghosts. Xifangping and Wang Liulang from Liaozhai are also good male ghosts, but they are less well known than female ghosts. Is it a female revolt against society or fulfillment of male sexual fantasies

Female ghosts have such character traits as a result of women's resistance against male society. In traditional Chinese culture, women tend to be the supporting role in life and are not valued by society. No matter how talented women are or how much they help men, what they get is unfair treatment. This is one of the fundamental social and psychological reasons why female ghosts are so strongly defiant.

There is another reason why women as protagonists in folktales attract attention. Moreover, women often play a cowardly role in social life and are bullied by men, so they are more likely to be sympathized with. Secondly, it is also easy for men in a male society to have all sorts of fantasies and fantasies about sex, and so on.

The earliest ghosts were animal ghosts, and there were more and more beautiful ghosts later

The earliest ghosts in China were not male or female, but were animal figures -- animal ghosts. In primitive society, people hunted for a living and believed in the spirit of all things, so they thought that people would turn into some kind of mighty animal after death.

Later, ghosts began to take on a human form, "If there is someone Ruoxi mountain of a, was Ficus Ruoxi with female Luo. It's not just a looker, it's a smile, and it's a good, fair person." Qu Yuan's beautiful "mountain ghost" is more like a mountain god, which represents a kind of natural power. At this time, gods and ghosts were indistinguishable from each other, and later, ghosts and gods were gradually separated, and those who could benefit mankind became gods and immortals, while those who brought bad luck became ghosts.

With the spread of Buddhism, the image of ghosts in folk beliefs is getting richer and richer: after death, people have to cross the Naiho Bridge, after the trial of the netherworld, enter the six paths of reincarnation, and before reincarnation, they have to drink the "Meng Po soup" to forget their past lives, Zhong Kui is a magistrate, and later on there were Yama King and the Bodhisattvas of the Earth?

During the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, ghost stories ushered in the peak of cultural creation, from the Yuan dynasty's "The Soul of a Sinister Girl" and "The Peony Pavilion" to Yuan Mei's "Zi Bu Bu Jing" and Pu Songling's "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi" in the Qing dynasty. After the literati interpretation of ghost stories, the characters are vividly portrayed, and a large number of images of beautiful female ghosts appeared in this way, and widely circulated in the folklore.

Chinese ghost art image, the biggest feature is to persuade people to be good, good reward, evil, more in line with the Chinese culture of the middle of the road, unlike the Japanese ghost stories as extreme. Chinese ghost stories, talking about ghosts, but there is a kind of reason to be a human being in it.