«Баоцзюань о Пяти духах» как источник народных верований района города Сучжоу провинции Цзянсу в Китае

Ростислав Владимирович Березкин

doi:10.21638/spbu13.2019.108

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Ростислав Владимирович Березкин Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai, 200433, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2019.108

Abstract

This article analyzes connection between the Baojuan of Five Spirits originating from Changshu county (nowadays under jurisdiction of Suzhou city in Jiangsu province) with the local folk beliefs. This prosimetric text narrates the story of origins of Wutong (demonic deities of wealth) and their mother Tailao — a powerful local female deity. The Baojuan of Five Spirits is still commonly performed by professional storytellers in several areas of Suzhou, especially in Changshu, during the domestic assemblies honoring Wutong (Wusheng) or during believers’ pilgrimages to Mount Shangfang, a center of this cult in Suzhou. They have both auspicious and exorcistic functions. The Baojuan of Five Spirits is a unique source of folk beliefs that developed from the period of the 10th –12th centuries till the modern time. The author has used a unique manuscript of this text dating back to the beginning of the 20th century in the collection of Nanjing City Library with the complete title of the Baojuan of Five Spirits Guarding Peace (Wusheng bao an baojuan), which has not yet been discussed by scholars anywhere. It is one of the earliest extant recensions of this baojuan, but its contents are similar to those of modern variants of the Baojuan of Five Spirits, performed in Changshu. At the same time many details in this text can be traced to the fantastic novel Journey to the South (Nan you ji, late 16th — early 17th century). Current research reveals the connections between folk prosimetric literature, written sources, and folk rituals in China.

Keywords:

Chinese prosimetric literature, baojuan, Chinese folk beliefs, Wutong deities, folk ritual, fantastic novel

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