For example: In "Sou Shen Ji·Cui Shaofu Tomb", Lu Chong and the female ghost completely followed the instructions of their father in the underworld and spent three days as husband and wife. In "Xu Xuan Fang Nu", "Cui Shaofu's Tomb", and "Liu Changshi Nu", there is no mention of the female ghost's appearance. If the "crude summary" novel in its early stages of development cannot devote much attention to the romance between a man and a woman, why does it explain the story of having a child in such detail in such a short space? The opening chapter of "Tan Sheng" points out that Tan Sheng is "40 years old and has no wife", and the female ghost and Tan Sheng "are married and have a son". In "Hu Fuzhi", Hu Fuzhi's wife Li died, and Hu mourned that she had no children. The female ghost and Hu became husband and wife, and gave birth to a son in ten months. In "Cui Shaofu's Tomb", the female ghost gave Lu Chong a son. The female ghost in "Xu Xuan Fang Nu" also gave birth to two sons and one daughter for Ma Zi.

First of all, in the Christian concept, there is a supreme God who completely transcends the secular world. After death, the soul either goes to hell or heaven, unlike Chinese ghosts who intervene in human life.

Secondly, Christian asceticism makes it impossible for love ghosts to gain a foothold in the Western world. "The Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament" says: "You shall not commit adultery." "Whoever looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." In Dante's "Divine Comedy" the lovers Franziska and Paul Those who commit adultery will suffer in hell. Love between men and women in the human world is like this. The dead souls in the West can only settle in their own places, and cannot be like the ghosts and ghosts in China who are connected and do whatever they want.

First of all, there is no distinction between sacred and secular roles, and Chinese folk belief is ancestor worship;

Secondly, there is no distinction between sacred and secular space, dead ancestors - ghosts also have their own space in the human world. "Among the Chinese, there is a belief, doctrine, and axiom firmly established that the ghosts of the dead seem to be in the closest contact with the living, almost as closely as the living people are in contact with each other." According to Archaeologists' investigation of the tombs of the Zhoukoudian cave people found that at least since then, the Chinese have had obvious concepts of the soul and signs that the soul continues to live after death. The direct source of the story of "human-ghost marriage" is related to the custom of ghost marriage. The custom of ghost marriage is rooted in ancestor worship. According to Chinese folk beliefs, death in infancy and death without children are abnormal deaths. The essence is that the deceased did not have children. "A life that has not fulfilled its reproductive obligations is an imperfect and abnormal life. After death, one cannot be a 'normal' ghost." A ghost marriage ceremony must be held for the deceased. "From the Zhou Dynasty to the prohibition of 'relocation' and 'marriage' to the Republic of China for more than 2,000 years, the practice of underworld marriage has continued to flourish, and it has been practiced by both common people and emperors and officials." On such fertile soil, the literary wonder of "marriage between humans and ghosts" grows freely.

The fertility worship in the marriage and love story between humans and ghosts embodies the Confucian philosophy of life characterized by inner transcendence. Since physical immortality is impossible to achieve, the rationalistic Confucianism, with its anti-mythical rational attitude, inherited the idea of ​​primitive reproductive worship, which manifested itself in advocating multiple Son, the famous creed of worshiping ancestors and "there are three types of unfilial piety, and having no offspring is the greatest", and further ethicalized the worship of reproduction into the doctrine of "filial piety", emphasizing the eternal continuation of the race.

The sexual relationship between man and female ghost in human-ghost marriage embodies the Chinese Taoist philosophy of life characterized by inner transcendence and based on the concept of yin and yang. "The ideal state of the human body is a balance of yin and yang, which is the symbol of the 'Tai' hexagram. But the actual situation is that there is no absolute balance, either yin or yang is strong, and the degree is different, which is the symbol of the other four hexagrams. By adjusting it, it will be as close to the central balance state of 'Tai' as possible. "The characters in the human-ghost marriage story are single masculine men and underworld female ghosts. Yin and Yang complement each other. When "Taiping Guangji·Zhang Yunke" wrote about the resurrecting technique, there are words like "potting out the yin and yang" and "if you encounter the spirit of intercourse with a stranger, you may be reborn as an earth fairy ear". The article specially arranged the female ghost and the young man. The story of a man named Xue Zhao who meets and has sex and then regenerates. In "The Postscript of the Search for the Gods·Xu Xuan Fang Nu", the female ghost confesses frankly that she must be the wife of a man in the mortal world in order to be resurrected. Such descriptions also include "The Postscript of Sou Shen·Li Zhongwen's Girl", "Guang Yi Zhi·Liu Changshi's Girl", Feng Menglong's "Legends of Love History·Zheng Wanye", etc.

The Taoist yin-yang fish symbol indicates that the two forces of yin and yang have begun to transform into their opposites when they reach their respective climaxes. Yin and Yang both generate and inhibit each other. Ji Yun's "Notes from Yuewei Thatched Cottage: Farewell to the Ghost Woman" contains the words "using yin to peel off yang". Such descriptions also include "Lang Yang's life has not ended, and my concubine's yin quality has not been transformed. If you indulge in worldly fate, you will be unlucky" ("Zheng Wanye"). "I have a shady nature, and it is not suitable for me to live in the world of Yangming for a long time." "If I stay too late, I will be punished. It will not only harm me, but also benefit you." ("Wei") "Youth"), as well as a large number of people who died violently due to vaginal stripping in "Customs of Customs·Zheng Qi", "Jiwen·Daodeli Scholars", "Yi Jianzhi·Women of the West Lake", and "Strange Stories·Dugu Mu" description.

Both Chinese Confucianism and Taoism's approach to pursuing eternal life has the characteristics of "internal transcendence" and advocates relying entirely on one's own efforts to achieve a state of transcending death and pursuing eternal life.

Western Christianity takes an approach characterized by "external transcendence." Since ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle have generally divided the world into transcendent ontology and the real world.

Christianity also believes that there is an ideal kingdom of heaven, a supreme God that completely transcends the world. Only by strictly following God's will can the soul live forever. In Tolstoy's "Resurrection", the protagonist's spirit is converted to God, his faith in goodness and love is restored, and his soul is resurrected.

In Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", both Dmitry and Ivan consider world issues from the perspective of human suffering. The former has a God in his heart and obtains the "resurrection" of his soul, while the latter is an atheist. leading to moral degradation. This pursuit of eternal life can only be achieved by relying on God and cannot be achieved by individual efforts.

Disconceptions and doubts: Since the 20th century, the study of ghosts in the West has been in the ascendant, forming the discipline of psychics (i.e. ghostology). In 1918, Dutch scholar Dr. Scheers measured the weight of the ghost. In 1920, Dr. Kilner from England invented a powder that could be applied to glass to see ghosts. In Oxford and Cambridge, two world-famous universities, there are "Ghost Research Lectures". Following the comedy film "Devil's Nemesis" in the early 1980s, Hollywood in the United States released films such as "Ghostbusters II" and "Ghostbusters" in the 1990s. In China, a country rich in ghost stories, ghosts have almost disappeared. This is indeed an intriguing question.