中西文化鬼怪观相似性分析

作为一种比较典型的文化现象，鬼神崇拜和鬼怪文学体现了人类或一个民族在某一阶段对世界和人类自身的认知水平。在研究鬼神文化的过程中，分析了中西方文化在鬼怪观上的相似点，发现这些相似点反映了人类在认识世界及自身时所遇到的共同困惑。作为鬼怪文化载体之一的鬼怪文学，虽然根植于不同的文化土壤，但都反映了人类对“人鬼关系”模式的推测。

Similarities Between Chinese and Western Ghost Culture

The worship of ghost as well as ghost stories is not a simple cultural phenomenon, in which primitive information about the world and human is conveyed. Although Chinese culture is so different from western one, there are similarities found in ghost culture through studying. Those similarities reflect the same question for human in the course of understanding the world. Although literature or ghost stories, which convey people's idea of ghost culture, grows and blossoms in certain culture and shows individual characteristics, they are based on the same conception that is the presume of the relation between the alive and the dead.