What has the Chinese Dream Theory experienced?

In the history of our country, the understanding and handling of dreams was initially called 'occupying dreams' and later called 'interpreting dreams'. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, officials and people attached great importance to dream interpretation. It can be said that during the Warring States Period, a set of theories had been formed on the explanation of dreams.

Primitive people were superstitious about dreams because their limited knowledge and experience could not provide a reasonable explanation for dreams. With the development of productivity, human social activities became increasingly frequent, and people wanted more and more things to sign, so they never consciously The transformation of accepting dream omens into the spontaneous pursuit of dream omens gradually formed occupying dreams. Both the Book of Songs and the Internal Classic of Medicine provide incisive discussions on the formation of dreams. Among them, those that have a great influence on later generations include 'Duke of Zhou Jie Dream Quan Shu','Search God Ji','Zhanmeng Shu', etc., of course, these are all understood and explained dreams from an idealistic perspective and perspective, so it seems very far-fetched.

The story of the Yellow Emperor's dream occupation is recorded in Huang Fu Mi's 'Emperor Century', which is the earliest record of occupation of dreams. There are reliable written records of the dream occupation activity, which should be said to have begun during the Yin and Shang Dynasties. The standardized word 'dream' has appeared in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin people, and many words about King Yin's dreams are recorded in oracle bone inscriptions. Dream occupation activities became more frequent in the Zhou Dynasty. When King Wu conquered Zhou, he inspired people with his dream of 'guarding merchants must be conquered'. Therefore, the Zhou Dynasty established a full-time dream occupation officer, and dream occupation became a special profession.

The phenomenon of occupying dreams has undergone significant changes after the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the activities of occupying dreams have gradually evolved from an official religious belief activity to a secular superstition among the people. As the activity of occupying dreams intensified, many books specifically recording occupying dreams appeared. Records of the peculiar role of dream phenomena and literary creations based on dreams are scattered in various official and unofficial histories.

Since the Yuan Dynasty, dreams have appeared frequently in dramas. Stories about Hanqing's 'Butterfly Dream','Xishu Dream','Dou E Yuan', Ma Zhiyuan's 'Huangliang Dream', Wang Shifu's 'The Legend of the West Chamber', etc. Still infect many people. In the Qing Dynasty, a large number of records about dreams began to appear in traditional Chinese medicine and medical classics. The book 'Medical Forest Correction' written by Wang Qingren, a medical scientist in the Qing Dynasty, first linked dreams to brain diseases. Although this statement was not recognized by later medical scientists, it was of great significance to the progress of scientific interpretation of dreams.

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