War with demons and rituals of exorcism in ancient China

The work proposed to the reader truly refers to what can be called the classic of world sinter -studies or pearls of the Golden Fund of World Chinese. Although the books of Yana Jacob Maria de Groot appeared at the beginning of the past century, they are still continuing to reprint both in the West and in the East. This volume included part of the fundamental multi -volume labor "Religious System of China", dedicated to the rites of exorcism and the demonological representations of ancient China. The author read and translated a huge number of most difficult Chinese texts of various eras - these are classic Confucian canons and philosophical texts, dynasty stories of different eras, Chinese novel, medical works, rare geographical works and much more. And to this day, the work of de Groot is completely unwilling out, despite the past decades, and not only a wide reader, but also synologists will find a lot of new and interesting things here for themselves