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Guifang(Chinese: 鬼方; Wade–Giles: Kuei-fang; lit. ‘Demon Territory’) , an ancient Chinese country, existed in the Shang Dynasty(1600–1046 BCE) It is located in northern Shaanxi, northwestern Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia. Guifang Country is a historical term that is rarely heard by most people. It is not a confirmed and complete historical entity. It is not a simple national imagination about the narrative of Northern China. There are only a few historical records and a small amount of historical evidence about the historical records of the Guifang Country. Therefore, the Guifang Country is more like a historical remnant that is excluded and dispelled in the historical narrative. These historical remnants of the Guifang Country have inspired countless mythological imaginations of later generations. The remnants of these imaginations exist in folk oral myths, religious rituals and folk culture.
The place where I was born is within the scope of the possible existence of the Guifang Country referred to in historical materials. From small to large, those fragmented legends, vague mythological imaginations, and constantly rewritten collective cultural memories in life have always accompanied me. They affect the way I see the world and know the world at certain important moments.
The ‘ Guifang People’ recorded in historical materials have pious and complex beliefs in ghosts and gods. This belief structure does not seem to have really disappeared. It continues to penetrate into the current life experience in a more secret way. I try to use these weak but stubborn traces as clues to reconstruct an imaginary space about ‘Guifang’ through the field investigation of ‘Guifang’ and the re-view and interpretation of relevant folk culture and historical relics.
In this reshaped world, the logic of history is weakened. Mythology has become the main way of narration. There is no clear human-centered order here. Instead, it is the flowing relationship between gods and ghosts, nature, the sun, stars and the moon.
鬼方夜行
鬼方，中國古代國家，存在於商代(1600–1046 BCE)。鬼方大約位於今陝西北部、山西西北部和內蒙古西部。鬼方國，一個對於大多數人都鮮有耳聞的歷史名詞，它不是確證以及完整的歷史實體，也不是一種簡單的關於中國北方民族敍事的一種民族想象，關於鬼方國的史料記載只有隻言片語的歷史紀錄和少量的歷史物證，鬼方國更像是在歷史敍事中被排除和消解的歷史殘影。這些關於鬼方國的歷史殘影，激發出了後世無數的神話想象，這些想象的殘影存在於民間的口述神話故事，宗教儀式，民俗文化。
我出生的地方，正位於史料所指稱鬼方國可能存在的範圍之內。從小到大生活中那些碎片化的傳説、模糊的神話想象，以及被不斷改寫的集體文化記憶在某些重要的時刻影響着我看待世界與認識世界的方式。
史料中記載的“鬼方人”擁有虔誠而複雜的鬼神信仰，而這種信仰結構似乎並未真正消失，而是以更隱秘的方式，持續滲透於當下的生活經驗之中。我試圖以這些微弱卻頑固的痕跡為線索，通過對“鬼方國”的田野調查，以及對相關民俗文化與歷史遺蹟的重新觀看與解讀，去重新構建一個關於“鬼方”的想象性空間。
在這個被重塑的世界中，歷史的邏輯被削弱，神話成為主要的敍事方式。這裏沒有清晰的人類中心秩序，取而代之的是神鬼、自然、太陽、星辰與月亮所構成的流動關係。
