鬼神文化广泛应用于中国古代公案小说中,已然成为公案小说的重要组成部分。鬼神文化的存在,一方面与儒家的伦理道德思想相结合形成一种新的半强制力量,使得社会秩序始终朝着理想化的方向发展;另一方面,也从舆论和心理上弥补了现实社会公平正义的缺失,使得人间善恶均衡,成为底层民众最后的心灵救赎。因此,公案小说中掺杂鬼神因素是中国古代民众法律意识道德化的结果,而非愚昧无知的封建迷信。 Ghost and God culture is widely used in ancient Chinese case-finding novels, which has become an important part of the case-finding novels. The existence of spirits and gods, on the one hand, and the Confucian ethics and morality combined to form a new semi-mandatory force, making the social order always toward the idealized direction; on the other hand, from the media and psychological make up the reality of society The lack of fairness and justice has balanced the good and evil on the world and become the ultimate spiritual salvation of the grassroots. Therefore, the ghosts and gods in the novels of the court cases are the result of moralization of the legal consciousness of the ancient Chinese people, rather than ignorance of the feudal superstition.