通过分析《搜神记》与相关文类之相通、相联和文本之间的互文性，回归还原当时历史文化语境把握其文本性质。《搜神记》成书之际，汇集、整合了正史、杂传、子书、小说等多种志怪叙事传统和书写模式，形成了多元化文本性质。《搜神记》与“正史”相互取材，集中于《五行志》和《方术列传》，典型反映了灾异叙事体例、方术书写模式，关联着作为官方主流意识形态的灾异论和作为社会知识体系的数术之学。随着灾异论、数术文化与“正史”叙事理念的发展演化，宋人开始将《搜神记》看作脱离政治文化的志怪小说。

By analyzing the similarities, connections, and intertextuality between Sou Shen Ji and related text genres, we can resort the historical and cultural context and grasp the textual ofSou Shen Ji. When Sou Shen Ji was written, it summarized the narrative traditions and writing modes of official history, miscellaneous biographies, works of ancient philosophers, and novels, forming a diversified text nature. Sou Shen Ji and “official history” collected materials from each other, which concentrate in the Record of Five Elements and the Biography of Alchemists, typically reflecting the disaster narratives system and the writing mode of alchemy. It was related to the mainstream ideology of catastrophe theory and the study of mathematics and alchemist activities. With the development of the theory of catastrophe, numerology culture and “official history”, people in the Song Dynasty began to regard Sou Shen Ji as a novel of ghost stories that was separate from political culture.