Why ancient Chinese mythology is not well inherited

Han Dynasty Dongfang Shuo "Divine Strange Scripture".

Zhang Hua's "Naturalist Chronicles" of the Jin Dynasty classified and recorded strange things, ancient trivial anecdotes and fairy magic. The content is mostly based on ancient books, including very miscellaneous, there are knowledge of mountains and rivers, legends of historical figures, descriptions of strange plants, trees, fish and insects, birds and beasts, and there are also stories of grotesque fairy techniques, which also preserve a lot of ancient mythological materials.

Wang Jia's "Collected Memories" in the era of the Sixteen Kingdoms

In the Tang Dynasty, Duan Chengshi's "Youyang Miscellaneous" had a total of 30 articles in the first 20 volumes, and the sequel was 10 volumes with a total of 6 articles. There are immortals, Buddhas, ghosts, personnel and animals, plants, wine and food, temples, etc., classified and cataloged, some of the content belongs to the legend of the monster, and some of the records of various places and exotic treasures, similar to Jin Zhanghua's "Naturalist Chronicles". The accounts he wrote, or collected old news, or wrote by himself, "are many strange and indifferent things, absurd and nonsensical, and the secret books of the posthumous texts are often mistaken in them, so although the commentators are ill with their exaggeration, they cannot but quote each other."

In the Song Dynasty, Li Fang's "Taiping Guangji" is divided into 92 categories according to the subject matter, and is divided into more than 150 details. Stories of gods and monsters account for the largest proportion, such as 55 volumes of immortals, 15 volumes of fairies, 33 volumes of retribution, 25 volumes of gods, and 40 volumes of ghosts, which shows the focus of its materials. This book is basically a collection of ancient ** compiled by category.

Qing Dynasty "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang", etc.

In the process of life, we actually have some understanding of the myths and legends and myths passed down by word of mouth, and in the process of our gradual growth, it is not difficult to find that these fairy tales and myths are actually unfounded. However, in the process of development, these myths have not been replaced, but as a kind of classical literature, they have also played a great role in people's daily life, and the cultural connotation contained in them has not been eliminated or changed in the process of inheritance, but gradually integrated into the development process of this era and the views of the times.

Although the myth is not true, it is people's good expectations, and the reason why good expectations will be passed down from generation to generation is because every generation has a beautiful dream and such a beautiful hope, so it will be passed on.

Because it satisfies people's imagination of a better life and makes people full of motivation and hope for their future lives, it can be passed on from generation to generation.

Because myths and stories are regarded as a kind of faith, every nation actually has its own beliefs, and the so-called myths and legends are actually part of the faith.

Myths and legends and the like are mostly evolved from an ordinary thing.

It has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.

And the oral narrative is extremely transmittal, and it will be spread more and more amazingly! Human curiosity is strong, this "magical."'Things are naturally written down by people. Tell it to the next generation, and over time, the story is known and written down by most people.

With the development of civilization, some literary scholars began to use written records, and these myths and legends were more firmly recorded and passed down from generation to generation.

Mythology is the worship of nature by people in ancient times.

We now have myths, but no legends. As long as the explanation of the phenomenon is beyond our general understanding, or the normal is exaggerated, myths can be generated.

When an ordinary person achieves success through the factor of chance, and we attribute this accident to the person's innate qualities, and this accident to the person's ability to transcend common sense, it is easy to give this person a myth, and thus produce a mythical character. For example, the worship of great men. The popular fantasy** is actually deliberately making up myths.

Its essence is no different from "Journey to the West" and "Romance of the Gods". Many of the characters in popular games are no different from those in myths and legends. It's also a myth.

The myths we create now are no different from the ancient myths and legends, and some of them have even surpassed the ancient myths and legends in the system. What has been created now is only a myth, and has not yet formed a legend.

Myths and legends are a culture that takes a long time to precipitate. If legends are soil, then the myths that have just been created are dust flying in the air. This dust can only gradually turn into soil by slowly precipitating and accumulating layer by layer.

It's not that we don't have myths now, we just lack the sense of age and heaviness needed to form legends! There are many records in ancient mythological and historical books (including official history and wild history), such as "Romance of the Gods", "Journey to the West", and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Sou Shen Ji" and so on.

The ancient science and technology level was limited, (not to underestimate the ancients, it is a matter of time and space, all our current civilizations are based on the civilization of the past) the ancients exerted their super imagination according to the scenery of heaven and earth, and created countless "mythical stories" with infinite thinking"。This "mythical story.""It is a title that we have given in modern times, and many things in its story are not necessarily imagined by the ancients, but we still can't explain it clearly.

Now we no longer have "mythical" stories like ancient times, which have reached a certain height by our contemporary scientific and technological level. In fact, the current science fiction stories can also be read and interpreted similar to mythological stories, but the current science fiction stories that we modern people feel are based on today's real science and technology.

In order to establish a spiritual order that coexists with these things, and to locate the meaning of "man" in the vast world, human beings have created various myths and legends to describe their relationship with the world, on the one hand, people will imagine the boundary between life and death from the mythical world order, so that those things that cannot be recognized and frightened become a stable and morally significant spiritual order, on the other hand, People also imagine their own courage and wisdom from the legendary heroes. These virtues have been passed down from generation to generation through heroic stories, and various myths and legends have played a role as a fable for human beings to recognize themselves and improve themselves, and have played a role as the core of cultural cohesion in the juvenile years of various civilizations. These stories, through various rituals, rituals and people's life pictures, help people to give moral meaning to their birth, old age, sickness and death.

However, as human beings themselves become more and more powerful, it becomes more and more difficult to sustain these spiritual things, which rely on the mystical and imaginary. Because people tend to trust their own reason, the foundations of mystery are constantly shaken, and the authority and order based on mystery are gradually weakened.

Because of the ancient imperialism, ancient China could only pin its hopes on ghosts and gods, so it left a wonderful ancient mythological story.

Myths are all in ancient times, when science was not so developed and could not be explained, so myths were transmitted.

Nowadays, science education advocates atheism, and even film shooting is not allowed to have real ghosts and gods, unless it is an ancient myth, or it is difficult to pass the review.

In modern times, there are also myths, such as the Cthulhu gods.

Modern myths are mainly manifested in the field of culture, **, games, etc., you may think that this is not a myth, but there are many people who believe it.

There are still many groups that worship vampires in foreign countries, and they are still the kind that appear in the bright light, but they don't take them seriously.

In the final analysis, myths are born in the process of the development of civilization.

In the future, there may be a religion that worships Jack Ma, saying that he is born out of appearance and just laughing.

Myths are imagined when human beings are unable to understand natural phenomena, and with the development of modern technology, there are fewer myths and legends.

Now, because of the development of science, people will use scientific methods to think, and there is no need to use myths to explain problems in ancient times.

What has been created now is only a myth, and has not yet formed a legend.

Modern times can only be called myths, but certainly not legends.

Because in modern times, there has been scientific exploration to explain some phenomena.

Q: Why have myths been passed down from generation to generation?

Answer: Myths describe the situation on earth before the appearance of man, which is reverie (thinking);

Myths have wonderful imaginations, which is very interesting;

Myths are all reconstructions of the history of human reproduction, which are very humane and intimate.

by: Weizi.

It's easy to remember, it's interesting, and the people like to teleport, so it's circulated.

Because in ancient times, people lived hard, so they pinned their hopes on the mythical world. Myths are always wonderful!

Because real life is too helpless, people begin to imagine that there are many bizarre things, so they make up stories. One word spreads, ten tens, and hundreds of rescues have spread, but in the process of passing down from generation to generation, those myths have definitely lost their original appearance. It's like those rumors in life, in fact, it may not be said at first, but there are more people who say it, and it will deteriorate.

This is mainly a problem of traditional culture, that is, the spread of traditional culture.

Because traditional Chinese myths are all fictional.