Why didn t the gods of the ancient flood period be written in later myths?

There are always people who regard the flood as a myth for the following reasons:

Chinese mythology is originally a combination of various myths. For example, the Eastern Emperor Taiyi and the Jade Emperor, they come from two systems. It is a hodgepodge of the tomb that did not come, and it is difficult to say whether it is the earliest orthodoxy or the most widely spread orthodoxy.

The flood is a second creation product that mixes the main myths of China, and it has the advantage that these myths are clearly integrated into a system, which is really easier to understand than those chaotic mythological relationships. Coupled with the wide spread and classic characters, many people think that the flood is orthodox.

Of course, this is not right, the flood is certainly not an orthodox myth, and it has only risen in recent years. Fusion of various myths, so the Journey to the West Fengshen Romance Taoist stories have been replaced by people.

The essence of mythology

The creation of myths was combined with the struggle of primitive man against nature for his own survival. At that time, the tools of production were rudimentary, and the unpredictable forces of nature posed a serious threat to human beings, and at the same time, primitive people's understanding of the objective world was also in an extremely naïve stage.

The movement of the sun and the moon, the changes of day and night, the occurrence of floods and droughts, birth, old age, sickness and death, etc., all make them superstitious, bewildered, surprised, and panicked. Such natural phenomena are closely related to the production and life of primitive human beings, who are eager to understand nature, so they use themselves as the basis to imagine that all things in heaven and earth have the same life and will as human beings.

Flood refers to the state of chaos and ignorance, especially to the ancient times, the world of flood; The Great Wilderness. Such as: Xie Lingyun's "March 3rd Banquet in Xichi":

Observe the details of the book, and the flood is not biography. "The flood refers to the early state of the earth after its formation, 5 billion years ago (the formation of the solar system), when the earth's crust was very thin and extremely hot. The orogeny caused the flood, and the original meaning of the word flood is great water, referring to the early flood on the earth.

There have been at least three floods on the earth, and one of Dayu's flood control is the most recent, about 4,000 years ago. Dayu flat flood, set Kyushu, this is the earliest example of the transformation of nature in human history.

The original meaning of famine is the ignorance of plants and trees, referring to the ancient period, before the emergence of human beings, at least 5 million years from now, when the earth was still in a state of confusion and ignorance.

The ancients said: Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate. It means that heaven and earth were in a state of chaos at the beginning, like a cloud of mysterious and turbid gas, and then gradually there was space and time, and different elements appeared through evolution, and they existed independently of each other, and the boundary between the liquid and solid states of the world was clear, and it was desolate.

A state of chaos and obscurantism. Borrowed from ancient times. Southern Dynasties, Chen, Xu Ling, "In the Northern Qi and Yang Servant Shooting Book":

Whoever is from the flood will end up in the dark. Song and Yang Wanli's "Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Has the Wind of Sages": "In the world of floods, people and birds are not separated.

Qing and Zhao Yi's poem "Encountering Heavy Snow on the Way": "The world is miraculous and endless, and I suddenly see the flood and famine. "Yang Shuo's "Story":

When it comes to night, time seems to rewind to the flood era tens of thousands of years ago. ”

The Great Wilderness. The wilderness of the desert. Ming and Xu Chengqin's poem "Wind Travels to Nanyang Lake": "The flat mountains on the shore tend to break off, and even the empty wild water enters the flood famine. ”

Hongjun Daoren is one of the characters of the famous gods and demons of the Ming Dynasty in China, "Romance of the Gods", and is his own character, often appearing in the modern torrent network.

There are some Taoist schools in Taiwan that believe in Hongjun Taoism, but there is no such god in orthodox Taoism, and Hongjun in the torrent is the entity of the manifestation of the Great Dao, but in the orthodox Taoism, the manifestation entity of the Great Dao is the Yuqing Yuan Shi Tianzun, not Hongjun. [1]

In "Romance of the Gods", it is just to find someone to reconcile the contradictions between the three religions. This person is a self-created character of the Ming Dynasty's ** "Romance of the Gods". In early Taoism, there was no such person (for example, in early Taoism, there was no Yuan Shi Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, only the five old kings, the three no holy ancestors, and the five elders of the virtual emperor), and then they were incorporated into the god system, and now there are still offerings in Taiwan and some regions, representing the manifestation of the avenue.