What does Mythology refer to in what era or what kind of person does it refer to?

Famous mythological figures include Fuxi, Nuwa, Pangu, Chang'e, Queen Mother of the West, Emperor Yan, Yellow Emperor, Zhuan, Emperor Yu, Yao, Shun, Yu and so on.

1. Nuwa, the goddess of creation in ancient Chinese mythology. Legend has it that Nuwa created a human being, transformed in the middle of a day, and used yellow clay to create a human being by imitating herself, creating human society and establishing a marriage system; Because the world collapsed, the molten stone was used to make up for the sky, and the turtle was enough to stand at the four poles, leaving the myth and legend of Nuwa mending the sky.

2. Pangu Chinese folk myths and legends are groundbreaking in Kunlun Mountain, and the narrative of Pangu mythology can be found in the "Three Five Calendars", "Five Fortune Calendars", "Narrative of Differences", etc. Pangu's groundbreaking theory was first published in the "Three Five Calendars" of the Three Kingdoms Wu people Xu Quan, and the earliest image was seen in the "Guang Bo Zhi" and "The Judgment of the Heaven and Earth" for the dragon's head and snake body, and the human face and snake body.

3, Chang'e, one of the three emperors and five emperors in ancient times, the daughter of Emperor Yu (Emperor Jun of Heaven), the wife of Hou Yi (Dayi), her beauty is extraordinary, this name is Chang'e, because of the Western Han Dynasty to avoid the taboo of Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty and changed her name to Chang'e, and also known as Chang'e. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness of the West" recorded the "Twelve Birth Moons" of Changxi. The ancient pronunciation reads Xi as E, and gradually evolved into Chang'e who runs to the moon.

4. Yao (c. 2188-2067 BC), surnamed Yiqi, was a native of the ancient Tang Dynasty (now Tang County, Baoding City, Hebei Province). The leader of the Fangguo Alliance in ancient China and one of the "Five Emperors". Yao is the son of Emperor Yu, and his mother is Yao's mother Qingdu.

At the age of thirteen, he was sealed in Tao (Taosi Township, Xiangfen County, Shanxi), and assisted Zhi. At the age of fifteen, he was renamed in Tang Land (now Tang County, Hebei), and his name was Tao Tang.

5. The Queen Mother, also known as the Golden Mother of Jiuling Taimiao Guishan, the Golden Mother of Tailing Jiuguang Guitai, the Golden Mother of Yaochi, the Queen Mother of the West, the Golden Mother, the Queen Mother, etc., is the goddess of immortality in ancient Chinese myths and legends who is in charge of immortality, punishes evil, and warns of disasters. In Taoist mythology, the Queen Mother of the West lives in the Kunlun Mountains in the west and is the leader of the female immortals, who dominates the yin qi, as opposed to the head of the male immortals, the Eastern Prince. She is the goddess of creation who gives birth to all things.

The patriarch of the Quanzhen Sect.

Pangu, Nuwa, Fuxi, Dayu, Gonggong, Zhurong, Houyi, Chang'e, Queen Mother of the West, Jade Emperor, Sanqing, Jiutian Xuannu, Magu, Eight Immortals, Yang Jian, Four Heavenly Kings, Tota Heavenly King, Nezha, Fulushou Samsung, Guanyin, Buddha, Hades, Land, Jigong,

Pangu, Fuxi, Shennong, Nuwa and so on.

Erlang God, Houyi, Nuwa, Pangu, Kuafu, Emperor Yan, Emperor, Empress Niangniang,

Sun Wukong, Jade Emperor, Fuxi, Nuwa.

For example, Kuafu's day-by-day, Nuwa's mending the sky, and Jingwei's reclamation, there are many such myths in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

Mythology expresses the ancient people's knowledge and aspirations for natural and social phenomena in the form of stories, and is "the natural and social form itself processed in an unconscious artistic way through the fantasies of the people". Mythology was created by primitive ancestors in social practice, and its content involves all aspects of the natural environment and social life, including both the origin of the world and the fate of human beings, and strives to show people "the educational imagery of nature and human destiny".

The main Chinese mythological classics include the Classic of Mountains and Seas and Huainanzi, and there are also poems based on mythology in the Book of Songs and Chu Ci.