What are some outrageous folk myths?

The stories of Kuafu, Jingwei Reclamation, Hou Yi and Chang'e are actually outrageous when viewed with rational thinking, but they together express people's yearning and expectations for beauty.

There are many outrageous folk myths and stories, I can give you a few examples, Kuafu chasing the sun, Jingwei reclamation, Houyi shooting the sun, Yugong moving mountains, etc., there are too many to list one by one.

Praise the father chasing the sun. This is impossible to happen, and Kuafu has drunk several rivers, which is even more exaggerated.

Classic Chinese folk mythology: "Meng Jiangnu Crying on the Great Wall".

Folk tales are not the same as mythological tales, but they both belong to folk literature.

Folk tales: Folk tales are one of the important categories of folk literature. Broadly speaking, folk tales are oral literary works in the form of prose created and disseminated by working people with fictional content, and are the collective name of all folk prose works.

Mythological stories: Mythological stories are a type of folk literature. The collective oral creation of the people of ancient times.

Including the stories of gods and ghosts and the heroic legends of deification, its production shows the struggle of the ancient people against the forces of nature and the pursuit of ideals, it is a kind of spiritual sustenance, human yearning and the embodiment of religion, and has a profound impact on the literature and art of later generations.

Myths, stories, the collective oral creation of the people of ancient times. Including the stories of gods and ghosts and the heroic legends of gods (ghosts). Folk tales, on the other hand, are oral literary works in the form of prose with fictional content created and disseminated by working people. The two are not the same.

Folk tales are a kind of narrative that has been passed down orally since ancient times, telling various relationships between people in the form of strange language and symbolism, and has a wide range of themes and is full of fantasy. Folktales are from life itself, but they are not limited to the actual situation and what people think is true and reasonable. They often contain natural, whimsical elements.

1. The basic point of mythology and superstition is that in the myth of God, man is the master of nature, and God is man, an idealized person; In superstition, man is a slave of nature, a slave of ghosts and gods, who become the defenders of the interests of the exploiting class. There is an essential difference between mythology and superstition, which is a tool for the ruling class to confuse, rescue, deceive and intimidate the working people by using ghosts and gods, feng shui, and equal fate.

2. The world of mythology is a fictional world created by people, which is both bizarre and chaotic; It is both colorful and magnificent, but also strange and mysterious. People see God as the Almighty Lord, a symbol of the supreme majesty of the Broken. The creation and existence of God are inextricably linked to real life.

The world of God is a reflection of the real world, and all kinds of strange and mysterious actions come from the rich imagination of human beings, and in essence, they reflect some aspects of human social life.