Why can Greek mythology form a system, but Chinese mythology cannot?

Updated on culture 2024-07-23
7 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-13

    There are three reasons why Chinese mythology is fragmented:1There is a single way of circulation, and myths exist in fragments.

    2. There was a cultural fault during the Han Dynasty. 3.Confucianism pays attention to self-cultivation, Qi family, governing the country, and a set of practical theories for leveling the world, respecting ghosts and gods.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    Because Greek mythology has been preserved in its entirety through the Homeric Epics and Theogonies, as well as poetry, drama, history, philosophy, and other works, Chinese mythology has only fragments due to the tampering of ancient rulers and Confucianism.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    Greek mythology is all the myths about the gods, heroes, nature and cosmic history of the ancient Greeks, and later generations have compiled them into the current ancient Greek mythological stories, which are divided into two parts: the stories of the gods and the legends of heroes.

    Ancient Chinese mythology arose in the primitive era when productivity and people's cognitive ability were very low, when human consciousness began to develop, but the thinking ability was extremely simple, primitive people could not scientifically understand and explain the natural world and natural phenomena and human beings themselves, they could only rely on their own narrow life experience to imagine and fantasize, so they believed that the natural world also has will, character, and feelings like human beings, and that the sun, moon, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning are all governed by gods. In this way, the idea of a natural god was formed in the minds of primitive man. If one wants to explain the origin of all things in the universe, one imagines a great pioneer goddess, Nuwa, who is not only the creator of the world, but also the ancestor of all human beings.

    If people want to explain the phenomenon of the sun and the moon traveling westward and the rivers going east, they fantasize about the stories of "the co-workers cannot touch the mountains", "the pillars of heaven are broken, and the earth is destroyed", "the sky is tilted to the northwest", and "the earth is not satisfied with the southeast", so as to explain the phenomenon of the sun and the moon traveling westward and the rivers going east. From these myths, we can see the primitive man's naïve understanding and vain imagination of the world around him and himself, and of course, it can also be understood that this is precisely some of the mysteries of the world around him and themselves. It goes without saying that the powers of these gods and all kinds of gods created by primitive man are nothing but childish fantasies in people's minds caused by various natural forces that have not yet been recognized, and they are the products of primitive man's visualization and personification of various natural forces through fantasy.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    The myths of Fuxi and Nuwa correspond to the relationship between the goddess of the earth and the god of the sky.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    We have 12 zodiac signs, they have a zodiac sign, I think they have some relationship with the stars, and people's lives are closely related, we have the god of happiness and longevity, they have some wisdom gods, lucky gods and the like, in addition, you see we are 28 constellations, they are this and that.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    I think mythology is stupid manifestation. When people can't control their destiny in reality, they expect someone to help them"God"It was born. "God"There are all kinds of thaumaturgy, which is even more a manifestation of the inertia of the human mind.

    And his children and grandchildren still think that this is their precious spiritual wealth, which has been passed down from generation to generation, and should not be.

    The above is purely a personal opinion.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    The supreme head "Zeus" and "Emperor" all had many children.

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