Rainbow Ancient Literature And Culture Imagery

Rainbow is one of the common natural phenomena, however due to the backward science and technology of the ancient society, and the ancients primitive worship of nature, rainbow is bestowed with the nature of the gods and mysteries. Its inscrutable gaseous forms are used to divine the fortune or misfortune of the political activities, military operations, agricultural productions and peoples’ lives.This essay is based on rainbow as the object of study, combined with the ancient literature and the results of academic research of the former scholars. The essay analyzes rainbow’s cultural representation in the ancient society. Interpret its divinations and imageries and so on. Perform in-depth discussions, in order to expand the related research and combing about the rainbow.The preface:Make a brief description for the purpose and significance of this study, and then describes the research status of rainbow.Part I:Divided into three chapters. The first chapter introduces rainbow’s nicknames, analyzes its occurrence time and reasons. The second chapter analyzes its surreal image of personification, animal and materialization, in order to have a better grasp of the rainbow’s cultural representation in the ancient society.Part II:Divided into two chapters. The first chapter sorts out the divinations of rainbow, which relate to the politics and military affairs and also discusses why the Bai Hong indicate the disaster briefly. The second chapter analyzes the divinations of rainbow about the farming. Investigate the changes and reasons of the rainbow divination records at the vesting of the content.Conclusion:Summarize the main points of the full text and elaborate the research value of the rainbow.In short, this article discusses the rainbow’s basic characterization and cultural imagery in ancient literature, in order to expand the related research and combing about the rainbow.