Font Size: a A A

From The Point Of View Of Ancient Chinese Mythology To See The Spiritual World Of The Ancients

Posted on:2009-05-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F S XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242494542Subject:History of Ancient China
Abstract/Summary:PDF Full Text Request
Myth is an important way to understand the history of the early spirit of mankind .Exploring the spiritual world of the ancients from the angle of ancient chinese mythology has great realistic significance. It not only helps us to grasp the composition and direction of the national culture from the aspect of primitive culture gene, but also to further understand the more subtle sense of self-regulatory mechanism .Meanwhile, the research on mythology provides us a reference to understand and interpret other related products of humanity spirits correctly, especially helps us to revaluate the importance of the archaeological discoveries for ancient history research from the aspect of spirit. We can combine the study of material culture with spiritual culture in a better way, so as to make history research become more extensive an comprehensive on the basis of historical facts research .This paper focused on revealing the colorful spiritual world of the ancients from the point of view of ancient chinese mythology. It mainly discussed the ancients'way of understanding and grasping world, basic values'tendentious, and its life attitude and character traits etc. This paper first discussed the intuitive sentiment based on experience and mainly to perceptual knowledge, the analogical reasoning that breakthroughed natural and social limits, and chaos comprehensive way of thinking; Then it made the righteousness benefit value as a core, and discussed the problem that the ancients concerned, such as groups and personal relationships, material and human relations, the value of life etc. At last, this paper inspected the mentality of the daily lives of the ancients and their concepts of life and character traits.In the research methods, this paper combined the structure and content of myth with social and cultural environment, and focused on grasping the process and characteristics of the ancients'sense activities from the aspect of psychological motivation the ancients creating myths .This paper exceeded the original concept of the classification of mythology, and appropriately reorganized and readjusted the original myth so as to close to and restore the original appearance of the ancients'spiritual life on the whole.
Keywords/Search Tags:Myth, way of thinking, Concept of value, attitude towards life, national character
PDF Full Text Request
Related items