The Myth Of The "songs Of The South" Shan Hai Jing "comparative Study

The Songs of the South and Classic of Mountains and Rivers have high mythology study value extremely. They are two book in the pre-Qin period ancient books that keep mythical material most abundant, and its mythical material grows the characteristic originally most too. Though the mythical material in these two books differs from one another, there is obvious homoplasy, that is ,they have numerous the same , shut, similar, and approximate mythical material, which make they can confirm each other, mutual explanatory note , supplementing each other ,and so on. They are loaded with the same magical mountains, magical rives and supernatural trees. In these two books, the supernatural birds and beasts, gods and witch, magical songs and dances, living the forever life and the custom of pleasing gods, are all similar. In the myth of GunYu, the myth of XiaQi, the myth of HouJi, the myth of the King grazes cattle in the last of the twelve Earthly Branches, the myth of LiZhu, the myth of Land fish and the myth of dark hell world, there are many materials explain each other and supplementing each other.Mutually the card is explanatory and complementary in the mythical material of the Songs of the South and Classic of Mountains and Rivers , it is not merely the same , similar or close superficial phenomenon on mythical material that show. Seeing through this kind of representation, what we saw is that there are a great deal of common mythical prototypes in these two books. It was these homology relations on the cultural origin of two ancient books and records that was hidden under the convergent representation of such mythical material . It has reflected nationality's common primitive mythical thinking of the same cultural source . The primitive culture that can show such common primitive thinking is representatives who has characteristic Chinese culture most in the cultural circle of ring Pacific Ocean -The culture of Central Plains which Xia dynasty's culture is central.