Studies On Myths And Features In Biography Of Emperor Mu

Biography of Emperor Mu,which is unearthed in the ancient tomb of ji county at beginning of west Jin,is an ancient work of ch',describing Emperor Mu'travelling.It describes all kinds of tribes and romantic feelings and gives expression to persistent love and painful missing from Emperor Mu to his concubine.Lots of anecdotes and wonders in Biography of Emperor Mu make it occupy an extremely importantposition on historiography and mythology.The reaearch about Biography of Emperor Mu always meet the varied. Whether it is a myth is one focus that we debated at. Although we can't regard Biography of Emperor Mu as a complete myth work because of history and myth in it and reality and virtual writing, it indeed keeps a large number of mythological elements and has obvious myth features.Mythological elements in Biography of Emperor Mu present different forms from mythical characters to mythical places comparing previous texts'records.So the paper is to explore the trend of myths historicized and history mythologized from these aspects.This paper analyses the text of Biography of Emperor Mu,mean while, it contacts and contrasts the other books such as Shanhai Jing.From analysing secularization of the myths about west queen and The river-god,this paper gives a summary of external causes and internal causes the secularization of Chinese ancient myths.Through analysing myths and mythical characters of Biography of Emperor Mu,we can see that it is obvious of myths historicized,history mythologized and the secularization in the process of development of chinese ancient myths.Biography of Emperor Mu is an ancient work retaining lots of mythological elements and having profound mythical characters and it has significant meaning to the study of chinese ancient myths' development and evolution.