A Comparative Study Of "Gesar" And "Kalevala" First Exploration

Finland national epic "Kalevala" is a long narrative poem is full of great momentum and the legendary. It praises the Finland national spirit, it has a huge influence on the formation of the Finland national consciousness. It on the formation of Finland literary language and the development of Finland ethnic culture also plays a positive role in promoting, become the source of Finland literature and art creation inexhaustible."Kalevala" can comparable with the outstanding ancient Greek epic "Homa" and the epic of India, Finland is a bright pearl in the treasure-house of national culture. Tibetan heroic epic "Gesar" is also a masterpiece of a comprehensive reflection of ancient tibetan social life, Is one of the world’s longest epic, known as "Oriental" in estern.The mainly of this essay is to compare the heroic epic in the two different cultures within the area of comparative analysis of Tibetan with it of Finland, two epic not only created by the regional culture and history but also has different cultural background, there are some differences between the two heroic epics. but the crystallization of two epics are full of national wisdom and creative. and mainly produces from the two epic historical and cultural background and the contents diversity theme carries on the parallel comparative study. It reveals that Finland and Tibetan has different literary and cultural connotation, and interpretation of the implication of two epic in the cultural differences and cultural characteristics in cross-cultural perspective.Positive significance of the "Introduction" of Epic Studies in the development of human civilization, with the research on the rise and development of our country’s comparative literature and comparative study of "Gesar", comparative study became the most important research methods of the field in "Gesar". And briefly described the current situation both at home and abroad, the purpose and significance of topics, research the feasibility of the method.The body part mainly from three aspects to explain:The first chapter:talk about the two epics of the historical and cultural background, through introduces two epics historical and cultural background, the structure of the epic, the length of the epic, and explaining personal view. The second chapter:introduce the two heroic epic’s number and features, and a wide range of subjects, respectively, including marine culture and the Tibetan culture, the content is extremely rich and diverse. From the heroic epic of mythology, religion, war, the hero image of the personality characteristics of several parts to make comparison and analysis. The third chapter:it discusses two epic theme, comparison of two mainly reflected from the epic in the social morals and the embodiment of national spirit, two epic both reflect the national consciousness, psychological quality, character, morality, ideal desire, embodies the respective national refuse to be cowed or submit, make efforts, the positive enterprising spirit.