A Constractive Study On Sea God Legends And Beliefs In China And Vietnam

China and Vietnam are neighbors separated only by a strip of water, which both are located in the Pacific west bank, has a long coastline. Marine factors play parts in the evolution of civilization in the history of China and Vietnam. People began to live in the coastal areas of the two countries since long time before, ocean for the residents of the coastal areas provides a rich material life. The two coastal residents mainly engaged in production activities, Marine and closely related to sea.In navigation technology is not developed in ancient times, and changeable sea weather and complicated marine environment to coastal residents of the two countries the risk of marine production caused a lot of difficult to overcome, the two countries instinctively to create a variety of sea, coastal residents want the triton’s blessing, formed a variety of sea legends and beliefs, created a rich ocean culture. The two countries more sea legends and beliefs are important parts of the folk culture of the two countries. Based on the two countries more sea legends and beliefs as the research object, the analysis of the two countries in breeds more sea legends and beliefs of natural Marine environment, the two nations will be in a variety of neptune in godhead humanization, personality deification and deification of standard is classified and summarized to belief in the two countries the main sea legend and text analysis, to explore its evolution process, and finally discusses the basic features of the two countries more sea belief, formation cause and the common sacrifices of the two countries the main communication way of poseidon faith, discussed from the aspects of folk beliefs in the folk cultural communication.