The Japanese Acceptance Of The Cowherd And Weaver Girl Legend

The legend of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl has developed from the astrological mythology of the slave period to the popular folklore nowadays.It has a strong vitality and always maintains the era and freshness.It is an ancient ancestor's thinking and cognition of natural deities and social forms,and contains rich Chinese cultural resources.The Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend not only has great influence in China,but also has a profound impact on Japanese culture.Both China and Japan belong to the East Asian cultural circle,and cultural exchanges have a long history.As an excellent culture of Chinese civilization,the Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend continued to spread eastward under the influence of mainland textile groups and Japanese cultural messengers,forming a unique Japanese Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend.Domestic research on the story of the Japanese Cowherd and Weaver Girl is relatively scarce.It is mainly concentrated in the related literary fields such as the Japanese Tanabata custom,the star festival and the fairy tales of the feathers,and there is not enough attention on the ontological research of the Japanese Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend.Based on this,this article takes the legend of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl between China and Japan as the research object,analyzes the Japanese acceptance of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend from the perspective of comparative culture,and explores the underlying reasons behind the acceptance.Performance and its inspiration to Chinese cultural development.Based on this thinking,the thesis mainly discusses from three chapters:The opening is the introduction.The thesis research is summarized from three aspects: the reason and significance of the topic selection,the current status of domestic and foreign research,research methods and content,and clarifies the problem awareness and writing thinking of the thesis.The first chapter is an overview of the Japanese dissemination of theCowherd and Weaver Girl legend.First of all,the development process of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend is combed from a diachronic perspective,the relationship between the evolution of the times and the folklore is explored,and the Chinese cultural resources contained in the Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend are explored.Next,the Japanese transmission path of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend is introduced.The Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend is spread to Japan mainly through two channels: One is the oral communication of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl from the Continental Textile Group,which has made the image of the Weaver Girl popular among Japanese people.The other is the active dissemination of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl by the cultural messengers,so that the Japanese people can intuitively and accurately perceive the charm of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend.Through the analysis of the transmission path,it is concluded that the formation of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend in Japan is a gradual and in-depth process,which rises from unconscious verbal communication to conscious active communication,which reflects the importance and absorption of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend in Japan.The second chapter is a comparative analysis of the legends of the Weaver Girl in China and Japan.It mainly discusses the similarities and variability of the legends of Chinese and Japanese Cowherd and Weaver Girl.Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges have a long history,and Japan has continuously learned from China about outstanding cultures,which are culturally in common.They are mainly manifested in the beliefs and worship of gods and gods in the legends of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl of China and Japan.In the communication of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl in Japan,Japan did not absorb it in its entirety,but carried out cultural filtering and cultural selection under the influence of the social development status,religious beliefs,and cultural aesthetics of its own nation.Tolerance has occurred in aspects such as the way and the content of the river crossingmeeting,in order to meet the spiritual needs of the Japanese people,and reflects the development of the integration and rivalry of different ethnic cultures.The third chapter explores the underlying reasons for the acceptance of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl in Japan.Mainly from the theoretical perspectives of comparative literature variation,communication,and cultural anthropology,combined with Japanese national characteristics,from the cultural context of Japanese polytheism,the class expression of Japanese cultural messengers,the depoliticization of Japanese classical aesthetics,and the Japanese maritime nature.The four dimensions of geo-culture are to explore the phenomenon of Japanese acceptance in the legend of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl,to dig deeper into the Japanese cultural resources carried by the legend of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl,and the way of thinking and cultural development of Japan in the face of cross-cultural communication.The conclusion is based on the analysis of the Japanese tolerance of the legend of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl.It is concluded that when facing the spread of foreign cultures,Japan always bases itself on the development of its own culture,and merges foreign cultures with its own culture to form new literary content and promote Japan.The development of literature.This way of thinking and the law of cultural development have inspired China to maintain national and cultural self-confidence in cross-cultural communication,actively integrate the excellent cultures of various countries,and enrich the multicultural needs of the people.Through the discussions in the above three chapters,the formation process and content of the legend of the Japanese Cowherd and Weaver Girl are explained in depth,and it is concluded that Japan can base itself on the development of national culture in cross-cultural communication,and make cultural choices on the basis of foreign cultures.And cultural filtering to promote the development of Japanese culture.This cultural developmentmodel has profound implications for China,enabling China to always base on Chinese outstanding traditional culture in cross-cultural communication,continually integrate the outstanding genes of foreign cultures,and promote the further development of Chinese culture.The Japanese Acceptance of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl Legend shows the historical phenomenon of Sino-Japanese friendship and cultural exchanges,which is of great significance for enhancing the good-neighborly and friendly relations between China and Japan and strengthening cultural exchanges between China and Japan.