What are the myths in Chinese history

1. "Nuwa Mending the Sky"

In ancient times, the four pillars of the sky collapsed and the land of the nine states was cracked, so that the sky could not cover the earth, the earth could not carry everything, the fires spread unquenched, the floods did not stop, the beasts devoured the good people, and the ferocious birds captured the old people and children. So Nuwa made the five-color stone to repair the sky, chopped off the foot of the ao to make the pillar of the sky, killed the black dragon to calm the earth, and gathered the ashes of the reed to stop the flood.

2. "Dayu's Remedy of Floods"

In ancient times, when the rivers were out of repair and floods became a disaster for the people, Dayu led the people to fight against the floods which were a natural disaster, and finally won the victory. Jiu Ji, the father of Yu, learned the lesson from the failure of flood control and changed the method of "blocking" to channeling the flood, which shows his wisdom to lead the people to overcome the difficulties; in order to control the flood, Yu fought with the people for many years and disregarded his personal interests, and "three times passed the door of the house but did not enter".

Da Yu spent 13 years, exhausting his efforts and physical strength, and finally accomplished the great task of flood control.

3. "Shennong's Tasting of Hundred Herbs"

Shennong, originally one of the Five Clans, was born in a rocky cave in Lieshan Mountain. Legend has it that he had a transparent body and two horns on his head, i.e., a bull-headed man. His special appearance and hardworking and courageous, grew up and was pushed to be the tribal leader, because his tribe lived in the hot south, called the Yan tribe, everyone called him Yan Di.

On one occasion he saw a bird carrying seeds, and thus invented five-grain agriculture, and because of these remarkable contributions, people called him Shennong again. He saw people get sick, and to the Du Guang of the field to climb the Jianmu on the emperor's garden to get Yao grass and met the emperor to give the divine whip, Shennong took this whip from the Du Guang of the field all the way to whip all the way back to the Lie Shan. Shennong tasted a hundred herbs many times poisoned, thanks to the tea antidote. Because he vowed to taste all the grass, and finally died because he tasted the broken-hearted grass.

4. Hou Yi Shoots the Sun

In ancient times, there was a severe drought on the land. The heat scorched the forests, dried up the earth, and sun-dried the seedlings and grasses. But the drought was so severe that the forests were scorched and the grass and seedlings were dried up. 10 children, all suns, were born to Emperor Jun and Xihe, and they lived in the east, overseas, where there was a big tree called Fusang in the sea water. 10 suns slept at the bottom of the branches, and took turns to come out and do their duty in the sky to illuminate the earth.

But sometimes, they come out together to bring disaster to mankind. In order to save mankind, Hou Yi opened his bow and arrow and shot at the nine suns. The sky exploded with fireballs and three-legged crows fell down. In the end, there was only one sun left in the sky.

5. "Kuafu Chasing the Sun"

Kuafu is a giant in ancient myths and legends, a descendant of the god of the underworld, Hou Tu, who lived on Chengdu-carrying Tianshan Mountain in the northern wilderness. He went after the sun with two yellow snakes hanging from his ears and in his hands.

When he reached the valley of Yugu, where the sun was about to set, he felt his mouth was dry, so he went to drink from the Yellow River and the Wei River, and when the water was dried up, his thirst was not quenched. He wanted to drink from the great lakes in the north, but before he could get there, he died of thirst. As he was dying, Kuafu threw away the staff in his hand, which was suddenly transformed into a peach forest full of fresh fruits, quenching the thirst of those who later pursued the light.

Expanded Information

Mythological stories are a kind of folk literature. The collective oral creation of the people in ancient times. It includes stories of gods and ghosts and legends of gods (ghosts) personified as heroes.

Its creation expresses the ancient people's struggle against the forces of nature and the pursuit of ideals, it is a spiritual support, human aspirations and the actualization of religious display, and has a profound influence on the literature and art of later generations.

Myth, as a form of folklore, is a highly fantastical story created by the people in ancient times to reflect the natural world, the relationship between man and nature, and social patterns.

The creation of myths was combined with the struggle of primitive man with nature for his own survival. At that time, the tools of production were rudimentary, and the unpredictable forces of nature posed a serious threat to mankind, while at the same time, primitive man's understanding of the objective world was at an extremely naive stage.

The operation of the sun and the moon, the changes of day and night, the emergence of water and drought, old age, sickness and death, etc., all make them confused, surprised and panic. All these natural phenomena are closely related to the production and life of the primitive human beings, who desperately wanted to know nature, so they took themselves as the basis and imagined that all things in heaven and earth have the same life and will as human beings.

For the process of natural phenomena and cause and effect relationship, but also to the earthly form of assumptions and fantasies, and thought that everything in nature are subject to the inspiration of God's master. Under the domination of this thought, all natural objects and natural forces were deified. Primitive man did not want to give in and waged a relentless struggle against nature, bent on the desire to know and conquer nature, to lighten his labor and to secure his livelihood.

They transformed this will and desire into concrete images and vivid plots through unconscious imagination, and thus myths came into being. It can be seen that myth is a kind of spiritual activity that primitive people attempted to know and control nature under those extremely difficult conditions, and at the same time, it also sent human aspirations and the actualization of the religious display.

Reference:

Myths - Baidu Encyclopedia