Ancient Chinese myths are mainly about what

Chinese mythology is a product of the traditional culture of China in the ancient times, reflecting the simple thoughts of the early Chinese children and the primitive fantasies of the ancient people about the natural phenomena and the social life, and expressed through supernatural images and fantasies in the form of stories and legends, and is the form of the nature and the society itself processed through the people's fantasies in a kind of unconscious artistic way.

Myths are generally characterized by the use of gods and immortals as protagonists, and by the role of demons, monsters, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas; they include a variety of natural gods and deified heroes. The plots of myths are usually characterized by changes, divine power, strange stories, wars, love, and so on. They also contain a variety of allegorical meanings and feudal superstitions. The meaning of myths is usually shown as an explanation of certain natural and social phenomena; some of them express the wish of the ancestors to conquer nature and change the society. They were mainly spread to the people by writing books and passing them on by word of mouth.