China ancient myth culture is different from the west. What's the problem?

First, the scenes depicted in China's fairy tales are more like people, while those depicted in western fairy tales are more like gods. The mythical figures in China are more perfect gods, while the mythical figures in the West are human templates that combine desire, hatred and greed. The eastern and western cultures are antagonistic on many levels, and the characteristics of fairy tales are one of them.

Second, the focus of China's mythology is more on life elements, such as the lotus lantern reflecting family affection and the legend of the white snake reflecting family affection, people's livelihood and the fearlessness of the weak. In the face of floods, the West is the sacred Noah's Ark, and China is the humanized water control. The paradise depicted in oriental mythology is also a more vivid scene. We are a living nation, and the adaptation of ancient myths by later generations has moved closer to the direction of vitality. Western mythology either stays in the cultural state of the earliest recorded history or belongs to the apocalypse in religion. This also makes the eastern and western myths become human myths and apocalyptic myths. However, the earliest myths are not much different. They all pay attention to superimposing historical information and cultural information on the corresponding mythical figures. The most typical one is the god beast, which is a phenomenon that various elements gather together because of cultural superposition. At the same time, it also reflects the close relationship between early humans, animals and plants and domesticated animals.

Thirdly, there are many similarities between the story of Ina Nanhai and ancient Greek mythology, which all reflect the cruelty of parents to their children. But Nezha's story still maintains the family bottom line, that is, parents are ruthless because of their son's stubbornness, and the son still maintains the family bottom line despite his rebellion. Father and son, brothers in ancient Greek mythology, it was a life-and-death power struggle. You can't tell there's a family in there. Because of the different emphasis and bottom line, the same similar stories have different impressions.

Fourth, there is another difference between eastern and western myths. Eastern mythology does not emphasize hatred. There are bad people and bad people, but they focus on the perseverance of good people. After the religiousization of western myths, opposites, imaginary enemies and demons were set up. This is an artificial emphasis on hatred. Therefore, western religions can easily become war organizations. The East basically doesn't kill people because of religion or belief, even if it does, it is related to kingship and politics. People basically don't have this kind of religious blessing to kill people. Yes, it is also related to the primitive shaman's superstition of individual wizards.

From this perspective, oriental myths and religions are undoubtedly more successful and humanistic. However, oriental mythology is not divorced from reality, and it is too perfect, resulting in insufficient enlightenment to social philosophical thinking. It's just a bunch of great immortals, all good gentlemen, which is of little significance to social and humanistic education. Both extremes are a bit excessive. The west attaches too much importance to divine revelation, the east is too life-oriented, and the gods are too useless.