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What are the stories of ancient Chinese legends?

Kua Fu chasing the sun, Nuwa mending the sky, Chang'e running to the moon, Hou Yi shooting the sun, Jingwei filling the sea, Shen Nong tasted all kinds of herbs, hamsterjie making characters, Dayu ruling the water, Nezha messing with the sea, Nuwa making people, Wu Gang felling the laurel, Pangu opening the sky, Interpretation of the dance of the dry goat, the Yellow Emperor war Chi You, **** Gong angrily touching the mountain of Buzhou, the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden, Xu Xian and White Maiden, the Heavenly Immortal Match, Gan General Muozhi, Meng Jiangnu weeping on the Great Wall.

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 heroes who are deified (ghosts).

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 it has a profound influence on the literature and art of later generations.

The creation of myths also depended on the nature of society at that time. At that time, people had to rely on the collective, *** with access to the means of subsistence, to defend against wild animals and enemies; labor income is limited, must be evenly distributed. In the primitive communal system, the main contradiction between man and nature, became the center of attention of the people. Therefore, explaining nature and subduing it became the main content of myths. At the same time, due to the unity of interest, in the collective production of the emergence of superior skills, brave and strong characters, by all members of the reverence, which was given magical powers and become gods or demi-gods. In them, the desire of primitive man to subdue nature was placed.