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What are the characteristics of China myth?

The characteristics of China myth are:

First, the living space is vast:

1, echoing the echo of labor creation, is a vivid record of labor creation and a praise for labor performance and initiative.

2. Full of people-friendly consciousness: the goddess fills the sky, shoots for nine days, controls the water, and cultivates the wasteland with meticulous care, all in order to get rid of and overcome the troubles of natural disasters; The purpose of the Yellow Emperor's war against Chiyou is to destroy the evil forces in the world and prevent them from endangering the normal survival of mankind.

Second, create romance:

The place where the wings of myth soar is always the first sound of scientific creation and invention. Myth is sometimes scientific prediction or fantasy science.

From the artistic point of view, myth has a strong positive romantic spirit: bizarre plot, strange fantasy, bold exaggeration and rich imagination.

The influence of China myth;

Myth is a genre that influenced China's various literary creations earlier. Its theme and various mythical figures have exerted various influences on the literary creation and the formation of national epics in past dynasties, especially its rich imagination and methods of visualizing natural things, which are directly related to the formation of artistic fiction and romantic creation methods of later writers.

Oral narrative form has also become a precedent for narrative literature genres such as novels. Many myths directly provide creative themes for writers and artists. Some famous myths have become allusions that people often quote.