What is the difference between Chinese and Western mythology?

1, the system is different

1, Chinese mythology

Chinese mythology is very fragmented, the length of the short, very brief record of the deeds of the gods, the story is not strong, there is no ancient Greek myths such as the length of the great and twisted and vivid plot.

2, Western mythology

Western mythology has a tight system, there is a close connection between the gods, such as Zeus (Zeus): the king of the gods, the master of Olympus, Poseidon (Poseidon): the supreme deity who ruled over all the cosmic seas, he was the son of Cronus and Rhea, the brother of Zeus and Hades. With a huge trident in his hand, he rules over all seas and sea people. The relationship between them is close

Two, different from the human connection

1, Chinese mythology

Chinese myths in the gods have "not eat the fireworks of the human world, no ordinary people's passions and desires," the character traits. For example, Fuxi, Nvwa, Yan Di, Huang Di, Zhuan Xu, ?ào, Yao, Shun, Yu and so on, are sublime and clean. For example, according to the myth of Nuwa, Nuwa created mankind by kneading a ball of yellow clay. Later, because she was busy, she drew a rope into the mud and dragged it around , and the splattered mud spots turned into a lot of people.

Legend has it that in the ancient times, the sky and the earth collapsed, fires burned, floods broke out, and evil birds and animals brutalized the people. Nuwa then melted five-colored stones to mend the sky; chopped off turtle feet and erected them around the earth to hold up the sky, and killed the black dragon that was making waves to save the people in the Central Plains. Then she burned the reeds to ashes to block the monstrous flood. The mythological Nuwa was doing noble things for people.

2. Western Myths

The gods in Western myths are the same shape as human beings, with the physical beauty of human beings, as well as human emotions and desires, and know how to be happy, angry, and sad, and participate in human activities. The difference between gods and men is simply that the former live forever, without a period of death; the latter have a limited life, with birth, old age, sickness and death.

The gods in Western mythology have distinct personalities, with no asceticism and little mysticism. The beauty of Western mythology lies in the fact that gods still have destinies and can still be trapped by love and do bad things for their own benefit.

Three, recorded books are not the same

1, Chinese mythology

The initial written record of Chinese mythology in the Shangshu, the Book of Rites, Zuozhuan, Liezi, Zhuangzi, Chu Ci, the Guoyu, the integration of latitudes and longitudes, Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals, The Classic of the Mountain and the Sea, the Book of the Chupai, the Huainanzi, the Historical Records, and the Note on the Classic of Waters found in ancient canonical books.

2. Western Mythology

The earliest ancient Greek literature includes Homer's narrative epics The Iliad and The Odyssey, which focus on the major events related to the Trojan War. Essentially contemporaneous with Homer, Hesiod's two poems, "The Genealogy of the Gods" and "The Work and the Hours" contain the views and understandings of the scholars of the time on the origins of the world, the continuation of the divine rule and the age of mankind, as well as the origins of human maladies and rituals.

In addition to the Homeric Hymns, Greek mythology can be found in the Epic Cycle (English: Epic Cycle) (lyric poetry, a tragic work of the 5th century BCE), in scholarly works and poems of the Hellenistic period, and in works of the Roman Imperial period, such as those of Plutarch and Pausanias.

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