The Cultural Connotation of the Myth of Heaven and Man

The cultural connotation of the myth of heaven is the tenacity and persistence of the Chinese nation in pursuing truth.

Qu Yuan's Tian Wen is a masterpiece of prose with profound content and unique form. It asked more than 170 questions in a row, covering all aspects from heaven to earth, from ancient times to the present, from heaven to personnel. The purpose of "Tian Wen" is to ask historical questions about the development of nature and society.

The works put forward a series of questions and criticisms on idealism's "destiny view", traditional ideas about natural phenomena (mainly "covering the sky") and traditional ideas about ancient myths and legends and historical records (including philosophy, politics, ethics, morality, etc.). ) Qu Yuan's courage to explore and stick to the truth is unprecedented among ancient writers in China.

For a long time, people's first impression of Tian Wen is literature. If you change it into a scientific point of view, you will find that it has a different world-this is the spirit of scientific exploration carried by the text.

It first questioned all kinds of myths and legends about the origin of the universe: "Who was preaching at the beginning of ancient times? The top and bottom are shapeless, how to test them? It's dark, but who can do it? Feng Yi just likes it. How can he know? "

These four questions show that Qu Yuan believes that it is impossible for human beings to have reliable knowledge about the origin of the universe, which is actually a complete denial of all myths and legends about the origin of the universe. Nine Questions then questioned the ancient myths and legends about * * * workers, women, Nu Wa, Candle dragon and Hou Yi.

It also explored the division of twelve hours, the structure of the universe, the formation of day and night, the movement of the sun and the moon and other astronomical phenomena.

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Tian Wen sketched a historical world from the beginning of chaos to the pre-Chu period with a rational style, and China's scattered and unrelated mythological system appeared in order under Qu Yuan's questioning.

Controlling flood is a fairy tale from the group perspective, which is contrary to the workers. As for the flood, most of the space in Tian Wen revolves around the story of "Dayu controlling water". According to the myths and legends preserved in Huainanzi, the flood caused by * * * workers was not solved until the last years of Yu Shun, which took a long time.

Another disaster of "Tian Wen" is drought. How can you solve your own feathers? Its form of expression is the same as water control, so I won't describe it much.

Most of the myths in our country are the fantasies and explanations of ancient ancestors born in the face of irresistible natural forces, but yes, there are also some myths that explain the natural laws of social history and peacetime:

The first is the imagination of absurd things and the fantasy of natural forces, but it is different from the exaggeration and panic of Dayu's flood control before, like a guess.