What are China's twenty fairy tales?

Kuafu pursues the sun, the goddess fills the sky, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Houyi shoots the sun, Jingwei fills the sea, and Shennong tastes a hundred herbs. Cangjie created words, Dayu controlled the water, Nezha made the sea, Nuwa made people, Wu Gang cut Guangxi, Pangu Tiankai, dancing in the sky, the Yellow Emperor fought against Chiyou, * * * workers were angry and could not touch Zhoushan, and the cowherd and the weaver girl matched with the White Snake and the immortal, and they were strong and cried over the Great Wall.

Fairy tales are a kind of folk literature. The collective oral creation of the ancients. Including ghost stories and deified the legend of heroes.

Its appearance shows the ancient people's resistance to natural forces and their pursuit of ideals. It is a spiritual sustenance, a yearning for human beings, and a realization of religion, which has a far-reaching influence on later literature and art.

The emergence of myth also depends on the social nature at that time. At that time, people had to rely on the collective to obtain means of subsistence and resist wild animals and enemies; The income from labor is limited and must be distributed equally. Under the primitive commune system, the main contradiction between man and nature has become the center of people's attention. Therefore, explaining and conquering nature has become the main content of myth. At the same time, because people's interests are consistent, the brave and strong figures emerging in collective production are revered by all members and endowed with the magical ability to become gods or demigods. On them, the primitive people's desire to conquer nature was pinned.

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Baidu encyclopedia: fairy tales