Monday, May 24, 2010

Chinese myth and culture

The concept of myth has been rather vague, either from academic research, or in terms of popular folk are very difficult to set a clear meaning of the myth, combined with their superficial knowledge, myth is used to explain the human and the natural world, then extended to the self-relationship of art, ancient people Hou nature of all things for all kinds of natural phenomena among all the lack of basic knowledge, but, based on their safety and psychological needs of all body, but also required for those natural phenomena reasonable explanation, therefore, a personification of natural phenomena will be wishful thinking, then naturally emerge, and this is the myth of origin, because the powerful forces of nature, and the ancient people compared with the weak force, there is great disparity Therefore, in the ancient myth, the symbol of the gods of nature, natural, always giving the impression that the image and unpredictable, with extraordinary supernatural powers, and in the early stage of human civilization, the natural character of God all the more volatile , and this is precisely because it was the people, for the very lack of understanding of the laws of nature, all the signs that show that the first people always cherish the natural touch of awe, admiration of feelings, it is also because feelings, giving rise to a harmonious coexistence between man and nature, the delicate relationship, and further development of relations between such subtle self-ting out into the relationship between man and, when Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Xu family thought and speech be respected when Some students who Confucian philosophy of the ancient people of God has taken the attitude of suppressed or discarded, as a whole is concerned, the Confucian scholars who are advocating on atheism, but, in fact, Confucianism is still 継 commitments and carry forward the legacy of years since the ancient The people of Theology and Philosophy, A set of human and nature harmonious thought to be preserved, but also further into the essence of this top political and humanistic philosophy, thus forming a box set of ethical arguments and moral system, which also makes the Chinese culture to the thousands of years, continued harmonious Wen Ting set down, Taoism not only inherited the ideological essence of ancient myths, further out into these philosophical Mountain ascribed to the scope of physical support, not only derived from the "gods", which a range of people, days , land, between the cultural product, but then had a "Heaven", this philosophy is not difficult to detect by the signs of ancient myths to ancient Chinese civilization is a far-reaching impact to some extent, from the ancestors understanding the formation of those nature, has influenced the demeanor of some Chinese people, from the monarch head down to the people of Lebanon, from the political and diplomatic, architectural style, customs, ethics, from every detail is not difficult to detect , Cosmic Law, Imitation of Nature, Yang Gen Fu mysterious and experience, but when they all stand still, stubbornly maintaining its interests are gradually out of concern for human nature, its feudal abuses have gradually emerged, rigid and corrupt the traditional ethical code, and thus become a tool to meet the desire of a class, such as the event of another foreign culture strong Shocking, obscene dip or baptism, the ancient Chinese civilization, is even more hair was an old and vulnerable, and when Western Civilization gunboats attack destroyed one by one Fangcheng Chinese culture, the spirit of Chinese people for thousands of years imprisonment shackles were broken open at the same time, the essence of the soul is also close to being swept away, the old myth that create harmony comity also with the broken, and blind faith in things foreign, the trend of westernization, so Asians are picking up the last of the Western disease, human well-being, spiritual emptiness, environmental degradation, hypocritical hypocrisy, these features appear almost upon our generation , for the time being whether signs to us how much of the destruction of traditional culture and its need for a new century, our generation stand on the threshold of new people, have to do in addition to reflection, is up and absorb the previous experience to positive attitude in the face, the place from falling back on its feet, every seemingly small efforts, for the foreseeable future is a bright Chinese culture.