Legends of Chinese immortals and ghosts

There are many legends about Chinese immortals and ghosts.

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myth

Myth is the most important literary style in human prehistory and the product of people's "unconscious" artistic processing. China's early literary classics, such as Zhuangzi, Han Feizi, Mu Zhuan, Chu Ci, Shan Hai Jing and so on, all recorded a large number of ancient myths. Up to now, there are still many mythological narrative works that have been orally circulated by people of all ethnic groups in China.

The creation myth explains the origin and structure of all things in the universe, and holds that heaven and earth already exist and all things in the universe naturally form. The Yi myth "The Origin of Everything" said: "In ancient times, there was no heaven and earth, and the chaotic environment produced a clear and turbid atmosphere. The strong wind blows gently, and the turbid gas gradually separates, and the clear gas rises and the turbid gas sinks. Clear air all day, turbid air into the ground, clear turbidity into yin and yang, yin and yang will intersect, resulting in green, red and yellow "; There is also a view that heaven and earth were born by a mother god or a creature.

Where people come from has always been one of the concerns of primitive people. The common theme of the myth that God created man is to create man with clay. There is also a myth about the origin of human beings, which is attributed to the fact that people were born from natural things.

The myth of the material culture created by the ancestors of all ethnic groups is called the myth of cultural origin.

Nu Wa is the hero of China. She created human beings and filled the sky. According to legend, when heaven and earth opened, there was no one on the ground, and Nu Wa made man in the loess. Humans appeared on the earth. Soon, a corner of the northwest sky suddenly collapsed. As soon as the day opened, there was a strong wind, rain, snow and hail, and the earth became a flood world. So Nu Wa began to refine five-color stones to make up the sky and strengthen the four poles, and people lived a peaceful life again.

The Miao, Zhuang, Yao, Bai, Dai, Hani, Yi, Jingpo, Buyi, Bulang, Naxi, Benglong, Pumi, Achang and other ethnic groups in the southwest of China widely spread the flood myth, telling that ancient humans offended the gods, and the gods sent floods to punish the world and destroyed the whole human race. Only two brothers and sisters hid in Hulu or Achang. At God's behest, brother and sister got married and gave birth to human beings again.

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Folk Fu Shuo, built around objective reality through fictional expression and historical expression, has aesthetic significance and is widely spread in China. There are legends of people and local scenery in China folklore.

Legends of characters include legends of emperors and generals; Legends of national heroes; The legend of an upright official; Legends of heroes and revolutionary leaders of peasant uprisings; The legend of literati; The legend of craftsmen; Legend of imperial doctor; Legends of religious figures, etc. This kind of legend takes people as the center, narrates their deeds, and contains people's evaluation of these historical figures, which is immortal.

The legend of local scenery is the most abundant in China, which is the aesthetic interpretation of the origin and naming of mountains, rivers, customs and local products by the general public. Legends of local scenery in China include legends of natural scenery such as mountains, rivers, lakes and seas. Legends of artificial scenery such as places of interest and historical sites; The legend of local products; Customs and legends, etc.

Legends such as The Legend of the White Snake, Meng Jiangnu Crying at the Great Wall, Butterfly Lovers, Cowherd and Weaver Girl are well-known and have a long history.

story

China's storytelling began more than two thousand years ago and is still very popular. Storytelling is an important folk activity of the people, commonly known as "telling old sayings", "telling lies", "putting on a dragon's gate array" and "telling classics".

China folk stories can be roughly divided into fantasy stories, life stories, animal stories and folk jokes.