Tell us about the myths and legends of ancient humans and tell us what spirit these myths and legends embody.

Feel the ancient myths and stories of China.

Myth is a descriptive record of sudden and unprecedented objective events and creative humanistic events in history, which is highly praised by the humanities.

It came into being in the bud and early stage of human civilization, when the rationality and sensibility recognized and determined by humanistic cognitive view could not explain the sudden natural and humanistic reality at that time.

The characteristics of myth are as follows:

1, profound historical implication and rich romantic imagination.

2. Humanism highly praised and demonstrated its historical achievements in the times.

3, the embodiment and record of sharp internal contradictions in the history of the times.

4. Its spread and continuation have the ability to transcend race and humanity in the subsequent historical period.

When reading fairy tales, we must observe the form and understand it, treat the form with meaning, and understand the historical connotation and admiration it records and expresses. Avoid unnecessary confusion and confusion caused by illusory theism and religion.

War stories in China's ancient mythology, such as the dispute between Huangdi and Yan Di, Chiyou felling Huangdi, etc. Revealed the unprecedented development and sharp and profound social background at that time.

A great revolutionary and popular invention. That is to say, when drilling wood for fire appeared, great epoch-making and closed inventions and creations had appeared in various clan villages. Such as Fu's net fishing, Shennong's flogging of all animals (grass ×), Xuanyuan's planting mulberry and sericulture and so on.

These inventions originated from their corresponding and inseparable ways of life, production and management in clan villages.

With the promotion and leap of social productive forces, the living standards of various clan villages are relatively rich and the population increases sharply. At the same time, it also brought about the relative surplus of labor force and the unbalanced development between clan villages.

In order to improve the living standard of clan villages, relieve the surplus labor force and make the use of folk kindling relatively convenient, clan villages have launched fierce expansion and competition for living space for natural resources necessary for human life, such as land, water and trees.

The control, use and ownership of land and other natural resources have always been the focus and core of the struggle between people in human society and the fundamental source of war disputes.

Land and other natural resources are the necessary and fundamental conditions for the reproduction of human groups and the basic guarantee for their survival. It is the ultimate evil of human society to completely seize land resources by exterminating other different races. The expansion of living space should follow the principle of mutual benefit and assimilation.

The crazy expansion and competition of living space between clan villages will inevitably lead to irreconcilable hatred and disputes between clan villages. The fairy tale of Jingwei's reclamation is the concentrated expression of this contradiction and dispute.

In the end, clan villages with the same way of life, production and management will form alliances and merge with each other in politics (electing the same leader), economy (complementing the means of subsistence), culture (marriage) and military (organizing and combining strong labor).

From a single clan village to a single tribe. This period is the era of the emergence of sexual surnames and classes.

The emergence of tribes is the inevitable result of social development and a one-sided and guiding unity and integration of human society. It is also the condition and reason for the outbreak of large-scale conquest. The fundamental opposition and irreconcilable contradictions between tribes whose lifestyles and production and management modes are opposite each other have caused a complete break in their relations.

At that time, the representative tribal system mainly included:

nationality

Nominal name

on one's pins

region

labour

way

Life and production

Pattern abbreviation

Childbirth

Yao Su

productive forces

gender

Historical secondary order

Fuxi tribe

Rivers and oceans

Along the coast

Catch fish

salt manufacturing

Fisheries and animal husbandry

Fishing nets,

wooden boat

old

Chuantong

(early) morning

Yan Di tribe

Linshan

Hunt for firewood

plant

plant

Livestock,

wushu

new

Chuantong

middle

Huangdi tribe

plain

sow seeds

spinning

Sowing and farming

Poultry, silkworm, agricultural species

rising

Ge Ming

evening

From the above living and production areas and labor patterns, we can see that the expansion of land is mainly manifested in the emerging sowing and farming tribal system represented by Huangdi and Xuanyuan. The anti-expansion of land is mainly manifested in the traditional farming tribal system represented by Emperor Yan and Shennong.

The contradiction between these two representative tribal systems is bound to intensify. It led to the outbreak of the war in the post-prehistoric period of the Chinese nation, with a comprehensive scene, unprecedented scale and extremely tragic.

From the dispute between Emperor Yan and the Yellow Emperor to Chiyou's attack on the Yellow Emperor, we can see that the war period is long-term, continuous and continuous.

The essence of the logging dispute is the choice of land ownership, political control and economic dominance between traditional planting agriculture and new sowing agriculture, and it is the competition between old and new production and management methods.

The geographical structure of the inland of China and the inevitability of the historical civilization process doomed that sowing and farming agriculture could only become the production mode controlled and led by the national history. Other modes of labor, such as planting, fishing and animal husbandry, have become indispensable, active and effective production components of the country.

The impassioned and indomitable revolutionary spirit overflowed from fairy tales such as Kuafu Day by Day, Xing Tian Fu Dance and Gong Yu Mountain. It reflects and confirms the opposition, exclusion and disharmony of the two tribal systems after the struggle, as well as the profound hostility and hatred between the two tribal peoples due to the gains and losses of natural resources such as land, and the tragic historical plot.

But objectively, due to the factors of long-term production practice, the advanced application technology invented and created was closed and controlled by the opposing tribes. For example, the cattle raising technology of farming tribes, the textile technology of sowing tribes and so on. This runs counter to people's urgent desire to improve social productivity and quality of life through the integration of production technology, and is extremely incompatible with the reality of opposing tribal hatred and the development needs of social productivity.

The beautiful, sad and immortal myths and legends of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl embody this point. At the same time, it also witnessed the emergence of the traditional family marriage mode of harmony between man and nature, equality, peace and happiness, and the life relationship between men and women was also the period when names appeared.

Dialectics of nature and the inevitable choice of social and historical process. It is destined to go through a relatively long, difficult choice and repeated historical process. Fairy stories such as Houyi shooting at the sun, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon and Dayu controlling water reflected the atmosphere of this period.

In the end, there will be a peaceful assimilation of tribes, that is, the emergence of national form. The Chinese nation has entered a great and glorious period, from a unitary tribe to a diversified nation-state, from closed confrontation to open integration, from separatist hatred to harmonious unity and integration, and the Chinese nation was born. It is affirmed that Yanhuang is the blood ancestor of the Chinese nation. At the same time, it also established the strong position of Chinese civilization in the long history of world civilization.