I find this great website of chinese myths. I will tell you some stories. At first, the universe was like a egg. Then, Pan Gu born. When he stretch his body, the earth becomes more thicker. Finally, the sky separated from the earth. After Pan Gu died, his body became mountains and fields, sun, moon and stars, gold, jade, pearls and rocks, rain and dews.
I think this myth mean the beginning of the universe, ancient people didn't know the space. They use their mind to create some stories to make people believe.
The other myth story is "Yi Shoots Down Nine Suns". Yi was a god in the heaven, the emperor of the god sent Yi down to the earth. He need to help people, and he saw ten suns on the sky. He use bow shoot nine suns down, he saved people!
I think this story mean why the sky have one sun, this story have related of their environment. The ancient world is dangeous, so they describe the sun is evil. And they created some hero to help them, it is the cause what they need to create him.
There have the last story I will tell you, is "Chang'e Flies to the Moon". One time, Yi visited to the west of queen. He took some elixir, but Chang'e stole it and flew to the moon. However, she is sad and lone.
I think this story tells about what happen when you have greed. The people use this story to remind our don't greedily, because it may make you fall in a big trouble. Like Chang'e, she stole it. And made her lone, one person in the moon.
1 comment:
You did a good job summarizing these myths as well as explaining their meaning--in fact I thing your meanings are all rather insightful. However, you forgot that I wanted you to focus on hunting myths...
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