| "Human beings 'reliving after flood in China myths" are mainly sacred stories spreading in spoken language and used in Sino-Tibetan tribes and Sino-Tibetan community. In contrast to the hero's maintaining water control myths which emphasize on rebuilding a country or a social order, like the myth named "DaYu's maintaing water control", the core of these kinds of myths is to build human and nationality nature. Since spreading in spoken language is the most important characteristic in myths, if we put numerous myths together from the aspect of linguistics and match them up to language family and even the language branch, we may find a working platform to set them apart scientifically.Before doing more research on the" human beings 'reliving after flood in China myths", this thesis first explains the nature, the main subjects and the typical concept afresh, and imagines for a myth typology a tested mechanism of conclusions with different subjects, then it collects and arranges original materials of "human beings 'reliving after flood in China myths" .On this base, this thesis makes the conclusion of the main subject and the secondary one among 151 myths spreading among Zang Mian tribe, Miao Yao tribe, Zhuang Tong tribe, A Er Tai nation, South Asia nation, Nan Island nation and Han nation in China and defines ten stable groups: Five groups, which are spreading in Zhang Mian nation can be merged into type A (including AI ,AII ,AIII), type B and type C .Two groups, spreading in Miaoyao tribe and Zhuang Tong tribe can be merged into type A (including AI,AII). There is one group in A ErTai nation and another one in Nan Island. Finally I define only one group which is temporarily spreading in Han nation .The ten main groups can be divided into seven subsidiary groups and five types.From "the human beings' reliving after flood myths" spreading in Zhang Mian nation, this thesis chooses as an example six myths with complete structure, and match-them up to other fifty different kinds of myths. In this way, I conclude that:1 .The type A, among which I take the flood myths spreading in Mi tribe, CaCu tribe and NaXi tribe as an example, can be divided into 3 types: type AI, type AII and type AIII .Type I has as a main subject the eyes, the brother and sister' marriage and human beings born from female's body or from the cucurbit. Type AII has as a main subject the sister and brother's marriage, the brother and sister's opening up wasteland and human beings born from female's body or human beings' from the cucurbit.2.The type B, among which I take as an example the flood myths which is spreading in Qiang tribe, has as a main subject the ancestor of monkeys, the brother and sister' marriage and the fetus which was cut into pieces changing into human being.3.The type C, among which I take as an example the flood myths spreading in DuLong tribe, Nu tribe, Jin Luo tribe, does not have defined characteristics.In this thesis, I have also used some Language Chronology methods and materials: Archaeology, Ethnology, History, and Geography. Based on them, I conclude that the AI myths type was popular in late Shang Dynasty, AII myths typewas popular in Chun Qin and Zhan Guo Dynasty, and the AIII myths type was popular in Han and Jin Dynasty. In some other tribe's flood myths, like Miao Yao tribe and Zhuang Tong tribe, the stable group which has thunder father revenge as a main subject can be heard of. In A Er Tai tribe, we often find out the group which has as a main subject doing good deeds, the multitude being rescued by rushing into the mountain and the people who foretold a flood being changed into an object. Flood myths, spreading in Bu Long, San Xia, Tai ya tribes and so on in Nan Island, have more blood relationships with the mainland and have as a main subject the changed type of the sister and brother's marriage and the fetus which was cut into pieces changing into human being.Because of the conditions limit, now I still have some difficulties in making "human beings' reliving after flood in China myths" fully clear,...
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