Ceremony Interpretation Of Chinese Ancient Myths

Myth,like all spiritual products of human society,has always maintained a deep connection with social life itself.Although myth is the product of human spiritual activities,the magnificent and fantastic romantic color of myth is closely related to the fantasy and involuntary artistic processing of human spiritual world,but the generation and dissemination of myth is more inseparable from the social life of material form itself.Myth can be regarded as the manifestation of human existence in the spiritual field at a certain stage.Most of the cultural soil in early human existence is ritual.Ritual is the original form of human culture,and is the main living order,model and way of life of early human beings.As the material carrier of primitive belief,ritual often plays the role of social system and social order,influencing and controlling the development of early human society.When we talk with western modern myth theory from the standpoint of local culture,we can find that ritual as a material form can become an important way to explain Chinese ancient myth.When we return to the scene of the early ancestors and interpret the myth in the context of ritual,it will be helpful to understand the formation process of the myth,explore the special way of thinking of the myth,explore the function and significance of the myth,grasp the essence of the myth,and insight into the characteristics of the dissemination of the myth.This paper reinterprets some concepts in ancient Chinese classics from the perspective of ritual,and in the process of reinterpreting these concepts,tries to construct a Chinese paradigm of ritual interpretation of mythology,and broadens the channels for the rich Chinese local cases to enter the grand theoretical system of modern mythology.If the "dance" in the preface to MAO poetry "poetry express will" and other concepts was liberated from the traditional poetic theory and vision into the ceremony,to re-examine the "move in and shape to speak" "mind for tzu chi,the spokesman for the poem" literary proposition of cultural significance,such as mining "chi","situation" "the ritual" "poem" "dance" "Yu" concept of the "shoe" of the early,Observe the book of songs "rites" of literature for early ceremony scene,at times in the new period unearthed pottery decorative design in a utensil,study of "dance" "dry Qi Yu Mao" ceremony related activities such as "will",artifacts,language,then you can clearly found that the Chinese ancient ceremony has the function of feedback and emotion appeal showed obvious group characteristics,It has the development process of standardization,protocol,group and abstraction,showing the characteristics of profound stylized narration.Ceremony of stylized narration closely associated with early ancestors "like" thinking,based on the investigation to the early rituals object,combining the zhouyi,and their children to learn theory summary of "like",refer to "like" in the pre-qin classics in the actual scene,the application can find ceremony of stylized narration has strong symbolic significance.In the context of ritual,symbolic narrative is frequently used and becomes an important way to tell the memory of ethnic groups,express people’s common ideas and feedback emotional appeals.The generation of myth has a profound connection with this kind of symbolic narrative.The related characteristics of Chinese ancient rites can explain Chinese ancient myths.Ritual provides three important factors for the generation and spread of myth:from the origin,ritual provides an expression mechanism for people’s emotions and appeals,which is also the origin of myth;In terms of content,ritual provides ethnic memory,which is also the essence of myth.From the point of view of meaning transmission structure,ritual provides symbolic expression,which is also an important expression form of myth thinking.The generation of myth is closely related to the symbolic narration in ritual.With western "myth-ceremony" school of thought in the process of dialogue,from the most important in early human nature worship the concept of "day",combined with "history" shanhaijing "rites" and "huai south son" bones,we find in the literature related to death rituals such as content,reference early paintings content and bronze pattern,mining "yao" early meaning of the words like "table",This paper discusses the connotations of stylized narratives such as "tian","yu","guan" and "Jiao" from the Angle of ritual,and proves that "Xi","Kunlun","Fusang","Jianmu" and "Jeditiantong" are related to the "heaven ladder" in the ritual of ancestors,and then explains the origin of ancient Chinese myths from the Angle of ritual and symbolic narration.It can be found that the stylized narration in the ritual has become an important part of the myth through symbolism by associating the mythological content of the "bamboo people" with the shape of "man entering the mouth of the beast" on the bronze ware,the record of "Taotie" in ancient books and the shape of "hollow" in the jade culture of our ancestors.Starting with the records of the "four gods" in Zuo Zhuan,Shang Shu and silk manuscripts of the Chu Dynasty,and combining with the early ceremony of worshipping the sun,it can be found that the formation of "god" is closely related to the symbolic narration in the ceremony.When symbolic narrative takes on the characteristics of visualization and plot,myth comes into being.The generation of myth is closely related to the emotional appeal of ancestors contained in the ceremony.From the reanalysis of the myth of Gun Yu controlling water,it can be found that the later literature attributed the replacement of Gun yu to the different ways of controlling water and assigned gun "evil deeds",which did not accord with the early form of the myth.In the Yu Nai Si "suitable for success" "xing",such as discrimination on the basis of the mythological content,reinterpretation of "Ji" "kill" and other words the exile,the failure of small,combined with the content of anthropological fieldwork,the alternative is to find yu Gun "kill god king" and "the second birth" ritual as a symbol of the narrative,reflects the myth of ancient power shift,It bears the emotion and appeal of people in the ritual,indicating the function of the ritual to the generation of myth.The generation of myth is related to the group memory function of ritual.The natural group characteristics of ritual,the mixture of "myth" and "history" in early China,and the reflection of ritual on "history" all determine that myth,which has a deep connection with ritual,also has the function of recording ethnic memory.Starting from the symbolic significance of "gan-qi dance","head-severing" and "corpse",this paper explores the ritual significance of "head-severing" in early tombs,and explores the influence of stylized narration in rituals on "the legend of the death of heaven" in combination with the ritual significance of "yue" in the record of King Wu’s attack against King Zhou.It shows that myth is an important carrier to preserve the memory of ethnic groups.At the same time,starting from the mythological contents such as "The Battle between Yan and Huang","Shen Xing" and "Shang Xing",this paper discusses the symbolic content of "Storuyu stone ax tu" in Yangshao ruins,combined with the records of ancient wars in the ancient book "Zhushu Ji Nian",which proves that mythology is a special way of expressing the memory of ethnic groups.Myth to a considerable extent represents the history of the ancestors of ethnic value judgment,unique thinking and way of learning about the world,in the form of living condition to participate in the creation of the national spirit,constitute the discourse tradition of the early ancestors,affects the process of national culture construction,and thus formed the special relationship of parallel mixed with history.The generation of myth is deeply connected with the ceremony,and the transmission of myth is also inseparable from the ceremony.The mythological characteristics of a nation coincide with the ceremonial characteristics of the nation,and the dissemination of myth needs the ceremonial context to a great extent.When we look at the original meaning of "god","set Shinto taught" meaning,as well as the early shape of rituals,the "view","xing" concept into the service category,such as literature can be found that myth is in the "infection" and "feeling" and "performance" and "understanding","show" and "observe" complete meaning in the process of transmission.From the perspective of communication,ritual context is the soil where myths can be preserved.Myth emerged because of ritual,and its occurrence and development are naturally closely related to ritual.In the era after the emergence of humanistic consciousness,the "rites" created by Duke Zhou and promoted by primitive Confucianism became the continuation of the early rites.The existence of "rites" with sacred significance solidified and continued the way of symbolic thinking,the way of meaning transmission and the active consciousness of preserving ethnic memory of the ancestors,providing a new ritual context for the spread of myths.From China in the early period of strong religious color,to the humanities consciousness rising time,the duke of zhou,Confucius and others to their own familiarity of ceremony,to reform the ceremony symbolic,to a large extent affected the Chinese ancient myth of the emotional appeal and ethnic memory,and thus realizes own theory of political purpose and goal.By observing the process of their transformation of the ceremony,we can also explore the relationship between the ceremony and the myth,and see the influence of the myth in the early spread.At the same time,it can also be found from observation that the ancient Chinese myths influenced by rituals gradually formed a mythological system dominated by "saints" in the early spreading process.