"the Raven" The Origins Of The Cultural Symbolism

Among the Han nationality mind of people, this ordinary birds of "crow " already become the ominous sign . " crow mouth ", " disorderly rabble ", " all crows are black--evil people are bad all over the world " , " right overhead crow, there is not calamity that there must be troubles ", these idioms , proverbs in the daily life are all full of feelings detested to the crow, " crow " becomes a kind of taboo in folk custom . But we trace back to" crow " origin of this object, find it in the mind of the ancient people, it is not the evil birds, but supernatural birds.In the national historical long river of China, " crow " object's cultural symbolic meaning is changing constantly, and meet for ill omen finally. This text takes documents and materials for each historical periods as the core, analyzing the origins of " crow " object from barbarism thinking studying , archaeology , mythology studying , phonology ,etc, the mythology is explained to " the crow is carrying the sun "; Detail" crow " object's evolvement in each historical periods and its cultural symbolic meaning contained; Finally, summarizing this folk custom taboo of " dark to crow , promise fierce " concrete reason from region environment, folk custom legend , social culture and people psychology ,etc.