A Comparative Study Of Chinese And Foreign Flood Myth

Flood myth is based on the background or the theme of the story, is the original ancestors to flood the natural phenomenon of simple explanation. Studies of the flood myth in the west, its academic term is \"the world d estruction and latter-day myth\". The flood myth is common in all parts o f the world, and is a worldwide cultural phenomenon, it is widely distrib uted in all nationalities in the world except Antarctica. Marc Isaac in the flood story in statistics, a total of 181 countries around the world and th enation the flood myth, story text was more than 500 articles. Basic struc ture of all ethnic groups of the flood myth is similar, but there are many differences in the details.The flood myth is a worldwide topic, based on the review of the flood myth, academic research summary of domestic and foreign research results at the same time, put forward in this paper, we study the key:from micr oscopic improvements, through to the Chinese and foreign different flood myth text specific the comparison of the plot, to dialysis the cause of dif ferences. In order to more intuitive feel the charm of the flood myth, the article second part lists the author can collect more than 30 different area s of the flood story text, and its content according to the plot can be div ided into three types:one, the flood of flood story, only second, floods, a nd the combination of human reproductive flood story; Three, highlight th e harnessing of the theme of the flood myth. The article second chapter f ocuses on comparing the similarities and differences between home and a broad, the flood story. The similarity of Chinese and foreign flood story t here is a big, general plot is his crimes wrath of the gods, cause the god send a punitive floods, human reproduction of human reproductive again a fter the floods. God punish precipitation is the cause of the flood, reflects the ancients understanding of the relationship between human and nature, the flood of human to escape, and the regeneration of human after the fl ood, then again answer the human to come from this issue, embodies the original inhabitants of the understanding of the relationship between man and society. There is one thing in common is that most of the flood myt h produce in water source area. There exist significant differences in the flood myth both at home and abroad, the most obvious different is peopl e’s attitude in the face of the flood, flood myth basic shelter to live abro ad, while China’s flood myth in the face of the attitude is active, positive governance. Another flood myths have different preservation conditions bo th at home and abroad, China’s flood myth preservation is very scattered, and represented by the Hebrew, Greek foreign flood myth preservation is a system, is very complete. In this paper, the reasons for these differenc es are further mining period because of the ancient society, politics, the e conomy is relatively backward, and the natural environment become the e mergence and development of national culture soil, soil of different cultur e and lead to the different national spirit, national values. Western culture flood myths of soil is the ocean civilization and nomadic civilization, its characteristic is war, adventure and flow, the evil human nature is the cor e of the national culture, national values of individualism impact so far; Culture in China, the flood myth is stable agricultural civilization, Ann so il was relocated, the connotation of human goodness is the spirit of the Chinese nation, is therefore formed the national values of collectivism. It is such a huge difference, the essence of their culture through inheritance, rheological era, still guide the orderly progress this nation.