On The Influence Of Myths On The Creation Of Contemporary Children's Literature

Mythology and children's literature are belong to two subjects,but they have difference,and also have great connections.Mythology is the source of children's literature composition.To study children's literature,it comes from mythology.To study mythology,we concern about the impact study of mythology necessarily,in children's literature both ancient and modern,China and foreign countries,we can see influences of mythology on them.Thus,it is significant to study how mythology influences children's literature composition.But The relative research in China mostly focused on mythology in the performance of children's literature,researchers pay less attention on how to integrate mythology into children's literature.Myth have the value and significance to children's literature composition.Firstly,myth is great cultural tradition and one of the source of literature composition,it formed the cultural genes and patterns of China,in all kinds of literature genres from ancient times to the present,we can see the imprinting of myth without exception.Secondly,the cultural value of myth make it have significance of inheritance.Myth have cultural tradition of a nation,transmit experiences of production and living,also provide living experiences and survival wisdom for one thousand years.Myth have plenty of culture information,rich culture opinions and strong national emotions fit to the era trend.Both in terms of the impact on individuals and society,myth plays an irreplaceable role.Thirdly,the similarity between myth and children's literature on how to look the world and imagination make children's literature be interesting and popular.In children's literature composition,Fantasy novel and picture books refer many myth.The New Story of Shan Hai Jing reflects how the author's myth literacy influence children's literature composition,and myth characters as specific clues or intention,they create a refreshing story scene,they even become themes or an important component of a structure in novels.In addition,the mythological context also appears directly in the narrative.In representative composition the Trick of Strange Old Man of Sun Youjun and The king Book of Cao Wenxuan,The former apply the creation myth,focus on describing person's feeling,and how to give mythological figures with modern characteristics;the latter focus on embodies the symbolic significance of the myth.Picture books focus more on cultural connotation and influences of education and inheritance.At present,common motifs of myth in children's literature is the fairy god,universal god,culture hero,life custom and war.These myth motifs interweave to form the plot.Thus,the influence of myth on children's literature creation is creative thinking,theme,material and technique.Firstly,myth influence creative thinking,theme,selecting materials and writing techniques of children's literature compositions.Secondly,there are some problems and deficiencies in contemporary children's literature compositions of China,for example,lack of interesting,force to piece myth elements together,ignoring the divinity of mythical figures,separate the mythological context.Thirdly,from the development prospect of mythology and children's literature,mythology focus more on how to carry on the creative transformation to the myth resource,children's literature composition present the situation of well development and multiplex-symbiosis,this situation make them combine.