The Ancient Chinese Mythology, The Wisdom Of Mentors Anima Prototype And Its Heritage Shift

Since the "heat of myth" in twenty--eighties, the research of the goddess became prosperous gradually. It is common to study image of female in ancient myth from a prototype perspective, but the integrate research and the research based on gender and culture has not really started, that is feminist theory and method of prototype criticism in the application of mythology and folklore is still in the initial stage, especially the use of Anima to study female image through prototype theory is even fewer. Starting from the Anima archetype theory, this article analyzed the female image in ancient Chinese mythology. Regarding the Chinese wisdom instructors Anima as the research object of, the author made a depth and comprehensive analysis of its occurrence, typical features, evolution, internal causes and its significance in human culture, at the same time, the author made the new exploration and reflection of female images combining with the social, historical, cultural, ethnic, psychological, gender and other factors. This topic has a certain academic groundbreaking and breakthrough, and also with the academic prospects of further study.In this paper, the starting point and the key problem to solve is to reveal the following relevance and questions:Why the Chinese goddess of wisdom teacher is based prototype of Anima? What the main characteristics of the wisdom instructors Anima prototype are and how it formed? What a decisive role the wisdom instructor Anima played in Chinese culture for the formation of negative traits? How significant the wisdom instructor Anima embodied in the spirit of contemporary society and the future of mankind? This text includes five chapters:Chapter One:Summary of Anima prototype theory, based on the main theory of Anima prototype the author summarized the nature content, origin, function, and basic characteristics of the Anima archetype and then provided the classification and research ideas of the wisdom of Chinese mythology Anima prototype. Chapter Two:made the classification of the image of ancient goddess originating from Anima archetype in Chinese mythology, selecting the Goddess, the Western Queen, Wushan Fairy, Xuannv who represent the Great Mother of God, the eternal spirit, the sexual sublimation and reality saving. Chapter Three:characteristics and causes of Anima. sum up the positive features of Anima from the deformation, genesis of life, wisdom, enlightenment, psychological compensation and analyses its causes through history, cultural, and psychological dimensions. Chapter Four, the shift heritage of wisdom Anima Archetype in Literature made a deep influence on myths and legends in literature, the representations of the images include Virtuous Lady and Intellectual Woman, female savior and heroine, sex partner and spiritual mentor, the female demon and cherry and other types of images. Chapter Five: analysis of the influence that the feminine characteristics and history disenchantment of goddess made on Chinese culture, and studied the downgrading of the Goddess and female disenchantment in male culture in order to make a brief summarize of gender culture and gender status ancient Chinese society.The author attempts to use a variety of research methods in his paper, and this paper has cross-cultural study characteristics. The main methods are:Myth-archetypal criticism and feminist criticism, psychological criticism. The first, Myth-Prototype criticism:This article attempts to study a preliminary prototype of the wisdom instructors Anima, and from a genetic point of view to find the different subtypes and common idiosyncrasy in order to perspective the symbol meaning and origin of Anima prototype generated in Chinese mythology. The second is psychological criticism. As Anima is the soul of the goddess of wisdom, it is necessary to use psychological methods to act on the male spiritual level. The author analyses the functions and causes of Anima Archetype, by using psychology. The third is feminist criticism. Anima prototype came from men's experience, imagination, psychology of women, and it is the men's experience and women's self-reflection. From the perspective of feminist criticism, this paper researched the worship of the prototype of wisdom tutor Anima and the misogyny embodied in the downgrade in the later historical process. It also analyzed the changes hidden behind in gender relations, and explained the gender equality in the contemporary revival of the value of the Goddess.The innovation of this paper is:first, the angle of the study is new. In present, the theory of Anima all over the world is not a lot, and most of which are concentrated in the psychological point of view. It is rare to study from the literary point of view. The research of foreign scholars has focused on the evil Anima type, but Chinese goddess mythology were more concentrated on positive features of Anima, so in this paper, the author took the wisdom mentor goddess Anima as the starting point, from the point of nationalization and cross-cultural, did an all-round study of the characteristics, causes, history and current value of wisdom teacher Anima archetype, and revealed the performance characteristics of Chinese women worship and cultural characteristics of the underlying negative, and pried into the changes of human gender relations, which is brand new. The second is using an interdisciplinary cross-cultural research method and the history and a unified approach of logic and history to harmonize archetypal criticism, cultural anthropology, traditional textual criticism and other factors. In this paper, the author mixed up the perspective of feminist criticism, theoretical methods of archetypal criticism, terminology and psychological analysis, mythology and historical human culture, trying to break through the limitations of traditional literary studies, and combining organic, culture traditional, ethnic and gender theories to literature in order to reveal the secret of the archetype of the intelligence instructors Anima. The third is the depth of open academic horizon. This paper made a combination of horizontal cross-cultural analysis and vertical historical change, and gave full play to the prototype theory of holistic. Based on the comparison of horizontal macro features and cross-cultural, this paper pointed the phenomenon remained in Chinese culture and history that intellectual mentor Anima archetype had its positive characteristics in women worship study. It also explained contemporary values this archetype makes. In Anima archeological analysis, the author sorted out the inheritance differentiation of Anima archetype by using the method of vertical field of vision to sum up the gender status and the changes of femininity in Chinese society.Through the research of the inheritance and translocation of the wisdom tutor ancient Anima prototype in Chinese mythology, the author can reveal the gender relations in different historical periods and changes in men and women in psychology. From the goddess worship in early times to the downgrading of goddess in a patriarchal society, it reflected a comprehensive defeat led by the gender oppression in male-centrism society. The intellectual mentor Anima, as a teacher of human and male, has its spiritual values and cultural values, which is not only helpful for the actual reduction of gender relations, but also has a great value to religious and intellectual history, as well as cultural evolution and the origin of civilization. In the present "Goddess Revival," the goddess of wisdom, mentor Anima, is as a symbol of the human mind and negative culture, has a positive meaning of mankind's self-improvement. The coming scholars should explore it from multiple angles to find its contemporary spiritual and cultural value from historical, cultural, gender, psychological, ecological perspectives.