The Study Of Myth And Tale About Hsi Wang Mu

With myth and tale about HsiWang Mu as the research object, this dissertation makes a plausible and convincible explanation of form and evolvement of myth and tale about His Wang Mu by way of the "Aboriginal Grasp Way" put forward by Prof. Wang Zhong-ling.The dissertation contains three parts: introduction, main text and conclusion. The introduction gives a brief review of the research, the current state, the method and significance of the proposition. The main text contains three volumes. The first volume makes an analysis about cause and evolution of myth and tale about Hsi Wang Mu by the way of the "Aboriginal Grasping", which is on the scope of human cultural psychology. The first volume contains four chapters. The first chapter makes an analysis of the solar culture about the original godhood of Hsi Wang Mu , which put special emphasis on "Hsi Wu". The second chapter explains significations of bearing and reproduction about Hsi Wang Mu's godhood, which lays emphasis on the cultural meaning of "moon" and "tiger" of myth and tale about Hsi Wang Mu. The third chapter explains the cultural meaning of life and death about Hsi Wang Mu's regenerative godhood. The fourth chapter analyzes mainly the prototype of "Kun Lun" of myth and tale about Hsi Wang Mu.The second volume searches for the origin of historical Hsi Wang Mu and the back of history and culture relating to myth and tale about Hsi Wang Mu, which is within of the historical field. The main investigative methods include ethnology, geography, ethnography and culture, which combine with the excavated cultural relics. The second volume intents to seek the common psychology of the national culture embedded in the myth and tale about Hsi Wang Mu and revert to "historical and cultural foundation" about Hsi Wang Mu combined with the research results of the first volume. The second volume contains three chapters. The first chapter aims to narrate Hsi Wang Mu was totemic god in history, which adored by immemorial Qiang Rong tribe. Hsi Wang Mu was also used as the name of a state or of a king in later ages. The second chapter explains the cause of immortal changes of myth and tale about Hsi Wang Mu. Hsi Wang Mu's immortal changes are outcome which was influenced by the thinking of immortal anima belonged to the primal faith of Qiang Rong tribe. The third chapter discusses mainly the immortal changes of the myth and tale about Hsi Wang Mu in Han Dynasty and in later ages. People in Han Dynasty thought of the form of being and pursued the perpetuation of life, which caused their crazy adoration for Hsi Wang Mu and impelled the immortal change of Hsi Wang Mu. (Because of the thought of the form of being and pursuing the perpetuation oflife ,people in Han Dynasty adored HsiWangMu fanatically and impelled the immortal change of HsiWangMu which insteaded by the supernatural being in Wei Dynasty .)In Wei Dynasty, the immortal changes of Hsi Wang Mu finished and Hsi Wang Mu became supernatural being in the later literatures.(In Wei Dynasty,HsiWangMu became supernatural being which insteaded the immortal changes of HsiWangMu.)The third volume compares the myth and tale about Hsi Wang Mu to myth and tale of the central and eastern sections and myth and tale of Tujiazu, Yizu and Naxizu in the western and southern sections. On the basis of the outcomes of the first volume, in the way of partition and contrast, the volume discusses the form, development and evolution of myth and tale about Hsi Wang Mu. The volume's main intention is to open out the abundant cultural connotation of myth and tale about His Wang Mu from the intertribal culture point of view. The third volume contains two chapters. The first chapter stress the influence of the agricultural and Suishi culture upon the myth and tale about Hsi Wang Mu. The second chapter explains basically the relationship between the Eastern culture and Qiang Rong culture and how this relationship infect the myth and tale about Hsi Wang Mu. The epilogue introduces briefly the relating questions to the dissertation, which need to be studied farther in times to come.