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The Generation And Evolution Of Image Of Chang Er

Posted on:2011-11-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H HeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332962791Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Chang Er is a mythological figure familiar to people for ages of years. The story of Chang Er deeply rooted in the hearts of every Chinese. The frog from the original primitive worship - ancient Chinese mythology, Nu Wa the supreme God (the supreme God characterized in: metaplasia things, Tuan loess made man, refined three stone the Sky) - Emperor Chun's three wives - Chang Er, the final image formed through four stages. Chain in this development, from the god of Wa to Nu Wa in fact manifestations of God is God frog clan or tribe from God to the peoples of God, from the totem animal spirit worship to the religious meaning of a general transformation of the personality of God, this process can be said to be a deification of the rising phase of the process. From Goddess to the Moon, is the deification of extreme imagery up after the rise and fall, a gradual decline in the performance of the process: from the supreme God - to one of three legendary emperors - the same with Fu Xi - to "Shan Hai Jing" Three Emperor Jun wife (still supreme God Factor) - Women Abandoned to God Junchen Yi. As myth comes from life, the formation and development of any form of ideology (myth as one form) is closely connected with the development of the production of social material , i.e. ,the level of the productive forces, and the development of the people's understanding of the science and technology. The initial ascending of the image was closely related to the social production development of the particular period of time as well as the important role of females as determined in the porcess of human multiplication; the later descending process of the image concerned with the changing role and effect of the female and the male which had been determined by the development and advance of social production, the advance of the people's cognitive level and the realization of the male and female's function in human multiplication. Chang Er popular myth in historical process, its structural pattern changed dramatically, it also will have a new myth of mental content. "Literature is the myth of displacement", mythological figures Chang Er had provided for the breadth of literary art far wide space, other artists fulled of rich emotion, use their magic to give Chang Er immortal literary life, which makes later literature appeared in colorful Chang Er image.
Keywords/Search Tags:Chang Er, Image, Generation, Evolution, the god of Wa, Nu Wa, Chang Xi, Xi He
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