Myths About The Sun And The Moon And Ecological Existentialism: A Kind Of New Analytic Normal Form

Myths are the people's knowledge is accumulated for the first time, and save primitive philosophy, science and history. As celestial bodies, the sun and the moon are closely linked with the production and the life, so primitive people preservated understandings of the world and the nature in myths. Ecological ideas and significances which are contained in myths about the sun and the moon become the source of ecological philosophy in later age. Because of the thought format for a long time, studyings of myths about the sun and the moon often emphasize achievements of struggling between the people and the nature from standpoints of sociology and entity,while ignore the harmonious side between the person and everything reflected in myths.This article attempts to connect myths about the sun and the moon with ecological existentialism. Three themes are borning, penetrating and rescuing(looking for) the sun and the moom. Through analysising gods' images and three themes, find out deeply thinkings of the nature in primitive people's knowledge. And then combing myths and ecological views of the Han and the Dong. The purpose lies in probing the orbit of myths'developing and reasons of different ecological ethics Under the background of different cultures and societies. Myths of the two nationalities represent developed courses of natural views and ecological ethics: Regard female culture, poetic wisdom and uncivilized beautiful as starting points, confusing people and everything as one. This is a common characteristic in human childhood. With the improvement of production and awakening of self-consciousness, the mankind begin to utilize tool to ask for nature. This is also inexorable trend of the mankind evolving and social development. But the line of demarcation of similarities and differences implies in the inexorable trend: Because of the close living environment and the strong dependence to the nature, the Dong rapidly adjusted the tactics of surviving and came back to harmonious track after having be warned by the nature. Then the Dong people regard the moon culture as spiritual prop; The Han highly raises subject spirit in the top layer,while two spiritual modes, which are the rational spirit of the father creating all creatures and kind-heartedness care of the mather creating the world, go forward side by side in inside information after "eliminating-chooseing" by productivity and reproduction. Because of the different culture, the two nationalities have different modes to treat the nature .But they all respect the nature and chase inside information of the harmonious ecology. It communicates with principles of ecological ethics and sustainable development. Its enlightenment, the feasible significance and normal forms of operation should arouse people's interest and canonization.