A Study On Cultural Character Of The Characters In Ancient Mythology

For any people's culture, myths have the basic structure of deep cultural significance. Chinese ancient mythology on its magnificent imagination, gorgeous colors, reflecting the unattainable art of charm, is the echo of ancient history. It is a true record of the Chinese nation in its peculiar childhood imagination, tenacious struggle and faltering footprints. Each fresh, brave character is the myth of people left a deep impression. Although they did not have the system of God, family tree, but their expression extends the cultural character, has a distinctive Chinese cultural features, is the essence and source of Chinese national spirit.The myth of any national tradition of this nation is a kind of vision on natural phenomena and social phenomena in early human development. A variety of primitive creation myth deeply rooted in their national life. As a cultural character, a nation's character, must be certainly expressed in the national myth, by distinct, or obscure performance. Colorful ancient myths of China embodies the harsh natural environment of our ancestors in the spiritual world under the unyielding charm. The cultural characters of ancient mythology, is the studying on spirit of the ancestors and its significance is mentality.Although Chinese mythological figures in ancient times doesn't have a complete genealogy, just fragmentary records in the classics, by finishing with the study can glimpse to the Chinese people in shaping the spirit and the character level value and significance. We use the way of literature study, western theory critical study and comprehensive analysis of the way, by looking figure of the cultural character to analyze the cultural character, the cause, and then use the prototype to comprehensive of critical theory and cultural integrity of this far-reaching impact on the national culture, its value and meaning is self-evident. Because any society or a nation for the same cultural background, often cultivated common ideas and aspirations of the common thoughts and feelings. On the Foundation in basic in people's souls and aspirations of these feelings will become conscious or unconscious consciousness and behavior. In this sense, the characters of ancient mythology and cultural character will enlighten us on the national character and national spirit in China.Cultural character of the characters in ancient myth are so many, including the true freedom, the enterprise to make progress, justice, good deeds on saving the world and the concept of relation on nature and man. Specifically, there are outspoken simple ideals in life; freedom and indomitable sense of life; optimistic open-minded attitude towards life; unyielding entrepreneurial spirit and so on. Everything has its own production of certain reasons. Cultural character of the characters in the original ancestors living in the natural environment and social environment at that time formed under the joint action. Cultural character of the characters in ancient myth is far-reaching, especially for the Chinese national spirit, national character, aesthetic value and national thinking, the impact is enormous. Cultural character of the characters in ancient myth is the source of the Chinese national spirit,is also a reflection of the spiritual world of ancient ancestors thousands of years has been affecting the entire national spirit and the building of national character, and this affection will also continue to have an influence, because the culture of character is times, always keeping the heritage of Chinese culture.