A Study On The Structure Of Hani Myth

Myth is the reflection of human's mental structure. The goal of looking for this deep structure is to find out the inherent psychological and logic thinking which exist in people's inner heart and will be kept in human's unconscious thinking. Both of them will be inherited and revealed unconsciously by their descendents. Hani myth is formed by Hani ancestors'practice of long-term adapting and remaking nature. It reflects the Hani people's inherent psychological and logic thinking which exist in unconsciousness. This paper tries to use the levy– Strauss structuralism to analyze the Hani myth and find out its deep structure and Hani's inherent psychological and logic thinking.This paper is divided into six chapters. The first chapter is introduction, which describes the purpose of the article, research status and research methods.Chapter II makes a simple overview of Hani myth and analyzes its main types and characteristics.Chapter III finds out the existed binary and ternary structure of Hani myth by making use of structuralism analysis of mythology.Chapter IV makes detailed analysis about binary and ternary structure and find out the deep structure of myth and the inherent psychological of Hani myth.Chapter V analyzes the social and culture structure of the Hani nationality, to validate that there's also deep structure and inner psychology in Hani society and Hani culture.Chapter VI is the conclusion. It points out that there's complementary opposition deep structure and complementary psychological equilibrium existing in Hani social and cultural myths. This is some different from Levy - Strauss's binary oppositions structure, which is innovation of this paper.