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Qin Dong Yi Tribal Myths And Legends

Posted on:2012-06-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205330335958599Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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In ancient times DongYi tribe is one of the most important tribes, it not only in the summer time and five sovereigns old-and occupies an important place in the summer league, but also created splendid cultural achievements BeiXinWenHua, north of DaWenKou culture, such as the representative, LongShan culture DongYi culture became an important source of Chinese civilization. The pre-qin myth is Chinese ancient mythology of the important component of the development of future generations, has important influence on literature. Which DongYi tribe of the myths and legends and very rich and unique, have distinct tribal colour and regional characteristics. Therefore this paper from the tribal myths and legends point of view DongYi tribal culture and history. This article in addition to preface and epilogue outside, is divided into two parts.Preface parts mainly introduced the pre-qin DongYi tribal myths and legends, the research present situation and methods.The first part is the a summary of Dong Yi. Because the material scattered ancient works recorded disorderly, DongYi tribes of scholars about the origin, development, tribal distribution and main clan group retricted to "resolve, academia, DongYi" this concept is still uncertain. This paper attempts to archaeology, philology and from the Angle of ancient literature, with time, space for a main clue to the development of Chinese limited to the east, also is the so-called "haidai historic areas, combined with the tribes in the development of fusion status DongYi the tribe's development, author in the process of the scholars reference absorption of research results, thus DongYi made to define".The second part explore the pre-qin DongYi tribal main clan group's myths and legends. Because of the various branches DongYi tribe, the related literature records possibly much and messy, this article only discuss without chapter DongYi the tribe's main race qin group namely taihao department, less next department, chiyou, tangyao, yu shun department and ministry of the five tribal auxiliarying myth and legend. The main contents include taihao and fu relations, the sun myths and sun worship; A strange little next bird kingdom and its become the god of west causes; The establishment of the warlord chiyou image and change, miao chiyou differences with the han nationality chiyou image; Emperor Ku and YuShun joon, emperor relationship and their respective myths and legends; Yi and his relations and their respective myths and legends.Epilogue section illustrates the pre-qin DongYi tribal myths and legends of significance. Some myths and legends evolution process, revealed not only the history of the development of DongYi tribal migration in ancient times, and reflects the eastern and western tribal groups interaction, produce connection, and mutual confluence of the facts. These for us to know and understand DongYi further tribal culture and history and better understand China ancient myths and legends have important influence.
Keywords/Search Tags:DongYi, Myth and Legend, TaiHao, ShaoHao, ChiYou, YuShun, Yi, HouYi
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