"huainanzi" Myth Research

In the classical Chinese literature, "Huai nan zi" is one of the largest books retaining the myth. As the encyclopedia-style book, it has a unique way to white for the preservation and transmission of the valuable heritage of ancient Chinese mythology, and makes a great contribution for it. It recorded a lot of myth material fragments, the largest historical contribution, is recording and saving the ancient famous works completely, such as "god of water rage crash mount bu zhou","nv wa patche up the sky","hou yi shoot the ten suns "," chang'e flie to the moon".In addition, it re-combinates and transformates a large number of original myth in various chapters everywhere. Myth rich and self-contained, form a system of mythology of the Kingdom, also added a hint of this masterpiece a strange brilliance.The paper based on the works, analysising and discoursing the huai nan zi myth of the source material, content classification, the evolution of the state, regional characteristics and artistic features. "Shan Hai Jing" is a the huai nan zi myth of the most important source derivion, "Zhuang Zi" and "Songs of the South" is the myth important source derivion. The second part summarizes the huai nan zi myth of the content and classification. "Huainanzi" not only has chapters all over the myth of material that serves to, or only mention of God and the sacred name, or only fragmentary and above circumstances, there will recover myths material, join together processed into the the myth of the story complete, up to facing the words, the content of large and complex. According to their contents can be divided into creation myth, astronomy, geography, myths, flood myths, hero myths. The third part of their thesis, the "Huai nan zi" myth of the evolution of the state. "Huai nan zi" in the evolution of mythical status, the performance of the features is "complex",history of myth, philosophy and of immortals is the most important evolution of its state. Myth of history is the "huai nan zi" myth of the most important mode of evolution, the myth is also the Immortals mythology of the important patterns. The fourth part of the main thesis expounded the "huai nan zi" myth of the regional characteristics. Either geographically or from the creation of the main point of view, "Huai nan zi" has obvious features, which also has the characteristics of myth. There are many myths characters in "Huainanzi" generated in chu region widespread in chu region,it record a lot of natural mythology, the sun myth, dragon and phoenix myth, these are closely related with Chu region.The last part of the paper by narrative features, narrative language interpretating the huai nan zi myth of the artistic features. In the narrative aspect, huai nan zi myth show summary and the mixed characteristics. In the narrative language by Chu poem performance has rich romantic character; affected by the Han paper, use lay out, parallelism, dual and presentation style.