A Comparative Study Of Fuxi NvWa And Adam Eve In View Of Culturology.

Myth is the product which ancient people perceive and comprehend the world by unconscious art form. Unscrambling myth could grasp the characteristics and trends of national culture. The thesis takes culturology and perspective of punishment as the breakthrough point, comparing the myth of Fu Xi and Nv Wa with the myth of Adam and Eve, after analyzing the differences in incentives, punishment, results and the extent of punishment, reaching a conclusion that Chinese nation and the Hebrew nation have different cultural type, marriage concepts, ways of thinking, national character and cultural choice.The thesis is divided into seven sections.The introduction section explains the reason for choosing the topic, overviewing the researches about the myths of Fu Xi and Nv Wa, the myths of Adam and Eve, points out the blind spot of the research, establishing the research objects, research methods and research purposes.Chapter I discusses the narrations about the myth of Fu Xi and Nv Wa, the myth of Adam and Eve. The development of Chinese national culture is highly uneven, the myth of Fu Xi and Nv Wa presents the characteristics of scattered, and the thesis analyzes the narration in Han and ethnic minorities from the oral and documentary perspectives respectively. Hebrew culture is with exact speculation, the myth of Adam and Eve often develops systematically, specifically stored in the"Genesis"in "Old Testament ? Bible".Chapter II compares the images of Fu Xi and Nv Wa, Adam and Eve. Both of them are the same in divinity, kinship and respect for the status of male; while analyzes the differences in creative methods and social status, it lays a solid foundation in reality for later elaboration.Chapter III takes myths of punishment as perspective, analyzing different incentives, methods, results, understanding different approaches towards mistakes in Chinese nation and the Hebrew nation, reveals its national culture. Chinese culture has a background of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, emphasizing the role of cultural enlightenment; while Hebrew culture has the background of original sin, with a strong religious meaning, warning people see through the sins in order to pray God's forgiveness.Chapter IV analyzes the differences and causes in reality. In identification of culture, the myth of Fu Xi and Nv Wa represents the typical agricultural civilization, the myth of Adam and Eve is on behalf of nomadic civilization; in the philosophical level, the myth of Fu Xi and Nv Wa emphasizes harmony of yin and yang, the myth of Adam and Eve emphasizes the opposite between people and god. In Religious Ethics, the myth of Fu Xi and Nv Wa stresses the ideology of"nature and humanity", the myth of Adam and Eve myth emphasizes the redemption for original sin; in the aesthetic sense, the myth of Fu Xi and Nv Wa stresses silent and restless, the myth of Adam and Eve emphasizes passions.Chapter V reveals the affects of the myth of Fu Xi and Nv Wa, the myth of Adam and Eve. Different natural conditions and historical developing process make the different national characters and way of thinking in Chinese and western cultures, especially in terms of love and marriage, in Chinese nation, the marriage is ethical marriage, focuses on carry on the family line; while in Hebrew culture, people pursues love view contains the harmony of body and soul and equality of gender.The last chapter is the summary section. The myth of Fu Xi and Nv Wa, the myth of Adam and Eve are the source of Chinese culture and Hebrew national culture respectively. Although there are many differences, the study of human identity is the mutual theme, that is, the constant pursuit for truth, virtue and beauty through different ways. Different nationalities have different ways to understand life, therefore, multi-culture could be contemporaneous, coexist and complemented.