A Structuralist Mythological Interpretation Of The Myth Of Shiling In China And South Korea

Myth is the summation of primitive ancestors' cognition of nature and human society,and the concentrated embodiment of their social and natural views.As a classification of myth,the ancestor myth has its own characteristics of each nation and shows the commonness of this kind of myth.The myth of ancestor originated in the clan society and developed in the period of slavery society,It mostly explained the origin of the nation and recorded the origin of ancestors.Therefore.the myth of the ancestor has the transitional nature in time and the compatibility in space.In history,China and South Korea have formed internal similar cultures due to their geographical proximity.Discussion on the myth of Chinese and south Korean ancestors is helpful to understand the relationship between Chinese and south Korean myths,reveal the hidden meaning behind the myth,and understand the internal thinking of the two primitive ancestors who belong to the "circle of han civilization".Starting from the myth of ancestor in China and South Korea,this paper mainly analyzes the ancestor of creation,nation and culture.And re-studies the myth with the help of the relevant theories of Levi-strauss's structuralist mythology.The paper is divided into five parts:The first part is the introduction.First from the Angle of myth and theory to explain the reasons for this article;Secondly,this paper reviews the history of Chinese and Korean ancestor myth from the perspectives of single myth of Chinese ancestor myth and Korean ancestor myth,as well as the comparative study of Chinese and Korean ancestor myth.;In addition,the research object,research scope and research methods of this paper are introduced.Finally,the research value and significance of this paper are discussed from three aspects:academic?theoretical application and literature.The second part,we extract mythological elements from literature.Firstly,according to the content,the archetypal myth is divided into three categories:creation archetypal myth,national archetypal myth and cultural archetypal myth.On this basis,taking the country as the secondary classification reference,the literature sources of the Chinese ancestor myth and the Korean ancestor myth are summarized respectively.On the basis of the introduction,the thinking and method of comparative mythology are adopted to find out the common ground existing in the two myths,so as to obtain the universal mythological element behind this myth.The third part uses structuralist mythology to analyze myth.By means of the theory of Levi-strauss,the thesis interprets the dualistic opposition and structural replacement of myth,and obtains the theme and essence of the connotation of myth.The surface of the myth of the ancestor is a summary of the experience of the ancestor,and its deep structure is the binary opposition between Yin and Yang,man and nature,life and death,"one life" and "two lives".Under the deep dual structure,the mythological elements are replaced and deformed,and the myth of ancestor after replacement is actually people's cognition of the ethical relationship between man and nature and between man and man.Therefore,the myth of the ancestor is actually the reflection of the primitive ancestors on ethical issues.The fourth part focuses on the formation of myth reasons-internal thinking.Taking Levi-strauss's "wild thinking" as the penetrating point,this paper discusses that the myth of Chinese and Korean ancestors is actually the product of the wild thinking of primitive ancestors.The multiple conscious thinking of primitive ancestors,namely classified thinking and integrated thinking,is the main reason for the emergence of the content of myth and the structure of binary opposition,while the synchronic thinking of primitive ancestors,namely the thinking of analogy,is the deep reason for the combination and replacement of binary opposition of myth.The fifth part studies the influence of myth on literature from the perspective of value.In the previous part,we have revealed the essence of the myth of the ancestor,so the binary opposition and ethical connotation contained in the myth will enter the literature creation of later generations.Furstly,the binary opposition structure in the myth of the first ancestor influences the creation of the structure and content of the later literature.Second,the ethical exploration of man and nature,man and society in the myth of the ancestor also influences the theme of literary works.On the basis of myth,the later literature constantly develops and perfects the ethical meaning,which makes the ethics become mature from myth.Through the above five parts,this paper will make use of the theory of Levi-strauss's structuralist mythology to interpret the myth of Chinese and Korean ancestors.And reveal the inner thinking of myth and the essence of the deep structure of myth under thinking.On the one hand,it provides a new perspective for the interpretation of the myth;on the other hand,it contributes to the application of the theory of structuralist mythology.