What is the South Korean mythology?

Imbroglio: myth Korea preexistence www.thebeijingnews.com · 2007-11-4 9: 25: 19 ·

Source: Beijing News

Korea Seoul Press Center is in the "open myth Korea would face" academic conference, Ewha University Professor Zheng in the book is about to submit an article entitled "in search of the lost legend".

National reports for some readers of neural tension up again, because the source of the cultural heritage, the cultural interaction between China and South Korea makes, in public opinion in a very subtle. Professor Cheng in books from time space different angles of Chinese mythology of mixed character, Chinese mythology is beyond single Nations "East Asian mythology", this recognition in the current global academic context which is still somewhat daring, other sources of Chinese mythology and later play features, rough watch or just some of the traditional view extended hair.

Chinese ancient myth and Egypt, India, Greece and other myths of the ancient civilization of the maximum difference, Chinese mythology, the God of missing system, such as the world of spectrum to create health, humanities original myths and legends, or Pangu for the late Han dynasty and three kingdoms, or if not Fuxi Huang di.

Familiar nüwa, relatively complete narrative or see from Han Liu codification of the Huai Huai child book. Reference Zheng, Professor in the book of the just law of course also the earlier a mythology of the religion, but is not higher than the earlier Huainan child law out of the long and story prototype is JI-rays, like breaking bad-Korean newspaper is hard to really know the secret.

Moreover, China's ancient myth and China's ancient history is like a pair of Siamese baby, it is difficult to accurately distinguish between boundaries.

Unearthed in Oracle, the Yellow Emperor even before until King Zhou's history have been radical historians an ancient naoer sweep into the myths and legends, almost to thepayment history of Chinese civilization. Though in recent years a large number of archaeological objects and unearthed makes some scholars such as Mr. Li Xueqin, reviving the ancient "release," start restore confidence to the legend of ancient history, but his early room jiegang in Chinese history "accumulation" that still caused cannot be easily reversed for Chinese mythology this assertion is still valid. Zheng in the book called the time Chinese mythology, also mixed. And should be recognized that the report quickly out of the supernatural on the Emperor, as Chinese ancestor God is very recent, is also in line with reality. Emperor and the supernatural God status rise in new national unification process in a "modernization" of products.

But on the other hand, the Chinese mythology is positioned as the myth of the "East" and should not be simply understood as China is the importers of the myth of one-way; on the contrary, it reflects the strength of the Chinese mainland by the ancient culture of East Asia culture as powerful containment capabilities.

Jingwen's legends of early Chinese myths revealed the multi-ethnic character, simply do not form a system of expositions. China myth of space hybrid, and early Chinese ethnic integration and cultural exchange. Currently, at least in the ancient East ethnicity of Chinese, Burmese, Dai, Miao-Yao and five ethnic communities in the North of the Altai, and Chinese civilization and its descendants should also be considered is the civilization of the synthesizer mingle, among the ancient history of the Han Emperor Huangdi grandchildren almost throughout East Asia. In the source of the myth of the model, the myth also like archaeological excavation of the ground like a layer structure, adoption of tired on literature and legends of climbing comb, original fuzzy face of ancient myth became clear also.

And, the myth of strata structure is not exclusive to the Chinese civilization, as the Chinese myth beca

use of early human exchanges and noise music, Korean peninsula of early peoples is not Korean. Professor Cheng in book highlighted the Emperor, Bernard, supernatural, generally can be classified as xirong clan, Dongyi and three seeding system, perhaps Professor Cheng is intended to Korea and do a get through Dongyi culture, but the Korean family have distinct characteristics of the Altai is not a rule. In this sense, the history of formation of myth Korea, also in East within the framework of the myth of careful review.

□ Wang Xiao Xiong (Shanghai Linguistics doctoral)