Folk beliefs mainly come from the records in Shan Hai Jing and Sou Ji Shen, as well as some popular local gods worship, such as the ancient Yao Shunyu God and the more advanced Pangu Fuxi Nuwa Huangdi. The Buddhist system mainly constitutes a complete reincarnation system and the concept of hell in the myth system.
For details, you can refer to a book called Jade Calendar Treasure, which is very detailed. It is worth noting that no matter the Taoist system, the folk belief system or the Buddhist system, there are overlaps. Guan Yu, for example, is a warrior in Confucianism, a Guan Shengdi in Taoism and a general Galand in Buddhism. They have different names, but they all refer to the same person.
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Myth is a genre that influenced China's various literary creations earlier. Its theme and various mythical figures have exerted various influences on the literary creation and the formation of national epics in past dynasties, especially its rich imagination and methods of visualizing natural things, which are directly related to the formation of artistic fiction and romantic creation methods of later writers.
Its oral narrative form has also become a precedent for narrative literature genres such as novels. Many myths directly provide creative themes for writers and artists. Some famous myths have become allusions that people often quote. The aesthetic value, historical value and cognitive function of myth are closely linked, which is the key to understand human childhood life and psychology.
It is of great reference value to the study of marriage, family system, primitive religion and customs in ancient society. China myth was concerned by some philosophers, historians and scholars in ancient China. They not only described and quoted it in their works, but also put forward some fragmentary opinions, explanations and explanations on the myth.
But it is more influenced by Confucianism, which excludes its illusory imagination and attempts to find historical basis from it. Therefore, some ancient books tend to historicize myths.
Modern scholars in China have done a lot of sorting and research on ancient myths, and discussed them by using the mythological viewpoint of western anthropology school, and achieved considerable results, such as Mao Dun's Introduction to China Mythology and Wen Yiduo's Fuxi Kao, which are all worthy of attention in this field.
There are also many ethnic scholars, folk literature scholars and literary historians who have written many papers and monographs, which have promoted the development of mythology in China. Yuan Ke's Selected Ancient Myths of China and Selected Ancient Myths of China annotated and sorted out the ancient myths of China respectively.
With the development of social science and folk literature, the myths and epics of ethnic minorities in China have also been concerned and studied, and some gratifying achievements have appeared.
Baidu Encyclopedia-China Myth