Kuafu marched from Japan and entered Japan; Thirst, desire to drink, drink in the river, Wei; He, Wei and Bei drink Ozawa. Before he arrived, he died of thirst. Abandoned his staff and became Deng Lin.
Translation:
Kuafu raced against the sun until the sun set; He felt thirsty and wanted to drink water, so he went to the Yellow River and Weishui to drink water. The Yellow River and the Weihe River are short of water, so we go to the great lakes in the north to drink water. I died of thirst before I got to the Great Lake. His abandoned cane turned into a peach garden.
Analysis:
This article comes from Shan Hai Jing. According to legend, Kuafu, an ancient warrior, was burly and powerful. He thinks that nothing is impossible in the world. He chased the sun with crutches. He climbed many mountains and crossed many rivers, but he was exhausted and missed the sun. He didn't give up and kept looking until he got close to the great lake. He died of overwork.
Theme concept:
The theme of Kuafu Day by Day is that ancient ancestors tried to transcend the shackles of limited life and longed for eternal life.
Kuafu is a huge god, which is rare in the ancient culture of China. This seems to show that our ancestors have realized the difficulty and importance of catching up with and surpassing time, and thus endowed Kuafu with great strength. As for the specific reasons of Kuafu's daily life, it is recorded in Shan Hai Jing Overseas North Jing that "faith comes from the past and faith comes from Kuafu", which can reveal the essential reasons of Kuafu's daily life. In the ancient culture of China, Hou Di was a ghost town and a place for the dead. This leads to a reasonable inference that "Kuafu is located in the nether world in the ancient concept of China, and Kuafu is a giant in the nether world".
Kuafu is more likely to feel the oppression of life by time than ordinary people, and his fear of death and desire for eternal life are naturally much stronger than ordinary people.
And "the only way to transcend death is to walk with the sun, leave the limited dead sea and join the infinite universe."
Therefore, the oppression from time, the fear from death and the eternal desire for life are the root causes of Kuafu's increasingly "overreaching". In fact, the so-called "Kuafu is beyond his power" not only shows that human natural life can't break through the shackles of limited time, but also reflects the spirit of "knowing what it can't do" in China culture embodied in Kuafu. Therefore, although Kuafu finally failed, he is still a hero in the eyes of future generations, and he is still admired and loved by people after thousands of years.
On the surface, Kuafu's daily failure is due to lack of water and thirst, but the real reason is not so. You should know that time has a painful side to life, but it is also an indispensable and inseparable factor in life. As Engels said, "the basic forms of all existence are space and time, and the existence outside time and the existence outside space are also ridiculous things." Heidegger defined man as "existence" and thought that "the meaning of existence is timeliness". Time is the state of human existence. Once time is abandoned, the existence of human life will also be abandoned.
Kuafu's failure shows that it is impossible for human beings to compete with time directly. Because the fear of death and the eternal temptation are too strong, people hope to fight against time and death indirectly from other channels. Thus, the "longevity tree" appeared.
Kuafu has more and more crutches. Regarding "Deng Lin", Bi Yuanyun noted: "Deng Lin is also a peach forest, and Deng is similar to Tao." "Shan Hai Jing Zhongshan Jing" also records the cloud: "The mountain of Kuafu has a peach forest in the north." "Shan Hai Jing Overseas North Jing" said that Bo (boasted) his father's country, "Climbing the forest in the east, there are two trees."
In China culture, "peach" has a special meaning. Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Garden" makes "Taoyuan" a symbol of paradise on earth without life troubles, and the fruit-"peach" symbolizes the extension of life length-longevity. Kuafu couldn't extend the absolute length of life because he couldn't go beyond time, but his wish eventually turned into a peach grove, which helped human beings to increase the density of life by enjoying (eating peaches), thus extending the length of life relatively. In this sense, Kuafu realized his wish.
The cane Deng Lin is the persistent existence of Kuafu's belief, and Deng Lin is also an evergreen tree of human life. This is the eternal image that Kuafu, a tragic hero, conveyed to mankind through his actions of wasting his life. Kuafu crushed Deng Lin to death and raised him with "resin paste", which gained endless life and provided material for future generations to increase the density of life.
Kuafu made human beings obtain relative harmony and eternity in the relationship of life-time-life.
There are many myths and legends about "Fairy Mountain", "immortal tree", "immortal grass" and "immortal spring" in China ancient books. This itself has shown the limited life of ancient ancestors, their fear of death and their eternal desire and belief in life.
For Kuafu's "Day by Day", Tao Yuanming has a poem: "Kuafu's birthday ambition is to race against the day; Everything goes to Yu Garden, if there is no victory or defeat. The divine power is wonderful, not enough to pour the river. I sent the trace to Deng Lin, and the work is behind. " Tao Yuanming does not think that Kuafu is "overreaching" day by day, but regards it as a great ambition to fight against time. He thinks that Kuafu is failing day by day, but because "flogging Deng Lin" provides material information for future generations, it can relatively prolong the life length and achieve the purpose of fighting against limited life, so it is "success behind".
Ancestors' worship and fear of the sun and time constitute their psychological factors, thus affecting their views on life and life and death. Throughout this series of myths about the sun, we can see that the limited human life has a strong desire for eternity.
Ancient ancestors expressed their thoughts on life-time-life through myths such as fantasy, imagination and day by day: limited human life and strong yearning for eternal time. The limited individual life "enriches" the pain caused by the passage of time. Mankind has made unremitting efforts to pursue immortality.