Humanistic spirit in the history of ancient literature

Several main manifestations of humanistic spirit in the history of China ancient literature;

1. Hometown feelings in China's literature;

1. In China's poems, longing for hometown and old country is an eternal theme.

2. Associated with the country is the yearning for the country. Monarch and country, among ancient literati, are consistent; In modern times, this spirit changed from loyalty to the country to the pursuit of national independence.

3. The generalization of rural feelings is a description and praise of the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers.

2. Love theme in China ancient literature.

1, love. It can be divided into a series of works from and influenced by the people and a series of works by literati.

A family from the folk: showing more full human characteristics. From "Poetry" to Yuefu folk songs, the love between men and women is rarely bound by rituals, but more passionate, persistent and wild.

Literati's love works: more complicated. Implied, deepened and idealistic (Bai Pu's "Going Up the Wall Soon" adds a tragic color ("Will Really Remember" and "Song of Eternal Sorrow"),

Dong Jieyuan's Romance of the West Chamber, Wang Shifu's Romance of the West Chamber, Palace of Eternal Life, Peony Pavilion and Dream of Red Mansions).

2. Friendship. Treating friends as brothers is an understanding in our ideological tradition. Making friends is not hindered by nobles, not by interests, but by righteousness, keeping it with faith and being loyal to it.

3. The theme of life perception in China's literature.

1, the cognition that life is short but the universe is eternal. Thinking about history and life is actually an eternal yearning for life and a unique expression of cherishing and loving life.

2. The theme of understanding life is also reflected in the reflection on real life, which often crosses the path of religious reasoning, exhorts good and punishes evil, and puts forward the destination of life. It is more prominent in novels and plays.

The artistic features of China's ancient literature;

1, lyrical tradition is an important feature of China literature, but both lyrical style and narrative style have obvious lyrical features. Lu Ji "Wen Fu"? Sigh with the four seasons, watch everything and think? Li Bai's "Jinxiang sends Wei Ba to Xijing": The wind blows my heart and hangs Xianyang trees in the west. ? The cognitive way of poetic world, therefore, often focuses on the expression of inner feelings rather than the description of things outside the table. The exhibition of inner world from Nineteen Ancient Poems has profoundly influenced the development of China's poems.

2. Although China's literature has different styles, they have one thing in common, that is, they attach importance to the creation of artistic conception. Peony Pavilion? Scared dream:? It turns out that the colorful opening seems to be a contribution to the broken well.

Today's weather is very good, which is a pleasure for anyone! ? The mentality and the objective lens blend seamlessly.

Ancient ballads: Ancient folk songs and ballads are a kind of folk literature. In ancient China, music was regarded as songs and songs as ballads. Ancient ballads are an important tool for ancestors to express their thoughts, feelings and promote production. They came into being in primitive times with extremely low productivity, and they are the earliest literary styles. According to the theme, it can be divided into labor ballads, sacrifice ballads, totem ballads, marriage ballads, war ballads and so on. They are collective, comprehensive and direct in reproducing life, with concise words and smooth rhythm, and Fu is their main expression method.

Zhouyi: a divination book in the pre-Qin period. Its text is divided into two parts: classic and biography. Among them, the hexagram is the Book of Changes, which was written in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty. They recorded some situations of ancient society and preserved some ancient ballads with simple colors. The Book of Changes is a classic work, most of which was written in the Warring States period, reflecting the philosophical thought at that time.

Myth: Myth is an image description and explanation of natural phenomena and social life made by ancient ancestors through fantasy in an unconscious artistic way. It expresses the strong desire, optimism and heroism of ancestors to conquer nature with illusory imagination, and is an unconscious positive romantic artistic creation of early human beings. It is an important style of primitive literature and an important soil and arsenal for later literature and art.

Shan Hai Jing: an ancient geographical work related to witchcraft, with unknown author. It was written in the Warring States and supplemented in the Qin and Han Dynasties. *** 18, which mainly records the legendary geographical knowledge, and also covers folk customs, products, medicine, witchcraft, sacrifices, etc. In particular, a large number of ancient myths and legends have been preserved, such as Jingwei's reclamation, Kuafu being killed by the Yellow Emperor every day, and Kunyu's water control. It is an ancient book with the most myths in the pre-Qin period in China, and it has important literary value.

1. On the classification and content of ancient China ballads.

Reference answer: The existing ancient ballads in China can be roughly divided into the following five categories in terms of subject matter and content: 1. Labor ballads are the earliest ancient poems, and their reappearance of labor behavior and summary of production experience were consciously created by ancestors with obvious utilitarian purposes, among which "singing songs" is the most typical. Secondly, the sacrificial ballads show ancient ancestors' fantasy of praying for God's blessing or ordering nature to obey themselves, and they have a strong primitive religious consciousness, among which 375 Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Yi Yi Wax Ci poems are their representatives. The third is the totem ballad, which is a poem created by ancestors on the basis of totem worship, and its clue can be found in Swallow Fly. The fourth kind is love songs, which generally show rough and savage characteristics, such as Zhouyi. Tuner 62. Fifth, battle songs, such as Zhouyi? Zhongfu? 62 "and" Zhouyi ". Through his vivid description, Fan Ren seems to hear the sound of ancient wars, see the etiquette of ancient wars, see the figure of tribal members fighting bravely, and see the sadness of failure and the joy of victory.

2. Briefly describe the artistic features of China ancient ballads.

Reference answer: China ancient ballads have four artistic features: First, their collective and comprehensive artistic forms. Second, it reproduces the directness of life. Third, the sentence pattern is concise, the language is concise, and the rhythm is smooth. The fourth is the expression method based on fu.

3. What are the reasons for the myth?

Reference answer: the emergence of myth is first related to the low level of productivity and understanding in ancient times. The ancestors could not give a scientific explanation for the origin and changes of various natural phenomena, the world and social and cultural life, but only personified the natural forces and the objective world with the help of imagination and fantasy. Secondly, it is related to the strong desire of ancient ancestors to explain nature, resist nature and improve their own ability. This desire prompted our ancestors to think about various phenomena and problems in nature and society, and tried to make their own explanations and descriptions. Third, it has something to do with the primitive cosmology and primitive thinking of our ancestors. Primitive ancestors believed in animism, and their thinking took this as the core content, based on the principle of mutual infiltration between man and nature, and characterized by intuition, emotion and imagination. Therefore, in mythology, all natural phenomena and some social beings are considered to be alive and endowed with human characteristics and supernatural abilities.

4. How about the myth preservation in China?

Reference answer: The myth of China has not been completely and systematically recorded and preserved, only a few pieces remain. Generally speaking, myths mainly refer to ancient myths recorded in Han books before Tang and Song Dynasties. These ancient books mainly include The Book of Songs, Zhuangzi, Han Feizi, Shan Hai Jing, Chu Ci, Lv Chunqiu, Huai Nan Zi, Custom Yi Tong, March 5, Liezi and so on. Among them, Shan Hai Jing, Chu Ci and Huai Nan Zi are the best preserved, especially Shan Hai Jing, which is close to the original appearance of ancient myths. There are three reasons why China myths are rarely circulated and fragmented: First, Chinese characters are complicated and difficult to record; Second, because Confucianism, represented by Confucius, advocates practicality and banishes metaphysical thinking, not talking about the Machamp Rebellion, the ancient drought and the Tang Dynasty; Thirdly, due to historical, literary and religious factors in the process of myth evolution.

5. What is the main content of China myth?

Reference answer: The existing myths in China mainly include the following aspects: 1. The pioneering myths that explore the mysteries of the creation of heaven and earth, the creation of all things and the origin of mankind, among which the most representative ones are the myths of Pangu and Nuwa. The second is a natural myth with wind, thunder, birds, animals, grass, wood and so on. Because the object of description reflects the ancestors' fear and conquest of nature, such as? Thor? 、? Poseidon? Shui Bo? Wait, the most famous ones are Reclamation by Jingwei and Day by Day by Kuafu. Thirdly, the hero myth shows the initial awakening of pre-democratic consciousness. They vaguely realize that man is the center of the world and the master of the universe. Is his protagonist a demigod or a divine support? Hero? Well-known, such as the water control of gun jade and the shooting of the sun by Houyi. The former eulogized the heroes of water control, Yu and his son, while the latter eulogized the heroes of drought, Hou Yi. Fourthly, the legends and myths about foreign countries and strange gods reflect the wishes and ideals of early people trying to break through the limitations of natural conditions and transform their living environment. These images are strange, full of curiosity, surrealism and supernatural, such as deer head, spinning girl, Republic of China, the country with long arms and the country of Tired Ofthe Fire.

6. What are the basic characteristics of China myth?

Reference answer: As far as ideological content is concerned, its characteristics are mainly as follows: First, it has a strong reality, from which we can see the situation of our ancestors' labor creation for survival at that time, the specific situation of our ancestors' struggle with nature, and the real face of social struggle at that time. Secondly, deifying human beings and attaching importance to human strength and sociality show the unremitting pursuit of truth and ardent longing for ideals, and show the Chinese nation's spirit of struggle and optimism based on real life. In terms of art, China's ancient myths first showed the primitive artistic spirit centered on life and human existence, and showed the artistic thinking characteristics of our nation in the future. Secondly, the description and expression of real life in ancient China myths are not direct and concrete, but deformed reality processed by their naive fantasies. On the basis of reflecting the Chinese nation's pursuit of truth, full of ideals, strong-willed, positive and enterprising, optimistic and heroic national character, the positive romantic spirit of myth has been formed. Thirdly, China ancient myths successfully used romantic techniques such as fantasy, imagination, exaggeration and personification. Fourthly, China ancient mythology embodies the unity of tragic beauty and sublime beauty.

Briefly describe the basic characteristics of ancient myths in China;

1. Myths are all imagination or fantasy;

Myth is the explanation and explanation of natural or social phenomena observed or experienced by ancient humans, but it has experienced? Fantasy? Processing, becoming imagination? Deification? Real life;

3. Myth reflects the desire of ancient human beings to explain and conquer nature (or society);

Myth can only be produced in prehistoric times, and it is the product of an era when human beings have not been able to explain natural and social phenomena that conform to reality.

On the Differences of Ancient Myths and Legends in China;

1. Myth came into being earlier than legend;

2. Myth is the prototype of legend, and legend is the social historization of myth;

Myth is obviously irrational and magical, while legend contains the principles of human behavior.

On the influence of China's ancient myths on the development of later literature.

1. The artistic rules of myth pointed out the direction for the development of later literature. The theme of life triggered by myth has actually become the mainstream of the development of China literature. Myth is full of emotion, image and imagination, and it also greatly affects the development of later literature.