Ancient Chinese mythology and legends

Author: Qian Mingzi
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Publish Date: 1996-12-01
Features: This book strives to organize the myths in the order of their generation and development, with earlier types of myths listed first, followed sequentially. There are also some exceptions, such as cultural hero gods, which have been continuously produced from hunting and gathering societies, agricultural societies, to the late primitive society and slave society, without stopping as culture progressed. Gods who created writing could not appear in societies without writing. The invention of writing was the result of long-term practices by humans, such as counting on knots, using objects to represent words, and carving pictographic symbols, and it was certainly not the achievement of a single individual. The creation of writing played an irreplaceable role in advancing human civilization.