First Mythological Epic of the Han Nationality: The Dark Legend

Author: Hu Chongjun Collected
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: "The Dark Legend" is primarily sung during the "drumming for the dead" in the Shennongjia region, vividly depicting the process of Pan Gu opening the world and ending the chaos, the origin of humanity, and the development of society. It integrates a series of mythological legends of numerous heroic figures such as Chaos, Pan Gu, Nuwa, Fuxi, Emperor Yan, Shennong, and Emperor Huangdi Xuanyuan in the primordial era, who created the world with great difficulty. Renowned scholars such as Yuan Ke and Liu Shouhua have highly praised it, considering it as a "broad mythological epic of the Han nationality."