中国古代神话在汉字中的痕迹

Trail of Chinese Characters in Chinese Ancient Myth

该文从汉字解释的角度 ,依次对“示”、“此示”、“神”、“禅”、“社”的神话意义进行了描述 ,在与古希腊及日本神话的参照下 ,指出中华民族曾经有过漫长的神话时代 ,这些神话的故事文本虽然消失了 ,但它们的意蕴却通过汉字保存了下来。本文对中国古代神话的存在及消失的可能性进行了简要的勾勒。

In this paper, the author probes the mythological meaning of Chinese characters Shi,Cai,Shen,Chan,and She from the angle of explaning chine se. With the reference of the mythology of ancient Greece and Japan,the a uthor points out that Chinese people had an experience of mythological time, though they have lost the text of the myth,the significance of the my th have been kept in the Chinese characters.And the author try to sk etch the existing and disappearance of Chinese mythology.