南岛语言和闽方言中的禹神话考释

The basis Austronesian and the dialect of Fujian provinces study the Yu myth

在20世纪30-40年代,顾颉刚先生开始研究禹神话的时候,认为这个神话出自中国古代南方民族,后来他改变看法,认为这个神话出自中国古代西方的民族。本文在此基础上利用南岛语言和闽方言研究禹神话,认为禹神话是远古时代百越民族的鱼类和爬行类动物图腾崇拜的产物。

This article Make use of the dialect of Fujian province and Austronesian research and condudes that Myths about Yu originate from fish and reptiles totems in Chinese southern and ancient race.This research is based on that conducted by Professor Gu Jiegang, who initiated his study in the 1930s and 1940s.His viewpoint about the origin of such myth was changed from the ancient Chinese southern ethnic groups to western ethnic groups later.