《山海经》神话中的伦理精神

The Myth Ethnic Sprit of Mountain and Sea Classics

神话是人类的精神开端,是民族文化精神生成的土壤,它代表着一个民族对于世界的感知和把握方式,也以叙事的手段表达着本民族的基本价值观念和伦理精神的最初取向。《山海经》是古代一部地理著作,但书中还记载了很多神话故事。有些故事在成书之前直至今天都长期在民间流传,其中蕴含的伦理精神已经构成了中华民族文化精神的核心和基础,对于中华民族的人格建构和文化发展具有十分重要的意义。

Myth is the beginning of the human spirit and the foundation of national culture. It represent the sensitive feeling and understanding ways of a nation, also with a narrative method present the nation＇ s foundamental values and the original ethnic sprit. The Mountain and Sea Classics is a geographic of ancient writing, but also recorded many fairy tales. Even today, some of these fairy tales are so popular among the common folk. Because the ethic sprits in it constitute the core and foundation of the Chinese national culture spirit and it means a lot to the creating character of chinese nationalities and culture development.