论道教对中国神话的继承与发展

Taoism's Inheritance and Development on Chinese Myth

对神话概念的理解向来有“广义”、“狭义”两说。本文主张中国神话是一个发展的系统,道教神话是中国神话体系中一个重要的子系统。文章对道教神话进行了界定和描述,认为其对中国远古神话母题的继承,主要表现在角色、观念与情节三方面。它对中国神话的发展,主要体现在两个方面:一是对远古神话的改造,一是创造新的神灵和新的神话,并发展出新的神话母题。

Generally speaking, the conceptions of myth can be divided into two types: broad sense and narrative sense. The paper ciaims that Chinese myth is a developing system. Taoism myth is an impor-tant subordinate system to Chinese myth. It also focuses on the definition and description of Taoism myth. It conceives that Taoism myth inherited the main subjects of Chinese ancient myth, which reflect-ed in three aspects: roles, conceptions and plots. The contributions of Taoism myth to Chinese myth are the reform of ancient Chinese myth and the creation of new gods, myths and new myth motifs.