摘要
The writer thinks that the dragons here refer to the floods and rivers because floods and rivers are the ecological starting points, the natural basis for the dragons and the original basic form of dragons as well. The dragons and snakes here are not the totems in Xia Tribe when Yu regulated the rivers and watercourses.Yu was called the dragon-killer or snake-killer.So Yu killed dragon-like Gonggong and Xiangyao. Tales such as "The Yellow Dragon’s Hailing of Tail" tell us the connections between dragons and snakes and thefloods and rivers.
The writer thinks that the dragons here refer to the floods and rivers because floods and rivers are the ecological starting points, the natural basis for the dragons and the original basic form of dragons as well. The dragons and snakes here are not the totems in Xia Tribe when Yu regulated the rivers and watercourses.Yu was called the dragon-killer or snake-killer.So Yu killed dragon-like Gonggong and Xiangyao. Tales such as 'The Yellow Dragon's Hailing of Tail' tell us the connections between dragons and snakes and thefloods and rivers.
出处
《安徽大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》
CSSCI
2003年第6期8-14,共7页
Journal of Anhui University(Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)
关键词
洪水河川
治水
龙蛇
神话事象
图腾
大禹
flood
regulating rivers
dragons and snakes
myth
Totem
Dayu
