Chapter 2014: Resistance Spirit(2/2)
In Western mythology, fire is given by God; in Greek mythology, fire is stolen by Prometheus; and in Chinese mythology, fire is made by drilling wood and perseveringly rubbing it together! This is the difference.
, the Chinese use such stories to warn future generations that only by fighting against nature can you get everything you want! When facing the doomsday flood, Western mythology talks about taking shelter in Noah's Ark. There is a movie called "2012"
The movie is based on this myth. But in Chinese mythology, it is the ancestors who defeated the flood. Look, it is still a struggle, fighting against disasters!" The West chose passive confrontation, while the East chose to go through the door three times without doing anything.
We entered and finally defeated the flood. Don’t think that the flood I am talking about is far away from everyone. This epidemic is a flood sweeping the world. You must know that there is a ship where 100,000 people have died. If you look carefully
If you read Chinese mythology, you will find our story incredible. Regardless of the storyline, the cultural core expressed in our mythology must contain these two words: resistance!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! To be honest, when I was a child, I always thought there were two people who were stupid. The first one was Yu Gong, who actually wanted to guard the door.
The mountain in front moved away, and the second one was Kuafu. Because he thought the weather was hot, he wanted to pick off the sun, but he failed to catch up with the sun and ended up exhausted. At that time, I was thinking, such a stupid person
, why do we have to worship them as idols? Later, I went back to the village to visit relatives and found that the small dirt roads in the village had been built into asphalt roads. Then I realized that the Chinese use the spirit of Foolish Old Man to Move Mountains to every remote place.
Roads were built in the villages, so that the children there could go to school, and the people there became richer and richer. As the saying goes, there are endless scarcity of children and grandchildren. The descendants of Foolish Old Man finally moved to China in our generation.
Walked up the mountain in front of me.
Kuafu failed in chasing the sun, but Hou Yi succeeded in shooting it! These two myths about the sun are in tandem, one failure and one success. What our ancestors took great pains to tell us is: you can lose, but
Never give in.
Chinese people grew up listening to such myths and stories. The spirit of courage to fight has become our genetic gene. We may not realize it because it is subtle, but we will be as strong as our ancestors. So now when we think about the Chinese
The stubborn spirit of not admitting defeat is much easier to understand. This is why we have been able to survive for more than 5,000 years. In Western mythology, the sun is the source of all things, and it is the supreme existence, like the sun god Apollo.
Like the god Ra in Egyptian mythology and legend, one after another the splendid palaces and the magnificent pyramids are all built by humans. Facing those tall and glorious buildings, who can still have the heart to resist?
If you are careful enough, you will find that all Chinese myths teach you to fight. A little girl drowned in the sea. She turned into a bird called Jingwei and wanted to fill up the sea. This is resistance.
, a man was beheaded because he challenged the power of the Emperor of Heaven, but he did not die, but continued to fight with his ax.
Heaven, what to do with the chaos of the universe? After the creation of heaven and earth, Laozi said in the Tao Te Ching, "Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as stupid dogs." What he means is that if you want to survive, you have to rely on yourself, not on the sky. This is better than the so-called "god" in the West.
"Love the world" sounds cruel, but it is very realistic.
Chapter completed!