Research on the Whole Beasts God Images of Shanhai Jing
- DOI
- 10.2991/emim-15.2015.136How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Shanhai Jing; God; Image; Myth
- Abstract
Shanhai Jing is an important ancient books of the pre-Qin Period, Where the whole beasts God images not only provide important literature material for us to understand the early religious thought, also provide a powerful image picture. Based on the relevant text analysis, it can be found: the God’s identity mostly are mountain god and the mammals which involved are from different areas, such as oxen and horses birds dragons snakes.[1] This is the embodiment of the primitive totem worship psychology, the primitive people have different feelings in different animals. After all, through the related God image’s text content in Shanhai Jing, we not only can have deep contact with the image of God, but also can find the sacrificial rites, aesthetics, religion etc. The sacrifice ritual and religious thought chronicled by Shanhai Jing is not only have a summary of the previous generation, but also have an important impact on future generations
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- © 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Shuyan Yi AU - Jing Wang PY - 2015/04 DA - 2015/04 TI - Research on the Whole Beasts God Images of Shanhai Jing BT - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Education, Management, Information and Medicine PB - Atlantis Press SP - 685 EP - 689 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/emim-15.2015.136 DO - 10.2991/emim-15.2015.136 ID - Yi2015/04 ER -