An Ecological Holistic Study on the Characteristics of Mythology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmsd.202412308

Author(s)

Yunhe Zhang

Affiliation(s)

School of Foreign Languages, Sichuan Minzu College, Kangding, Sichuan, China

Abstract

With the transformation from industrial civilization to ecological civilization and the outbreak of COVID-19 global pandemic and natural disasters all over the world, it warns us that humankind’s rampant destruction of the natural world has fundamentally threatened human survival. Ecological holism, as an important ecological aesthetics, a brand-new aesthetic concept put forward by Chinese scholars in the middle 1990s, it takes the ecological relationship between man and nature as the basic starting point, to study the ecological relationship between man and nature, man and society, man and spirit, to take the overall interest of the ecosystem as the highest value rather than the interest of human beings as the highest value. With literature research method, investigation research method and, and qualitative research method, this paper intends to explore the characteristics of mythology from the perspective of ecological holism on the following points. First, mythology is part of folk literature and is the subconscious artistic creation of their ancestors on nature. Mythology is full of curiosity about the formation of nature, the origin of human beings, and productive life, a reverence and exploration of nature. Mythology is full of rich imagination and fantasy totem worship. Our ancestors created many myths about social life during their long-term social practice, reflection of social life. Mythology is a prehistoric art handed down orally by primitive ancestors, obvious rap oral transmission. It is concluded that our ancestors pursue and admire the ideal ecological environment and achieve a certain fit with ecological holism.

Keywords

Mythology; Characteristics; Ecological Holism; Nature; Society; Spirit

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