Author(s)

Jinglin Zhang ¹, Xiaoyu Zhang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Liberal Arts, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China

Corresponding Author

Jinglin Zhang

ABSTRACT

The existing teaching interpretation of "Nu Wa Made People" mainly focuses on explaining the structure of mythological texts and the study of Nu Wa image, while there is less research on the national culture and the origin of ancestors that exist in it, especially the artificial Nu Wa thought in "Nu Wa creating humans", which deserves further exploration. The story of "Nu Wa creating humans" depicted by our ancestors is more to illustrate our own origins and strengthen the connotation of national culture. In comparison with the creation myths of foreign and other ethnic groups, we can draw inspiration from the dialectical relationship between "God establishing humans" and "human independence": self-reliance is a hard truth. And we need to use this to enhance students' confidence in national culture.

KEYWORDS

Nu Wa's Creation of Man; Artificial Nu Wa; Mythical connotations; National cultural confidence

CITE THIS PAPER

Jinglin Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, A New Exploration of Nu Wa Creation of Man. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 120-126. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070518.

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