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The Chinese CultureThis report is about the myths and beliefs of the Chinese culture. Its aboutthe stories the Chinese created to apologize the world around them, and generallyhow they perceived their surrounding environment. This report deals with antediluvian patriarch myths and the people who believed them, and what the current believes ofthese people are.The southwesterly Creation StoryThe Southwest creation bill is a myth which explains why people are different.The myth begins by saying that in that respect were people on world who were all alike,meaning there werent people who were black, white, oriental, etc.. It statesthat the hu gays on world all generally were the same. There were also gods wholived above the clouds in the heavens. And there was a huge heavenly ladderwhich started on a circle and reached all the way up to heavens door. Itgoes on to tell a story of a man who had two children. One was a girl and the opposite was a boy.They lived in a polarity which had a huge rattling thick roof. The man had built theroof so thick because it rained pricy every day. He hated the rain. He knewit had its benefits but too much(prenominal) of it ruined his crops, destroyed his livestockand every time it rained the roof of the house was destroyed. And every timethe man rebuilt it, he made it thicker and thicker. He darned all hismisfortune on the Duke of Thunder. The Duke of Thunder was one of the gods wholived in the heavens. He was the god of rain and thunder. The man dispised theDuke very much and had a processed hatred of him.Every time it rained the Duke would descend from the heavens and stand on ahilltop. There he would watch with pure delight as the rains and thunder camedown harder and harder. Finally the man had had enough. One day he took hisaxe and waited on the hilltop for the Duke to arrive. When the rains came so didthe Duke, and the man slashed him in the back.           The Duke was prej udice but non toss offed because he was a god. The man caged him and brought himhome. He put him in a corner and warned the kids not to go near him. And toespecially not give him water. The next morning was a attractive sunny one, butthe Duke looked horrible almost as if he was dehydrating. The man told thechildren he had to go to the market and said again not to go near the Duke nomatter wha... ... his son. Zoa was killed by his ownbrother who was humiliated of what his younger sibling had become. What themagician didnt tell Zoa was which close relative would kill him. Zoa whohad become overconfident wasnt as great as he theme he was. And he wastoo arrogant to not know that the gods should not be challenged. This mythtells that becoming overconfident will eventually hurt you and that no onecould beat their destiny. The Chinese in this story believed in the gods,they were very religious people and this myth tells that the gods should notbe challenged.both of these myths were w ritten a long time ago and I dont view that thepeople today solace believe in these myths as potently as the people who wrotethem did. I think its like Halloween in our culture. We still practice thecustom as the ancient people did but we dont dedicate as much as a strong believein ghosts and goblins as our ancestors did.BibliographyBirch, Cyril. Chinese Myths And Fantasies. Great Britain London, 1992.Fei, Charles. Strange Creatures. New York, 1990Ke, Yuan. Dragons And Dynasties. China Beijing, 1993*Chinese Myths.* Grolier Encyclopaedia, 12th ed. 1996.