Wen Yiduo uses "myth" as the key to open a door to the world of the ancestors. Every broken fragment of legend breathes again in his writing and becomes a vivid historical echo.
"Myths and Poems" is a collection of classical literature essays by Wen Yiduo. It contains the author's eighteen academic essays (20 in some editions) and is divided into two parts: the first takes mythology as the core and conducts an in-depth investigation of ancient culture and mythology; the second focuses on "Chu Ci" and studies the artistic charm and symbolic connotation of pre-Qin poetry.
The book uses profound cultural anthropology and mythology as the theoretical framework, and integrates traditional Chinese exegetical and textual research methods to skillfully connect seemingly isolated images and scattered mythological fragments, and weave them into rich pictures of the lives of our ancestors. This unique research path not only opened up a new direction for the study of ancient culture and mythology, but also had a profound impact on subsequent research on literary history and folklore.
The entire work not only reflects Wen Yiduo's highly rigorous academic attitude as a scholar, but also reveals the passion and insight of a poet, making academic and aesthetic sense collide and resonate in the text. Reading it is not only a journey of knowledge supply, but also a soul adventure that travels through time and space to touch the origin of culture.
