Abstract:The thesis will take Sun Gods as a case study to compare the Nature Gods in mythologies of ancient Chinese and Greece and reveal the vigorous similarities and differences of the two different cultures. In addition to this, it also aims at displaying the cultural art images and national characteristics by probing the deep details of Nature Gods of the two big ancient states. The common factors which are leading to the creation of Chinese and Greek Sun-Gods will be investigated to ascertain the representative Sun Gods of each country. In the body of the article, those aspects of Sun Gods will be carried out to take the comparison between ancient Chinese and Greece, such as the characteristics, the power, the symbols and the ways of worship. The aim of the comparison is to find out the differences of Nature Gods so that the different cultural spirits of the two countries can be summarized in the last chapter. It will adopt three kinds of methods to finish the thesis in the process of the comparative study. The first kind method is Comparison, which is used to compare similarities and differences of the Sun-Gods of ancient China and Achaean mainly, and finds out the argument for the thesis so as to make it able to take this as a developmental starting point. The second approach is Case Study, which manifests itself right away in the attached title of the thesis. The third method is Induction. The inductive method is used to summarize the results of the analysis of the study. The final chapter is the conclusion of the thesis which summarizes different cultural spirits of ancient China and Greece and explores deep inside details of countries by studying the two aspects both at artistic images and national spirits.
Keywords: Mythology; Nature Gods; Sun Gods; comparative study; cultural differences
中文摘要:本文将以日神作为个案研究，对中国和希腊的自然神话进行对比，以透视出两大古国文化精神的异同。并通过比较探索两国自然神话的深层底蕴，展现出两大古国的文化艺术形象和民族特征。论文将会探讨共同导致中国和希腊日神的产生的因素，并确定谁是中国和希腊主要的日神代表。文章的主体部分对日神的形象特征、神职神权、象征意义以及崇拜方式进行比较，从中找出以日神为代表的上古中国和希腊的自然神话的差异性，由此总结和探讨两国文化精神的异同。此文将采取三种研究方法进行论文研究。第一种方法是对比分析法，主要用于对比上古中国和希腊的日神的异同，为论文找出论点，使论文能够以此为出发点展开论述。第二种方法是个案分析法。此种方法在论文的标题中就显现出来。第三种方法是归纳法，此种方法主要用于论文的结束部分，对论文观点进行归纳总结。论文的最后一章就是论文的结论的概括，即通过对上古中国和希腊的日神对比研究后显示出这两个国家的文化精神差异。
关键词：神话；自然神；日神；比较；文化差异
