Today fantasy literature has been greatly welcomed in china. Researchers call this phenomenon“renaissance of myth” since these writings some are deity's stories and affected by mythical mind so as to explore the human subconscious desire. However, compared with the foreign, ours' writings which called“new myth” were just imagined, lack of mythology knowledge so can't save us from the“spiritual wasteland” . The new myth is also different from ancient myth: ancient myth is collective oral literature and is their cultural complex else thus involves ancient history;but new myth, always inten-tionally invented by individual, has no use for historical research. If we criticize by criterion of Truth、Good and Beauty , ancient myth was often used to explain some phenomena ,in other word, it looks like to find the truth. However, new myth is just aimed to aesthetic amusement.%当前，奇幻类文学在国内受到了极大的欢迎。学界将这种现象称之为“神话的复兴”，而之所以这样称呼是因为这些文学作品有的本身就是“神”的故事，并且其中有着“神话思维”的闪现和对人类潜意识深层愿望的探究。然而，与国外相比，国内的“新神话”创作大多只是天马行空的想象，缺乏相关“神话学”知识的学术积累，也没能承担起拯救人类于“精神荒原”的重任。“新神话”与古代神话之间也有着根本的区别：古代神话往往是集体的口头创作，是先民们的文化综合体，因此在一定程度上反映了当时的历史；“新神话”则是“有意为神话”，以独创、虚构为主要特征，因此基本不能作为历史研究的参考资料。而如果以真善美的标准来评析的话，古代神话往往被用来解释一些自然现象，因此带有“求真”认识的色彩；而“新神话”则意在以娱乐为主的“审美”体验。
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