〔Abstract〕 The Book of Historical Documents·Emperor of Yao contains rich myths, based on a wide range of discourse
resources with similar myth fragments recorded in inscriptions on oracle sat in
the Yin Ruins,Book of
Poetry, Zuo's
Commentary, Elegies of
the South, The Classic
of Mountains and Seas, and Shi Zi. When writing myths in Records of Yao, historiographers not only quoted
knowledge of primitive calendar systems and records of religious rites, but also borrowed myths popular in
the pre-Qin period, which were integrated into their creation. A comparison of Chinese
and Western myths shows that the series of myths in Records of Yao compiled by
historiographers are in a sequence which fully coincides with the narrative
logic of Western genesis mythology, giving a narrative of genesis mythology following the
storyline of "a mythological paradise built to the paradise destroyed and
to the paradise rebuilt".