In ancient myths and legends of China, the world is divided into three realms: man, god and demon. Immortals are immortal. They live in the heavenly palace. They don't have to live on whole grains like mortals. They are the masters of everything. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there have been legends about immortals. The ancients believed that people could have a chance to become immortals through practice. Even Qin Shihuang believed in the theory of immortals, and even sent a boat out to sea to try to find the fairy palace.
Immortals are naturally the product of people's imagination, and there are many legends related to immortals in ancient times. The most familiar one is The Seven Fairies Descending from Earth. Legend has it that the Queen Mother has seven daughters, and the seven fairies are the maiden of the Queen Mother and the most beautiful one. Once, seven fairies came down to play with their sisters and met a man named Yong Dong by chance. Yong Dong comes from a poor family, but he is kind and filial.
His father died of illness. Unable to bury his father, he decided to sell himself to bury his father, willing to be a slave, just to let his father be buried as soon as possible. The seven fairies were moved by Yong Dong's filial piety and were willing to marry him. After the seven fairies married Dong Yong, they kept weaving day and night. Dong Yong exchanged the brocade woven by the seven fairies for money and buried his father. But it's a pity that Xianfan can't fall in love, and the Seven Fairies finally returned to the Heavenly Palace. The love story between the seven fairies and Yong Dong was first recorded in Cao Zhi's Ganoderma lucidum.
Since then, several versions have been circulated. It is said that the Seven Fairies married Yong Dong, not because they were moved by Yong Dong, but because Dong Yong hid the feathers of the Seven Fairies, and so on. There are many fairy tales similar to the Seven Fairys and Yong Dong in ancient times, but they all have one thing in common, that is, the fairy fell in love with the poor boy and was willing to marry him. No fairy has ever fallen in love with a poor girl. Why is this? Are there no male fairies? In fact, the reason behind it is very simple.
First of all, in ancient times, men were superior to women, and the ancients thought that women were inherently inferior to men. Although the fairy is high above, she is a fairy who attracts wind and drinks dew, and will also be confused by an ordinary poor boy. Fairy flatters ordinary men, which is in line with the conceit of ancient men. Fairy men can't have a crush on poor girls, which is not in line with the values of the ancients.
A fairy falls in love with every man, which is a pure love story, but if a fairy falls in love with every woman, it is that every woman deliberately seduces her, and ancient people's moral values are often so contradictory. Coupled with these so-called myths and legends, most of them are the products of some authors' psychosexuality. There are many strange stories in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. The foxes in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio are all women without exception. Moreover, the structure of these stories is almost the same as that of fairies falling in love with mortals, such as foxes falling in love with poor scholars at first sight and so on.
This is because there were no female writers in ancient times, and the authors of novels were all men. Men's writing will naturally blend into their own feelings, and they can't write stories about men's inversion. This is why ancient myths and legends have always been immortals, not immortals. Fairy men generally act as representatives of justice, rules and laws, such as letting the Seven Fairys break up with Yong Dong and immediately return to the Jade Emperor in Fairy Palace.