China believed in animism from ancient times, which led to people's yearning for myths and legends, indirectly influenced many people's thoughts, believed that monsters existed, and even more bizarre feudal superstitions and legends existed.
But these legends can't prove that there are monsters. It's not true that there were monsters before the founding of the People's Republic of China, mainly because radio and television released a news.
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Legend origin
In reality, nature has great power at the same time. However, due to the limitation of cognition, the ancients scientifically explained phenomena or things, thus creating a kind of nature worship psychology and creating the image of gods, which will do harm to the magical things on earth.
People must get rid of it as a rare thing and then get rid of it quickly. As a result, people concretize some forces existing in nature and become gods for people to worship; The other part became a monster.
The mythical monsters are all cultivated by animals, plants and even abiotic beings who have failed to cultivate immortality, including some people and animals who have failed to cultivate immortality. Monsters in a broad sense refer to all non-supernatural, immortal and non-human objects with super powers or spells.
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