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The blending of cultures is also a distillation

1、 The Ramayana is one of the two famous epic poems in India, known as the "first poem". The book was written around the 4th to 2nd century BC. It was originally a folk oral creation, which was sorted and processed by countless singers and poets, and finally compiled into a complete book by someone.

2、 Mr. Ji Xianlin said, "The true sensitivity to natural beauty and the passionate depiction of it began with the Ramayana

3、 In the Ramayana, Hanuman is a flying monkey. He helped Luo Mo conquer the kingdom of Luo Cha, built bridges across the sea, and brought back Luo Mo's wife, Siduo. Some people say that Sun Wukong in Journey to the West may have been influenced by Hanuman.

4、 The Ramayana vividly reflects the conspiracies within the palace for the throne and the struggles of heroic figures such as Rama against tyranny, expressing a series of progressive political propositions that conform to the wishes of the people and the historical development trend of the time. At the same time, it also promotes the author's ethical and moral concepts of loyalty, filial piety, chastity, brotherly love, and righteousness, as well as the ideas of the caste system.

5、 The Ramayana was spread to South Asia and Southeast Asia by Hindus and Buddhists, and even to Mongolia and China's Xizang, Xinjiang and other places by land. Many stories from epics were introduced to the West Asian region in the 15th and 16th centuries. After the 18th century, it was successively translated into various European languages, which broadened the horizons of Western scholars and became the object of many scholars' dedicated research.

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