摘 要：神话是通过人们的幻想用一种不自觉的艺术方式加工过的自然和社会形式本身的一种文学形式，反映了人类初期的一些意识形态,表现了远古先民对自然、社会现象的认识和愿望，是后来民族精神的萌芽和雏形，在很大程度上影响了民族精神的形成。不同地域的神话在其产生和流传过程中呈现出不同的特色，巴渝地区有着悠久而丰富的神话，其中包括灵山十巫及巫载国神话、巴祖廪君的英雄神话、大禹导江、缙云神踪、丰都鬼影等，它们是中国神话的重要组成部分，巴渝神话孕育了具有巴渝文化色彩的民族精神。本文从巴渝神话入手、探究巴渝神话中蕴含的民族精神，以期对中华民族精神和未来发展有所启示与借鉴。

关键字：神话 巴渝神话 民族精神  独特性

ABSTRACT：Myth is a form of literature that processing natural and social pattern itself in an unconscious way of art through people's fantasies, which reflects the early human’s ideology, and shows the ancient ancestors’s understandings and desires of natural and social phenomena, which is the bud and prototype of later national spirit and influences the formation of national spirit to a large extent. Myths of different areas presents different characteristics in the production and the circulating in the process, Ba-yu region has long-history an rich myths, including the Lingshan ten wu and Wu kingdom myths, the progenitor hero mythology, Dayu guides river, Jinyun god trace, Fengdu ghosts and etc. They are important parts of Chinese myths, Ba-yu myths gave birth to the national spirit of Ba-yu cultural characteristics. This article starts with Ba-yu myth, explores the national spirit of Ba-yu myth, in order to inspire and enlighten the spirit of the Chinese nation and the future development.

Key words: myth; Ba-yu myth; national spirit; uniqueness.