鲧的神话传说,在我们中华民族历史上流传既广且久。但到后来,在人们的观念中,鲧,却是一个被扭曲而变了样的形象。特别是把他作为一个治洪水而失败的典型人物,甚而以禹为治洪水成功去烘托他的失败,使他的形象更为丑陋。略检一下古籍,便会使我们发现,人们头脑中鲧的形象,不是他的原始形象,他那冒犯天规、天条,置生命于不顾去治洪水的形象,被歪曲得不成样子。故此,本文想就以下几个问题作以论述:鲧 神 myths and legends, spread in our history of the Chinese nation is both wide and long. Later, however, in the people’s minds, it is a distorted and transformed image. In particular, treating him as a typical failure of flood control, and even succeeding in flood control by Yu as a foil to his failure, made his image more ugly. A brief examination of the ancient books will lead us to find that the image of the man in his mind is not his original image. His offensive rules, the rules of nature, his disregard for the dignity of governing the flood are distorted. Therefore, this article would like to elaborate on the following questions: 鲧