Folk cultural images originate from ancient legends and their related religious rites. They are the vehicles of the existence situation of the primitive people and their ways of thinking.

民间文化意象源自古老的神话传说及与之相关的宗教仪式，它们承载着原始先民的生存状态、原始信仰和观物运思方式。

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The essay is a study of the possible relevance of the heroine in George Eliot's Middlemarch to the virgin-martyrs in religious myth legends.

乔治·艾略特丰富的神话底蕴在《米德尔马契：外省生活研究》女主人公形象上有所映照。

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They were mostly religious stories or local village legends.

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His patient and tender attention to local habits, traditions, and lore the production of a newspaper, the ubiquitous blare of a radio station, the religious pageantry, and the legends of a long-ago crime merges with a sociological view of cultural change, as well as a painterly eye for the surrounding landscape.

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