随着PC互联网的发展，网络玄幻小说从萌芽发展至较为成熟阶段。网络作家群体开始尝试将中国传统文化融入玄幻小说中，形成独具中华特色的东方网络玄幻小说。而神话与中国文化从古至今都有着千丝万缕的联系，网络玄幻小说作为文化的衍生产物与神话间的联系亦是不可忽视的。

    本文共分为四个部分。第一部分明确本文中网络玄幻小说的定义，追溯中国玄幻小说的发展历程，梳理神话与玄幻小说的关系。第二部分对玄幻小说中的神话元素进行溯源，并总结玄幻小说中对神话元素的借用与建构。第三部分从神话的叙事视角与时空观两方面概括中国神话的叙事特点以及玄幻小说对中国神话叙事特点的借鉴与发展。第四部分综合以上内容对玄幻小说对中国传统文化精神的传承与发展进行分析。

    通过对网络玄幻小说中的中国神话元素探析可以发现，中国古典神话随着时间的推移已经深深的印烙在民族记忆中，并成为现代文学创作充足的灵感来源。网络玄幻小说对中国上古神话的借鉴与重构不仅填补了自身文化缺陷，同时获得了强大的文化背景支撑。而其奇幻虚构的小说特质为传统文化注入了新的生命力。

With the development of the PC Internet, online fantasy novels have grown from a bud to a more mature stage. The group of online writers has begun to try to integrate Chinese traditional culture into fantasy novels, and form an oriental network fantasy novel with Chinese characteristics. Mythology and Chinese culture have been inextricably linked from ancient times to the present. The connection between the Internet fantasy novel as a derivative of culture and mythology cannot be ignored.

This article is divided into four parts. The first part clarifies the definition of online fantasy novels in this article, traces the development of Chinese fantasy novels, and sorts out the relationship between myths and fantasy novels. The second part traces the source of mythological elements in fantasy novels, and summarizes the borrowing and construction of mythical elements in fantasy novels. The third part summarizes the narrative characteristics of Chinese myth and the reference and development of Chinese mythological narrative characteristics from the perspectives of myth and narrative. The fourth part summarizes the above contents to analyze the inheritance and development of Chinese traditional cultural spirit in fantasy novels.