异彩纷呈的神话意象是新时期小说中的一道奇异的景观。在新时期之初的现实主义小说中神话意象是作为道德理性的化身出现的，80年代中期兴起的寻根小说中的神话意象则极力张扬了神话的原始思维方式，新潮小说中的神话意象则是作家超越现实的情感符号，近年来小说中的神话意象又淡化了象征特征而更注重与现实的交融渗透。 The colorful mythological image is a bizarre landscape in the new period novel. The mythological image appeared in the realistic novel at the beginning of the new era as an embodiment of moral rationality. The mythological image of the root-seeking novel which emerged in the mid-1980s strongly advocated the original way of thinking of the myth and the mythological image in the novel Writers surpass the emotional symbols of reality. In recent years, the mythological images in the novels have played down the symbolic features and paid more attention to the integration with reality.