When was Shan Hai Jing written? Why do some people say that it does not belong to any era?

Shan Hai Jing can be said to be a wonderful book in ancient China, and no one dares to say that he really understands Shan Hai Jing.

A, "Shan Hai Jing" China's first wonderful book.

Some people say that this is a book of divination, which is about spiritual communication with ghosts. Some people think that this is a geography book, which is about the geography of mountains and rivers in China, while the Catalogue of Sikuquanshu regards him as a novelist's book, and Lu Xun's A Brief History of Chinese Novels thinks it is? Ancient witch's book? , tells the story of ancient mythology.

Shan Hai Jing, as the first large-scale geographical work describing mountains, rivers, products and customs in China, is also the first collection of myths and legends. Is it really the first wonderful book in China, and it is called Gu together with The Book of Changes and Huangdi Neijing? San Xuan? , has always been a confusing outlier.

Shan Hai Jing describes the ancient world with mountains as the classics and the sea as the dimension. Here? Classic? Experienced, experienced.

There are 18 articles in the book. They are: 5 mountain classics; 9 articles of Hai Jing; There are four articles in the Famine Classic.

Second, the mystery of Shan Hai Jing

Sima Qian first mentioned the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and his Historical Records also mentioned the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but he thought that the creatures in it were too absurd to be used as a reference when making history. Obviously, this book appeared before the Han Dynasty.

Liu Xin, the first person in the Western Han Dynasty to sort out the Classic of Mountains and Seas, believes that this book was produced in the Yao Shunyu era, which divided the world into Kyushu. The Classic of Mountains and Seas tells about local customs and strange things.

However, this seemingly most credible statement has been criticized and overturned by modern experts.

1. Many place names in Shan Hai Jing appeared after Qin Dynasty, such as Changsha.

Volume 18 "Haineijing" says:? The hill of southern Cangwu is the deep of Cangwu, among which Jiuyi Mountain and Shunzhi are buried in Lingling boundary of Changsha. ? Changsha is one of the thirty-six counties set by Qin Shihuang.

2. The Classic of Mountains and Seas records Zhou Wenwang and events in the Spring and Autumn Period. If you were born in the era of Yao, Shun and Yu, it is obviously impossible to mention it.

Besides, it is mentioned in the Wild Classic:? Northern Qi State, surnamed Jiang.

This is the origin of Jiang Taigong's establishment of Qi. Unless the author is from the Spring and Autumn Period, it can only be explained by time travel.

In view of this, most scholars believe that Shan Hai Jing should have been born in the Spring and Autumn Period, not earlier, or Zhou Dynasty.

3. Many legends after Zhou Dynasty are recorded in the book.

More importantly, when it comes to iron, we should know that bronze was the main tool until the Spring and Autumn Period, and cast iron technology was not really mastered until the late Warring States Period.

There are many similarities between Shan Hai Jing and Tian Wen written by Qu Yuan, such as Yu Yi's flood control and Kunlun Mountain.

Therefore, modern research believes that The Classic of Mountains and Seas was written in the Spring and Autumn Period, and with the development of the times, it was continuously expanded and supplemented by later generations. Formed today's version.

Third, the "Shan Hai Jing" points.

Generally speaking, it mainly describes ancient myths, geography, products, witchcraft, religion, ancient history, medicine, folk customs, nationalities and so on. Some scholars believe that Shan Hai Jing is not only a myth, but also an ancient geography, including some overseas mountains, rivers, birds and animals.

There is a book, Shan Hai Jing Wisdom, which contains many interesting ideas and speculations. The author thinks? The description in Mountain Classic is simple and credible, which can be called a work of geo-rationality. And Hai Jing and Huang Jing are ridiculous, aren't they? .

1, Shanjing

1) ancestors lacked vocabulary, so they had to choose known creatures instead of descriptions.

So it caused a lot of incomprehensible analogies and patchwork.

For example, people with skin diseases seem to have scales on their bodies, but they don't? Scale? This word can only be used? Dragons, fish, snakes? These scaly animals are compared. so this is it？ Head and fish? Monster.

For example, there are animals in books? Winter came back from the dead? In fact, it is what we now call hibernation.

For example, think of insects as birds and beasts. They don't have the concept of insects, and they will classify slender winged creatures such as stick insects as snakes or birds. So there are many books about? Six feet and four wings? Description of animals.

Wait, a false start? 、? Can human tongues talk? 、? Face fish? Decathlon? Is understandable.

Deification is our imagination and inertial thinking.

2) A large number of gene mutations or environmental and nutritional factors? Three songs, six eyes, six feet and three wings? ,? Kyubi no Youko four ears? ,? Nine-headed bird? ,? Two-headed snake

From 65438 to 0995, there was a carved frog in rivers and wetlands in Minnesota, USA, and the deformed individual reached 75%.

There are many real news reports around us, including conjoined cats, four-legged ducks, three-legged frogs, two-headed snakes and hermaphroditic polar bears.

3) unexplained strange age.

Mountain Classic should be a record of large-scale new species, mutant organisms and various unexplained monsters at the end of the fourth ice age.

For example,? Is there water and no vegetation in the mountains? Long-haired rhinos that have been extinct for tens of thousands of years, as well as armadillos unique to America.

Perhaps the geography has changed greatly, the crust moves frequently or volcanoes erupt, and a large number of animals and plants have become extinct. All these are showing us an era with different geology, climate and environment that can't be explained so far.

2. About Hai Jing and Huang Jing.

Hai Jing and Huang Jing are describing ancient paintings. This book should have been written after Yan Xia, because it mentioned Xia Qi. Domestic classics, overseas classics and wild classics are three different versions interpreted by three generations of scholars.

For example, if modern people are asked to interpret a mural with eternal mystery, they will definitely not make up stories for no reason, but will consult classic materials. But in fact, murals are just simple lines, and we may regard them as far-fetched evidence of the existence of some legend.

The ancients also had different understandings of pictures. So there are differences in the process of describing the picture, and the later book corrects the previous classic content.

Therefore, the stories in Hai Jing and Huang Jing are incredible and full of contradictions.

For example, we are familiar with the story of Kuafu. Overseas classics say that Kuafu died of thirst, while unofficial history classics say that Kuafu was killed by Ying Long (Ying Long killed Chiyou and Kuafu).