Why do so many strange animals be described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas ? Is it real?

When it comes to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, everyone will naturally think of the weird animals inside, and at the same time, it also makes people wonder whether these strange animals are real, or what everyone imagines, but in fact, some of the animals in it are indeed real, but now they are extinct, just like dinosaurs, and everyone has never seen them.

In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it is also described that an animal is a baby fish, the sound of this fish is like a baby, and in fact, in reality, the baby fish is very similar to this kind of fish, and everyone will often see it, but now the baby fish and belong to the protected animals, in ancient times, some common words may be used to piece together the animals that are not common to everyone, so the description may have some deviations, and the description seems a little weird.

For example, the octopus is described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas as a poem and ten bodies, but in fact, imagine that this animal is still very similar to the common octopus in our reality, and the octopus usually lives in the sea, which may be difficult to see in ancient times.

In the era when the ancients lived, what was alive, no one knows, in fact, it is because experts have unearthed dinosaur fossils, everyone knows that there are these dinosaurs in ancient times, if there are no these discoveries, it may be difficult for everyone to imagine that such a huge animal will appear on the earth, so the strange beasts described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are also because of the problem of description, even if it is real. But because it became extinct or evolved, it became the current psychedelic state.

The Book of Mountains and Seas is indeed a very famous book, which has a lot of mythological stories, in addition to some unique and strange wild birds and beasts, I once thought that this was the imagination of the ancients, but in fact, in modern times, the animals recorded by the ancients are traceable, such as the anteater recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas, the book records that this pig will have the same claws as people, like to dig the ground, but in fact, this is very similar to the appearance of modern anteaters.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas is a geographical magazine, so someone should have swam the whole earth and drew some strange animals he saw. It's real.

It's not real, it may be everyone's fantasy, based on everyone's imagination, and it may be wonderful, so I recorded it.

It is because many of the animals in the Classic of Mountains and Seas have been witnessed by people and are real, and many people want future generations to know about them.

It is real, but due to the long time, geographical changes, and the fact that people at that time wrote very mythical about many things they didn't understand, the world of the Classic of Mountains and Seas looks particularly fantastical.

We know that the Classic of Mountains and Seas was compiled from the Warring States Period to the early and middle Han Dynasty, which is too far away from modern times. At first, it was thought of as a shikai.

Ancient books, and with the discovery of some strange animals in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, some people discovered that the Classic of Mountains and Seas is not a completely fictitious material.

The Book of Mountains and Seas records puffer fish and baby fish.

Parrots and other animals. Some of these animals are more anthropomorphic, while others are a combination of the characteristics of many other common animals. In the eyes of some, this is an impossible animal.

It is because of people's subjective thoughts that the Classic of Mountains and Seas is regarded as a strange material, and no one has really studied the animals that exist in it. With the gradual development of science and technology in modern times, some scholars have discovered that some of the animals recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are real.

The Classic of Mountains and SeasIt is an important ancient book of pre-Qin China, and it is also the oldest strange book rich in myths and legends. The author of the book is unknown, and modern scholars believe that it was not written at one time, and the author is not alone.

The version of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is complex, and the hand-me-down version has a total of 18 volumes, including 5 volumes of the "Classic of the Mountains" and 13 volumes of the "Classic of the Sea", and the age of each volume is inconclusive, of which 14 volumes are works of the Warring States Period and 4 volumes are works of the early years of the Western Han Dynasty.

It can be seen that the earliest version is Jin Guopu's "The Legend of Mountains and Seas".

But the title of the book "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is "Historical Records".

It is mentioned that the earliest purpose of the book included was "Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles".

As for its real author, the predecessors believed that it was Yu and Boyi, and it was edited by Liu Xiang and Liu Xin in the Western Han Dynasty to form a hand-me-down book.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas is realistic, and it records the Great Flood of ancient China.

Period data. The Classic of Mountains and Seas should be divided into three parts: five chapters of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, eight chapters of the Classic of the Sea, and five chapters of the Classic of Rhubarb. They correspond to before the flood, when the flood breaks out, and after the flood waters subside.

When reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas for the first time, many people's first reaction is that the world recorded in the book should be a plane, from the center to the periphery, that is, mountains, inland, overseas, wilderness.

However, paradoxically, we find the four overseas classics and the Great Wilderness.

A large number of stories and locations from the classics are repeated. According to statistics, the number of repetitions has reached more than 20 times. Usually, a place records it in the Four Classics overseas and then in the Great Yellow Sutra.

This part of the Shan Jing corresponds to the topography of the mountains and rivers before the Great Flood, and the reason why the ancients took great pains to collect this information was for divination, sacrifices, witch doctors, and other activities.

In addition, rare animals recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

Not necessarily a real animal, but a star in the sky or a totem that the locals believe in. Several stars are connected into constellations, and people imagine them as monsters based on their shape. When observation points, mountain peaks, and strange animals (constellations) appear in a straight line, significant events on the ground will be recorded by priests and used to guide future divination and rituals.

This is very unreasonable. In addition, the Yellow Emperor.

And other people's stories take place in the distant wilderness, which is unbelievable.

Some scholars have now compiled myths and stories from around the world and deduced that humanity experienced a terrible flood between 2,500 and 7,000 BC. The story of Dayu's water control happened to happen during this period. Therefore, the reasonable explanation for "sea" should be, global climate change.

Causing sea levels to rise.

The seawater flowed backwards, the original plain was inundated by the seawater, and the melting of the glaciers in the upper reaches of the Yellow River led to flooding, forming a large area of the Yellow Flood.

In this way, a large plain became a "sea". The "Four Classics of China" should record the areas affected by the disaster, and the "Four Classics of Overseas" should record the areas that were not affected by the disaster.

Yes, it's because art is the best thing about life, but there are many animals that have been eliminated in the process of evolution; This work was perfected and written by many people, and it tells mythological stories, as well as medicine, religion, democracy, etc., and it is not done by one person.

The main thing is to understand the background of the book at that time, and through the understanding of geographical knowledge, it added mystery to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and finally wrote this book. Some animals are real, and some are invented.

These creatures may just be some animals created through the imagination of the ancients, or they may be some real animals, but the way the drawings have been modified, so these creatures are strange.

These creatures must have existed, and if these were the imagination of the ancients, it could not be so clear, and it could not be so real, then they must have existed.

There are so many strange animals in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, these creatures have really existed, but we haven't seen them.

Now that the film and television industry is developing, more and more themes and stories are being applied to film and television works, among which the Legend of Xianxia is a more popular category. After all, creating on top of legends and stories allows screenwriters to use their imagination even more. But in fact, in addition to film and television works, there is also a book, which is also mentioned when we talk about myths and legends, that is, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", which is an ancient book, in which the content is all kinds of things and full of magic, especially the part of mythical beasts, which has aroused the reverie of countless people for thousands of years.

We know that there are some countries in the world that have their own mythological systems, such as the Greek mythology we are familiar with, Norse mythology, etc., and most of these myths are some folk records. In fact, even what is recorded in the Bible belongs to the mythological part. We also have many mythological characters in China, and the oldest ancient book about mythology is the "Classic of Mountains and Seas"!

The Classic of Mountains and Seas is an important ancient book of pre-Qin China, which records many well-known mythological stories, such as Jingwei reclamation, Kuafu chasing the sun, Chang'e running to the moon and so on. Not only that, but there are also many mythical beasts and animals recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

Since there are creatures like yaks, with similar names and almost identical appearances, it is only natural that there will be creatures that are completely different from what we understand. The reasons for this error are easy to understand. When we obtain information about a certain creature, the feeling brought by words, **, ** and the real thing is completely different, and it is precisely that "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" used to be a ** and lush ancient witch book, but the original ** painted in it has gradually been lost with the passage of time, therefore, modern people can only understand these strange beasts through words, which will inevitably cause errors.

This is not unfounded, first of all, with the development of science and technology, archaeology has more convenient conditions, experts have found a lot of fossils through excavation, after research, analysis, comparison, found that these ancient animals, and the mountains and seas recorded in this book are very similar, and there are some animals, and even now there are, for example, a kind of owl snake tail mentioned in the book, the animal that sleeps when you see people, it is the armadillo after research.

Yes. Because the strange animals described in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" do not exist, I think they are all imagined by the author.

Some are imaginary, and some are described according to actual species, indicating that many animals in the Classic of Mountains and Seas have changed according to reality.

These strange animals are not imagined by the author, these animals should have been seen by the author before, because these animals are not nonsensical, these animals are now extinct.

Most of the species in the Classic of Mountains and Seas have a practical basis. It can generally be divided into four categories:

1. The first category, like real animals, has not changed, such as consuming cattle, which is called "Niu" in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of the North Mountains": The Mountain of Panhou has a beast, its shape is like a cow, and the four sections are hairy, and the name is the cow.

Guo Pu Note: The back and knees of the ox and the tail of the beard have long hair.

2. The second category is the problem of how to Luo Yu due to the grammatical structure at that time. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of the North Mountains" records: The mountain of Chenming, the water flows out of the Yan, and the west flows into the river. Among them, there are many fish of Horo, one and ten bodies, and its sound is like a barking dog, and it has been carbuncle when eaten.

3. The third category is extinct species, or species that have left the vision of Chinese for some reason. The most typical of this is the armadillo. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Classic of the East Mountains, the Mountains of Yu'e":

There are beasts, its shape is like a bird beak, the owl eyes and snake tail, see people and sleep, the name armadillo, its song is self-praised, see the locust is defeated. And the existing armadillo lives in the Americas, and it was only during the Qing Dynasty that it re-entered the vision of the Chinese, so how can it be recorded in the ancient "Classic of Mountains and Seas"? If it is not a coincidence, it is that in ancient times the Chinese had contact with it.

4. The fourth category is the deification of existing species. Of course, it may also be extinct, such as the nine-tailed fox: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas".

The mountain of Qingqiu, there are beasts, its shape is like a fox and nine tails, its sound is like a baby, it can eat people, and the eater is not Gu. (The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Classic of the South Mountains), Qingqiu Country is in its north, and its fox is four-legged and nine-tailed. ”