The Classic of Mountains and Seas is well known, what era was it created?

When it comes to "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", everyone is familiar with it. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is the ancestor of China's ancient mythological treasures and geographical chronicles, and its content is all-encompassing, but the author of the book and the age of the book are more difficult things.

The name "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was originally found in Sima Qian's "Historical Records: The Biography of Dawan Lie", but the author was not explained. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is an ancient document, and there is no physical object that can be confirmed underground, let alone facts that can be provided by insiders. We are only dealing with different versions of books.

The traditional threefold evidence method has failed here, or has failed to reach convincing conclusions. Therefore, there are many theories about the chronological examination or author examination of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

There are two Han Dynasty theories, there are Warring States theories, and there are generalized pre-Qin theories, and so on. Not only that, but more people believe that "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is not a one-time work, and it is likely to be the crystallization of collective wisdom if it is gained from generation to generation and gradually become a book.

First, the monsters and gods such as the nine-tailed fox and the human-faced bird-body god recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" are the totems of certain clans or tribes, reflecting the social life of the totem era. Its authors are either characters of the time, or materials handed down by people of that time, which are known to later generations and form a written text. Many people say that this information is "Mountains and Seas".

This is the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" first has a picture and then a text**. It is impossible to trace the origin of who drew this picture.

Second, many historical figures and events are recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". The names of Xia Qi, Xia Wei, Wuluo Shen, Cheng Tang and other characters faintly appear in the book, the country of the Western Zhou Dynasty (the original form of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the small Fang Kingdom of Yuer) and other national concepts, as well as historical events such as Yi Yin letting Taijia and Taijia sneaking out to kill Yi Yin.

The third is that Qu Yuan's "Tianwen" has a lot of the same content as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", and other articles are also similar. Therefore, some people believe that the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was created because of the "Chu Ci". For example, Zhu Xi said, "Most of the people who say "Tianwen" in ancient and modern times are all based on these two books ("Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Huainanzi"), and now they are examined by the meaning of the text, and they are suspected that these two books are all made because of the understanding of this "Q".

Therefore, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" should have been written in the Han Dynasty or later in the Wei and Jin dynasties.

From the above, it can be seen that there are different opinions about the age when the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was written, and there is no unified opinion. The inability to effectively verify the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is not only old enough, but also related to the resistance of Confucianism.

Confucianism advocates pragmatism, advocating not saying "strange forces and chaos", "respecting ghosts and gods and staying away", and the theory of gods and monsters is precisely an important content recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". Therefore, in the long historical period, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" did not receive the same treatment as other pre-Qin classics, resulting in the study of him has been in a corner of the shadow. It was only in the Qing Dynasty that studies of him sprung up, and this was more than 2,000 years later.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas is from the early years of the Warring States period to the Han Dynasty, and the authors are all Chu people from Chu; This book is all-encompassing, and can be called an encyclopedia of daily life at that time.

It should be the Warring States Period, because at that time, various schools of thought were in full bloom, there was no cultural blow, and the Classic of Mountains and Seas was a description of the world in which the ancient people lived, and it was also a vision for the future.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas is a pre-Qin classic, and the specific time of writing is no longer available. And the author is not allowed to know. It was generally written from the middle to late Warring States period to the early and middle Han Dynasty, and modern scholars believe that the book was not written at a time, and the author was not a single person.

The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" that is circulating now is du

Emperor Liu Xin of the Han Dynasty was in the sixth year of Jianping.

zhi (the first 6) Liu Xiu (i.e. Liu Daoxin) inherited his father's job as a "secretary", and found it when he was reviewing the secret books treasured by the court. Liu Xiu spoke highly of this book, and presented the "Thirty-two Chapters of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and now it is eighteen" to the imperial court. Since then, there have been manuscripts circulating in the world, a total of 18 volumes, divided into five volumes of the "Book of Mountains", eight volumes of the "Book of the Sea" and five volumes of the "Book of the Great Wilderness".