Why didn t Sima Qian dare to comment on The Classic of Mountains and Seas ?

The main reason why Sima Qian did not dare to comment on the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was that the emperor Jun in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was the orthodox deity, which was in line with the mainstream thinking at that time - Liu Bang, as a descendant of Emperor Yan, was the orthodox heir to the throne.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas records ancient legends, but also records our humanities, is a multi-ethnic integration, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people still think so, so there will be a hundred schools of thought, rather than the same line.

There are all kinds of magical stories in it, which can help people enrich their imagination, increase their knowledge, understand a lot of animals and plants in it, and know a lot of rare and exotic beasts that we have not seen, which is very helpful for us to enrich our horizons.

If you look at the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" from the perspective of history and culture. Then its impact on modern people is more like ancient myths and legends, because the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is not like ordinary historical documents, is it real? There is a lot of controversy in society.

But in fact, the various rare beasts recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" are unlikely to really exist, so it is said that "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". For modern people, it is more like an ancient myth and legend full of mystery.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas is an encyclopedia of ancient social life with many contents about ancient geography, history, mythology, astronomy, animals, plants, medicine, religion, anthropology, ethnology, oceanography and the history of science and technology. Carry it.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas shows the ancient culture, records the living conditions and people's ideological activities during the Great Wilderness period, outlines the civilization and cultural status of the ancient period, and provides a lot of useful information for future generations.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is not necessarily true, but the recording process of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is serious, that is to say, the distortion in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is not a matter of attitude, but of ability.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas was first written by a group of witches and compiled by Liu Xin of the Western Han Dynasty, and some of its records are parallel to the pre-Qin Confucian exposition of ancient legends, and the perspectives and concepts of the two are very different, which leads ancient scholars who regard Confucianism as orthodox as heresy and reject it.

Liu Xin also recognized the value contained in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and the Jin people were also keen to interpret the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", but in later generations, it was completely reduced to a grotesque small book, and became an enlightenment book for cultivating children's imagination, and it may be that it is this need that has preserved the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" to this day.

The creatures in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that have been confirmed to be real.

One, porcupine. Porcupine is called "Hao Bi" in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", Bi is actually the meaning of pig, so Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's nickname is called "Liu Zhu", but in ancient times pigs were not used to scold people, because meat was scarce in ancient times, so calling you a pig is to praise you for being rich, it can be seen that modern people call two pigs or something, in ancient times it was a very heroic name.

The description of Hao Yu in the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Classic of the West Mountains is quite detailed and vivid, saying that Hao Yu is shaped like a pig, is white, the hair on his body is particularly long, as long as a hairpin, and the tail end of the hair is black.

Second, parrots. The Parrot is described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Classic of the West Mountains:

Yellow Mountain, no grass and trees, many bamboo arrows. Looking forward to the water coming out, the west flow is poured into the red water, which is full of jade. There is a beast, its shape is like a cow, and the black eyes, its shape is called, green feathers and red beak, the human tongue can speak, and the name is a parrot.

Among the existing pre-Qin classics, there is a strange book that has always been talked about, this book is "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". As can be seen from the name of this book, the main content of this book is to record the geography of mountains and rivers in Kyushu, China, etc., in fact, it is true, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is mainly divided into the Book of Mountains, the Book of the Sea and the Book of the Great Wilderness. Among them, the sea is subdivided into the sea and the overseas, and the Great Wilderness is also divided into east, west, north and south according to different directions.

The number of words in this book is not much, a total of more than 30,000 words, which is not comparable to the millions of words of the popular Internet fantasy**. However, it is just over 30,000 words that describe a magical and huge world. In this world, there are all kinds of mountains, rivers, religions and cultures, and there are many records of strange people and strange things.

Reading the whole book, what is presented in front of people's eyes is a colorful and mythical world.

For a long time, people have been confused about what is described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The content of the book is obvious and very absurd, but after reading it, people always have an inexplicable feeling of familiarity, as if the world described in the book has some connection with the real world. AncientPeople often classify "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" as a strange **, but there are also some people who classify "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" as a history book.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, when Ji Xiaolan presided over the compilation of the "Siku Quanshu", scholars at that time generally believed that the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" "talked about gods and monsters, and there was no truth", and believed that this book should not be classified as a historical book, but it could be called the first pioneering work.

What the ancients felt when they read the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is probably difficult for modern people to understand, because the ancients lived in different times and had different cognitions of all things in the world. Therefore, the ancients regarded the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" as a strange **, and some regarded the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" as a history book. However, when modern people read the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", they often have unexpected feelings about some of the contents of the book, and it is difficult to believe that the book was written by people thousands of years ago.

MountainThe reason why "The Book of the Sea" is called a strange book is that in addition to the various magical myths and stories in the book, there are also many incredible magical animals recorded。For example, the Queen Mother of the West, the Queen Mother of the West in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, is a half-human, half-god divine beast that lives in Yushan, and this Queen Mother of the West looks similar to a human, but has the tail of a leopard and the teeth of a tiger. As can be seen from the book, this Queen Mother of the West is a half-human, half-beast monster, but after the Wei and Jin dynasties, it gradually evolved into the head of the fairy in Taoist mythology.

As a historian, of course, you can't touch the weird lightly. The history of mankind is recorded in hundreds of thousands of years and millions of years. The round sky and the round place are the earliest cosmology of the Chinese nation.

The theory of human land plate drift confirms that the land on the earth was once integrated, so the content of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" relates to China and other than China. Although the Classic of Mountains and Seas was written later than the Book of Changes, the accumulation of its understanding may be earlier than the formation of Yi, and it also follows the cosmic pattern of the round sky and the round place. The limitations of the ancients' understanding are so strange that their books are strange.

Since it is a book with Chinese characters, the author is of course Chinese.

Sima Qian is a person who has been tortured by the palace, he will not be afraid of death, and the reason why he does not dare to write Di Jun in the historical records is because if the humanities that record us are two, or even multi-ethnic integration, I am afraid that the "Historical Records" would have been destroyed long ago and would not have been passed down to this day. But Sima Qian was not reconciled, the reason why he said that sentence was to let future generations pay attention to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

Because this is a book that describes strange creatures in detail, there are no mistakes, so Sima Qian didn't dare.

These are not what worries Sima Qian, because he is a historian, he simply doesn't care about the stories of Zhiwei, what really worries him is the appearance of a great god, and this great god is Di Jun.

He was afraid that the emperor would confiscate him! It's all the psychological shadow of Qin Shi Huang who is making a mistake, building the Great Wall one by one to prevent future troubles and resist violence! Because he himself is the commander of the army.

Because he didn't think it was necessary, there was nothing worth evaluating about the content in it, it was not a fact.

Because Sima Qian was a historian, he would not be interested in these mythological and bizarre ramblings.

It's not that there's any secret, it's that Sima Qian thinks the thinking in it is too advanced.

Many of the stories in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are prehistoric civilizations......These prehistoric civilizations were passed down orally from generation to generation, and some gradually changed ...... in the course of transmissionI believe that Sima Qian can understand a lot, but now people understand less. Because the concepts of ancient and modern times are gradually changing.

Now the historical records that have been circulated have been officially processed are no longer the original historical records.

Would you like to ask Mr. Kim Sung-si?

Pig, you are a pig, will people talk to you?

It's not that he doesn't dare to evaluate, but as a historian, he doesn't know how to figure out whether these things are true or not.

Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty was the first to put forward and said: "Therefore, the mountains and rivers of Kyushu are close to the "Book of Shang"; To all the monsters in "Yu Benji" and "Classic of Mountains and Seas", Yu dare not speak. Guo Pu, who was the first to annotate the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", said:

Those who read the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" in the world are all known for their strange and strange words, and there is no doubt about it. Tao Yuanming read the poem "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" in the sentence: "Jingwei Yuwei will fill the sea" and "Praise the father's birthday ambition, is to race with the sun" sentence, all of which regard the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" as a book of mythological stories.

Because the animals and the world's mountains and landforms described in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" are fundamentally different from our own, people can't understand them at all.

Because the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is a classical Chinese, the classical Chinese is obscure and difficult to understand.

The level of social productivity is not high, and the four treasures of the study room used for writing are expensive, so they have developed the habit of cherishing ink like gold and are unwilling to write one more word casually. However, the current version of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" has more than 31,000 characters, why did the ancients write books that have no practical use? You know, it's often said in the book"Three hundred miles to the east"or"Seven hundred miles to the west"If it is used in the local science book, such a large vacancy cannot be used to arrange the army and build water conservancy.

The so-called myths in the book are often a dozen or so words to dozens of words, and at most they are a mythological catalog, which cannot be actually used. It is impossible for the ancients to short-circuit everyone's nerves, and they should have their own legitimate purpose in writing books under such conditions, but what they wrote should not be geography books or mythological books. In short, whatever is written in the book should serve the purpose for which it was written.

Confucius and Sima Qian didn't even have a dictionary, so they had to admit that they didn't understand the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", so one was "silent and strange", and the other "didn't dare to speak". They follow the style of "knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing". From Guo Pu to Bi Yuan, there is insufficient archaeological data, and it is understandable not to understand the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

Contemporary people have abundant reference materials and archaeological objects, but they will only crawl around in the circle drawn by the ancients, and they have never thought of taking a step beyond the thunder pool, which is too unproductive.

The progress of world culture has benefited from Chinese culture; The cessation of human progress was affected by the Han culture. Here, I will illustrate the phenomenon of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu's "Shangshan and Haijing Table" shows that the style of study of "knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing" has been obviously abandoned, and the style of "not knowing and being right" has become popular.

This kind of culture has developed to the present day, and Mr. Yuan Ke, an authority on the study of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", actually admitted in the same article that he did not fully understand the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and then said that he could translate and explain it to the people of the world. Such a blatant "dimness makes people known" is the result of the dregs propagated by Han culture.

Not knowing the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is a trivial matter; Not understanding the difference between Han culture and Chinese culture is a big deal. I can only feel sad about the performance of the humanities.

When Sima Qian wrote the "Historical Records", he referred to a lot of ancient books, but his attitude towards the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was: "Yu dare not speak". In fact, even modern and contemporary people can't understand the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and always feel that "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is a book full of various myths and ghosts.

In Lu Xun's article "A Chang and the Classic of Mountains and Seas", even Lu Xun thought that the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was a record of ghosts. It can be seen that "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is a difficult book to read, even in modern and contemporary times, it is still at a loss. Then, it was even more difficult for Sima Qian to study what the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was talking about at that time, so he would say "Yu dare not speak".

In fact, it is normal that "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is difficult to read. First of all, the completion of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was not achieved overnight, but was continuously written and compiled by successive generations. Secondly, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" can not be read directly, but to be read by classification, according to the "Classic of Mountains", "The Book of the Sea" and "The Book of Waste" is not enough, when reading, it is best to use the southeast, northwest and northwest to classify.

Nowadays, scholars have discovered a lot of the value of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and some scholars have also used interdisciplinary methods such as folklore and astronomy to verify that the scope of the "Great Wilderness Classic" is about today's Shandong Province, and believe that the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is an ancient naturalist, and the study of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" has been written into a "Lost Book of Heaven".

In ancient times, the Classic of Mountains and Seas was a particularly mysterious existence, some people said that he was ridiculous, and some people said that he was real, and Sima Qian did not know much about the Classic of Mountains and Seas, so he did not dare to judge.

Sima Qian wrote the historical records because they were written in the historical context of the time, and the Classic of Mountains and Seas was a product of Sima Qian's precedent.

Because the story in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is too bizarre and has no credibility. And it describes a lot of mythological characters that are different from the mainstream Chinese legends, and there are conflicts of faith, so they are abandoned.