Do you think the animals in The Classic of Mountains and Seas are real?

The Classic of Mountains and Seas is true. Whether it is animal or geographical, mineral, mythical, it is a documentary record. The Classic of Mountains and Seas is not a mythological book, but an ancient tool book.

It is a record of the natural state of the earth and the state of human civilization over a long period of time. Probably from the end of the Ice Age. The records of the Classic of Mountains and Seas do not come from fishing, hunting and farming tribes at all, and it is obvious that it is a booklet left over after a large cross-era survey and record compilation project initiated by a high civilization, and it has been passed down for many years to form a later era of writing.

There are two kinds of animals in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: one is a realistic animal, and the other is an abstract totem made of animals. The latter reflects the wisdom of the ancients, but we do not understand it in modern times.

The human-faced monster in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is a totem, not a creature that exists in the real world! The human face, which means that it has a relationship with people, can be said to be a combination of humans and animals. This has to do with the worship of animals in ancient times, if a certain clan worships a certain animal, they will combine this animal with the human face and use her as the totem of their clan!

It can be seen that so many human-faced monsters in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" are all totems. For example, in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas": Di people, in Jianmuxi, the face of the human face and the body of the fish.

How to understand? There are no such creatures in the world, but she reminds us of an important artifact of Yangshao culture: a human-faced fish body pattern basin.

How consistent is the record of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" with the archaeological discovery of the human-faced fish body pattern basin! This shows two points: one is that the totem of Shiqiang is"The image of a human face and a fish body.

The second is that Yangshao culture was created by the Qiang people!

Personally, I believe that in ancient societies, human migration activities were frequent, and the scope of activities was mostly cross-regional. At that time, there was no state formation, it was a primitive tribal society. At that time, there was no written word, and people lived a life of oral transmission.

People from different regions, including those who originally lived in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas, have been in a neighborly exchange for hundreds of years (for example, people living in Africa have passed on to people in Europe, people in Europe have passed on to people in Asia, people in Asia have passed on to people living on the continent of China, and people in the Americas have passed on from neighbor to neighbor, and eventually to their ancestors living on the land of China). With the memory knowledge passed down by word of mouth, I have in my mind the memory of the geography of the mountains and rivers of several continents, the people and animals, and the customs and customs. This memory has been passed on orally to the next generation for many years, and some even draw the knowledge they heard on the walls of the original cave in the form of pictures, which becomes cave paintings. When there was writing and better writing carriers, such as bamboo slips, some people began to sort out these historical legends and stories, and recorded the contents in words and drawings.

In this way, the "Chart of Mountains and Seas" and the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" were formed.

The Book of Mountains and Seas is a record of some ancient stories, in the eyes of some people are some exaggerated mythical beasts, but there are also some records that can be found in our lives, maybe you will say that some do not exist, which we have nothing to verify, because some may have existed before, and now they are extinct, so they cannot be completely denied. Stories seem to us to be myths, unverified.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas is about the species of the whole world, mountains around the world, and animals, seas, and later the continental plate drifted and the continents separated, not that there are people who study the Classic of Mountains and Seas according to the Classics of Mountains and Seas to calculate the latitude of foreign mountain ranges, the height is the same as the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and there are also animals like the Classic of Mountains and Seas found abroad, and there are also animals handed down from the Classic of Mountains and Seas in China to find a lot of good!

Some of the strange beasts mentioned in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" are a kind of animal totems created by people at that time. People combine the characteristics of various animals to create a new non-existent animal, which is believed and worshipped as a totem, like a dragon.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas is a strange book that records the ancient world, which has been circulated for more than 2,000 years and is a household name in the Chinese world. Its content is rich and colorful, all-encompassing, including geography, history, mythology, religion, ethnicity, products, medicine, etc., and is an "encyclopedia" about the prehistoric era.

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 regarded as an ancient book of Zhiwei, but after some strange animals in the Classic of Mountains and Seas were discovered, some people discovered that the Classic of Mountains and Seas was not a completely fictional material.

The Book of Mountains and Seas records animals such as pufferfish, baby fish, and parrots. 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 Seas 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.

Now it can be seen that the earliest version is Jin Guopu's "The Legend of Mountains and Seas". However, the title of the book "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is mentioned in the "Historical Records", and the earliest book included is "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.