Is it possible that the animals of the Classic of Mountains and Seas have not left any traces after

Introduce you to an animal in the Book of Mountains and Seas, the tiger-eating beast - barge.

It appears on Zhongqu Mountain, which is the fourth meridian of the western meridian of the Mountains and Seas, and looks like a horse, but it has tiger-like teeth and claws, and a horn on its head, which is probably what it looks like below.

The special feature of this strange beast is that it specializes in feeding on tigers and leopards, and the tiger, the king of beasts, immediately becomes cowardly when he sees it.

Guanzi Xiaoxiang Chapter records a story about refutation is very famous, Huan Gong rode a horse, and the tiger looked at it and ambushed. Huan Gong asked Guan Zhong and said: "Today, the widow rides a horse, and the tiger sees the widow and does not dare to do it, why is it?"

Guan Zhong said: "The gentleman who intends to ride the barge horse and gallop recently? "Gong said:

Correct. Guan Zhong said: "This refutation of elephants is also a refutation of tigers and leopards, so the tigers are suspicious."

It means that one day when Qi Huan Gong was traveling on horseback, he encountered a tiger on the road, but the tiger looked at them from a distance and was so frightened that he fell to the ground and did not dare to approach. After coming back, Qi Huan Gong asked Guan Zhong what was going on. Guan Zhong asked

You must be riding that big horse and running against the sun, right? Qi Huan Gong said, "Yes."

Guan Zhong said: "This is because the situation at that time made your horse look like a barge, and the barge can eat tigers and leopards, so the tiger is so afraid." ”

Now I will analyze one possibility of refutation.

In the 60s of the last century, there were many people in the Shennongjia area who claimed to have seen a kind of wolf-headed beast, which was later called the donkey-headed wolf by the locals, and you will find a lot of information about the donkey-headed wolf, most of which are about the sightings of the donkey-headed wolf, and the scientific expedition team went to Shennongjia to find the record of the donkey-headed wolf, but like the Shennongjia savages, the real body of the donkey-headed wolf has not been really found until now. In 1987, Liu Minzhuang, an associate professor of the Department of Biology of East China Normal University, and others entered the Shennongjia area many times to investigate the donkey-headed wolf, but there was still no big gain. However, they believe that based on its morphological characteristics, the donkey-headed wolf is likely to be related to a class of claw-hoofed beasts millions of years ago.

This is possible because there are some animals that can be understood by the records of books after they become extinct, such as dinosaurs are images restored by modern technology and have not been seen in real life.

The animals that exist in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are likely to be animals that have left no traces after extinction, after all, the Classic of Mountains and Seas is a fantasy book. In these books, animals are depicted, art forms are added, and realism may be higher than reality, and it is not entirely fabricated out of thin air, and many animals have a basis for existence.

I don't think it's possible, these animals were all imagined by ancient people.

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.

Most of the species in the Classic of Mountains and Seas have a practical basis.

Generally, it can be divided into four categories: the first category, like real animals, has not changed, such as consuming cattle, called "Niu" in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of the North Mountains":

There are beasts in the mountain of Panhou, its shape is like a cow, and the four sections are hairy, and the name is a cow. "Guo Pu Note:"The cow's back, knees and beard tail have long hair.

The second category is the problem of how to Luo fish due to the grammatical structure of the time. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Classic of the North Mountains" records:"The mountain of Chenming, the water comes 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.

The third category is extinct species, or species that have left the Chinese's vision 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.

Whether the Chinese will go to the Americas or the armadillos will go to China is another question.

The fourth category is the apotheosis 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. "It's clearly an apotheosis of the fox.

But Mr. Li Tianfei verified that its prototype was actually a civet cat.

To sum up, it is normal that the species in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" have similarities with reality. After all, this is the result of the ancients' observation of the world. In fact, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is only one of the myths of China's vast sea of smoke, in the classics, in addition to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there are also "Taiping Guangji", "Sancai Tuhui", "Qing Barnyard Class Copy", etc., all record countless monsters.

But the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is the source. In general, the closer to modern times, the more realistic and credible the description of the creatures. The descriptions of living creatures in the Classic of Mountains and Seas reveal primitive traces everywhere.

This is actually a mythical imagination of living beings. This is still true even today. For example:

Cats have nine lives, dogs come rich, owls call ominous, and so on. It's just that as science evolves, these claims become less and less.

As for how these monsters behave, it's up to everyone.

Of course, it is true and very regular, for example, every time a strange beast is recorded, it must be indicated: the great drought, the great water, the strong wind, etc., are recorded in detail: "X water has monsters, X mountains have beasts, water is exhausted, its cities are full of water, there is no grass and trees, the world is full of water, and the red land is thousands of miles" and so on.

Let's put it this way: the great flood is generally mosquitoes, insects, fish, birds, finches, and the great drought is:

Rats, lizards (snakes), locusts, cows, sheep. Because insects lay eggs in the water, there are many insects in floods, and there are also many birds that eat insects; However, there is little grass in drought, cattle and sheep roam the fields, there are many rats lacking grain, and there are many snakes that eat rats. As in economics, supply determines demand.

In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the six-legged and eight-legged are basically insects. When it comes to "birds", it means "wind and rain", including the famous "winged birds"; And the "drought god", whether it is one-eyed (maybe a pattern) or whatever, is a "horned" cow and sheep. There are basically no exceptions.

"Because the thinking of the ancients was much simpler than that of today's people, what was recorded was basically seeing was believing. "The first is the inference error back.

The ancients were limited to the technical ability of the time, their ability to observe things was backward due to the low level of productivity, and their way of understanding was not objective and materialistic compared with modern scientific research, so what they saw was not necessarily believing, or the observations of the ancients could not be used as evidence for inferences in the present without processing. Second, if there really is extraterrestrial life in the world, and they have mastered advanced biotechnology, then they will realize how dangerous it is to introduce other organisms into a relatively closed biosphere, which could lead to the destruction of the original biosphere. Even with our current biotechnology, we know about "invasive alien species" and legislate for it.

Aliens can't be so ignorant.

There is no clear answer to who wrote the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but experts can be sure that the Classic of Mountains and Seas was not written by one person, but by different people at different times. You can see its shadow in the animals now!

Fake. In the Book of Mountains and Seas, it is always said that what can happen to this animal and plant after eating, and what can be done with its skin, but how did the original author know this? Could it be that the streets were full of these exotic beasts at that time?

The Book of Mountains and Seas as a manuscript of strange books, now do not know the age of this book, the geographical information is more accurate, but the animals described in it are very grotesque, and there is no modern archaeological evidence, so it can be considered that the myth "West Mountain through the head of Huashan, said the mountain of money, on which there are many pines, and there are many stones under it." There is a beast, its shape is like a sheep and a horse's tail, the name is a sheep, and its fat can be waxed.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Copy" records: The mountain of qin and drum is white and rhino.

What is a white rhino? Du "Erya" explains that "rhino, like a pig." "Nanzhou Foreign Objects Chronicle" dao explained: "The rhino is as big as an elephant, black in color, with a head like a porcupine, and is also herbivorous."

Jiaozhou Ji explains that "its hair is like a pig, its hooves are three, its head is like a horse, it has a triangle, the upper horn of the nose is long, and the upper angle of the forehead is short." "The animal is similar in appearance to a cow or an elephant, with a pig's head, a large belly, small feet, three hooves, and two horns, one of which is on the nose. According to the above description, modern people have basically identified the rhinoceros as the rhinoceros.

The world is so big that it never exists.

Come to the source of the all-knowing. One thing, which was originally a reality, was a story after being spread by people, became history after a long time, and then turned into a myth after a long time. Thousands of years later, it is almost impossible to see reality through mythology.

But even so, it is a pleasure to try to discover reality in mythology. The animals described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are real.

Lu Xun believes that "the book of witches and scholars". Most scholars now believe that the Classic of Mountains and Seas is an early and valuable work of geography. So is "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" really just an absurd ancient book? The exotic beasts described in the book are all fictional.

"Mountains and Seas Complex Sutra" records: beasts make many camels, good deeds in the quicksand, three bai hundred miles a day, and a thousand catties. What is a camel?

Zhi "Hou Zhou Shu" dao explained, "Its wind is coming, but the old camel knows it, that is, it prescribs and gathers, and buries its mouth in the sand." When a man thinks he is waiting, he hugs his nose and mouth with a felt. "Ye Zhongji" explains that "it is like a horse, one zhang long, one zhang high, feet like an ox, two feet long at the tail, and a ridge like a saddle."

The Alien Garden explains: "Water comes out of its abdomen. to take it with iron and gold, and with the hand, even if it is right; Those who are full of gourds will get it. ”

What is this animal that predicts the coming of a sandstorm, has a tall body, a saddle-like ridge, is thirst-resistant, and can provide drinking water in times of crisis?

True true false false bai, false false true true, will exist du and imaginary shengzhi

Objects are written in the same edition with imaginary dao and embellishments.

In a book, it took thousands of years to become the right to this book of mountains and seas. Just like when we were children, who would have thought that the curly-haired lion on the stone platform and the Simba on the African savannah were creatures, even if it was a real animal like the platypus, and some people who met it for the first time thought that it was a fake animal.

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There are many rare beasts recorded, and most of them are real. Because people's imagination must be based on reality, even if the content in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is absurd, it is also based on reality to do a certain amount of artistic processing. Many of these animals are no longer available today because they are so old that some animals are changing with the environment, while others may not be able to adapt to the environment and are already extinct.

But there are still many animals that still exist today. In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", it is mentioned that "Dangkang" is said to be like a pig and has fangs. This is actually today's warthog, in Africa.

The warthog is a type of wild boar with a large head that can occupy up to a third of its body, looks strange, and has sparse hairs on its body.

An animal recorded in the Nanshan Sutra is called a raccoon, saying that it is a kind of divine beast, mainly because it knows what happened in the past, but it can't ** the future, a bit like today's fortune teller. Its most striking feature is that it has a pair of white ears and is able to stand up and walk. According to research, this animal is what we call the Yunnan golden snub-nosed monkey, located in Yunnan, which just matches the direction recorded in the "Nanshan Sutra".

It is also recorded that the baby fish, the characteristics are too obvious, the voice is like a baby crying, there are four legs, it is obvious that it is today's baby fish. Parrots are also recorded in the "Xishan Sutra", "green feathers and red beaks" are green feathers, red beaks, "human tongues can speak", can learn people to speak, this look is a parrot.

There are also many animals in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that have been confirmed, but many of them are located in what is now Africa, and the earliest humans also originated in Africa. Therefore, some scholars believe that the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is a record of migration from Africa. However, this statement still has to be proven.