"Shan Hai Jing" has been known as a marvelous book since ancient times, and has been recognized as a marvelous book since the Warring States Period to the early Han Dynasty. There are more than 450 gods recorded in the book, all with strange shapes and vast magical powers. It is the existing work that preserves the most ancient mythological materials, and it can be called a treasure house of ancient Chinese myths. The whole book has eighteen volumes, divided into two categories, "Shan Jing" and "Hai Jing", with about 31,000 words. The content of
covers a wide range, including geography, history, plants, animals, minerals, medicine, ghosts and gods, sacrifices, and tribes. Its author was originally titled Xia Yu and Boyi. In fact, it was not a one-time work, but a collective creation by many anonymous people. It was written about four thousand years ago, and it was written between two thousand and two thousand five hundred years ago.
"Shan Hai Jing" is simple in text, difficult to solve, loose in content, unsystematic, like broken gold and scattered jade, if it can be deciphered, it will be of great significance to the study of ancient Chinese history. At that time, people also hope to be able to crack the "Shan Hai Jing" book, which will make an immeasurable contribution to China and the world.
The contemporary scholar Mr. Ma Changyi, in order to restore the true face of the "Shan Hai Jing", provides readers and researchers with a real "Shan Hai Jing" atlas which is seen in ancient times and has value for appreciation, collection and academic research. He has worked hard for several years. Collected 10 kinds of ancient editions of the "Shan Hai Jing" in Ming and Qing Dynasties, found more than 2,000 pictures, and selected 1,000 of them, sorted out, examined, researched, and explained the "Ancient Mountain and Sea Jing Illustrated"
"Mountain and Sea" As an all-encompassing bizarre book, the book contains approximately 40 countries, 550 mountains, 300 waterways, more than 100 historical figures, and more than 400 poems involving mythology, geography, ethnicity, customs, species, etc. . However, there are different opinions on the authenticity of the things involved in the book.
When Sima Qian wrote the "Historical Records", he said that the content in "Shan Hai Jing" was too absurd and he dared not use it for reference. When the people of the Qing Dynasty compiled the "Si Ku Quan Shu", they also believed that the "Shan Hai Jing" was not true and included it in the category of novels.
However, some people have also found that some of the records can be consistent with reality. For example, the description of the locations of Penglai Mountain, Langyatai, and Huiji Mountain in the "East Longitude of the Mainland" is just like the real world. There is also a saying that the content recorded in the "Shan Hai Jing" is not limited to China, but encompasses the entire world.
Once there was a female scholar named Mertz. Through her own field investigation, she was surprised to find that the four mountain series recorded in the "East Mountain Jing", whether from the direction of the mountain range, the direction of the river, the animals and plants contained, or the distance between them, It coincides perfectly with the 4 mountain ranges in Midwestern America.
and the opening sentence of "The Great Desolation Eastern Classic" is "the great gully beyond the East China Sea", and the "big gully" refers to the American Grand Canyon. And the story of Houyi shooting the sun in the "Overseas Eastern Classic" can also find a corresponding. She found that the Indians also have the legend of ten suns, and Mexico also has the story of "bathing in Fusang Valley for ten days". There are many similar proofs for
, so Mertz believes that as early as 4200 years ago, the Chinese came to the Americas to conduct resource surveys. In response, she said with emotion: “For those resolute and fearless Chinese who drew maps of the snow-capped mountains four thousand years ago, we can only bow our heads and worship.”
