Shan Hai Jing is a book that records ancient myths, geography, plants, animals, minerals, products, witchcraft, religion, medicine, folk customs and nationalities in China, and reflects all kinds of cultural phenomena. Besides preserving rich mythological materials, it also involves many academic fields, such as philosophy, aesthetics, religion, history, geography, astronomy, meteorology, medicine, animals, plants, minerals, folklore, ethnology, geology, oceanography, psychology, anthropology and so on. It can be said that Wang Yang is a vast place, just like the sea and the sun. In the case of underdeveloped ancient culture, science and technology and transportation, Shan Hai Jing is a wonderful book with the most myths recorded in China, and it is also an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge.
(2) From the early Warring States to the early Han Dynasty, Chu people and Bashu people did it. Modern China scholars generally believe that Shan Hai Jing was not written in a short time, and the author was not alone. It is an ancient fantastic flower, and some people think it is an ancient landscape. They were edited by Liu Xiang and Liu Xin in the Western Han Dynasty.
(3) The book 18, and the Mountain Classics is a group of five articles, focusing on mountains and rivers in all directions, and the narrative content includes ancient history, vegetation, birds and animals, myths, religions, etc. According to the orientation order of south, west, north, east and middle, each article is divided into several sections, and the previous section and the latter section are connected by related sentences, which makes the relationship between the sections very clear.
(4) Overseas Classics in the Sea Classics are grouped into five chapters, which mainly record the peculiar features of overseas countries; There are five chapters in Haineijing, which mainly records the magical things in the sea, and five chapters in Yejing, which mainly records many important mythological materials related to Huangdi, Nuwa and Dayu, reflecting the heroic spirit of the Chinese nation. The organizational structure of each group on the sea classics has its own beginning and end, running through it, with an outline and a purpose. In addition to geographical location, it also records the appearance and style of people from distant countries. 18 Haineijing is a summary of the geographical situation of Shanhaijing, which summarizes the geographical division, mountain system, water system and development zone distribution of China. Crop production; The invention of the well; Musical instrument production; National migration; River basin development and the basic pattern of Chinese mainland's stable development.
⑤ The Classic of Mountains and Seas records about 40 countries, 550 mountains, 300 waterways, 100 historical figures and more than 400 kinds of monsters. Books usually record these things one by one according to the region. Most of the recorded things started from the south (wild classics started from the east, so some scholars think that the orientation order of south, west, north and east is the same as that of ancient times, so wild classics started from the east, which may be revised and adjusted by later generations), then went west, then went north, and finally reached the central part of the mainland (Kyushu). Kyushu is surrounded by China's East Sea, West Sea, South China Sea and North Sea. In ancient China, The Classic of Mountains and Seas has always been regarded as a historical book and a necessary reference book for China historians. Because it has been written for a long time, even when Sima Qian wrote historical records, he thought, "I dare not say anything about Yu Benji and the monsters in Shan Hai Jing." It is of great reference value to the study of ancient history, geography, plants, animals, culture, transportation, folk customs and myths. There are always different opinions about the geographical scope and related facts involved in Shan Hai Jing. Many scholars believe that it is a documentary record after a national geographical survey, some of which can be determined, such as the Yellow River, Weihe River and Huashan Mountain. Their geographical location is generally consistent with reality. In fact, even the Five Zang Mountain Scriptures do not conform to the overall pattern and the actual mountains and rivers. So far, no one has been able to combine these mountains and rivers convincingly. However, some of the mountains and rivers described in the Five Zang Mountain Classics exist, especially the mountains in the Zhongshan Classics. The Five Tibetan Mountain Classics (Mountain Classics) was originally based on some real mountains and rivers, but in the barren polar regions, there is nothing we can do, and we can only make it up by imagination.