Shan Hai Jing is a book about Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio in ancient China, which was generally written by Chu or Bashu people from the middle and late Warring States period to the early Hanzhong period. It is also a fantastic book. The author of this book is unknown. This absurdity is really reasonable, and it seems to most authors to be divorced from reality, because everyone has never seen it.

In addition, the author is unknown, but there are ancient records that "the curious people in the Warring States took the biography, and the miscellaneous books, columns, Lisao, Jincheng were all successful." Because this book is a long time ago, it is estimated that it has been changed a lot by later generations. The ancients said that the author was human. He collected strange things from other books, sorted them out by himself and wrote this book. Modern scholars believe that it is the continuous progress of different people in different times that has become what it is now. There are different views, but it has no effect on our reading. Let's just ignore it

Shan Hai Jing handed down from ancient times is short, with less than 32,000 words, including Shan Jing and Hai Jing. Mountain sutra is divided into five parts: Nanshan Sutra, Xishan Sutra, Beishan Sutra, Dongshan Sutra and Zhongshan Sutra, so it is also called Wuzang Mountain Sutra.

Sea crystals are divided into overseas crystals, domestic crystals and wild crystals. There are other subcategories below, so I won't list them one by one. It is worth mentioning that the chapter structure of Shan Hai Jing is different. Except for the following five chapters of Yejing, its orientation development sequence is not the usual east, south, west and north, but the south, west, north and east that violate the normal laws. Because some authors are southerners, there is a saying that the south is respected.

Perhaps the most important value of Shan Hai Jing is that it preserves a large number of myths and legends, which are familiar to us, such as Kuafu's daily life, jingwei's land reclamation, the nine-day war, and the flood control by Yu, and many others are unfamiliar to people. These myths and legends in Shan Hai Jing are precious materials for us to study primitive religions today. For example, Wuxian is in the north of the ugly girl, with a green snake in his right hand and a red snake in his left. In Deng Baoshan, witches' houses go from top to bottom.

The myths and legends in Shan Hai Jing are not only myths and legends, but also history to some extent. Although their authenticity is greatly reduced because of their strong mythical color, they have left a shadow of history after all. Shan Hai Jing is also a history of science and technology, which not only records the creative inventions and scientific practice activities of ancient scientists, but also reflects the scientific thinking at that time and the scientific and technological level that has been reached. For example, regarding agricultural production, Wild Sea Neijing records that "Hou Ji began to broadcast a hundred species" and "Uncle began to broadcast in Niu Geng".

Through the above analysis of the structure, content and value of Shan Hai Jing, it is not difficult to see that it is indeed a wonderful book. That kind of imagination is really a big brain hole. Anyway, I don't know what the author saw before I can write this book. I think my imagination is amazing. I can't find a reason anyway.