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"Classic of Mountains and Seas", as a famous zhiwei ancient book in china, we have no way to verify who its author is, modern scholars believe that the book is not a moment, the book is not a person, the version we see now is actually edited by Liu Xiang and Liu Xin, you can say that it is a "geography book", because it records a large number of mountains and rivers, according to statistics, a total of 606 mountains, 264 waterways originate from these mountains or pass through, you can also say that it is a "zhiwei book" - Because there are more than 400 kinds of strange monsters depicted in the book, including winning fish, poor qi, tengu, fox, fat, etc., as a masterpiece of extremely high literary value in China, these mythical beasts recorded in the book, in fact, each of them has his own unique background and significance, and also provides a lot of valuable inspiration for the creation of modern novels or film and television dramas.
In ancient times, due to the ancestors' incomplete understanding of the environment and life, coupled with a very harsh living environment, many people hoped to obtain magical powers. Based on what they saw in nature and their personal understanding, the ancestors fantasized that they could have fish fins and swim in the water like a fish; Imagine that you can have sharp tiger claws and brave hunting ability, and you can dominate the forest like a tiger. But because he did not have such an ability, he worshipped these animals and deified them with his own imagination, merging what he saw and imagined into concrete images and vivid mythological stories. Through the passage of time, people began to strengthen their physical abilities, improve their consciousness, and affirm themselves, and gradually tried to merge their own images with the gods.
Original hunting chart
The sacred beasts in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are very creative, and they actually have a high reference significance for contemporary imaginative modeling design. For example, the cute little Huba in the movie "Catch the Demon", its prototype is taken from the divine beast "Di Jiang" in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", for the description of Di Jiang, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is said: "There is a god, its shape is like a yellow sac, red as a Dan fire, six feet and four wings, Hun Dun has no face, it is a song and dance, but the Emperor Jiang is also." "Translated into the vernacular text, the meaning is like this, there are divine beasts, the body is like a skin bag, the body is red, there are six claws and four wings, there is no facial features, but it can sing and dance, this is the Emperor River. In addition, there is also a familiar film and television image, the nine-tailed fox, the description of the nine-tailed fox, the overseas East Classic is described as "the country of green hills, there are foxes, nine tails", "fox" as an indispensable image in literature and film and television dramas, but also often used by creators as a projection of carrying the desires of the heart and the expression of self.
Huba
Although some of the images of the divine beasts in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" seem absurd, some of the divine beasts recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" are consistent with the characteristics of the animals that exist today, so some people will speculate that the sacred beasts recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" are not empty, but have a certain basis, and there are many sacred beasts that we have not discovered now, such as dragons and phoenixes, so whether they really exist or have become extinct after the changes of the times, which is also a topic that people have been constantly exploring and studying.
Chicken killing diagram
The phoenix is an important role in the book "Classic of Mountains and Seas", with eye-catching characteristics such as "singing and dancing from oneself", "accompanying the emperor left and right", "colorful and texting", "wen with virtue", and "wearing snakes and practicing snakes". Its "self-singing and dancing" action is probably the embodiment of the concept of the phoenix inspiring its wings and sounding for a long time, which produces an atmosphere, which has a very ancient origin and has a certain relationship with the bird bone flute of The Wuyang Jia Lake 8,000 years ago; Its identity as "accompanying the emperor around" is the embodiment of the concept of ancestor worship, which has undergone a series of changes in turn, such as being a lower-level imperial envoy in the Shang Dynasty, a symbol of the Mandate of Heaven in the early Zhou Dynasty, and a soul messenger in the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period; Its characteristics of "Five Cai And Wen" and "Wen Yi Zai De" are closely related to the Zhou people's liturgical music culture, "Wu Cai And Wen" embodies the Zhou people's values of "Zhao Wen Cai, Don't Be Noble, Distinguish and Other Columns", and "Wen Yi Zai De" is the manifestation of emphasizing moral values in the Spring and Autumn And Warring States Period; The image of "wearing snakes and practicing snakes" is in line with the Chu people's funerary cultural concepts, showing distinct regional characteristics of the times, and this point involves the regionality of the mountains and seas through the sacred beasts.
The Phoenix Dragon guides the soul to ascend to heaven
In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, each region has different sacred beasts, for example: the four major sacred beasts in the Nanshan Sutra are the Fox, the Deer Shu, the Class, and the Deer Pond. The Western Mountain Sutra Divine Beasts include sheep, canals, fat, cattle, etc., so the Sacred Beasts of the Classic of Mountains and Seas were originally classified according to the region in which they existed.
Schematic diagram of part of the West Ichigo Route
The divine beasts in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are quite strange in shape, imaginative and varied in style, and they are full of infinite desire and worship for the imaginary abilities, as well as thinking about life. Through the image of the divine beast in the book, we can feel how the ancestors have gradually obtained self-knowledge, cognition of living things, and cognition of nature in the long historical years. You can also feel the admiration and exclamation of the primitive world.
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