The world's first impression of the "mountain",
Always rich and mysterious,
The products of the mountains are yinfu, as long as they can be used,
But only its species are diverse,
Mountainwalkers never know what they're going to encounter.
Recently, "Chinese Monsters" was launched by Chinese Tianxia.
In addition to the strange characteristics of the monster story itself, this book is centered on the monster, the content radiates to many fields such as history, biology, folklore, geography, archaeology, etc., revealing a large number of hidden information that has not yet been circulated, including the biological prototypes of the monster in nature (such as the monster and the real tribe, monster and the real creature), the real and bizarre influence of the monster on Chinese history, the customs that are generated by the monster and continue to this day, etc., with the curiosity of breaking the dimensional wall and refreshing cognition.
Excerpts:
Fragments of ancient books
In the early years of his life as a county lieutenant in Liangdang County,Shaanxi (present-day Longnan, Gansu), he used a cook, surnamed Zhang, who was born tall and tall, with long hands and feet, and had both human strength and a slightly strange image. Once, Zhang Cookzi helped people repair the roof, jumped down from the two-foot-high eaves, and if nothing happened, Lieutenant Tu Xian looked in his eyes, but he was scared out of a cold sweat - he was responsible for the county's arrest of thieves, if his own cook turned out to be a Jiangyang thief, it was really "thirty old women, upside down children", this crime of negligence, enough to ruin his future!
The cook's ancestral home is Sichuan, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the "Eight Kings" Zhang Xianzhong rebelled in Sichuan, the kingdom of Tianfu became a battlefield, zhou hui thousands of miles, there was no widow, survivors in order to survive, have hidden in the mountains. The cook's ancestors also followed the refugees to the Qionglai Mountains in Tibet, and once encountered an adventure when they went up the mountain to collect medicine, and inadvertently obtained a fragment of an ancient book and learned the art of "sniffing the wind". This technique specializes in identifying beasts in the upper wind from the wind, including numbers, types and distances, with the accuracy of witnessing, and the end of the divine test is incomparable. The ancestors of the Zhang family took advantage of this to hunt, and every harvest was extremely abundant, the father passed on to the son, the son passed on the grandson, and the subsequent generations relied on this magic to hunt in the mountains for a living.
A monster hidden in the mountains
When you enter the mountain, the mountains are stacked on top of each other, the mountains are heavy, and the terrain is indeed very dangerous. At the same time, the mountain was full of the breath of wild beasts, and Chef Zhang was greatly excited, which was simply a hunter's cave! There were too many prey, but he didn't know which one to track first, he ran east and west, did not feel that he traveled fifty miles, the sky was getting darker, and he saw a flash of red light on the high mountains more than ten miles ahead, followed by a fire dragon-like light that spread rapidly, and the light of the mountain was red in the blink of an eye, half a day was burning, and the sunset was eclipsed under the firelight. Chef Zhang was uncertain, not knowing what it was, if it was a fire in the mountains and forests, but it was not like it; if it was a human being, human beings acted so quickly? At this moment, a strange wind blew, Zhang Chef grabbed the wind and sniffed, only to feel that the breath in the wind was extremely powerful, and it was extremely strange, not only had he never met in his life, but even the ancient book of smelling wind that had been passed down from generation to generation and carried birds and beasts all over the world had not been included. For Zhang Cookzi, who was accustomed to identifying hundreds of beasts by his nose, such a change was really tantamount to suddenly being deaf and blind, staying in place for a while, and Zhang Huang was at a loss.
As the flames approached, Zhang Cookzi finally woke up, looked at the speed of the fire, turned to flee, it was too late, he hurriedly climbed a big tree, climbed straight to the top of the tree with a drum, hid his body through the dense branches and leaves, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the rolling fire.
Rumble and tremble, like a boulder rolling down, the fire forced to the tree, the heat wave raging, suffocating. Zhang Chef fixed his eyes on it, and in the light of the fire, there was a large stone stele wrapped in a height, the head of the stele was chiseled into the shape of a fierce tiger, and the flames of the roaring flames radiated out from the tiger's mouth and the tiger's eye, just like tens of thousands of torches burning in unison, and the candles shone for miles, and the momentum was amazing. But I don't know how the stone tablet caught fire, and why did it move on its own? ......
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Wu Bo
Photo/ Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng reporter: Wu Bo
Video/Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng Reporter: Wu Bo
Correspondent: Hua Wenxuan
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Dai Yujing