All along, we think that the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is just a myth and legend, the contents of which are made up by the ancients according to their imagination, where are there any ancient mythical beasts, and mysterious countries? However, after repeated archaeological confirmations, the content of this "Classic of Mountains and Seas" may really exist!
In the 1950s, an ancient site was discovered in Tai'an, Shandong Province, with more than 50 burial pits and tens of thousands of cultural relics such as bone, jade, pottery, stone tools, etc., of which archaeologists found many turtle shells in a tomb pit.
It is very common to say that turtle shells are found in this site, but what surprises experts is that this turtle shell is not an ordinary Chinese turtle shell, but a turtle shell called the dipal flat turtle, and archaeologists are surprised because this turtle we do not have in China, but are distributed on the American continent.
You know, 5,000 years ago, that is, in ancient times, people did not know that there were Americas, and it is necessary to know that Columbus only discovered the existence of the Americas in the 15th century.
At that time, we Chinese whether we had discovered the existence of the Americas, and if we did, how did we know that there was no advanced means of transportation?
The Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Great Wilderness of the East Has this record:
"In the northeast corner of the great wilderness, there is a mountain called the fierce plough mound. Ying Long is at the South Pole, killing You and Quao's father. "
Many scholars believe that the "fierce plough mound" should refer to the Guiana plateau in South America today, and the fierce pear is Suriname.
It just so happens that the time of this site coincides with the era of the Yellow Emperor recorded in the Shan Hai Jing, so some experts speculate that the Indians living in the Americas are most likely descendants of the Yellow Emperor.
Today's Western scholars believe that the origin of Chinese civilization is in the West, not in the East. According to the discovery of the site and the records in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, this American civilization and the world civilization are likely to have evolved from the Chinese civilization.
In 1928, Wu Jinding, a student at Tsinghua University, discovered a site in Longshan Town, Zhangqiu District, Jinan, Shandong. Today, the site is named the Chengziya Ruins.
The emergence of cultural relics at the Chengziya site has almost changed the "Chinese civilization in the west", the reason is that in the excavated cultural relics, there are inscriptions on them, and what is even more incredible is that among the excavated cultural relics, there are even many instrument types that were used until the end of the Qing Dynasty. Whether it is from the text or from the excavated cultural relics, it has broken the "Chinese civilization in the west".
In fact, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is not a pen and ink game that the ancients made out of nothing, but in fact, behind the seemingly bizarre story, it is actually real history.
It records a very rich content about ancient times such astronomy, geography, mythology, witchcraft, religion, property, folklore, medicine, and foreign countries.
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