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The Classic of Mountains and Seas is the internal combustion engine of Chinese philosophical enlightenment, and it is not a pure mythological existence.
Illustration from Sugizawa's Classic of Mountains and Seas
The road map is from Xu Ke's vernacular color map "Classic of Mountains and Seas"
Big crab
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Hainei North Longitude
The national mountains and rivers recorded in the Hainei North Classic are roughly distributed in the Kunlun Mountains to the east, through Shaanxi and Hebei, and extend to the sea east of Korea.
Original text expansion
The Hai Nei Bei Jing records that "Liegu shot in Haihe Prefecture. The country of Shegu is in the middle of the sea, belonging to Liegu Shooting, and the southwest mountain ring. Big crabs in the sea. ”。
Vernacular:
Liegu is located on a mountainous area where the river meets the sea.
The kingdom of Shegu is an island in the middle of the sea and is subordinate to Liegu She. The southwestern part of the Shegu Kingdom is surrounded by high mountains.
Large crabs live in the sea.
Exegesis:
- Haehe Prefecture: present-day Korean Peninsula; It is said that the lower reaches of the North Han River on the present-day Korean Peninsula.
Big Crab:
- In the Qing Dynasty, the big crab in the eyes of the literati rioters
Qing Wang Fu, Guangxu Twenty-one Years (1895) Li Xuezhai printed "Shan Hai Jing Cun", the big crab from the portrait, there is no difference in hairy crab, but the historical commentary says that its volume is thousands of miles large.
Kiyoshi big crab
- The big crab is the pet of the female ugly
The Great Wilderness East Classic records: "There are two people in the sea, named Female Ugly. Female ugly have big crabs. ”。
This means that in the East China Sea, two people, one of whom is called the Female Ugly (and the other, which should be the text is missing), she has a huge crab.
- Some scholars have compared "big crab" with "Zhuangzi's Kunpeng", which is a bit inappropriate
The catchy "Kunpeng's back, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is", this is most people's impression of Kunpeng, putting aside the world's subjective idealistic view, only talking about Lao Tzu's thinking with "The Getaway" to the world, I summarized three points: "In addition to you and me, there is a vast nature in the world", "The gradual relationship between inaction and doing, there is a gradual relationship between doing nothing, there is a way to hinder the idleness, but it also creates conditions for the idleness, and finally realizes inaction", "There is a connection between everything in the world".
Kunpeng
Looking at the kunpeng's back, the author believes that Lao Tzu's intention is to pull the world's vision thousands of miles away, look down on the world and everything in the world, use spiritual wisdom to understand "heaven, earth, and people", and warn people to follow the nature of the Heavenly Dao.
Looking back at the big crab, the Shan Hai Jing's record of the big crab only gives a sentence of "the big crab is in the sea", and "the body is thousands of miles" This is actually a commentary of the later generations. The author believes that the author of the Classic of Mountains and Seas should not have the intention of Lao Tzu for Kunpeng, and the big crab is more likely to be a direct depiction of the vision, which refers to the fact that the big crab is very large.
Where the big crab is located:
According to the original text of the Shanhai Classic, the theoretical location of the giant crab should be today's Korean Peninsula or the lower reaches of the North Han River on the Korean Peninsula.
Hai Nei Four Classics and Hai Nei North Longitude
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Here, the basic information of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is sorted out and read in the form of a short film for everyone to read.
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