Illustrations are shown as for Sugizawa's "Watching mountains and seas".
The road map shows Xu Ke's vernacular color map "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > vernacular:</h1>
Four hundred and twenty miles to the northwest, there is a mountain called Zhongshan. The son of the god Zhongshan mountain is called the drum, and the drum has a human face and the body of a dragon, and he once joined forces with the god Qin Qi to kill the god Baojiang in the south of Kunlun Mountain, so the Heavenly Emperor killed the drum and the Qin Jie in a place called a cliff east of Zhong Shan. After the death of Chin, it transformed into a large harrier, shaped like an ordinary eagle but with black markings and a white head, a red mouth and tiger-like claws, and a sound like a morning crane chirping, and as soon as it appeared, there was a big war; after the drum died, it turned into a harrier, shaped like a general harrier eagle, but with red feet and a straight mouth, the body was yellow markings and the head was white, and the sound was very similar to the chirping of the bird, where it appeared, there would be drought.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >Notation:</h1>
The God of Bell Mountain: Candle Yin, also known as Candle Dragon, also known as Candle Nine Yin.
Osprey (è): Also called osprey.
Morning Crane: Birds such as osprey eagles.
Hú :also known as the Hoof, i.e. swan.
YI: This refers to a place where people live together.
Pī (pī): A god in ancient mythology and legend, who looks like a human-faced beast.
Kunlun Sun: Yang, the direction of the rising sun, that is, the south of kunlun mountain.
Baojiang: that is, Zu Jiang, Yuan Ke's "Chinese Mythology Slang Words Filled in" is recorded.
Emperor: One refers to the Yellow Emperor or the Yan Emperor; the other refers to the Heavenly Emperor.
Kill (lù): Kill.
Also: This refers to the meaning of "after death" carving.
Bird (jǔn): Shaped like an owl.
Chī: Eagle eagle.
Mt. (mì): In early November 2003, the Chinese Ancient Capital Society and the Henan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Society held the "Yellow Emperor Ancient Capital Xuanyuanqiu Demonstration Meeting" in Xinmi City. Conclusion, this inference of The Mountain in The New Secret.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > drum:</h1>
Fierce - the main direction of attack, military science (the initiator of war); feng shui (drought).
The original text records: "The drum also transformed into a bird, and its shape is like an eagle", so the drum died as a harrier eagle.
Harrier Hawk
Also, about chin's image after death:
The original text records: "Its shape is like a carving and the black text is white.". The appearance (except for the tail) resembles an eagle. "Its sound is like a morning crane", and Qin Qi's cry resembles that of a morning crane" "Ke Lu - Ke Li - Ke Li".
carve
Personal inference, drumming war and drought labels in one mythical beast. In the place of Zhongshan, there may be perennial drought, plus tribal conflicts were common in those days. So the drum should be a microcosm of the real living environment of the tribe located in Zhongshan.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Zhongshan:</h1>
Unknown, the specifics have yet to be examined.
One said that it is the northwest of present-day Dai County, Shanxi.
The Huainan Zi records: "The candle dragon is in the north of Yanmen, hidden in the mountain of Wei Yu, and does not see the sun, and its god, the human face dragon body, is not full." ”。 The candle dragon is the god of Zhongshan, and Yanmen is explained in the Huainanzi as in the northwest of present-day Dai County, Shanxi.
Road map of the Three Classics of the Western Dynasty