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Recently, when searching for Ji Xiaolan, I suddenly found that many creators were writing Ji Xiaolan to advocate banning the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and one of the important reasons was that the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" would seriously stimulate the curiosity of the people, and even said that the Classic of Mountains and Seas recorded the clouds of black people in Africa.
If the common people read this book, they would let everyone explore the world outside the Qing Dynasty, which would be extremely unfavorable to the rule of the Qing Dynasty, so Hu Jilan used his authority to compile the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book" to not only ban the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but also burned it clean...
As soon as this strange article came out, the readers were immediately shocked by one, and the author received extremely high traffic, so the manuscript washers took this topic as a model, and there were many plagiarists.
So is this really the case in history?
First of all, I, taking Shi Weijian's real name, oppose everything on the Internet in order to attract attention, and deliberately emphasize the claim that the Classic of Mountains and Seas was banned by the Qing Dynasty or burned by Ji Xiaolan. These are all nonsense made up by bad self-media people for traffic!
If you are interested in looking at the bibliography of the Siku Quanshu compiled and revised in the Qing Dynasty, you will find that the good end of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is listed in the sub-section of the "Siku Quanshu" and has not been banned at all.
According to the compilation of Yao Guanyuan in the Qing Dynasty, a total of 2,497 kinds of books were included in the compilation of the "Four Libraries and Complete Books", and there is no figure of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" in the "Qing Dynasty Forbidden Books", a reference book for studying the forbidden books of the Qing Dynasty.
Legend has it that the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which was "forbidden and destroyed", appears in the Siku Quanshu in a good manner.
In addition, let's look at the "Outline of the General Catalogue of the Four Libraries" for this "Forbidden Destruction" of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" in the mouth of netizens, but evaluate it as "the oldest of the novel", the full text is as follows:
The preface to the book describes the landscape and water, and many references are gods and monsters, so the Daozang is included in the Taixuanbu Jingzi number. In the final analysis, its original purpose is not the words of huang and old. However, the mountains and rivers in the Daoli are difficult to examine, the case is as far as the eyes and ears can see, and it is not true, and the families do not think that the crown of the geography book is also not allowed. Verify the name, in fact, the oldest of the novels. - Compendium of the General Bibliography of the Four Libraries - Volume 142 - Sub-Part Fifty-two
So has the Classic of Mountains and Seas been deleted in the end?
There is no ban, and there is definitely a deletion.
In the Siku Quanshu, he took the initiative to mention the deletion of pictures and citations of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. But this was not done by Ji Xiaolan, but by Wu Renchen, another Qing Dynasty scholar who was responsible for compiling and revising the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Wu Renchen himself recorded the reasons for deleting the Shanhai Jingtu and citing the bibliography in the Siku Quanshu - Guangdong Notes on the Classics of Mountains and Seas: "Therefore, only the annotations are recorded now, and the figures are deleted. More than 530 kinds of bibliographies are quoted in the forefront, mostly from books of the same kind, and the names are falsely displayed, and there is no triviality. ”
It turned out that Wu Renchen probably felt that the picture matched by the posterity was too fake, leaving only the text in the Classic of Mountains and Seas and deleting the pictures in it. In addition, there are more than 530 kinds of other book entries quoted in the book, which caused many bad experiences for readers when reading the book, so this part was deleted.
Dear netizens, let's see, in order to refute this false news, it took me more than 2 hours to painstakingly collect and view the information based on history, and I went through the photocopied version of the "Four Libraries Complete Book" and the "Qing Dynasty Forbidden Bibliography".
Please be sure to polish your eyes, do not believe some self-media people for traffic to write out a variety of appalling headlines and so-called popular science content without the slightest nutrition.
Ji Xiaolan's own "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" is full of all kinds of myths and ghosts, so why did he have to ban the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which was circulated from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty? As for Ji Xiaolan's belief that the people reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas will find Africa, broaden their horizons, and stimulate the rebellious thinking of the people, it should be known that as early as the Kangxi period, the Kangxi Emperor knew that the earth was round under the guidance of foreign missionaries.
In addition, the idea of letting the common people read the Classic of Mountains and Seas broadened their horizons was even more nonsense in the Qing Dynasty, which was closed to the country and most of the people were illiterate. Let's think about it, with the current convenient alternating conditions of airplanes and ships, how many Chinese people have been to Africa?
In the Internet era, all kinds of information mud and gold are sinking, I hope that everyone will polish their eyes, do not be deceived by some false information.
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