Shan hai jing creatures1/8/2024 ![]() ![]() "Libro dei monti e dei mari (Shanhai jing): Cosmografia e mitologia nella Cina Antica." Venice: Marsilio. ^ Joseph Needham Ling Wang Gwei-Djen (1971).Shi Yi Ji ( 拾遺记) by Wang Jia - a 4th century work containing "apocryphal" versions of some of Shan Hai Jing stories. ![]() ChapterĬlassic of Regions Beyond the Seas: SouthĬlassic of Regions Beyond the Seas: NorthĬlassic of Regions Within the Seas: SouthĬlassic of Regions Within the Seas: North Chapter 4 has 12 subsections (次一), 2 and 4 have four, and chapters 1 and 3 have three. Aside from this self-published book, the hypothesis had been refuted by sinologists in the early 20th century. In the field of Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, one author, Henriette Mertz (1958) proposes that the Shan Hai Jing records ancient Chinese travels in the Americas, and associates the mythical Fusang with Mexico. Earlier Chinese scholars referred to it as a bestiary, but apparently assumed it was accurate. Generally, the book is considered to be a mythological classic. This account is a much more fanciful account than the depiction of him in the Classic of History. The account of him is in the last chapter, chapter 18, in the 2nd to last paragraph (roughly verse 40). The most famous ancient Chinese myth from this book is that of the ancient Chinese figures, such as Great Yu (大禹), who spent years trying to control the deluge. It contains many short myths, and most rarely exceed a paragraph. Each chapter follows roughly the same formula, and the whole book is repetitious in this way. Many descriptions are very mundane, and an equal number are fanciful or strange. The descriptions are usually of medicines, animals, and geological features. The book is not a narrative, as the "plot" involves detailed descriptions of locations in the cardinal directions of the Mountains, Regions Beyond Seas, Regions Within Seas, and Wilderness. Later Guo Pu, a scholar from the Western Jin, made a further annotation to it, including a few others. Its first known editor was Liu Xiang from the Western Han, who was connected to several works on Confucian classics. However, the consensus among modern Chinese scholars is that this book was not written at a single time by a single author, but rather by numerous people from the period of the Warring States to the beginning of the Han Dynasty. It was originally thought that mythical figures such as Yu the Great or Boyi wrote the book. The exact author of the book and the time it was written are still undetermined. ![]()
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