Mutual proof of ancient books

Shan Hai Jing is a wonderful ancient book written in the pre-Qin period, covering myths and legends, ancient astronomy and geography, and humanistic customs, and depicting a very chaotic ancient world to the world. For a long time, because the people, things and places described in Shan Hai Jing are so absurd, they have been listed as "absurd" collections by ministers in previous dynasties, so they cannot be registered in the academic hall. In modern times, with the vigorous development of archaeology, many places have unearthed the supernatural relics recorded in the book, which has made many scholars and experts sit up and take notice of Shan Hai Jing! One summer in the late 1970s, a heavy rain fell in Xichuan County, Henan Province. A local reservoir named Danjiangkou was flooded to relieve the flood, but a large underground grave was washed out on the beach. This is the famous Chu tomb in Xichuan in archaeological history. The owner of the tomb was a Chu nobleman in the Warring States period. The tomb pit is about 800 square meters. The archaeological team unearthed more than 5,000 precious ancient cultural relics such as bronzes, lacquerware and jade in the tomb. Among them, an exaggerated bronze beast with fierce appearance is particularly eye-catching. Bronze beast has a strange shape of dragon head, tiger neck, tiger body, tiger tail and turtle foot. On the whole, it is the shape of an eagle soaring, relaxed and powerful, full of animal patterns and moiré, full of turquoise, strange and full of fierceness. Archaeologists didn't know where this fierce beast came from at first, but later they found the answer by accident in Shan Hai Jing. "Shan Hai Jing Nan Shan Ji" records that "the water of Zegeng flows out and flows into the water in the south. There is a beast in the water called Fadiao. Its shape is like a carved horn, and its voice is like a baby's voice. It is cannibalism. " This refers to a kind of god beast named "Carving", which has carved horns, sounds like a baby and likes to eat people. The grotesque carvings of fierce beasts in Shan Hai Jing seem absurd, but they often appear in many later ancient books. Guo Pu, a geomantic master in the Western Jin Dynasty, mentioned in his book Tu Zan that "carved with horns, sounds like horns". Thousands of years later, Zhu, a writer in the Ming Dynasty, also recorded in his exegetical book Pianya that "carving is like carving, piercing a horn." Therefore, this ancient carving method of fierce beasts has been circulated in history for more than 2,000 years, as if it had been living around us! On the other hand, the bronze fierce beasts unearthed from the Chu tomb in Xichuan are not different from the ancient sculptures recorded in Shan Hai Jing in terms of shape and style, which should prove the strange fierce beasts in ancient legends. In fact, many ancient legends mostly have certain factual sources, which have become so absurd after people's polishing!