The contents of Shan Hai Jing are mainly geographical knowledge in folklore, including mountains and rivers, Taoism, nationalities, products, medicines, sacrifices and witch doctors. It has preserved many famous ancient myths, legends and fables, including Kuafu's day by day, Goddess's mending the sky, Jingwei's reclamation and Dayu's harnessing the water.
In the case of underdeveloped ancient culture, science and technology and transportation, Shan Hai Jing is a wonderful book with the most myths recorded in China, and it is also an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge.
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Literary value
Shan Hai Jing is a magical book with various contents. It is rich in precious materials of geography, mythology, folklore, history of science, religion, ethnology, medicine and other disciplines. Its academic value involved many disciplines, and recorded a large number of natural geographical elements and human geographical contents in China at that time in an orderly way. If you study it carefully and discuss it deeply, you won't worry.
The literary value of Shan Hai Jing is rich and varied, which can be explored from many aspects. At least we can interpret and explore the literary value of Shan Hai Jing from the perspectives of the influence of mythical thinking (that is, primitive thinking) on the romantic literary creation tradition, the expression of primitive logic, the rich emotional experience in humanistic care, and the pragmatic aesthetic judgment.