Shan Hai Jing is a book that records ancient myths, geography, plants, animals, minerals, products, witchcraft, religion, medicine, folk customs and nationalities in China, and reflects all kinds of cultural phenomena. Besides preserving rich mythological materials, it also involves many academic fields, such as philosophy, aesthetics, religion, history, geography, astronomy, meteorology, medicine, animals, plants, minerals, folklore, ethnology, geology, oceanography, psychology, anthropology and so on. It can be said that Wang Yang is a vast place.
Chu Ci experienced Qu Yuan's creation, imitation after Qu Yuan's submission, collection in early Han Dynasty and collection by Liu Xiang. This book should have been written between 26 BC and 6 BC.
The original meaning of "Songs of the South" refers to the songs of the South, but it has gradually been fixed into two meanings: one is the genre of poetry, and the other is the name of the collection of poems (which also represents the literature of the South to some extent). The writing techniques of Chu Ci are romantic, passionate and imaginative, with strong local characteristics and mythical colors of Chu State.
Huainanzi (also known as Huainan and Liu) is a philosophical work written collectively by Liu An, King of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, and his disciples.
Huainanzi recorded 2 1 articles in the book, and there were 33 articles in the book, including Taoist discourses and miscellaneous sayings. This book has twenty-one articles. Mainly based on Taoist thought, it combines Confucianism, law, yin and yang. , and generally listed Huai Nan Zi as a saint. In fact, this book is the representative work of Huang Lao's research theory system, which is guided by Taoism and absorbed hundreds of theories from the Warring States to the early Han Dynasty. In explaining philosophy, Huainanzi refers to strange things and ghosts and gods, and retains some mythological materials, such as Goddess Mending the Heaven, Shooting the Sun in Houyi, Anger of Workers Can't Touch the Surrounding Mountains, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon and Dayu Governing the Water, which are mainly circulated in this book.