The Classic of Mountains and Seas was written from the Warring States to the early Han Dynasty, and it is also called the three great ancient books together with the Book of Changes and Huangdi Neijing. Shan Hai Jing contains many contents such as ancient geography, history, mythology, astronomy, animals, plants, medicine, religion, anthropology, ethnology, oceanography and history of science and technology. It is an encyclopedia of ancient social life.
Shan Hai Jing shows the ancient culture, records the living conditions and people's ideological activities in the desert period, outlines the ancient civilization and cultural state, and provides a lot of useful information for later generations. Shan Hai Jing has eighteen volumes, about 31,000 words, which are mainly composed of mountain scenery and Hai Jing.
Brief introduction of Huangdi Neijing
Huangdi Neijing is divided into Lingshu and Suwen, which is the earliest medical classics in China and one of the four classic works of traditional medicine. Huangdi Neijing is a comprehensive medical work. On the basis of Huang theory, it establishes the theories of Yin-Yang, Five Elements, Pulse, Zangxiang, Meridian, Etiology and Pathogenesis, Disease and so on, and discusses medicine from a holistic perspective.
It presents a holistic medical model of nature, biology, psychology and society, and its basic material comes from the long-term observation of life phenomena, a lot of clinical practice and simple anatomical knowledge of ancient people in China. Huangdi Neijing laid the foundation of human physiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment. It is a medical work with great influence in China and is called the medical ancestor.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Shan Hai Jing