Although The Classic of Mountains and Seas is an ancient book about myths and legends, it has extremely precious documentary value and important reference value for us to trace back the ancient history of China.
After having a general understanding of Shan Hai Jing, let's go back to the problem itself. The horrible place recorded in Shan Hai Jing, which can be called purgatory, is actually called corpse mountain. About the corpse mountain, Shan Hai Jing is recorded like this:? (Lishan) Ten miles to the east, the corpse mountain is full of jade. There are many animals (sperm), and the corpse water flows out and flows into Luoshui in the south, among which there are many beautiful jade. ?
What does this passage mean? Listen to Mo Jun slowly.
It is said that ten miles east of Lishan, there is a mountain called Lion Mountain. In Shishan, white bones piled up into mountains and blood flowed everywhere, just like purgatory on earth. In Mo Jun's view, I'm afraid Shishan has experienced an unprecedented disaster.
After the disaster, many bodies appeared. These bodies are piling up like mountains. After a period of time, the surface of the corpse gradually rotted and became shapeless, becoming a corpse mountain, and the body fluids in the corpse gathered together and became a corpse river.
After the surrounding plants absorbed the corpse water, they took root and sprouted and became a corpse forest, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, and the longer they grew, the fiercer they became. At the same time, a creature called silver carp was attracted to corpse mountain. This creature looks like a deer, but it has a slender tail and two stomachs.
In order to survive, the silver carp must keep eating the fruit that grows in the corpse forest, so the silver carp eats the fruit and the fruit grows back, falling into an eternal cycle. In addition, because of the unfamiliar environment, strange changes have taken place in the corpse forest.
During the day, the corpse forest will become a stone forest of Bai Sensen. When night falls, the corpse forest will become another picture, and the weather has a great influence on the corpse forest. Once the weather is cloudy, the high corpse forest will wither because it can't be irrigated by corpse water, so the importance of corpse water is self-evident.
In addition, according to Shan Hai Jing, we also know that jadeite comes from Dead Mountain, so how important is this jadeite to silver carp? It's about life.
The fruit of the corpse forest contains toxicity, so long-term consumption of silver carp will accumulate a lot of toxins in the body. To dissolve this toxin, only by eating jade, so silver carp will eat at least one piece of jade every year in order to survive. But jadeite can't be found at any time, so when the demand exceeds the supply, silver carp will fight with each other, and the winner will dig out the jadeite in the loser's stomach to dissolve the toxin.
It can be seen from the above that silver carp feeds on the fruit of the corpse forest and relies on jade to dissolve its toxins. Without these things, silver carp will die, so for silver carp, they can only live on the corpse mountain and never dare to leave. In the long run, there are more and more bodies, everything is circulating, and the corpse mountain has become a real purgatory.