Shan Hai Jing is an ancient book of China in the pre-Qin period. Generally speaking, it mainly describes ancient myths, geography, products, witchcraft, religion, ancient history, medicine, folk customs, nationalities and so on.
There are eighteen volumes of Shan Hai Jing, including five volumes of Shan Hai Jing, eight volumes of Hai Jing, four volumes of Huang Da Jing and one volume of Hai Nei Jing, with about 365,438+0,000 words. Recorded 100 information about geography, customs, products and other countries, 550 mountains, 300 waterways, and the scenery of various countries.
The Relationship between Shan Hai Jing and Painting
First there are pictures, then there are words. Scholars of past dynasties are full of imagination about the formation process of Shan Hai Jing. The ancient Classic of Mountains and Seas has been brought into the fields of sociology and astronomy, and this infinite flexible space seems to explain the vast territory of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
The magical and magnificent pictures of mountains and seas show us the image world in the minds of China's primitive ancestors. These images are typical of China people in modeling, imagination and performance, primitive and rough, exaggerated and grotesque, straightforward and naive, full of wildness.
China people use these images to express their understanding of the relationship between heaven and earth, communicate with heaven and earth, coordinate with nature, and talk with landscape creatures, retaining a lot of original thinking patterns and charm.
Shan Hai Jing is a wonderful book.
When we open the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the first thing that catches people's eyes are grotesque gods, monsters, animals and plants. It is said that these monsters also have supernatural functions to predict good and bad luck.
These unrealistic contents appear in the basic structural form of Shan Hai Jing, which is called "natural geography and human geography", so it looks strange and the ancients did not pay attention to it.
The Lost "Book of Heaven"
Shan Hai Jing has been called a wonderful book since ancient times. Scholars either use it to test geography or discuss myths, but what the world talks about is nothing more than the magical and distant monsters.
A "heavenly book" that has had a great influence on China people's world outlook.
Before the Ming Dynasty, only Guo Pu in the Eastern Jin Dynasty made a serious study and annotation on it, but there were still many "unknown things" characters waiting for later generations to decipher.
Rediscovering Shan Hai Jing
This book is about Machamp's Chaos, which is not a serious book in the eyes of today's scholars, and its status and influence can't be compared with the Confucian Six Classics and a hundred schools of thought contend. It is precisely because of the aura of the six Confucian Classics and a hundred schools of thought that people look back at history, which largely conceals the inner glory of a large number of classics, including Shan Hai Jing, and many of them even gradually disappear from our ideological field of vision forever.
The influence of The Classic of Mountains and Seas on ancient thoughts and academics mainly stems from the foundation of China's ancient world outlook and way of thinking by its knowledge of time and space.
Up to now, the academic circles in China are far from realizing the value of Shan Hai Jing. Shan Hai Jing is like a treasure map left by our ancestors, waiting for us to rediscover it.