These include animals, seashore plants, and even some legendary visions, forming a "sea map". In addition to recording biological appearance, Nie Huang also looked through ancient books for textual research. Therefore, every picture in "Sea Mistake Map" is accompanied by a text introduction of biological habits, food chain, legends, local chronicles and even cooking methods.
Brief Introduction of Nautical Mistakes Notes
The book Haicuotu records in detail more than 300 species of creatures along the coast and its nearby beaches in the Qing Dynasty. The Map of the Sea Mistakes contains four books, three of which are collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and the other is in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
The Annotation of Sea Miscellaneous Pictures adopts the classification method of China's traditional cursive script, and divides the creatures in the book into four categories, namely fungi, Lepidoptera, insects and poultry, so as to show how the ancients classified the creatures. There are popular science about marine life, textual research in old paper piles, and anecdotes about China people and the sea.