Besides ordinary animals, except dragons, eleven other zodiac animals, such as rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, snakes, horses, sheep and monkeys, have all appeared in Shan Hai Jing.
Give a simple example.
In Beishan Jing, there is a beast on Tianchi Mountain, which looks like a rabbit and has a mouse head. It is called flying squirrel because it flies on its back. This flying squirrel is a flying squirrel with a membrane between its limbs.
This paragraph is very straightforward. Flying squirrels are also called flying squirrels, and the descriptions are consistent. It looks like a rabbit with a mouse head and flies on its back, so it is a real animal.
Nanshan Jing is called Queshan Mountain, the first of Nanshan Jing. Its first name is the mountain of ostentation and extravagance. There is a beast, whose shape is as white as the ear, and pedestrians walk. Its name is "Hehe Hehe", and the food is easy to walk. Water from Li Ji flows out, while water from the west flows into the sea.
In fact, this white-eared rafter is here.
It looks like a monkey, but its ears are white. Many people guess from the pronunciation that it is an animal similar to an "orangutan", but it is not. When we see the photos and compare them with the descriptions in Shan Hai Jing, we can't help feeling the wonder of the past. It's just that this white-eared rafter mainly lives in Brazil.
However, it is said that when the Shang Dynasty perished, a remnant army of the Shang Dynasty crossed the Bering Strait and the American continent, thus leaving these records, which is unknown.
Let's see another one.
"Nanshan Jing" says that it is three hundred miles east, with mountains, plenty of water and no vegetation. There is a kind of fish, which looks like an ox and lives in a mausoleum. The snake has wings on its tail and feathers below, and it sounds like leaving an ox. Scorpion, dead in winter and born in summer, has no bulgy food.
This strange thing that looks like a cow and a fish and has two wings is actually it-South American manatee.
Since it is called a manatee, it looks like a cow. There is no objection to this. A snake's tail has wings and feathers below. Living in water for a long time, their forelimbs have evolved into fins. When the fins are spread out, they are like wings. And the position is also under the body. As for the snake's tail, the original lower limbs degenerated and merged with the tail to form a tail fin similar to the snake's tail. Moreover, manatees also live in fresh water. Therefore, it is normal to have records in Shan Hai Jing.
There are many animal records in Mountain Classic, most of which can be found in reality. So Mountain Classic is a real geography book.