"Haiyan" means "Guixu". Legend has it that there is an eye in the South my country Sea, which is so deep that even all the water in the world cannot fill it.
Corresponding to the towering Kunlun Mountains that lead directly to heaven in the west, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Eastern Classic of Wilderness" records that there is a bottomless valley in the vast sea "east of the Bohai Sea". It has a very symbolic name: "Guixu". According to mythology, all the rivers in the world and the universe, and even the water in the Milky Way in the sky, eventually converge into this primitive and mysterious bottomless hole. But the magical water in Guixu does not increase or decrease at all because of this, because it connects the upper universe (the emperor's hometown and the residence of the Emperor of Heaven). In the dual worldview of the ancient witchcraft family, the metaphysical world where the emperor lives is True, the physical world is unreal. If we talk about the opposition between reality and illusion, the physical world is illusion. The ancient meaning of the word "zhen" is that the physical world is unreal) and the heart of the middle universe (the earth). Guixu and Kunlun are located in the east and west of the Central Plains respectively. This sharp contrast is really amazing. Their symbolic meaning is not entirely clear to us today. In fact, their explanations are currently mostly topographical, and have yet to be explored from the perspective of ancient China’s primitive soul. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" mentions the existence of "the country of Shaohao" ("The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness East" records: "Beyond the East China Sea, there is a great valley, the country of Shaohao, the Confucian Emperor Zhuanxu of Shaohao abandoned his harp and harp. There is Ganshan Mountain) "Gan Yuan is born, and sweet water comes out." "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Dahuang Nan Jing" writes: "Beyond the southeast sea, between the sweet water, there is the country of Xihe. There is a woman named Xihe, the wife of Emperor Jun, who gave birth to Xihe. On the tenth day, Fang bathed in Gan Yuan." Guo Pu, a native of Jin Dynasty, said in his annotation for "Ganyuan" in "The Book of Mountains and Seas": "When water accumulates, it forms a deep water.") Shaohao is mainly from the Oriental Yiren Bird Totem Tribe. The king of birds, but his godhead is complex and changeable. He has elements of both the "Golden God" and the "Poseidon". (According to legend, Huang E, the mother of the God Shaohao, met the "Son of the White Emperor" (the White Emperor was the God of Gold) on the vast sea of ??poverty. They "floated on the sea" and "wandered forgetting to return". He lived a life that was both transcendent and mundane, and as a result he gave birth to Shaohao (see Volume 1 of Wang Jia's "Shi Yi Ji" of Jin Dynasty)
The God of Gold is located in the west, while the God of Poseidon is located in the east. Here, the duality of Shaohao's divine personality has been revealed. These dualities are also reflected in the names of mythological places: the word "Xu" for "Kunlun Ruins" and "Guixu" have opposite meanings. "Daqiuye" is consistent with the ruins of Kunlun, but the ruins also have the meaning of "big valley" (see "Kangxi Dictionary"). These dualities and even multiplicities are the origin of ancient Chinese mythology. From the words to the prose, from the plot to the general characteristics of the characters
Written in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Taoist Liezi's "Liezi Tang Wen" has a more detailed and richer original mythology and witchcraft about Guixu. Records of cultural color. According to this report, Guixu is located in the east of the Bohai Sea. With the wings of even more strange myths, it floats beyond the horizon of "hundreds of millions of miles" to the east of the Bohai Sea (still under the jurisdiction of the emperor). Range). In the bottomless sea in the far east, there are "five sacred mountains": "Daiyu (Daiyu)", "Yuanqiao", "Fanghu", "Yingzhou" and "Penglai". It goes up and down for 30,000 miles, and the mountains are 70,000 miles apart. The flat top of each mountain is 9,000 miles away. Is this a human scene?
"The terraces and temples on it are all gold and jade, and the animals on them are all pure." Onyx. The pearls (gan) trees are all in clusters, the flowers (flowers) are all delicious, and those who eat them will not grow old or die." This is a "heaven" that is more hierarchical and freer than the Western-style "heaven". "Dongtian Blessed Land". Here, all the "residents" are the species of "holy immortals". They fly across the sea and fly between the mountains every day and communicate freely. There is also a story about their lives. A dramatic story: It is said that in ancient times, these five fairy mountains were independent of each other, each with no foundation. They floated on the ocean, "often going up and down with the waves." This state is similar to the situation of our earth in space. It is surprisingly consistent. In addition to the general meaning of mirage, does this also mean that the ancient people had a spiritual intuition that penetrated the surface of human beings?
According to pre-Qin records, one day, residents Tired of the uncertainty of the general environment, they collectively complained to the supreme god of the universe, "Emperor" (this title had been seen in literature as early as the Yin Dynasty), for fear that the sacred mountains in the eastern part of the universe would move to the "Western Pole" and break the universe. To make the residents of the sacred mountain lose their homes, they sent Yu Qiang, the god of the North Sea with a human face and a bird body (Yu Qiang's bird body indicates his Dongyi origins, which is consistent with the oriental elements of the god Shaohao). ) divided the fifteen giant turtles into five groups and held the five sacred mountains with their heads respectively. They were ordered to rotate every 60,000 years. The myth of "Blink of an eye" can hint at the original concept of "sacred mountain" being the earth. Negating the mountain is actually negative the earth. From this point of view, behind the figure of the Guixu myth, there may be a creation that is older than the Kunlun myth. The legacy of myth. However, due to insufficient existing materials, it is still difficult to verify. But this can imply how rich ancient myths were once, such as the myths of the earth, there should be far more than what exists today.
But good things always take a long time. Just when these five sacred mountains were stabilized and the ancient residents settled down, the race of giants who grew up in the "Longbo Country" (according to the records quoted from the ancient book "Hetu Jade Edition" in Zhanghua's "Natural History: Strange People" of Jin Dynasty), "The people of Longbo are thirty feet long and die at the age of eighty thousand years." It is very likely that this is a clan of ancient gods and monsters similar to the Titans in Greek mythology.
) moved stupidly and invaded Guixu. In a few steps, they reached the edge of the sacred mountain. They lowered their fishing hooks and caught six sacred turtles at once. As a result, "Dai Yu" and "Yuan Qiao" lost their bonds and drifted to the other side of the mountain. The North Pole sank into the ocean. Hundreds of millions of ancient inhabitants were forced to "migrate" (i.e., into exile) to other places. The Emperor of Heaven was very angry. He drove Long Boguo to a dangerous and dangerous place and greatly shortened the huge bodies of the giants. But it is said that by the time of Fuxi and Shennong, the giant god's torso was still several feet high. (See "Liezi·Tangwen" chapter.
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