Shan Hai Jing is an ancient book by China, which records the strange stories in ancient times. Generally, it was written by Chu or Bashu people from the middle and late Warring States to the early Hanzhong. It is also a fantastic book. The author of this book is unknown. The ancients thought that this book was "the work of the curious people in the Warring States period, Zhuang Zaji, Biography, Lisao, Zhou Shu and Jincheng". Modern scholars also believe that writing a book is not an instant, and the author is not a person.

There are 18 articles in Shan Hai Jing, and other chapters have long been lost. Originally, there were 22 articles with about 32,650 words. There are 5 Tibetan classics, 4 overseas classics, 5 domestic classics and 4 wild classics. There are 13 chapters in Hanshu, not counting the later wild classics and family classics.

The contents of Shan Hai Jing are mainly geographical knowledge in folklore, including mountains and rivers, Taoism, nationalities, products, medicines, sacrifices and witch doctors. It has preserved many famous ancient myths, legends and fables, including Kuafu's day by day, Goddess's mending the sky, Jingwei's reclamation and Dayu's harnessing the water.

Shan Hai Jing has extraordinary literature value, which can be used as a reference for studying China's ancient history, geography, culture, Chinese and foreign transportation, folk customs and myths, among which the mineral records are the earliest related documents in the world.

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The book Shan Hai Jing records about 40 countries, 550 mountains, 300 waterways, more than 65,438+000 historical figures and more than 400 monsters. Books usually record these things one by one according to the region.

Most of the recorded things started from the south (wild classics started from the east, so some scholars think that the orientation order of south, west, north and east is the same as that of ancient times, so wild classics started from the east, which may be revised and adjusted by later generations), then went west, then went north, and finally reached the central part of the mainland (Kyushu). Kyushu is surrounded by China's East Sea, West Sea, South China Sea and North Sea.

The mountain scenery is divided into five parts: Shan Hai Jing Nan Shan Jing, Shan Hai Jing Xi Shan Jing, Shan Hai Jing Bei Shan Jing, Shan Hai JD.COM Shan Jing, Shan Hai Zhongjing Shan Jing, so Shan Jing is also called Wu Zang Shan Jing (or Wu Zang Shan Jing, Zang, Zang).

Although Shan Hai Jing is not a pure geography book, its geographical connotation is the first. It describes the geographical features of various places in an orderly way from all directions, including natural geographical features and human geographical features.

First of all, Shan Hai Jing has a description of natural geography. This includes many mountains, such as "Mountain of the Great Hall", "Mountain of the Sun", "Mountain of the Castle Peak" and "Mountain of the White Tail". The name of each mountain depends on the landform of the mountain, and these mountains also reflect the trend of the mountain system;

As well as rich hydrological records, most rivers record their sources and injection sites. The source of a river can be at the foot of a mountain, but its injection place is far from this mountain. The commentator also noticed the whole picture of the main stream of the river in the hydrological record. Although the channels of rivers are not recorded, some major rivers, such as the Yellow River and Weishui, can know their general flow areas, and many tributaries flow into their main roads.