Textual research on mu's life

In fact, there must be some scholars who think Mu Zhuan can be published. In the Western Jin Dynasty, Zuo Lang Guo Pu was the first book to annotate Mu Chuan. As soon as this wind opened, there were not a few. Most of them interpreted the three generations of Shanhe tribes according to the situation of later generations, so that readers could understand Zhou Muwang's military career more clearly. According to the records in Mu Chuan and the notes in it, he once journeyed to the west in Longxi, entered Hebo, entered Lanzhou River, visited Kunlun Mountain and Gushan Mountain at the head of Qinghai Lake, visited Wuwei, Chongli and Jukun tribes, met the Queen Mother of the West in Nanshan, Zhangye, stopped hunting in Shule River and Beishan, and waded in Juyanhai and Juyanhai. Xun Xu at the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty wrote in the Catalogue of Mu Biography: "The Biography of Mu Ancient Literature was compiled by bamboo slips in the second year of Taikang County, and no one is allowed to steal ancient tombs. According to the ancient ruler officially determined before the exam, it is two feet four inches long and written in ink, with 40 characters. " Wang's Book of Jin was written in the early years of Daxing in the Eastern Jin and Yuan Dynasties. He mentioned this biography of Mu in Shu Xi Zhuan, and said: "There are seventy-five volumes of bamboo books in Jizhong. ..... "Zhou Wang Parade" five volumes, saying that Zhou Muwang marched in the world, now called "Mu Tian Zi Chuan". " From this point of view, the original name of Mu Zhuan was Zhou Wang Military Parade, and it was circulated among the people, which seemed to avoid the suspicion of forgery.

However, many scholars in the past dynasties were skeptical about the record of Zhou Muwang's long journey in The Legend of Mu, and questioned the reliability of The Legend of Mu. Yao Jiheng, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, is a representative figure who advocates that Mu Zhuan is a fake book. After textual research, he believes that Mu Zhuan originated from Zuo Zhuan and Historical Records, and used the language of Shan Hai Jing in many places, and its style was similar to that of Ju Ju Zhu, so it should be a fake by a busybody after the Han Dynasty. Some scholars who doubt the ancient literary genre further conclude that it was forged by Jin people. French scholar Sha Yi even thought that "Mutianzi; No, it is, so Mu Zhuan, like Shan Hai Jing, is an absurd book with no historical value.

"In the United States, it was found that the geographical environment mentioned in the ancient Chinese myth book Shan Hai Jing confirmed that Dayu's water control had reached the United States. So Shan Hai Jing became a popular knowledge. Not only that, but also learn the classics of mountains and seas and talk about many mysteries on earth, especially Liezi. If you regard it as a myth, it seems to be a joke similar to the list of gods; If we look at it from another angle, from the perspective of geophysical sun, geology and even philosophy, it is very related to our ancient history. Of course, it is not only the ancient history of China but also the ancient history of mankind. " (Excerpted from Liezi Hypothesis (I), page 1 19)

Thus, the significance of the legend of Mu lies in China people's exploration and excavation, not just in the nonsense of a few foreign authorities called "China hands". And those China scholars who blindly deny China's traditional culture according to the words of foreigners who don't pretend to understand are even sadder.

Shajiao is known as "the master of European sinology" and "the first person in western sinology", which is still very doubtful in my opinion. An example of this move shows that in A.D. 1780, the missionary Joseph Marie amit published a paper arguing that the seven tones invented by Pythagoras in ancient Greece were copied from China. Joseph Marie Amiot's point of view. It was immediately rejected by European scholars. 1898, the Frenchman Sasha Vujacic said that China's temperament was introduced by the Crusaders of Alexandria in the 4th century BC. This statement is extremely ridiculous today. It has been less than 2,500 years since the 4th century BC, and from May 1986 to June 1987, the seven-tone Jiahu crane bone flute excavated by archaeologists in Tomb No.78 of Jiahu Site in Neolithic Age has a history of more than 8,000 years. It can be seen that who is more ridiculous, Sasha's words or Mu's legend!

However, this case has not been solved. Today, scholars often seek new ideas with old topics, with the intention of overthrowing the statement that Mu Zhuan is a fake book. It turned out that Chang Zheng had read Hong's school book Mu Chuan, but he found that all the mountains and villages recorded in the book could be textual researched one by one. Compared with Notes on Water Classics, Biography of Mu has obvious traces of Li Daoyuan's attention to mountains and rivers. Surprised, he made great efforts to study and explain one by one, and finally completed the book "New Notes on Mu Chuan" in 1977, which proved that his book was not fake, and clearly pointed out: "Mu Chuan was written by the Western Jin Dynasty, not forged by Jin people, not forged by Han people, nor by Warring States people." Li Weidong, a contemporary writer, demonstrated the quotation and authenticity of the legend of Mu in his book Alien on the Back of the Moon.

The discussion on the authenticity of the legend of Mu experienced the process of truth-falsehood-truth. However, the debate still cannot be considered as over.