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How many animals are there in Shan Hai Jing?

Shan Hai Jing records about 40 countries, 550 mountains, 300 waterways, 100 historical figures and more than 400 exotic animals.

Shan Hai Jing is the oldest fantasy book full of myths and legends, which records many exotic animals with strange shapes and superior abilities, enriching people's imagination of the unknown. Let's start with how many animals are in Shan Hai Jing.

Details 0 1 The Classic of Mountains and Seas is a book full of magical colors, with rich and varied contents, including rich valuable materials in geography, mythology, folk customs, history of science, religion, ethnology, medicine and other disciplines. Its academic value involved many disciplines, and recorded a large number of natural geographical elements and human geographical contents in China at that time in an orderly way.

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 generally record these things one by one by region, not by time. 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 the East China Sea, the West Sea, the South China Sea and the North Sea.

In Shan Hai Jing, we can explore the influence of mythical thinking on the tradition of romantic literary creation from at least three aspects.

1, the influence of rich intuitive imagination and great imagination on the creation of romantic literary works;

2. Myths and legends with rich mythological thinking often become the creative material of romantic literature;

3. The original life view of mythical thinking has a profound influence on romantic literary creation.