Shanhaijing Fanwai: The Real Kunlun and the Hundred Gods(3/4)
That is, the Yellow River flows through the northeast of Kunlun Ruins, turns north, and enters the sea from the southwest of the Bohai Sea.
This sentence is correct. Since ancient times, the Yellow River has entered the sea from the southwest of the Bohai Bay. It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that the Yellow River suddenly changed its route and entered the Yellow Sea in the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, the sea entrance described in the Shanhai Sutra is consistent with the facts. Kunlun must be in the Yellow River Basin, but there is a different statement on where it is and there is no conclusion.
I actually agree with it in Shandong. I'm afraid everyone is very surprised. Isn't it in the west? Why did you go to Shandong?
This must be said that the range of the map of Shanhai Jing.
Although the time when Shanhai Jing was written in the Warring States Period, the age of "Tu" was very ancient.
"Shan Jing" is a picture, which is very rigorous and only describes landscapes and specialties. The era of drawings should be very close. It may have been in the Shang Dynasty. Anyway, the upper limit does not exceed the Xia Dynasty. It was painted after Yu set the tripod. I will not talk about it for the time being.
"The Classic of Hai Nei" is another picture. It is mainly based on the sea positioning, and the words are "inside the East Sea" and "inside the West Sea", which tells the story of a place surrounded by the four seas.
The Great Wilderness Sutra is another picture, and it is not an era. It talks about the places in the sea and the places in the overseas world.
"The big valley outside the East China Sea is the country of Shaohao." "In the bank of the East China Sea, there are gods and humans facing birds, two yellow snakes, and two yellow snakes, called Yuhu". "In the northeastern sea, there are three green horses."
These words, indicating that the things on the picture are all drawn on the "sea" as if they are living in water.
In other words, from this time on, people with worldviews in the country began to contact overseas, but the topographic map was not updated and land structure was not drawn. They could only draw various things they learned on the vast ocean defined by the original "Border of the Four Seas", so they were called "Great Wilderness". In fact, it was the blank space outside the old map.
The word "风" means grass growing on the water, which refers to a wetland in the country and a deserted place where floods and floods.
The word "Zhu" refers to a small land on the water.
"Sutras in China and Overseas" is the fourth set of pictures. At this time, all domestic and overseas regions were updated and the understanding became more abundant.
The environment and climate have also changed, and many wastelands impacted by water flows can be occupied.
Then this picture tells the story of the entire Jiuzhou tribe at home and abroad...at least it was in the early days of Dayu, and it is likely to be a picture of the Longshan era. [Longshan Cultural Site is recognized as the earliest in China. I will give a special introduction to this type of field archaeology discovery.]
In short, by comparison, we know that the Chinese classics are the smallest and may also be the oldest.
It is a pure world view of "within the four seas". It is self-evident that the "Mulu of Kunlun in the sea" is self-evident.
Of course, the above four figures are just conjectures, and not what I proposed. They were proposed and argued by scholars very early on. I just retell them. I can think of many counter-proofs myself, but they are not unexplainable. In short, the evidence is insufficient. There has been no conclusion about the Shanhai Jing since ancient times, and here I am just talking about one of them.
But one thing is certain is that no serious scholar really believes that the Mountains and Seas are depicting the entire earth.
Later generations often look at modern maps and find that our country is not surrounded by the sea.
So some people designated the Arctic Ocean as the North Sea, and counted Qinghai Lake, even the Black Sea, and even the Atlantic Ocean.
He forced himself to come out of the world and directly turned the map of the mountains and seas into the entire Asia and even the Eurasian continent.
In this way, Kunlun's location suddenly ran to ancient Egypt, saying that Chishui is the Red Sea and quicksand is the desert.
But to be fair, without considering prehistoric civilizations, aliens and other things, and carefully studying literature and archaeological evidence, you can know that the range of activities of the ancient tribes is not that large, at least for a certain period of time, they cannot go much far... the control range is even smaller, which is determined by productivity.
The strength of the Han and Tang dynasties was at most remotely controlled by the Western Regions, because no matter how far it was, it was really impossible to control it.
The Xia Dynasty was basically only in the Yellow River Basin, the Shang Dynasty barely touched the Yangtze River Basin, and the Western Zhou Dynasty only reached Hunan, northern Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Therefore, when positioning the map of Shanhai Jing, you only need to find it in the ancient Jiuzhou area.
Among them, there is basically only one possibility for "Hai" surrounded by the sea, that is, the Mountain East Peninsula.
As a peninsula, it is first surrounded by the sea on three sides, with the Bohai Sea in the north, the Yellow Sea in the east, and the Yellow Sea in the south.
There seems to be no sea in the west, but in fact, there was also a lot of water in ancient times. The Haidai area in northwestern Shandong and southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu were severely invaded, and the coastlines in some areas have advanced to the inland we now see.
In this way, the central Shandong region was basically surrounded. The areas that were not completely surrounded also had large areas of wetland depressions, namely the so-called "wasteland".
In the early and mid-term periods of the Shandong Dawenkou culture, which dates from 6300 to 4500 years ago, there were basically no human settlement sites in western Shandong.
Because the sea level at that time was much higher than that now, the western Shandong Plain was low at altitude, and it was a country with a very wide water area, so there was no human inhabitation.
During the Haidai Longshan culture period 4,500 years ago, there were only more human sites in southwestern Shandong, but the sites in northwestern Shandong were still rare.
At that time, the sea level fell, the "Western Sea" shrunk, and it was broken with the Bohai Sea. The remaining water evolved into a lake, which was called... ancient Heze.
In ancient times, the northern part of the mountains and east were densely covered with lakes and water flows. Even now, there are large wetlands, the Yellow River Delta, and it is the largest migratory bird reserve in the north.
The water system surrounding Kunlun is river water, red water, black water, green water, and weak water.
The river water is the Yellow River, and the Chishui River also appears many times in the Shanhai Jing and even in other ancient books. It is one of the "Six Rivers" known as the Yellow River, Yangtze River and Huai River.
The Shanhai Sutra says, "In the South China Sea, there is the mountain of Mitian, Chishui is so exhausted, and the wilderness of Cangwu in the east of Chishui, which is where Shun and Shujun are buried."
The wilderness of Cangwu can be verified. There are two main statements: one is the Jiuyi Mountain in Lake·Nan, and the other is the Mount·Dongyuntai Mountain.
However, it is written in the Shanhai Jing that Chishui has entered the sea and is adjacent to the Yellow River. It cannot be the lake in the Yangtze River Basin, but only the mountain in the east by the sea.
The wilderness of Cangwu is a fertile field under Yuntai Mountain.
The Chishui River is located west of it and needs to enter the South China Sea to verify the ancient and mountain rivers. There are only three such water systems: Sishui, Yishui, and Shushui.
The only one who has the largest water flow and the most important significance is Sishui.
Sishui is the largest tributary of the Huaihe River, and its pronunciation is very close... Haha, just kidding. In theory, Yishui can do it too.
But it is highly likely that Chishui will be Sishui. Next, the water systems near Kunlun include Qingshui and Heishui.
Hei Shui is like Chi Shui and is also one of the six rivers.
"Haiwei Jing": "Hei Water comes out east of the northwest corner of Kunlun, travels east and northeast, enters the sea south, and Yumin south."
Note that the words "into the south of the sea" and the Yellow River "into the southwest of the Bohai Sea" do not refer to flowing into the sea to the south, but to "enter the sea from the south of the sea".
Wherever you go, you can write words such as "going east, flowing northeast", and this is the direction of flow.
If you do not write "Run" and only write direction words, then you only refer to directions.
In this way, Kunlun is already northwest, and the Black Water will also travel eastward and flow northeastward in the northwest corner of Kunlun, and then enter the sea from the south.
The only black water that meets the conditions is Ji water.
River, river, Ji, and Huai are the "Four Du" sacrifices since ancient times. Jishui is the mother river of the mountain and Dongda Wenkou culture, and enters the sea from the southern part of the Bohai Sea.
As for Qingshui, it flows southwest of Kunlun, travels eastward, and does not enter the sea.
It is sandwiched between Sishui and Chishui, and the ancient river channel with the name Qing word is only one... it is the Daqing River.
Such a weak water can be located, which is Dawen River.
With these water system positioning, the location of Kunlun Mountain has blurted out, Mount Tai!
I believe you all thought of it, this is also a saying that has been said in the academic community for a long time.
"There is a mountain called Kunlun Hill south of the West Sea, behind the Chishui River, before the Hei River."
The ruins are Mingtang, but here they are written about Kunlun ‘Quao’, and it is clearly stated that it is a mountain, which means that Kunlun Ruins are built on the mountain in Tuli, and the mountain that builds Kunlun Ruins is called Kunlun Hill.
In the Shanhai Sutra, when describing Kunlun Hill, there is no such thing as Jiujing.
When writing about Kunlun Ruins, we focused on the architectural details such as Jiujing Nine Gates.
Chishui is Sishui, Heishui is Jishui, Kunlun Hill is between two water systems, and there is quicksand nearby.
Many people interpret quicksand as deserts, or even large deserts like Sahara, which are pure nonsense!
In ancient times, the environment in our country was so good, with water everywhere. Our ancestors had never seen a real "big desert", so when creating the word "sand", it refers to the beach next to the water flow.
The word "sand crust" refers to the "sand" alluvialized by quicksand, so "sand" is also next to three points of water!
‘Bin’ refers to the place beside the water. In ancient times, quicksand refers to the river sand impacted by the water flow, that is, alluvial plains.
On the coast of quicksand, each word has three water points next to the water! It means that there is absolutely no possibility of the Gobi Desert beside the water!
The Yellow River, Yangtze River and Pearl River all have such impact sandbanks and beaches, and then form the so-called "Yellow River Delta" and "Yangtze River Delta".
The so-called quicksand on the mountain and sea chart is the formation of the Yellow River flooding the entire western Shandong Plain. At that time, there was already a lot of sand on the Yellow River. It impacted a large area of sand in the gentle downstream areas, and it still flowed until it entered the sea... Therefore, it is called quicksand.
[Of course, this statement can also refer to a certain place in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. The Yellow River flows through the Loess Plateau, taking away a large amount of sand and soil, forming a large area of quicksand in some places. This can also correspond to Kunlun in the northwest of my country. In short, quicksand must not refer to deserts. Here it is used in the delta of the lower Yellow River. Because when Kunlun is focused on describing Kunlun, it is written that the Yellow River enters the sea.]
It is this kind of quicksand that keeps reclamation of the sea and combined with climate change that finally wipe out the West Sea and even the Bohai Sea shrink. Originally, the Bohai Sea also had a deep sea invasion, and it is the veritable "Beihai".
I had interpreted that Jingwei was a geese carrying branches across the Bohai Sea, and the Yandi clan was on the mountain and east coast.
The prototype of Jingwei’s sea reclamation was born from the clan worshipped by bird culture and the continuous expansion of the coastline.
The ancients said that this was done by birds, but it was actually done by the Yellow River... The sea reclamation was filled with quicksand day after day.
It is precisely in the West Sea, North Sea, South China Sea and other directions that floods and sand and soil impact, becoming a flood of shallow water that impacts sand, grasslands, and wetlands, which has entered the "Great Wilderness Era".
The Yan Emperor clan, or a certain "Taishan indigenous clan", migrated outward, struggling to spread culture, and brought the original place name and mountain name to the north and south of the world. Then, in the field of Cangwu, they later ran to Hunan, Bashu, and Sichuan and Chongqing. The name of Gan land ran to Jiangxi.
In Wenshang County at the foot of Mount Tai, there is a "Shushan". However, now we know that this name has gone to Sichuan.
These were originally the place names of the ancient mountain and east, and they spread to various places with the expansion of the tribe.
‘Ancient Sea’ is only in the boundary of Shandong, while ‘New Sea’ is in the entire land of China.
The world view has not changed, the map has been enlarged... In the ancient sea map, the wilderness of Cangwu is in southern Shandong. In order to maintain the world view, it is enlarged and superimposed on the relative position on the new map, Cangwu became a certain place in Hunan.
It is somewhat similar to the place names obtained during the American colonial period: New York... New Jersey... Essex... Plymouth... Worcester... These are all British place names.
If most of the information is lost after thousands of years, some people say: 'Essex is in the UK, most people are probably confused and say it's not in North America? How could it be on a small island? Essex is absolutely impossible in the UK...'
And the reason why we must migrate with our names is to remember our own roots.
This kind of cultural stickiness is somewhat similar to the later "Inner Kyushu, Outer Kyushu," "Little Kyushu, Big Kyushu". Anyway, we are competing with Kyushu. After the interstellar era, the entire solar system may be in Kyushu, and even the Milky Way Kyushu.
There is also "House, the world". Even if technology is developed in the future and we live outside the sky, we may still say words like "Invincible in the world".
This is the cultural gene, the vitality of different eras.
To be continued...