"Shan Hai Jing" Dongyi Ancient History And Legend

Shan Hai Jing is known as a magical book since ancient time, scholars believe itscontents is absurd, and is a book describes the strange. Until modern Wang Guoweicompares the record of Wanghai、Hu Houxuan compares the record of the name ofQuartet and the name of Wind Quartet with the Yin Ruins oracle bone inscriptions tocorroborate, to research ancient history and made great achievements, the historicalvalue of Shan Hai Jing is recognized by the people. Dongyi culture has veryimportant position with Huaxia equivalent in the course of development of China’sancient civilization,is one of the origins of ancient civilizations and developed thanother ethnic Chinese in a fairly long period of time. Although the literature ofpre-Qin on Dongyi culture is seidom, but Shan Hai Jing has saved a lot materials ofDongyi culture and ancient legends. These materials for us to understand the cultureand customs and ancient lineage of Dongyi has very important reference value.The first chapter discusses the Shan Hai Jing, the book’s decade,authors, andcontent properties. the book which is not written by one person at one time in oneplace is recognized by scholars. Through text analysis can confirm the main part ofShan Hai Jing was written in the Warring States period, the lower limit of the bookwas between the middle and late period of Warring States; but the part of book wasadded by the people of Qin and Han dynasties, and therefore the lower limit of bookwas the late of Qin and Han Dynasties. While we can not really refer to which theauthor is, but he is known about Dongyi culture can confirm. The book reflects thecontent of myths and credible history, the objective should be the part of the districtof realism and imagination imaginary part separately in the use of these materials.The second chapter discusses some of the Dongyi culture which Shan Hai Jingreflected. The bird totem worship is Dongyi culture different from the mostsignificant features of other tribes, the book called "niao shou","shi niao" is thesymbol of tribal totem bird-shaped symbol added to the names or clan names aboveto as an identifier. Respected ancient Confucian "benevolence", comea from Dong Yi,and is a moral values advocated by Dongyi people. Seven pair of mountains whichthe sun and moon come in and go out in the Da Huang Jing, reflects the hills DongYi ancestors used as original calendar,the calendar is based on the geographicalcoordinates of the sun and the moon as the observed peak ground running, todetermine seasons. The myth in the book about the wives of Dijun born ten suns andtwelve moons, actually reflects the origin of the Heavenly Stems and EarthlyBranches. The Quartet God and the Quartet Wind recorded of Da Huang Jingcorrespond with four seasons,the actual wind is out of the phenological calendarwhen candidates reflect the ancients by observing changes in the monsoon seasoncan be determined in different farming, agricultural production. the Quartet Godsystem of Hai Wai Jing also represents with four seasons, is ralated with the systemthat ShaoHaoshi uses birds to control season, is a matter of phenology calendarwaiting for migratory birds.Chapter III selects three Dongyi tribal famous figures Dijun, Shaohao, Zhuanxu as object, to sort out the ancient lineage of Dongyi tribal. Where mentioned in the book"shi si niao" tribal are descendants of Dijun, four birds add four animals which aretiger, leopard,bear,brown bear is probably the eight descendants of Dijun in thebook. Shaohao as the ancestor god of Dongyi tribal in pace with the ancestors ofYingQin migrate to the westward and the rise of the five elements theory in theWarring States period, becomes the god of West,Baidi. When Zhuanxu uses the firecalendar (almanac)to replace the original phenological calendar, making the calendarto get rid of the dependence on the geographical, astronomy and calendar isseparated, thus forming the "separation between heaven and earth".In some literature of the Warring States period, such as Dixi, Shaohao andZhuanxu which belong to Dongyi tribal have been classified as the Huangdir dollardescent in ancient history, become the descendants of Huangdi.It is a result ofnational integration in Warring States period, comes from the conjiecture andadjunction of the ancients, the imperial lineage on the Dixi is unreliable.