![]() ![]() "What is Shan Hai Jing, the Book of Mountains and Seas about? Is it a geographical book? A travelogue? A history book? A book of mythology? A book of folklore? These are but a few citations of the mysteries and riddles of Chinese culture, the tip of an iceberg. The great Tang poet Du Fu (712-770) in Shensi regretted he had not traveled to Fu-sang, whose fu-sang tree, imagined by Han times in China as something like mulberry, evidently was a cornstalk, confused in some Shan hai jing reports with organ-pipe cactus.": "Hwi returned an old man 499 and described Hohokam Arizona and Teotihuacan Mexico to the Southern Liang court 502. Shan Hai Jing, namely, the Mountain and Sea Records, recorded most of the myths and legends of ancient China, and this book, strangely, had recorded the stories and accounts of lands as far as Europe and the Americas." "There are two books that are worthy of special attention, Shan Hai Jing and Huai Nan Zi. I can't find an English translation in book or any other form, but this (expensive) Japanese translation's description page is very informative as to the book's contents: Shan Hai Jing is often translated as "Classic of Mountains and Seas". I believe the spirit of ‘the immortal’ has been passed down from generation to generation, from myth and legend to the reality of Chinese people crossing the ocean to Australia, where I live now.I jsut did a little web search, and it DOES sound very interesting (and likely right up GH's alley). : Illustrated Book of Shanhaijing/Shan Hai Ching/Classic of the Mountains and Seas(in Chinese) (9787546342252) by Zhang Yue and a great. Shan Hai Jing (The Classic of Mountains and Seas) has recorded Russia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. I believe the spirit of ‘the immortal’ has been passed down from generation to generation, from myth and legend to the reality of Chinese people crossing the ocean to Australia, where I live now.” – Hong Fu This is to achieve the unity of illustration and text and smoothly express the scene of symbiosis between gods and humans for more than 2,000 years, which is also the unity of heaven and man to which the Chinese people aspire. I use calligraphy as a link – like a narrator – to connect all the images drawn, including mountains, rivers, people, beasts, strange mountains, and rocks. Many place names are miraculously used to this day. Moreover, in ancient times, there were no maps in China cities and landscapes were marked with words. Shan hai jing (Classic of the mountains and seas) is a Chinese classic text describing mountains, regions within and beyond the seas, and mythic animals. I refer to the illustrations in the Ming Dynasty’s Shan Hai Jing (The Classic of Mountains and Seas), such as the human-faced beast and nine-tailed fox, to fully express the extraordinary imagination of our ancient ancestors. The long scroll is hung vertically descending from the sky, with the meaning of respecting the sky. Taking the image of the mountain god in Shan Hai Jing as the starting point, it explores its connection with the picture book. It is romantic and egoistic.Īt the end of the scroll, I end with “Emperor Yu Tames the Flood”, embodying the philosophical concept of diversification with realism. In China, people worship immortality and the eternal soul. In the West, people believe in heaven after death. The vast mythology of ‘the immortal’ is the central theme of my work. So, I began working on the long “Shan Hai Jing” scroll with lines and calligraphy using ink. ![]() Then the epidemic hit the city and gave me a wonderful opportunity to realize this idea. ![]() I felt that it was the most suitable to paint a long scroll. Around 2018, I acquired a roll of French handmade paper, moderately pliable, 1.4 meters wide and 20 meters long. I have always had a strong interest in this book and wanted to present it as a long scroll. Classic of Mountains and Seas Shan-hai Ching Statements. It was written in the Han Dynasty and has 31,000 characters. Chinese classic text and a compilation of mythic geography and myth. It began with folklore from the Xia Dynasty (BC2070 – BC1600). “Shan Hai Jing (The Classic of Mountains and Seas) is an ancient book that combines Di Li Zhi (a book that describes a cultural and geographical account of region and its historical evolution), Feng Wu Zhi (a book of local scenery and objects) and Ming Su Zhi (scientific activity of collecting and recording folklore information and the specific description of folklore information). ![]()
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