??? The Classic Of Mountains And Rivers

<p>????</p><p></p><p>Brief Introduction</p><p></p><p>????????????????????????????????????????</p><p></p><p>The Classic of Mountains and Rivers compiled from the Warring States period to the early Han dynasty forms the renowned triad of extraordinary ancient texts alongside I Ching and The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine.</p><p></p><p>????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????</p><p></p><p>This multidisciplinary compendium systematically archives proto-scientific knowledge spanning ancient geography historiography mythology astronomy zoology botany medical theories religious practices anthropology ethnology oceanography and technological evolution constituting an encyclopedic record of primordial societal systems.</p><p></p><p>????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????</p><p></p><p>The Classic of Mountains and Rivers preserves the cultural paradigms of deep antiquity documenting lifeways and intellectual paradigms from the Great Wilderness epoch (Dahuang period). It outlines the proto-civilizational framework of high antiquity furnishing indispensable references for reconstructing early Chinese cosmology.</p><p></p><p>???????????????1000?????550???300???600????????5000???????????????????????????????????????????????????????</p><p></p><p>As a comprehensive archive of archaic civilization it catalogs over 1000 polities 550 sacred peaks 300 mythic waterways 600+ supernatural entities nearly 5000 fantastical entries including bizarre avifauna and aquatic creatures divine entities and spectral beings miraculous flora mineralogical wonders sacred landscapes astral phenomena and exotic folklore from foreign lands-collectively encoding an unprecedented cultural cipher.</p><p></p><p>????</p><p></p><p>Author Introduction</p><p></p><p>????????????????????????????????</p><p></p><p>Li Yanlong Independent Scholar and Visiting Professor at Sun Yat-sen University serves as an Expert Committee Member of the Chinese Cultural Heritage Commission.</p>