![]() Each chapter follows roughly the same formula, and the whole book is repetitious in this way. Many descriptions are very mundane, and an equal number are fanciful or strange. The descriptions are usually of medicines, animals, and geological features. It belly become his mouth and his chest become his ![]() Xing Tian (刑天), A general that had been killed. However, the consensus among modern Chinese scholars is that this book was not written at a single time by a single author, but rather by numerous people from the period of the Warring States to the beginning of the Han Dynasty. It was originally thought that mythical figures such as Yu the Great or Boyi wrote the book. The exact author of the book and the time it was written are The oldest part of the present book is sometimes referred separately as Wuzang Shanjing (五藏山經). The book is about 31,000 words long, and is divided into eighteen sections it describes over 550 mountains and 300 channels. It is largely a fabled geographical and cultural account of pre-Qin China as well as a collection of mythology. ![]() Versions of the text have existed since the 4th century BC, and by the early Han Dynasty it had reached its final form. Shan Hai Jing (simplified Chinese: 山海经 traditional Chinese: 山海經 pinyin: Shānhǎi Jīng Wade–Giles: Shan Hai Ching literally "Classic of the Mountains and Seas" or "Collection of the Mountains and Seas" or "Canon of Mountains and Seas"") is a Chinese classic text, and a compilation of early geography and myth. ![]()
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