Demons and Ghosts in Shan Hai Jing (1)

Number:? SD0 100 1X00 1

Native place:

Swaying Mountain in Nanyi Mountain System: the name of the first mountain system in South China? (què) Mountain, formerly known as Yaoyaoshan, is located on the coast of the West Sea.

Photo:

Power: Its meat can make people travel 80,000 miles a day! (This motivation doesn't seem very good.)

Original text:

Precautions:

① Yu: animal name. Monkeys are as big as macaques, with red eyes and long tails.

② xng: That is, orangutans.

Translation:

There is a wild animal in the mountains, which looks like a long-tailed ape, has white ears, walks on all fours and can walk upright like a human. The name of this wild animal is Yingying, and it can walk very fast after eating its meat.

Name:? Bai Yan the White Ape

Number:? SD0 1002B002

Native place:? Nanyishan Temple Tingshan is located 300 miles east of Shouyao.

Photo:

Motivation: unknown (maybe, selling cute? )

Original text:

Name:? It's a big bug.

Number:? SD0 1003F003

Native place:? One of the southern mountain systems, Yongshan Mountain, is located 680 miles east of Yaoyao Mountain.

Photo:

Well, it's not the photographer's fault, it's all bugs ~ ~

Powers: Poisonous!

Original text:

Twitter:

How to pronounce the word "bug" here is controversial.

Because "worm", the ancient word "slug", slug, is a legendary poisonous snake.

Guo Pu, a writer in the Jin Dynasty, once wrote in the note of Shan Hai Jing: "Poisonous insects are like colored stripes with needles on their noses. The largest one weighs more than 100 kilograms and has a poisonous nose."

Ribbon is the ribbon of ancient official seals and other things, which has various colors, so "ribbon" means colorful and variegated.

Although there are many controversies about Guo Pu's comments on poisonous insects, there is a unified understanding that poisonous insects are poisonous snakes.

It can be seen that both the viper and the viper are written according to the identity of this poisonous snake, which is only a process of the evolution of ancient and modern characters. Now people are still used to reading "bug" as "f chóng".

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