Chapter 609

——【The Classic of Mountains and Seas is really a very good subject; you can often see all kinds of things in TV shows and movies.】

——【But the famous ones are only a few; the monsters from the Classic of Mountains and Seas filmed on TV are just those few back and forth.】

——【Yes, clearly there are so many monsters in one Classic of Mountains and Seas.】

——【This was written by ancient people; I don't believe ancient people imagined so many monsters out of thin air. It should have been recorded by the author or the recorder based on the descriptions of local people. It's possible the describers had some exaggerated words, but there must have been reference objects.】

——【I'm just puzzled; Chinese people are immersed in groundless mythological stories all day, doing nothing, does it have any strong contribution to the country? Can it strengthen the country and improve the living standards of the people? I really don't know what the significance of this existence is. Moreover, things like livestreaming and online games must be eliminated; they have no meaning for existence at all. I think this job of Xiang Fangyang is also meaningless.】

——【I am also very puzzled; if you aren't working overtime to contribute to the country, why did you run here to brush your sense of presence? Do you think you are very amazing?】

At everyone's request, Xiang Fangyang wandered around the museum for a long time.

Although many people, most people, expressed that they liked the Classic of Mountains and Seas very much, a small portion of people felt very puzzled by it.

So Xiang Fangyang would occasionally tell some stories from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

"Actually, the Classic of Mountains and Seas also has great research value for modern people; it actually contains many, many secrets."

"Do you know our great writer Mr. Lu Xun? When Mr. Lu Xun was a child, he actually treated the Classic of Mountains and Seas as a collection of strange stories."

"I believe most of us probably wouldn't treat the Classic of Mountains and Seas as a real event at all, and also feel that those monsters are all fake, but our First Emperor of Qin believed very much that the monsters in the Classic of Mountains and Seas existed."

"He not only believed this, but even sent Xu Fu overseas to search for immortal mountains to seek immortality."

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"Our poet and politician, Qu Yuan, also believed very much that the monsters in the Classic of Mountains and Seas existed."

"In his articles, he often mentioned the Classic of Mountains and Seas."

"There is also a legend that every time Laozi rode a green ox, no one knew where he went."

"It is believed that he might have looked at the Mountain and Sea Map and searched for the legendary Kunlun Mountain based on the Mountain and Sea Map."

"The reason why the Classic of Mountains and Seas is understood as mythology is actually because our understanding of this book is not deep enough, and it is too one-sided."

"With our modern way of thinking, we should explore the Classic of Mountains and Seas from the perspectives of history, geography, folklore, and biology."

"Just like some ancient totems we saw before, and some other things."

"If you think about it from multiple perspectives, you will find that this is not a mythological story at all, but a realistic book."

"……"

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——【Actually, I believe these monsters might have existed before.】

——【Do you know? In the world beyond Antarctica, Antarctica is a huge ice wall.】

——【Humanity actually knows very, very little; there is still a lot, a lot for us to discover and excavate.】

——【The Classic of Mountains and Seas must be true; maybe they are just extinct, just like dinosaurs. Just because we haven't seen them doesn't mean they didn't exist.】

——【Speaking of which, it's very strange; I often dream of dragons, but I rarely watch TV shows, and I never thought about this problem at all, so why do I dream of them often?】

——【Our Chinese civilization is 5,000 years old, but before that, there were many, many civilizations. Some we know, some we don't know. What exactly is going on with those we don't know?】

——【If you put it that way, then the history and mythology recorded in the Bible are also true.】

——【Oh, if you put it that way, then the world originating in China is probably also true.】

——【If you flip through it carefully, you will find that there are many books in our historical records that actually record the Classic of Mountains and Seas.】

——【I think that at that time, transportation was inconvenient and information was not developed, so they fictionalized the Heaven beyond Heaven and the People beyond People.】

——【These divine beasts are actually all in the sea, because the sea is vast and can accommodate all rivers!】

——【In 2016, two junior high school girls in our hometown saw a flying dragon wandering in the sky. The two were shocked, so they took a picture with their mobile phones. Unfortunately, it was almost dark at the time, and the two girls' mobile phones were cheap goods, so the pixels weren't very clear, and even when zoomed in, you couldn't see it. Sigh, the dragon is a divine object; not everyone can see it.】

——【If you see it, you see it. Most people in our country, unless they see it with their own eyes, will not believe it even if they die. Actually, not seeing it is no loss. The most fearful thing is that you see it with your own eyes, and then tell people, but no one believes what you say. The person who saw it with their own eyes will probably feel very depressed.】

——【Yes, upstairs, what you said is very reasonable. Unless I see it with my own eyes, I won't believe it exists even if I die.】

They just chatted like this in this Shanghai Museum for a long time.

Even as time pushed forward and became faster and faster, they still hadn't come back to their senses.

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"I'm a bit reluctant to leave; this place is really too beautiful."

When they were about to leave, the cameraman still had a look of reluctance.

He was truly very reluctant to leave this place.

"If there is a chance next time, we will come here to wander around again; maybe if we come here to wander for the second time, we will have some other unusual feelings."

Xiang Fangyang looked at the cameraman and raised his hand to pat him on the shoulder.

In fact, Xiang Fangyang's appearance was clearly a bit impatient.

The cameraman had been dragging his feet here for a long time; it took almost an hour from the mountain to the foot of the mountain.

This museum is located at the top of the mountain; this up and down trip added up to less than half an hour, from which one can see how dragging the cameraman was, and how much he liked this Classic of Mountains and Seas Museum.

Finally, they went down the mountain, and the cameraman popped out another sentence at this time: "Brother, why don't we also hold a Classic of Mountains and Seas series exhibition at the Xiang Fangyang Museum?"

After hearing what the cameraman said, the corners of Xiang Fangyang's mouth couldn't help but twitch twice.

"If there is time and opportunity, it can be tried."

Because they were delayed too much on the mountain, Xiang Fangyang and his group were really a bit tired after going down the mountain, so he sat directly on one of the stones, but just after sitting down, he realized belatedly that he had chosen a very wrong place to sit down.

Xiang Fangyang let out a light gasp from his mouth.

Then he changed from a sitting posture to a standing posture, stood quietly for a while, and couldn't help but raise his hand to scratch the back of his head.

"It seems Brother has discovered something again."

"You could say that."

Xiang Fangyang popped this sentence out of his mouth, then casually took a small, sharp stone and started digging near the large stone he was sitting on.

In about five or six minutes, he dug out a bronze fish lock that looked very exquisite.

【Han Dynasty Bronze Fish Lock】

【……】

"Brother, your luck is really too good; you can dig up such a cultural relic so casually."

"It's okay, this is a bronze fish lock from the Han Dynasty."

"Although it looks very small and exquisite, its value should be quite high."

Although he had tried his best to restrain himself, when the cameraman saw a cultural relic, the first thing he considered was still whether this cultural relic was valuable, and how much it was worth.

When he asked this question, he realized that this sentence might not be quite right.

He immediately covered his mouth with his free hand.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ask such a question; I was just a bit curious."

Before, Xiang Fangyang seemed not to like him asking about the price of cultural relics, and as more and more cultural relics were dug up, the cameraman actually knew that asking about the price of cultural relics was not a good thing.

Just when the cameraman thought that Xiang Fangyang wouldn't answer his question at all, Xiang Fangyang chose to speak.

"Hmm, it's not very valuable; it's probably worth a few tens of thousands."

"Cultural relics like locks are very common; now they are already lying in museums, and there are even many locks that have been dug up, from various dynasties and various types, there are many."

When Xiang Fangyang said this, he thought about it seriously: "I remember there are several in the museum, one is a gilded silver lock from the Tang Dynasty, a gold-painted iron lock from the Ming Dynasty, a poetic password lock from the Qing Dynasty, a copper-gilded lock from the Qing Dynasty, a copper-gilded double-fish lock made in the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty... all kinds of them are very interesting."

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——【Maybe because locks are relatively common, their value isn't too high. In common terms, this type of cultural relic is actually dime-a-dozen.】

——【I didn't expect that such things as locks existed so early.】

——【Ancient people were really very smart, and their aesthetics were high. Modern technology has progressed, but other things have regressed; it's a pity.】

——【Keep going, pass down ancient culture; there won't be any regrettable situations.】

——【It's just such a small lock, yet it precipitates thousands of years of art and culture; it's really extraordinary.】

——【First look at the ancestors' things, then look at modern ones; sigh, we moderns are really too sloppy.】

——【Modern ones are all copy-paste, coming out of factories with one click, but the ones in the hands of ancient people were all purely handmade. Comparing them like this, of course, it's not something we moderns can compare with.】

——【Ancient people treated every object in their lives as a work of art to be crafted; one can see that they were living very seriously.】

——【A simple sentence to express my feelings: the ancestors were really smart.】

——【Has anyone thought that this lock might look beautiful to us now, but at the time, people might have thought it was ugly, or even very ordinary?】

——【This kind of thing at first glance isn't something ordinary people could afford; if it wasn't good-looking, who would pay for it?】

——【That won't happen; there is only ugliness in this world, but people's aesthetics are still highly consistent.】

——【If it were ugly, would they still make it? And some locks are even gilded. I think the person who raised this question still has some logical thinking, okay?】