Cultural Interpretation Of The Animal Divination In Shan Hai Jing

There are many ancient myths recorded in the Shan Hai Jing.Among them,the magical animals that can be used to test the good or bad fortune.And the good or bad fortune are called the objects,which belongs to the occupation of the animals in China.They exude the brilliance of primitive civilization,and continous development in the cultural communication of later generations.This paper counts the specific number of objects in Shan Hai Jing,and classifes the kinds of animals,and studies the records of the classics one by one.The ideological culture of the totem culture,Wuzhan culture as well as folk culture and other aspects were analyzed in the Shan Hai Jing from the perspective of cultural history.The research object of this paper is specific in Shan Hai Jing,which is divided into five parts:Firstly,the study the Shan Hai Jing,the number of statistics.The 55 species were divided into four categories:bird-occupied,fish-occupied,snake-occupied,and beast-occupied.The names and realities of each object were determined and the significance of divination was analyzed.Secondly,from the perspective of totem worship and taboos,the author analyzes the relationship between phoenix and sunbird totem at first.Then the author summarizes the totem worship patterns of the objects accordance with the shape characteristics of the objects in the Shan Hai Jing.:the totem worship pattern occupied by the combination of humans and animals,and the reproductive worship pattern of fish and birds.Finally,taking the scorpion as an example to analyze the taboo culture occupied by the ominous objects in Shan Hai Jing.Because the objects in the Shan Hai Jing are all ominous,so the author is based on Freud's taboo theory,combined with the cultural meaning transfer process from Sigmund Freud,explaining the reasons for the change in the cultural meaning of the scorpion.Thirdly,from the perspective of political culture,analyze the political status and political sentiments of the objects in Shan Hai Jing.First of all,the author analyzes the great role of divination activities in the political life of the ancients,and shows that the possession of the objects in the Shan Hai Jing also uses this role.Second,it explains the relatives' emotions and political feelings in the "Shan Hai Jing".Fourthly,from the perspective of folk culture,we firstly divide the objects in the Shan Hai Jing into two categories:auspicious and inauspicious,and analyze the auspicious culture occupied by the auspicious objects,and analyze the evil culture occupied by the ominous objects.Secondly,it analyzes the things that matter in the Shan Hai Jing and discusses the emotional culture embodied in it.Finally,to classify the colors occupied by the objects in Shan Hai Jing and combine the cultural significance of various colors to explore the relationship between the color of the objects in the "Shan Hai Jing" and the things they have written.Fifthly,discuss other ideological cultures embodied in the Shan Hai Jing.First of all,in the "Shan Hai Jing",it is possible to measure the meteorological disasters,wars,etc,which reflects the simple phenological thoughts of the ancients to interpret environmental changes on the basis of the phenological characteristics of the animals'perceived air pressure and sound waves.Second,because the things in the Shan Hai Jing are related to the disasters that affect the survival of humans and animals.They contain the ecological thoughts of ancient Chinese people living in harmony with nature and cherishing the life of all things.