Eight Barrens: Also called eight directions, it refers to eight directions such as east, west, south, north, southeast, northeast, southwest and northwest.
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According to the records in China Mythological Dictionary, there are "four seas" and "four wastes" in Songs of the South. In "Nine Songs of Chu": "Jizhou has more than enough, and there is no poverty in the world." "The Book of Rites" said: "Filial piety, put in heaven and earth, spread all over the world: give it to future generations without a moment, push it to the East China Sea, push it to the West Sea, push it to the South China Sea and push it to the North Sea." The so-called "four seas" are the East China Sea, the West Sea, the South China Sea and the North Sea.
According to the summary of ancient and modern rhymes, "shortage" has several meanings: first, it refers to the land where weeds are rampant and grains are barren; One refers to the vast and distant barren land outside Kyushu; One refers to the lack of politics and religion. There is a saying in "Songs of Chu Lisao" that "when you suddenly look back, you will see the four shortages". Erya interprets the "four wastes" as "bamboo, northern household, queen mother of the west, sunset".
In the Han Dynasty, the "Eight Wastes" were generally called "a desolate and far-off land on all sides". Jia Yi said in the first sentence of "On Qin" that "based on solid faith, we hold the land of Yongzheng, and the monarch and his subjects stick to it to get a glimpse of the Zhou room, which has swept the world, embraced the world and swallowed the heart of eight famine".
Later, "four seas" and "eight great droughts" generally referred to the world. By the Tang Dynasty, "Four Seas and Eight Wastes" had been used together and became a familiar vocabulary for scholars. Cheng once said in Zhuangzi's Notes on the South China True Classic: "Yao ruled the world for a long time, and all the eight barren places were quiet." Du Fu's poem "Autumn Rain Sighs" is also known as "the wind and rain are like a flood of Qiu Lai, and the four seas are barren with the same clouds".
There is also a saying that the Taoist literature "Four Explanations of Xu Chong Zhide Zhenjing" in the Yuan Dynasty holds that "Zhang Zhu, Bei Hu and Xi Wang Mu are now called Eight Wastes, while 91, Ba Di, Qi Rong and Liu Man are called Four Wastes in the world", that is, they regard the Four Wastes as Eight Wastes. This explanation is relatively rare in the Taoist system, so you can prepare it. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, people generally accepted the saying of "Eight Famines", that is, "Eight Tables", which refers to places far away from all directions.
In addition to the "Four Seas and Eight Wastes", there are also some sayings in the play, such as Jiuchongtian, Yingzhou Immortal Grass in the East China Sea, Sanshengshi, Xuan Nv and Jiao Ren. These can be found in China's ancient classics. Even as early as 20 1 1, some netizens found that this novel by Qi Tang, the author of the play, had a deep relationship with Shan Hai Jing, the originator of China myths and legends. For example, Kunlun Xu (the market in the play), Dong Huang Ji Junshan, Qingqiu Kingdom, Taolin and Cangwu are all found in the original Shan Hai Jing.
According to Shan Hai Jing, the nine-tailed fox was produced in Qing Qiu country, and Bai Qian, the doorman of Qing Qiu female emperor, came from the original work? Mountains can make the wearer know the way; Bashu was born in Zhu Juan's country and can eat elephants. Shao Xin is a kind of herbal medicine, which grows in Snake Mountain and Snake Valley, where snakes and wolves look like foxes and wild animals. Bifang bird is shaped like a crane, blue with red stripes, white beak, and calls like Fang Bi, and so on. These are all quite interesting.
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Baidu encyclopedia-four seas and eight wastes