Shan Hai Jing / Chapters and Mythic Geography
Shan Hai Jing
Browse the received eighteen chapters through mountain sequences, places, divine beings, strange creatures, plants, minerals, and events. The categories locate passages; they do not turn ancient gods into later heavenly officials or impose a later Diyu process on every ghostly place.
Recommended entries
Read the structure first, then enter specific entries.
Every cross-domain relation must mark its type: source variant, later convergence, conceptual relation, name overlap, explicit non-merge or later influence.
Classic text systems
Five classic categories carry eighteen chapter regions.
Each classic system can continue into chapters, nodes, entities and events.
Gods, creatures and plants
Ancient gods, strange beasts, foreign lands, plants and minerals are described separately.
These categories only describe internal Shanhai attributes and do not rewrite them as Heaven offices, Diyu ghost hosts or monster systems.
Key mythic events
Events connect ancient gods, places and later relations.
Event pages preserve ancient narrative attributes; images of death, rebirth, the underworld and heavenly emperors are not directly merged into later systems.
Related myths and beliefs
Related traditions are marked only, not merged.
Each relation shows its relation type, distinguishing source variants, later convergence, conceptual links and explicit non-merge.
Shan Hai route
Click from classic systems all the way to entities and events.
Choose a chapter or place to find its gods, creatures, and stories. The details explain where each account comes from and how later versions differ.
Book structure
Geographic regions
Shan Hai place
Beings & things
Events / relations
Recommended route
Begin with a chapter or place, then follow its beings and events.
Routes start from classics or places, then land on entities, events and related pantheons.