Trail To The Destination Last Chapter

Lu Xun remembered that when he was young, he liked the illustrated version of Shan Hai Jing. The first version he got was a crude one, with yellow paper and poor illustrations, but he said that it was his most beloved treasure book because it contained a human-faced beast, a one-legged ox, and a headless Xing Tian. Is this just the nature of a child?

James few days ago, I was reading a big book about world history, which talked about an envoy of the Seleucid emperor, named Megasthenes. This person was about the same time as Mencius, traveled to India, and wrote a book, which has been lost, but some quotations have been passed down. Let me quote a passage from this book "New Global History" (translated by Wei Fenglian et al.): "He wrote that there is a kind of fox-sized ant that can dig gold from the ground... Some people have no mouths and live by breathing the fragrance of fruits, flowers and roots, some people have heels that grow backwards and have eight toes on each foot, and some people have dog heads and communicate by barking."

Readers familiar with the Classic of Mountains and Seas should not be unfamiliar with these legends. India is a place I yearn for. For many years, foreign civilizations have found its customs and climate strange, and many legends are related to that land. The same New Global History also mentions the Tales of India written by Buzurg Ibn Shahriyar in the 10th century. This book has been handed down, and there should be an English translation that has long been out of copyright, but I can't find a scanned copy online. I read it quickly, so I have to continue copying the book on the spot: "The book mentions huge lobsters that can grab anchors and drag ships in the water, mermaids, sea dragons... It mentions poisonous snakes that can devour cattle and elephants, big birds that can impulsively destroy houses, monkeys that can seduce sailors, and talking lizards."

When Xuanzang of my country wrote about India, he also wrote about absurd things, even the legend of the Western Women's Kingdom. Having written this, I really want to go to India.

Why are we attracted to records that we know are false? To answer this question, I have to think about why we believe that something cannot happen and all accounts of it are false. The accumulation of knowledge has illuminated the world we live in. There are fewer and fewer dark angles. Some things that were new in the past are just common sense today, and what is new today may become common sense in the future. This is certainly worth celebrating. However, like every good thing, humans can always find bad ways to react. While we gain knowledge, we also lose our will.