Chapter 617: Vicissitudes of Life

During this period, there were glaciers, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods and other natural phenomena, and the topography of the continent, flora and fauna, etc., were constantly changing, and then cities appeared, wars broke out between people, cities were destroyed, and new cities appeared...... The cycle goes on and on.

Sun Hui and Xiao Tiantian watched the changes of this magical continent just like watching a documentary.

"What continent is this?" Xiao Tiantian asked in surprise.

"Like...... United Ancient Continents? Sun Hui replied with some hesitation.

"Huh? Is it before the continent drifted? Xiao Tiantian was taken aback.

"Yes, Tiantian, look at these animals, they seem to be ...... recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas"

"Why is this happening? Isn't the 'Three Hums Sutra' a myth, it's true? ”

"Now it seems to be true, some people say that what the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" describes is actually the geographical situation of the United Ancient Land......"

Sun Hui's statement is not unfounded, and later scholars at home and abroad have different opinions on the geographical research of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". There have been many sayings such as "Yunnan Circle", "Two River Basin Circle", "China Circle", "Asian Circle", "World Circle" and so on. Some scholars say that the "Classic of Mountains and Seas. The Shouma country mentioned in the Great Wilderness West Classic is the image of the people of the equatorial desert in present-day Africa. The Classic of Mountains and Seas. The six mountains seen by the sun and the moon in the Great Wilderness East Meridian are exactly the geographical conditions of today's North and South America. It is also said that the Classic of Mountains and Seas is a China-centered book of world geography. For a long time, scholars have been at odds with each other, and there is a good reason for that.

If you open the "Book of Mountains" and read it at will, you will roughly know that the Book of Mountains is based on the horizontal and vertical mountain ranges as the coordinates, with a continent in the middle, surrounded by the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the Bohai Sea, the West Sea, and the North Sea. This is the prototype of the "mainland-centric theory" that has existed in China since ancient times, and many people believe that this is just a concept concocted by the emperor to show that China is the center. In fact, as early as 1620 A.D., the Englishman Bacon had discovered that on the globe, the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa can be perfectly connected. By 1912, the German scientist Wegener proposed the hypothesis of continental drift based on certain similarities in the curved shapes of the oceanic coasts. After decades, numerous studies have shown that the continents are indeed drifting. Based on the study of geology, paleomagnetism, paleoclimate and paleobiogeography, the distribution of continents and oceans in ancient times has been reshaped. About 240 million years ago, the Earth's continents converged from near the North Pole to the South Pole. Geologically, it is called pancontinental. Around the pan-continent is a unified pan-ocean. After that, after a long period of time, the pan-continent began to disintegrate, and the ancient land of Laoya in the north and the ancient land of Gondwana in the south began to split. The Tethys Ocean (180 million years ago) appeared in the middle of the continent. Since then, the continent has continued to split, with the Indian Ocean land mass separating from the Australian-Antarctic land mass, and the South American land mass splitting from the African land mass. At this time, the expansion of the Indian and Atlantic oceans began. By 60 million years ago, the pattern of modern continents and oceans had already taken shape. Later, Australia split away from the Antarctic and moved northward, the Arabian plate separated from the African plate, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden opened, forming the distribution pattern of modern oceans and continents.

There is a lot of evidence for the theory of continental drift, and the Classic of Mountains and Seas can also provide a lot of solid evidence for it. The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" coincides with the "Continental Drift Theory". "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" did not deceive later generations, it described the geographical appearance of that time in detail, and the "continental center theory" is fundamentally true. For example, the "Book of Mountains" lists a large number of rivers that flow into the ocean, some flow into the East China Sea, some flow into the North Sea, and some flow into the South China Sea, but some rivers actually flow into the West Sea. There is only one inverted river in China that flows westward into Qinghai Lake. And the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" does not think that there is anything abnormal about the westward flow into the ocean. Nanshan Sutra Volume 1: "The head of the Nanshan Sutra is called Magpie Mountain. Its head is called the mountain of swagger, facing the West Sea. The waters of Lilu come out of the Yan, and the west flows into the sea. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Xishan Sutra Volume II": "The mountain of Kuan, the water flows out of the Yan, and the west flows into the sea", "The mountain is in the West Sea, the bleak water flows out of the Yan, and the west flows into the sea." In this way, it is common for rivers to flow westward into the sea in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and the only explanation is that the Classic of Mountains and Seas records the original appearance of geography, and many rivers at that time did flow westward into the sea.

As you can see from modern maps, the coastlines on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are very similar in shape, but when examined closely, they do not quite match. This is because the coastline is not really a continental margin, and it has undergone significant changes in geological history with sea level rise and fall and erosion accumulation. In 1965, British scientist Bullard used a computer to perfectly combine the two edges of the Atlantic Ocean according to the 1,000-meter isobath. In addition, the Americas are closely related to Africa and Europe in terms of geological structure and the distribution of paleontological fossils. For example, the folded mountain system in Newfoundland in North America echoes the folded mountain system in Scandinavia in northwestern Europe; The Hercynian Fold Belt of the Appalachian Mountains in the United States, the eastern end of which submerged into the Atlantic Ocean, extended to southwestern England and reappeared in central Europe; Ancient rock formations in West Africa can be linked to those in Brazil. It's like two pieces of torn newspaper that can be spliced together by their jagged edges, and the printed words on them can be connected to each other.

Paleontological fossils also confirm that the continents were once connected. For example, the fossils of sheep's tooth plants, which are widely distributed in the Late Paleozoic strata of southern continents such as Australia, India, South America, and Africa, are also distributed in Antarctica. In addition, the fauna of water dragons and labyrinths in Antarctica, South Africa, and India, separated by oceans, have striking similarities. These animals are also found on the continent of Laoya. If these continents were not once connected, it is difficult to imagine how these terrestrial animals and plants could have traveled across the oceans and distributed around the world.

Modern archaeologists and historians have always been puzzled by the migration of ape-men, and they simply cannot imagine how ape-men from Asia, Africa, and Europe crossed the Pacific Ocean to the Americas, but the theory of evolution requires that all humans have the same ancestor. Archaeologists have come up with many absurd ways to help the ape-man cross the Pacific Ocean, but in fact, the ape-man walked there on foot. Because the continents at that time were originally connected. Because the geography of that era was far from the modern era, stripped of the veil of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", although there are still a few unexplained grotesque plots, there is enough reason to believe that many records of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" are detailed and reliable.