A book shows how ancient Chinese imagined unknown world

04/05/21 • 7 min

Human-faced beasts, nine-headed snakes, three-legged birds, people with wings, and monsters with no heads but, two nipples as eyes. These are all stories from a mysterious ancient Chinese book called “Classic of Mountains and Seas.”

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