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Classic of the Central Mountains · Mount Ao'an

Fuzhu

夫諸

Beast

An original reconstruction in its Shanhai habitat

“It is shaped like a white deer with four horns and is named Fuzhu. When it appears, great flooding comes to that settlement.”公版原文：其状如白鹿而四角，名曰夫诸，见则其邑大水。— Shanhaijing · Classic of the Central Mountains

HISTORICAL IMAGE EVIDENCE · 古籍圖像依據

From a Qing four-horned deer image to a flood omenOwner-supplied historical reference and cautious reconstruction

The historical reference makes the decisive feature visible: a deer-like body carrying four horns. The reconstruction preserves that anatomy while treating flood as an omen, not an attack performed by the animal.

IHISTORICAL SOURCE

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Historical image of FuzhuWang Fu, Shanhaijing Cun

Work: Wang Fu, Shanhaijing Cun
Edition: Qing printing (exact issue pending)
Catalog status: Owner-supplied reference; exact volume, folio, repository, date, and digital-object link remain to be catalogued.

P/ADIGITAL RECONSTRUCTION

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Fuzhu digital reconstructionShanhai Wonders™ | 山海萬象志

The reconstruction keeps features stated in the text and visible in the historical image. Material, colour, motion, habitat, and camera are original project decisions.

TEXT

Recorded in the text

A white deer-like creature with four horns, whose appearance foretells flooding.

IMAGE

Visible in the historical image

A compact white-deer-like figure with four distinct horns and cloven hooves.

INFERENCE

Modern reconstruction

Horn-root anatomy, neck load, mature body, white coat, weather, floodplain, and behaviour.

Cataloguing and use boundary

Owner-supplied reference; exact volume, folio, repository, date, and digital-object link remain to be catalogued.

The owner-supplied review notes that the 1593 Wenhuatang catalogue does not presently confirm an independent standalone Fuzhu plate; it should not be cited as one without new evidence.

01 / FIELD NOTE

Field note

A white deer-like creature with four horns, whose appearance foretells flooding.

02 / RECONSTRUCTION

Original reconstruction

The four horn structures are designed with plausible load-bearing logic for a cervid skull.

Colour, material and movement not stated in the source are evidence-led artistic reconstructions.

CLASSIC STORY · 經典故事

The White Deer and the Flood

白鹿與大水

Source disaster omen

When Fuzhu appears, great flooding is expected in the settlement. The source does not say that it creates the flood, so it is safer to treat the creature as an omen rather than a direct agent. Future scenes should convey warning and environmental pressure rather than simple villainy.

Reading boundary: Fuzhu's appearance foretells a flood; the source does not explicitly say that the creature causes it.

THREE READING ANCHORS · 三個閱讀錨點

An omen is not automatically an agent

Fuzhu teaches a useful distinction between appearance, prediction, and causation.

01 · SOURCE
White deer form with four horns
The Central Mountains records Fuzhu at Mount Ao'an and says that when it appears, great water comes to the settlement.
02 · RECEPTION
The text gives a sign, not a mechanism
Treating Fuzhu as a warning preserves the wording more carefully than turning it into a villain that conjures floods.
03 · RECONSTRUCTION
Four horns must still obey a deer skull
Horn roots, neck load, gait, white coat, rain, and rising water are reconstruction decisions designed to convey pressure without claiming causation.

LOCATION IN THE TEXT

Mount Ao'an

敖岸之山

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This diagram expresses textual direction and relation only; it does not claim unverified modern coordinates.

APPROVED SCENES · 場景展示

One being, across different moments of the Shanhai world.

Changing weather and habitat reveal different moments of life while the source-grounded identity remains consistent.

Storm over Mount Ao'anStorm clouds press over Mount Ao'an as Fuzhu stands above the floodplain. The water is presented as a source-recorded omen, not an attack caused by the creature.

Moon Tide through the River ForestMoonlit water enters the river forest, keeping the white deer form and four independent horn roots clearly legible.

FREE WALLPAPERS · 免費壁紙

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