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Classic of Regions Beyond the Northern Seas · Mount Zhong

Zhuyin

烛阴

DeityPilot editionResearch grade A
烛阴原创完成合成图,动物姿态与环境关系已经校准原创完成合成 · 动物姿态 / 环境关系校准
When it opens its eyes there is day; when it closes them there is night. Its breath makes winter and its exhalation summer… It has a human face, a serpent's body and is red.公版原文:视为昼,暝为夜,吹为冬,呼为夏……人面蛇身,赤色。— Shanhaijing · Classic of Regions Beyond the Northern Seas
CONTENT LAYERS

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  1. 01Source text

    Words explicitly preserved in the public-domain Shanhaijing.

  2. 02Modern explanation

    A reading aid that is never presented as the ancient text itself.

  3. 03Original reconstruction

    Original inference for colour, ecology, movement, and sound absent from the text.

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VIDEO RECONSTRUCTION · LAYERED MOTION

Zhuyin Video Reconstruction

The creature moves on an independent layer while mountains, rocks, and vegetation remain stable, combined with source text, reconstruction notes, and an original call.

01 / FIELD NOTE

Field note

The red, human-faced serpent deity of Mount Zhong, governing day, night and seasons through gaze and breath.

02 / RECONSTRUCTION

Original reconstruction

The human-faced serpent form is preserved without adding the limbs of a conventional dragon.

Colours, proportions, materials and movements absent from the source text are recorded as artistic inference in the production ledger.
03 / SOUND

Sound design

Mountain resonance, air pressure and changing seasonal environments.

Original sound reconstruction · Not an authentic recording
LOCATION IN THE TEXT

Mount Zhong

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

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