"Classic of Mountains and Seas: Illustrated Collector's Edition" Author: Ren Caifeng/Illustrator Publisher: CITIC Publishing Group

Introduction
This book is a traditional Danqing version of the Classic of Mountains and Seas published by China National Geographic Books. Ren Caifeng, a young artist born in the 1990s from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, spent ten years redrawing 150 silk-based colored pictures of gods and monsters. Professor Liu Zongdi, a scholar of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, gave a long introduction and full annotations and translations. This version of the Classic of Mountains and Seas is based on traditional Chinese painting techniques, hoping to present the magical and magnificent side of traditional Chinese culture to the public through art. He also incorporates modern consciousness into classical paintings, which conforms to the current national trend of aesthetics. At the same time, as a large book that records geographical products and religious myths in ancient times, its original text should not be ignored. The "Book of Monsters" is only one aspect of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Professor Liu Zongdi's annotations and translations cut in from the perspective of natural history and folklore, showing another unknown side of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. This book is beautifully bound, illustrated, and highly readable, and can be used as the first choice for readers to read the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
About the Author
Ren Caifeng
Young artist, owner of Fangyuan, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's and master's degree.
I love the subtlety and vividness of the "Song and Yuan" styles, and I also love the magnificence and splendor of the "mountains and seas".
Liu Zongdi
Born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, he graduated from the Department of Meteorology of Nanjing University, the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Sichuan Normal University, and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Beijing Normal University. He has worked at the Institute of Ethnic Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute of Advanced Confucian Studies of Shandong University. He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Literature of Beijing Language and Culture University. He has published works such as The Lost Book of Heaven: The Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Ancient Chinese Worldview (2006), Grassroots of Classics (2010), Qixi Festival (2013), The World of the Classic of Mountains and Seas (2021), and Mountains and Rivers of the Gods: The Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Reconstruction of Ancient Geography, History and Mythology (2022).