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Overview
At Mount Yuci, the Shanhaijing describes an animal called Xiao, written 嚻. Its shape resembles an ape, its arms are long and it is skilled at throwing. The notice places it among the mountain’s woods, metals, bamboo and named bird life.
The hosted commentary compares it with a macaque-like throwing animal represented in an animal picture. That is commentary on the short base notice. The long arms and throwing behavior belong to this mammalian witness, not to the four-winged Xiao bird from the Northern Mountains, whose hosted notice also uses 嚻.
Origins & earliest records
Chinese textual creature traditions; named source setting
Records & interpretation
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Shanhaijing
Western Mountains first sequence, Mount Yuci
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Shanhaijing
Chinese textual creature traditions. Western Mountains first sequence, Mount Yuci
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- Primary text transcriptionShanhaijing — Western Mountains first sequence, Mount YuciResearch access: 2026-10-05
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