An outdoor exhibition in Guilin shows installations of Qiu Qijing who gives a profile to the mythical creatures in Shan Hai Jing.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

桂林户外展览展示了邱启敬的装置作品，他描绘了山海经中的神话生物。

Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Rivers), the collection of ancient texts of 2,000 years old, describes the sacred geography before the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), and the many mythical creatures living in the Great Wilderness, as it mentions but with few lines, have fascinated artists of all time who visualize them in different forms.

《山海经》是华夏民族的神话记忆，堪称上古时期的元宇宙，一个精神王国；中国古人在数千年前就构建了一部具有丰富神灵和人物关系，覆盖了人性、社会观、宇宙观的思想体系，一直吸引着艺术家们以不同的形式将它们想象出来。

Recently at the foot of Mao'er Mountain, in Guilin of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, jade artist and sculptor Qiu Qijing unveiled his latest work, an installation called Zhu Long, which finds in Shan Hai Jing its origin, Zhulong ("Candle Dragon") a mountain guardian, no foot and its body in red all over.

近日，山花海誓 神兽归山——邱启敬“山海经”大型公共艺术巡展首站将于广西桂林猫儿山正式开幕。展览亦是大型公共艺术装置作品《烛龙》的落成揭幕，烛龙在《山海经》中被称作“创世神”。记载称，烛龙长着人一样的脸，蛇一样的身子，通体血红色，身子长达千里，不吃东西，不睡觉，是山海经中非常酷炫的神兽。

Qiu used local bamboos to create this gigantic dragon of hundreds of meters long, and places it at the center of his ongoing tour exhibition of a Shan Hai Jing series of public arts. Dozens of other installations that give a vivid profile to the creatures in the classic are on show along the valley of several kilometers to blend in with the surrounding landscapes.

邱启敬以320米的“烛龙”作为主题创作，采用在地性材料，以竹编创作而成，蜿蜒穿越山海经第一谷招摇之谷。竹编“烛龙”作为山海经始祖之山招摇谷的起始，整个峡谷绵延数公里，沿线呈现30余件《山海经》系列雕塑与装置作品，与猫儿山自然风貌相互融合，营造十几处上古文化场景。

Since 2012, Qiu, who studied sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, has devoted to visualizing the mythological animals in Shan Hai Jing, and initiated three years ago a touring exhibition in outdoors environments to show his works.

从2012年开始，艺术家邱启敬致力于《山海经》研究已持续十多个年头。3年前，在北京金汤长城脚下的玊长城，呈现了邱启敬横跨二十年当代艺术的完整呈现，其中最为引人关注的，就是他蛰伏九年潜心创作的“山海经”系列大型作品的首展亮相。自此，邱启敬携“山海经”古地图大地艺术计划开始启航，游历神州大地。

An outdoor exhibition in Guilin shows installations of Qiu Qijing who gives a profile to the mythical creatures in Shan Hai Jing.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

户外展览展示了邱启敬的装置作品。

An outdoor exhibition in Guilin shows installations of Qiu Qijing who gives a profile to the mythical creatures in Shan Hai Jing.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

户外展览展示了邱启敬的装置作品。

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