The Great Wilderness Never Ends/鸿荒莫传

The book's title is taken from the last four characters of a line from a poem by Xie Lingyun, a poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty: "Looking closely at the records, they were never mentioned in the primordial chaos." It means "stories unmentioned since the beginning of time." Using the *Classic of Mountains and Seas* and *In Search of the Supernatural* as source material, the book focuses on three classic myths: "The Yellow Emperor's Battle Against Chiyou," "Nuwa Mending the Sky," and "Gonggong's Wrathful Collision with Buzhou Mountain," employing a dual-narrative structure. The content primarily tells the story of the past and present lives of a girl (Pingyi) who created the stone used to mend the sky, and her sincere relationship with the god of order, Taiyi. It also recounts the story of another mythological figure, the drought goddess Ba (Qingba), whose misunderstanding of her father, the Yellow Emperor, plunges the three realms into conflict.

本书名取自东晋诗人谢灵运的诗句“详观记牒, 鸿荒莫传”中的后四字, 意为“混沌初开之世后, 不曾被提及的故事”。该书以《山海经》和《搜神记》为创作素材, 重点围绕“黄帝战蚩尤”“女娲补天”和“共工怒触不周山”三个经典神话故事, 采用双主线的手法创作而成。内容主要讲述了一位创造了补天神石的女孩子 (屏翳) 的前世今生及其与秩序之神太一之间的真挚感情, 以及另一位神话人物旱神魃 (青妭), 因其对父亲轩辕黄帝的误解, 导致三界陷入纷争的故事。