摘要
The earliest description of the earthquake in China appeared in prehistoric myths. It is recorded in the Huai Nan Zi, a Chinese philosophic classic from the Han Dynasty, that in his fight against the fire god Zhu Rong, the water god Gong Gong, bad-tempered and daredevil,
The earliest description of the earthquake in China appeared in prehistoric myths, It is recorded in the Huai Nan Zi, a Chinese philosophic classic from the Han Dynasty, that in his fight against the fire god Zhu Rong, the water god Gong Gong, bad-tempered and daredevil, smashed his head against Mount Buzhou, a pillar holding up the sky, collapsing it and causing great floods and earthquakes. This myth precisely describes the topographic transformation under mighty power which today is known as unpredictable crustal movement. Despite its nafve imagination and unreasonable interpretation, the myth reveals the truth about the formation of surface features of the earth as the result of the action of internal and external forces of the crust.
