【烛九阴】洛清寒 · 暗夜童谣MV｜山海经最孤独的神｜(山海经系列 Vol 2 烛龙)

In the Classic of Mountains and Seas lives a god who cannot sleep. When he opens his eyes, it is day. [THE STORY] The ancient text records: beyond the northwest sea stands Zhong Mountain, home of Zhulong, the Torch Dragon — a god with a human face and a serpent's body, crimson from head to tail, with vertical eyes set in the middle of his face. His open eyes are daylight; his closed eyes are night. His exhale is winter, his inhale is summer. He holds his breath, for a single sigh raises winds across a thousand miles. He does not eat, does not sleep, does not rest. In the far north where the sun cannot reach, all living things survive by his gaze. One night, a boy carrying a dying lantern walks through blizzards and man-eating wolf-demons (the Xieju) to ask him a single question: "God — do you never sleep?" The god gives no answer. A single scale of light falls into the boy's lantern — and from that night on, every lamp in the world is one of his eyes. [BEHIND THE SONG | Why a dark lullaby?] The Zhulong myth is, at its heart, how grown-ups explain the night to children. So this song has no chorus — its spine is a nursery rhyme that grows up: sung first in fear, then in heartbreak, and finally in peace ("He lends you his eyes — so dream the dreams he never could"). The children's voices are humankind; her voice is the storyteller. The two chanted lines are genuine quotations from Qu Yuan's "Heavenly Questions" and Li Bai's "Ballad of the North Wind." [AUTHENTICITY] The creature design strictly follows the original text and Ming-dynasty woodblock illustrations (Jiang Yinggao edition): human face, serpent body, no legs, no wings, no horns, no whiskers. The later "torch in his mouth" embellishment is not used. Vocals & narration: Luo Qinghan (AI) | Music, lyrics & film: Ming Xia (original) ▶ Chapters 0:00 Prologue · The Dark-Sky Rhyme 0:18 First Question · The Long Night 0:36 First Answer · The God Beyond the Mountain 1:09 He Opens His Eyes · Daybreak 1:34 Second Question · The Lantern Boy 1:53 Heavenly Questions · The Last Question 2:17 The Rhyme Grown Up · He Lends You His Eyes 2:42 A Scale of Light · The Scroll Closes 🔔 Subscribe to Ming Xia for a Chinese myth in music every week: [link] Music and animation on this channel are created with AI tools, originally planned, written and produced by Ming Xia. #ShanHaiJing #Zhulong #ChineseMythology