In many articles and works , the termination of the liaison between celestial and human beings has an indefinite source . at the beginning of the discourse it is introduced that the two sources of the termination which people often mentioned . they are the l punishments , of the book of zhou , of the book of history and chu yu of guo yu . the article also explicates the relationship between the two records and their value , saying that chu yu of guo yu was compiled later than the l punishments , of the book of zhou , of the book of history but their importance can not be judged only by the time when they were compiled . in fact the termination was mythologically recorded in the book of mountains and seas the famous pre - qin book . in the part , the writer introduces the time and the nature of the book of mountains and seas , thinking it passes on many messages of the primitive time with the images and reflection of true history and taking it as a new attempt to study the legal history by it 正本清源,本文首先介紹人們最常引用的“絕地天通”的兩個(gè)出處: 《尚書?周書?呂刑》和《國語?楚語》 ,而且對(duì)這兩處記載的關(guān)系及其價(jià)值進(jìn)行了分析,指出:雖然《國語?楚語》在時(shí)間上較《尚書?周書?呂刑》為后,但對(duì)資料的原始性的評(píng)價(jià)并不僅僅以其時(shí)間的先后為標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。事實(shí)上,在先秦典籍中, 《山海經(jīng)》也以一種神話的語言記載了“絕地天通” 。在本部分,作者對(duì)《山海經(jīng)》的性質(zhì)、成書時(shí)間等作了說明,認(rèn)為它用神話的方式保留并傳遞了相當(dāng)多的原始時(shí)代的信息,它們帶有歷史的影子,在一定程度上反映著歷史的真實(shí)。