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,本文首先介绍人们最常引用的“绝地天通”的两个出处: 《尚书?周书?吕刑》和《国语?楚语》 ,而且对这两处记载的关系及其价值进行了分析,指出:虽然《国语?楚语》在时间上较《尚书?周书?吕刑》为后,但对资料的原始性的评价并不仅仅以其时间的先后为标准。事实上,在先秦典籍中, 《山海经》也以一种神话的语言记载了“绝地天通” 。在本部分,作者对《山海经》的性质、成书时间等作了说明,认为它用神话的方式保留并传递了相当多的原始时代的信息,它们带有历史的影子,在一定程度上反映着历史的真实。