Speaking of the mermaid story,
I guess
Everyone's first reaction was from Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
"The Daughter of the Sea".
The image of the Little Mermaid is indeed deeply rooted in people's hearts.
But the story of mermaids in ancient and modern China and abroad,
But that's not all.
01 Beautiful Mermaid
In Western culture,
The earliest record of a Kraken is in the Odyssey
The siren with the human face of the eagle.
It confuses the crew with its beautiful song,
Caused a shipwreck.
afterward
The image of the Siren siren gradually evolved into a mermaid.
Since then, mermaids have mostly been associated with temptation and disaster.
In The Daughter of the Sea,
The image of the mermaid has changed dramatically.
The Statue of the Little Mermaid is located in Andersen's hometown of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.
Tourists flock to visit.
The little mermaid in the story still has a beautiful song
and a beautiful face,
But it can't see those negative qualities in it anymore.
opposite
It is kind, affectionate, and dares to break the rules.
This also makes the Little Mermaid loved by readers all over the world.
02 The Fish Man Weeps
There are also many records of mermaids in Chinese mythology.
It was written in the Classic of Mountains and Seas in the pre-Qin period
More than one kind of mermaid has been recorded,
There is an animal called the "mermaid",
Shaped like catfish,
Hands and feet, sounds like a baby,
This is very similar to the folk description of the giant salamander.
There is a nation called "carving" in the book,
The tribesmen will have a fish scale pattern on their bodies.
Carved people
Compared to mermaids,
The Eagle Clan is more like a human tribe with special customs.
furthermore
The book also records the "lingyu" with the body of a human head and limbs.
Lingyu
As well as the human face fish body, the footless "kryptonian".
Kryptonian
The image of the latter seems to be the most similar to the "mermaid" in our impression.
Speaking of China's most famous mermaid story,
Count the "Fish People Weeping Beads".
"Shu Yi Ji", "Search for God", "Taiping Imperial Records" and other books
There are records of "fish people".
reputedly
Fish people live on the bottom of the sea like fish,
can weave, spin,
Can spin as thin as cicada wings, into the water is not wet "fish",
And the tears they shed are pearls.
sometimes
They will spend the night in human homes,
Spinning for people.
When leaving,
They would ask their owner for a plate.
Cry out a plate of pearls as a reward.
03 Pearl of Blood and Tears
Hepu County is located in the southern part of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,
It is a famous shallow sea pearl producing area in China.
The sea near Hepu is calm and calm,
There are a lot of plankton living,
It is the paradise of pearl oysters.
As early as the Han Dynasty,
Hepu's pearling industry is very developed,
There are thousands of local pearl divergents who make a living from pearl fishing.
The life of the ancient pearl people was very miserable.
Many dynasties had strict requirements for the pearl people:
Pearls must be handed in when they pick up pearls,
The imperial court will depend on the quantity and quality of pearls
A certain amount of food is distributed as compensation.
Pearl mining
These foods are often barely subsistence.
The growth cycle of Hepu pearls is about 3 years.
A year or two after high-intensity pearling,
There are often no pearls to be found.
According to records,
Jiajing five years of the Ming Dynasty (1526),
Tens of thousands of pearls starved to death because they could not pick pearls.
Ancient times
Artificial culture technology is not yet mature,
People can only risk their lives in the sea to find pearls,
So much so that there are hundreds of pearl divers every year
Drowned due to improper handling.
The returning pearl people dragged their drowning companions,
While crying,
The scene of a pearl being handed over on one side,
Perhaps it is the source of the reality of the imagination of "fish people crying beads".
END
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