Legend has it that in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, there is such a long lamp that can endure for ten thousand years. And the raw material of this long lamp is the fat of the mermaid. So does the legendary mermaid really exist? There are not many records of mermaids in the past, so why have no mermaids been found so far? What exactly is the mermaid like now? Welcome to like the comment collection.
Legendary mermaid
Mermaid, one of the most mysterious species in legend.
In the minds of Chinese, the mermaid is a creature with treasure all over the body, the legend says that this creature "eye can cry beads", that is, tears can become pearls, "spring chamber submerged weaving, famous dragon yarn, its price of more than 100 gold, think that the service, into the water is not wet", which means that the mermaid can be woven in the water, imitated out of the thing, called dragon yarn, a piece worth hundreds of gold, made of clothes to wear, into the water is not wet.
The mermaid in the Classic of Mountains and Seas
This is recorded in the Shuyi Zhi, in addition, it is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Book of Searching for God, and even in the "Naturalist" there is also a record that a mermaid came back to repay the favor after being saved by humans, and the way to repay the favor was to cry out a plate of pearls and give it to his benefactor. Pearls were hard currency in ancient times, which was equivalent to sending money.
There is also a saying in folklore that the fish people will sing by the river, use their own voices to lure passers-by into the water, and then kill passers-by, which is a relatively evil image.
Chinese and Western mermaid descriptions are highly consistent
Interestingly, there are similar images of mermaids not only in China, but also in the West.
Speaking of the image of the mermaid, I think the first thing that jumps into everyone's mind is the little mermaid whose love has turned into foam. The little mermaid in the fairy tale, because she fell in love with the prince at first sight, so in order to make her fish tail into legs, she ate the witch's medicine, but eventually turned into a bubble story. In this story, the mermaid is a cute female figure.
Mermaid legend
But in Greek mythology, there is also the legend of the Siren the Siren. Siren, the daughter of the river god, is a beautiful goblin who, after a match with a muse, was plucked out of his wings after failure, and the Siren, who could not fly, sang near the coastline to attract sailors, and if the sailors were attracted, the Sirens would overturn their boats, causing everyone to be drowned.
In Japan, there are also mermaid legends, but it is generally believed that mermaids can live a long life, and some people gain immortality after eating mermaid meat, and they live for more than 1,000 years before they go on hunger strike and die.
And in general, the image of the mermaid is generally the upper body is humanoid, and the lower body is the tail of the fish. However, this is already a glorified image in modern times. Open the ancient books, you will find that in many ancient books, the mermaids that appear are not very good, and can even be said to be extremely terrifying, for example, only the head is a human head, the body is like a carp, and on the body of the carp, there are hands and feet. It has nothing to do with aesthetic beauty, but it is very scary.
Mermaids in Western texts
These things are all seaside legends, and even in the Taiping Guangji, there have been humanized characteristics of mermaids, saying that the appearance and skin of mermaids are exactly the same as those of human women, and even have long hair, and single fishermen will catch these mermaids and sell them as strange goods.
In that ancient era when we could not communicate with each other, there were legends about mermaids all over the world.
Mermaids are real
This can only show that the existence of mermaids is likely to be real.
It is said that in the United States, two shark catchers once caught a tiger shark in the Caribbean Sea, and after opening the body of the tiger shark, people found a mermaid skeleton in the stomach of the tiger shark. This mermaid is no different from the mermaid imagined, with a human skeleton on the upper body and a fish tail on the lower body. This incident has always been regarded as a fake because there is no tangible evidence, but this incident has made people start to explore the undersea people.
And there seems to be growing evidence that undersea people may exist. Some experts believe that the evolution of human beings is still a mystery, the current common is the evolution of Australopithecus, but after all, the creatures on land are differentiated from the ocean, and the deepest seabed is more than 10,000 meters, in the places that humans can not explore, there may really be a creature, mermaid.
Mermaid legend
As for why the mermaid has not been discovered so far, archaeologists believe that the intelligence of the mermaid may be higher than that of humans, and has been doing everything possible to hide its whereabouts. Perhaps in ancient times, mermaids once appeared in front of humans with a friendly attitude, and even gave them their own gifts: pearls and dragon yarn.
However, human beings are very greedy, want to produce these mermaids for breeding and killing, mermaids after repeated injuries, decided to stay away from humans, seclusion, from then on no matter how human exploration, mermaid traces have not been found again, leaving only some skeletons for humans. What do you think?