In sheyang county, Jiangsu Province, on the shores of china's Yellow Sea, there was a legend about the giant snake along the sea. It is said that someone saw a giant snake at the mouth of the Sheyang River, and this snake was so big that it was amazingly large, let alone swallowing a person, even a big buffalo could swallow it. Some people are panicked and afraid of this, fearing that one day they will fall into the mouth of the snake. Some people say without exaggeration: as long as the tail of the giant snake swings a few times, the mouth of the Sheyang River will set off a big wave.
The mouth of the Sheyang River is very wide into the sea, and the river and sea are inseparable. The water here is deep and rapid, and the gushing river water flows directly into the Yellow Sea. The riverfront beaches are vast, reed-dense, overgrown with weeds, and occasionally some potholed shallow waters. Many insects, snakes, birds and beasts, and even rare birds and red-crowned cranes, like to inhabit here. Reeds are saline and alkaline soils, and do not grow crops, so they are inaccessible and mysterious.
Until one day, a giant whale broke into the mouth of the Sheyang River and ran aground on the beach at low tide. People didn't know what kind of monster it was at first, and there would be a high column of water rising above their heads, which was terrible, and some people thought it was a giant snake coming. Later, I heard that it was a whale, and its flesh was edible, and everyone was overjoyed. At that time, people's lives were more difficult, and when they heard that whale meat could be eaten, they rushed to the beach and scrambled to cut whale meat. After a while, the giant whale only had a skeleton left. So people thought that the rumored giant snake might be a giant whale, and it was not terrible.
However, not long after, the news of the discovery of the giant snake spread in the Sheyang area.
It turned out that in May 1936, on a sunny day after a rain, the old man surnamed Lu, who was in charge of the reeds in charge of the area, had lunch and walked out of the hut on a high ground by the sea to prepare for farm work. He inadvertently glanced northeast, which startled him. I saw that about 80 meters away from him, a huge snake was holding its head high, spitting out a core with a flat shoulder in its mouth, swinging left and right towards him. This snake was really too big, just the head and neck were higher than the pole, its body was as thick as a water tank, the blood-red core stretched and shrunk one meter or two meters long, and the body color was very similar to that of the red snake.
Lao Lu was extremely frightened, and involuntarily fell to the ground, and he was afraid that the giant snake would pounce on him, so he looked up from time to time. After about an hour or so of touching, the giant snake finally swam away. Lao Lu, who had a lingering feeling in his heart, immediately ran back to report the letter in frustration. The next day, a dozen strong young men with muskets, machetes, and ropes found Lao Lu to take them to see, when the crowd came to the reeds, where was the shadow of the giant snake? There was only a trail of huge dirt turning over in the reed beach, a crushed reed the size of a threshing ground, and a gully more than a meter wide like a tire. Everyone talked about it, and some people said that they had seen it from afar.
When people searched, they found that the reeds in that area were separated in the shape of "human" characters, curving and curving, from the reeds to the Sheyang River. Everyone guessed that the giant snake had swum into the river. People searched the reeds for a long time, but they did not find the cave of the giant snake, and they did not know where it lived. If it lives in a reed, where does it live in the winter after the reed is cut off? Maybe it's a sea snake? But in any case, there have never been any incidents of giant snakes injuring people and animals in that area.
After the 1970s, with the construction of the Sheyang River Gate and the development and utilization of the Sheyang River Estuary, the giant snake also lost its tracks. This sensational news has also become a historical suspense case.
Sheyang River
Whether this thing is true or not, it is really difficult to distinguish after so long, there are many large snakes on the earth today, but the world's largest snake still needs to be selected from pythons and forest grasshoppers. Among them, the Amazon forest grasshopper can reach a maximum length of more than 10 meters and weighs about 225 kilograms, making it the largest snake in the world. However, in the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest snake was caught by a reticulated python called "Osmanthus Flower".
The osmanthus python is a snake that lives in the primeval forest of the Indonesian island of Sumatra and is worshipped by the locals as a ruler. After the snake dealer learned of this, he tried to convince the locals to capture the python and sell it to the park, which the staff named "Osmanthus Flower". The osmanthus python has a body size of 14.85 meters and a weight of 447 kilograms, making it the longest and largest snake ever discovered by humans in the past 100 years, and the largest known snake in the world.
sweet osmanthus
According to the person described by the person concerned, the core of the snake is as thick as a flat burden, and the snake is really amazingly large. "Osmanthus" is also out of reach. Well, according to this logic, it seems that this thing is likely to be false. It is likely that the person concerned exaggerated the description of the matter when he was frightened, misleading others and making people think that there was such a terrible giant snake.
The impression of snakes from ancient times to the present is mysterious. Many of the gods that have been circulated in ancient China and abroad are the form of snakes. For example, in the ancient myths of the mainland, there are both the fierce gods Xiangliu with the body of the human head and the snake body, the Fuxi and Nuwa of the God of blessing sheji with the body of the human head snake, and the white snake and the green snake who come to the human world to repay the favor. The "Yemengard" in Western Norse mythology is an extremely large giant snake. The totemification of the snake may indicate that someone saw a giant snake in ancient times.
Nuwa Fuxi
Therefore, some people assume that there may really be such a giant snake, hiding in the deep sea in order to avoid human invasion of the environment, which is unknown. For example, the ancient giant snake Titan Python, its huge body shape seems to be very similar, but it lived 5800-60 million years ago, and it has long been extinct. But can it hide in the deep sea and survive, after all, some ancient creatures have adapted to the environment and survived so far.
The truth of the facts is unknown to us, the mysteries of the earth are endless, and human beings need to continue to work hard to fully understand it.