Many people may wonder that since life has evolved, are ancient sea creatures different from today's? With this curiosity, we found Zhao Zhiqian's "Different Fish Map" of the Qing Dynasty, a long painting with countless strange fish, of course, there are some fish that are no different from today's creatures, revealing the true face of ancient marine life.
First of all, let's first understand the author of "Different Fish Diagram" Zhao Zhiqian, the characters Yifu, Shu Shu, Leng Jun, Sorrowful, Wu Bored, etc., self-signed Erjin Butterfly Hall, Bitter Room, Repentance Reading Zhai, Zhejiang Shaoxing people, throughout their lives experienced the Three Dynasties of Daoguang, Xianfeng, and Tongzhi, which was a period of continuous internal and external troubles in Chinese society in the middle and late nineteenth century, and the changes became more and more drastic. In it, Zhao Zhiqian is not only a scholar, a bureaucrat, but also an artist with both "four absolutes". Therefore, from this point of view, this painting also has an official endorsement, and is not a work of imagination.
At the same time, this work also has extremely typical reference value, providing rich information for the study of modern marine life.
Zhao Zhiqian,"Different Fish Diagram" (please watch the horizontal screen of your mobile phone)
"Alien Fish Diagram" (partial)
Modern marine life Octopus
There are fifteen kinds of objects involved in the "Different Fish Diagram", including: sand fish (sea anemone), Zhang Reject, Brocade Fish, Sea Pig, Sword Shark, Ghost Crab, Tiger Crab, Hu Hu (Mudskipper Fish), Stone Worm, Fish Fish (Dragon Head Fish), Dice Fish (Box Fish), Bamboo Clip Fish (Tongue Fish), Lyre Shrimp, Horse Whip Fish (Scale Smoke Pipe Fish), And Swallow Stingray.
"Different Fish Diagram" (partial) Brocade
"Alien Fish Diagram" (Partial) Swallow Stingray
"Heterodyne Fish Diagram" (partial) shrimp
Modern marine life Pippi shrimp
Look, there's also the little seafood we know and love – Pippi shrimp.
《Heterogeneous Fish Diagram) Bamboo Clip Fish Fish (Dragon Head Fish)
Modern marine life Dragon head fish
"Alien Fish Diagram" (partial) Whipfish
Modern marine life Whipfish
"Alien Fish Diagram" (partial) Tiger Crab Ghost Crab
Modern marine life Tiger crab
What do you think? Is it an increase in knowledge? The evolution of living things is based on tens of thousands of years or even millions of years, tens of millions of years as a unit, so this period of time for biological evolution is undoubtedly just a flick of the fingers, so maybe most of the marine life we and the ancients saw may be the same.