In 2011, in the collection of cultural relics of the Ziqi country, I accidentally got a giant horn, the giant horn is 58 cm high, the bottom diameter is 16 cm, weighs 4,000 grams, it is golden, and in many places its shell has been peeled off, just like the old pine tree that has been cut down for many years has just been peeled off, and around its base is a ring of long golden hairs, its top horn is flesh red, and there are many battle marks of sword and light sword shadows in front of the horn. I peeled off a small piece of cracked shell and burned it with a smell, a smell of burning horns, no doubt, it was a giant animal horn! If it is calculated according to the diameter of its bottom of 16 centimeters, if it is a bicornal, its head must be at least 50 centimeters wide, and among the extant giant animals, elephants do not have such a huge head, and there are no such huge horns in the extant horned animals, so this is the horn of an extinct unicorn.
The author investigates the Qilin Horn, a national artifact of the Chinese heavy treasure from the town of Qiguo
Looking up on the Internet, the original unicorn is the unicorn, a legendary animal recorded in ancient Chinese books, and the phoenix, turtle, dragon are collectively called the four spirits"; the unicorn is an auspicious divine beast, the male is called the unicorn, the female is called the lin, the lord taiping prosperity, longevity, sending children.
Travel through 6,000 years of time and space
Every time the unicorn appears, it is a very special historical period. Fuxi, the Yellow Emperor, Yao, Confucius, Emperor Wu of Han, Song Taizong and other periods were accompanied by the appearance of qilin and brought about the prosperity of the times.
Qilin was first published in the Book of Hetuluo: It is said that about 6,000 years ago, the humanistic ancestors of the Chinese nation, Fuxi and Nuwa, taught the people to "tie ropes for fishing", and raised livestock for food, which promoted the development of production and improved people's living conditions. Legend has it that because Fuxi created gossip, people worshiped him as a god and revered him as the ancestor of bagua. In ancient times, people knew nothing about nature. The change of the weather, the movement of the sun and the moon, the life and death of people, all these phenomena, no one knows what is going on. When people encounter questions that cannot be answered, they all ask Fuxi, and when Fuxi can't answer them, they often look around, pondering the sun and the moon, the stars shifting, and guessing the changes in the cold and heat of the earth, the blossoming and falling of flowers. He saw that the Central Plains was dense with yarrow and began to use yarrow to spread baskets for people.
One day, Fuxi was fishing in the Cai River, caught a white turtle, and dug a pool to raise the white turtle. One day, Fuxi was putting food in the white turtle pond when someone ran to say that there was a monster in the Cai River. When he came to the cai river to take a look, he saw that the monster said that the dragon was not like a dragon, that the horse was not like a horse, and that it was walking around on the surface of the water, as if it were walking on the ground. Fuxi approached the water's edge, and the monster actually came to Fuxi and stood there motionless. Fu Xi examined it carefully and saw that the monster had a pattern on its back: one six were lower, two were seven above, three or eight were on the left, four or nine were on the right, and fifty were in the center. A yarrow stalk is drawn on a large leaf according to the pattern on the monster's back. He had just finished painting when the monster screamed and rose into the air, and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Everyone surrounded Fuxi and asked, "What is this monster?" Fuxi said, "It is like a dragon and like a horse, and it has a flower pattern on its back, so let's call it a unicorn." ”
Fu Xi held the leaf and pondered the pattern on it, how could not solve the mystery. On this day, he sat on the edge of the white turtle pool thinking, overheard the sound of the pool water, fixed his eyes on it, the white turtle swam in front of him from the bottom of the water, looked at him with shining eyes, and then nodded his head three times at him, his head shrunk into his stomach, and he lay still at the water's edge. He looked intently at the white turtle. Gradually, he found that the pattern on the cover of the white turtle was five in the middle, eight around, twelve in the outer circle, and twenty-four in the outer circle, and his heart suddenly lit up, and he realized that the law of change of all things in heaven and earth was only yin and yang. Fu Xi drew eight different patterns to create the Bagua diagram, and created the Bagua character instead of the knotted rope note according to the river diagram carried by the Qilin on his back.
In ancient times, the unicorn was the unicorn. The "History of the Five Emperors" narrates the Yellow Emperor, the head of the "Five Emperors", whose national name is "Youxiong Clan", which not only respects the wild animals such as bears, but also clearly distinguishes wild animals such as bears (black bears), brown bears (brown bears), and cats (unicorns). The history also recounts a story: 5,000 years ago, the Yellow Emperor commanded a tribe that had domesticated tigers and leopards, bears, horses, unicorns and other beasts of prey, and defeated Xuanyou at Banquan. Later, a unicorn appeared in the garden of the Yellow Emperor, which was regarded as an auspicious omen that the Chinese nation would prosper for thousands of generations.
In addition to the "Records of History", The First Chinese "Shangshu Pastoral Oath", which recounts ancient deeds, also says that more than 3,000 years ago, king Wu of Zhou's troops were "like tigers like cats", defeated the king of Shang in Makino, and until the descendants, they also used the metaphor of the brave soldiers. In Buddhism, it is also used as the mount of the Jizo Bodhisattva, called "Listening" (谛聽).
During the reign of Emperor Yao, two unicorns also appeared, making Emperor Yao one of the five emperors.
In 551 BC, Confucius's mother Yan Zheng was pregnant, prayed for Mount Niqiu, and gave birth to Confucius when she met a unicorn, because Confucius's head looked like Mount Niqiu, so she named Confucius Qiu, the word Zhongni.
The story of "Nishikari Captures Lin" takes place in the late Spring and Autumn period in the western part of the Lu Kingdom. Its written records are first found in China's earliest chronicle "Spring and Autumn" written by the Warring States, and the "Biography of the Ram" written by the Historian Ram Gao of the Warring States and the "Biography of Gu Liang" written by Gu Liangchi are also recorded. Confucius's contemporary Zuo Qiuming's "Zuo Chuan, Volume XII" says: In the spring of the fourteenth year of the Duke of Lai, the western hunt was in Daye, and the key merchant of the car of the Uncle Sun clan was obtained, thinking that it was ominous, in order to give it to the people. Zhongni Guan Zhi zhi: "Lin Ye". The "History of confucius's family" also says: "In the spring of the fourteenth year of the Duke of Lu'ai, the western hunting field, the car key merchant of the uncle Sun clan obtained the beast, thinking it was ominous, Zhongni regarded it as: Lin Ye." The Yanzhou Fuzhi ShengliZhi says: "In the spring of the thirty-ninth year of King Jing of Zhou, he hunted in the west in Daye. The shusun family's courtiers were given the key merchant Lin. Fold his left foot and carry it back. The Shusun clan thought it was ominous, and abandoned Guo Wai, causing people to tell Confucius: What about those who have elk and horns? Confucius looked at it and said: Lin Ye, Hu Wei Hu Lai! Wipe your face and weep. The Uncle Sun smelled it and then took it. Zi Gong asked: Master He Weep! Confucius said: Lin Zhi is the King of Ming, and when it is not the right time, I see harm, and I hurt it. ”
The unicorn came to the world when it should not have come, and no one knew about it, so it was "killed by the strange". Confucius was deeply saddened, thinking that he had never met in his life, touching the scenery and feeling sad, and wrote an elegy for Qilin : "Tang Yu Shi Xi Lin Fengyou, now is not the time to come to ask, Lin Xi Lin Xi I am worried." Since then, he has stopped writing books. And Confucius's "Spring and Autumn" book was also written out of the manuscript in this year, when Confucius was seventy-one years old, which fully proved that the story of "Confucius obtaining the pen of Confucius" that is still circulating in Juye is true. Confucius met Lin lin and saw lin die, which he thought was an ominous omen, coupled with the early death of his only beloved son Kong Li, which made him extremely sad, and finally died in the sixteenth year of the Duke of Lu'ai (479 BC). After The death of Confucius, the story of the death of Lin Lin was widely circulated. Juye Qilin Tomb has also become a famous place because of its unique cultural connotation, and the literati of all generations have come to look for sacred relics, or praises, or sighs, pondering the humor of the ancients, and chanting immortal sentences. Wei Biaowei, a famous scholar of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote "Lintai Inscription", and Li Bai's "Ancient Wind Poems" has a verse that reads, "If Xi Sheng is standing, he will never write to obtain Lin". In the thirty-first year of the Southern Song Dynasty Gaozong Shaoxing, the 21-year-old patriotic poet Xin Abandoned Disease, joined the anti-Jin rebel army, passed through Juye Lintai, and improvised a five-word poem:
The spring and autumn pen is always written, and the name of the old record is Lin.
The barren platform was built, and the weeds were not burned in Qin.
Lush mountains and rivers, lush scenery and palladium new.
Wei continued? The book belt has become a yin.
When the Ming Dynasty poet Sun Yiyou "obtained the ancient crossing of Lin", he also composed a poem of five words:
The ancient crossing was covered in smoke, and the sand was hanging in the air.
Spring and autumn mourn the phoenix day, heaven and earth weeping year.
When Lu changed, it was mutually obstructive, and Zhou Wanru actually swirled.
So far, it has been written, and the true meaning is more passed on.
Wang Chong's "On Heng and Speaking of Rui": "When Emperor Wu was emperor, he hunted in the west with white donkeys, one corner and five toes. "Book of Han and Wudi Ji": "Emperor Wu received Bailin from Yong, and cast gold as lin foot shape, so the cloud 'Linzhi'." Yu's "Spring and Autumn" was finally obtained by Lin Ranye. "Book of Han and The Chronicle of Emperor Wu: In the winter and October of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Wu went to Yong and sacrificed the Five Emperors of Heaven and Earth. In the area of present-day Baoji Fengxiang in Shaanxi, a white qilin was captured and composed as the Song of Bailin. The lyrics have a sentence: "Five stops, showing yellow virtue, Tu Hun abuse, smoking and destroying... Return to the clouds, caress your heart. "To the effect that the four hooves of the beast Bai Lin have five toes, showing the virtue of Edu, and that I, who have won the world, will prosper, and I will destroy the stubborn enemies in the desert and let the fierce Xiongnu perish... Shan Yuruo set foot on the clouds and returned to the east, and it was precisely Yuan's wish to be gentle and far away. To this end, Wudi changed the original era name Yuan Shuo to Yuan Hunting to celebrate auspiciousness. "History of Tai Shi Gong Self-Introduction": "So since the Tao Tang Dynasty, as for the LinZhi." In addition, Emperor Wu of Han also built the Qilin Pavilion and rewarded his courtiers with platinum. In the third year of Emperor Xuan of Han 's reign ( 51 BC ) , he painted images of 11 people , including Huo Guang , Zhang Anshi , Han Zeng , Zhao Chongguo , Wei Xiang , Bing Ji , Du Yannian , Liu De , Liang Qiuhe , Xiao Wangzhi , and Su Wu , to show their merits. In later generations, "Qilin Pavilion" or "Lin Pavilion" was used to indicate outstanding merit and the highest honor. It is also rumored that Emperor Taizong of Song was also awarded the Qilin and the Manchu Dynasty congratulated him, thus heralding the arrival of the era when China's feudal economy was most developed. It can be seen that the auspicious meaning of the qilin herald has been widely recognized by Chinese.
Therefore, in ancient times, the dragon phoenix and turtle lin were regarded as gods, and the western hunting of lin became an important content of the literati's pen. The book "Spring and Autumn Left Transmission Collection" written by The Great General and Historian Du Pre of jin Zhengnan reads: "Lin, Ren Beast, And Jiarui of the Holy King". Tang Dynasty literary scholar Han Yu's "Obtaining Lin's Interpretation" notes that "Lin's corner carries meat, and sets up weapons without harm." "You bi ze soil, auspicious and backward, do not walk insects, do not practice grass, the king has come out, and the phoenix turtle and dragon are called the four spirits." Since Qilin is one of the four spirits, some historical stories such as the "LinJing", "Qilin Book", "Jinbi Story", Song Chengju's "Lintai Story", Qing Liyu's "Qilin Pavilion", etc., all use Qilin as the title or content. For example, the era name of the ancient emperor or the ancient building and ancient place name are also often used as the code name of Xiangrui, and Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, called Weiyang Palace the Qilin Hall, and the Han Xuan Emperor was called the Qilin Pavilion. For four years, Tang Gaozu Wude took the western hunt and obtained Linyi, and placed Linzhou in Juye. Emperor Gaozong of Tang called the era name Linde, and Wu Zetian called Zhongshu Province Lintai.
Qilin culture is a traditional Chinese folk culture, such as The Kirin Sending Son. According to legend, the unicorn is a benevolent beast, a symbol of auspiciousness, and can bring heirs to people. Legend has it that on the night of Confucius's birth, a qilin descended on the Confucius Mansion and spit out a jade book with the words "Descendants of the Water Spirit, The King of the Decline of the Zhou Dynasty, Signed in the Xianming". He told everyone that Confucius was a descendant of natural creation, and although he did not occupy the position of emperor, he had the virtue of an emperor and could be called "king of su". Confucius's family tied a colorful embroidery to the horns as a sign of gratitude. In the last year of King Jing of Zhou, when someone was digging soil and ploughing a field in Qufu, he actually dug up the colored embroidery that was originally tied to the lin horn. Later, people extended three volumes of the Jade Book, and Confucius became a saint after reading it intensively. To this day, the Temple of Literature and the Palace of Learning are still decorated with the "Lin Tu Jade Book" to show the arrival of Auspicious Rui and the birth of sages. This theory is actually the basis of "Qilin sending a son", which can be found in Wang Chong's "On Heng Dingxian" and Jin Wang Jia's "Collecting Remains". After that, the "Qilin Sending Son Diagram" is engraved with couplets: Qilin Er in heaven, Yuanlang on the ground. Take this as a good omen. Folk believe that praying to the unicorn can give birth to children. Du Fu's "Song of Xu Qing's Second Son" says:
I don't see you
Xu Qing's second son is very strange,
Induction Ji Meng followed.
Confucius Shishi personally hugged and sent,
And it is the heavenly unicorn.
The unicorn is a collection of great beauty in the world
The unicorn is endowed with very good qualities in legends, for example, it is said that it is gentle in nature, does not cover insects, does not fold grass, has horns on its head, has meat on its horns, and is armed without use, so it is called "benevolent beast". The "Ode to the Qilin" of the Western Liang Wu Zhao King said: "A round hoof, the rules of the line, the choice of the place to swim, the flight and the back, do not follow the trap, do not fall into the trap." The Book of Song and Fu Ruizhi says: "With benevolence and righteousness, do not drink the pool, do not enter the pit trap, do not net it." The "Saying Garden" also has: "Han Ren Huaiyi, the rhythm of the music, the middle rule of the walk, the middle of the twist, the choice of soil and then practice, the position is flat but behind, do not live in groups, do not travel, and the quality of the text is also confused, and the questions are followed." ". It embodies the humble demeanor of a benevolent gentleman of the Qilin Dynasty. The reason why the cult of the Unicorn has been accepted by the broad masses of the people and the ruling class in the development and inheritance is precisely because the qualities possessed by this "benevolent beast" are in line with the traditional Chinese virtues of thousands of years. Therefore, we say that the Qilin is a collection of totemic beauty that the Chinese nation worships; the Qilin is the embodiment of the supreme virtue and the supreme goodness that human beings have painstakingly sought.
The characteristics and temperament evolution of the Qilin basically went through four historical periods, namely the obscure beauty of the legend in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the ancient humble beauty of the Two Han Dynasties, the majestic beauty of the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, and the prosperous beauty of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The early image of the unicorn, in the Book of River Tuluo, is: one-horned, dragon head, horse body, wings, eight feet five inches high, covered with dragon scales. The most famous surviving image of the unicorn in China is outside the Zhongshan Gate in Nanjing, and there is a sculpture called The Evil Spirit, which is also a symbol of Nanjing, taken from the mausoleum of Emperor Xiaoliang of the Southern Dynasty outside Nanjing. This sculpture is gorgeous, the body tends to the image of the lion and tiger, the boulder is carved, the height is about 3 meters, the sculpture is straight chest and waist, the eyes are open, the neck is short and wide, the sky is long, the body feeling is strong and thick, on the basis of attaching importance to the overall sense, pay more attention to exaggeration and deformation, appear magnificent and vibrant.
The image of the modern unicorn is conceived and created according to the Chinese way of thinking. From its external shape, the elk body, the oxtail, the horseshoe, the fish scales, a horn, the horn end has flesh, yellow. This shape is to concentrate all the advantages of those cherished animals on the unicorn, which fully reflects the jimei thought of Chinese.
Deer, deer worship in China belongs to the primitive animal worship, and in ancient times a symbol of the emperor. The Ruiying Tu says: "The king inherits the holy Fadu, and if nothing is lost, the white deer will come." In addition, the deer is also harmonized with "Lu", symbolizing blessing and fenglu.
The cow, according to legend, is the god who came to the human world to help mankind, and he quietly cultivated in the field, bringing material wealth to mankind. The cow eats grass, but milk is milk, and the dedication embodied in it also gives mankind spiritual wealth.
Horses, horses are considered intelligent, loyal, brave and hard-working animals, with a noble, flowing, elegant temperament. In the I Ching, the horse symbolizes heaven, that is, "dry is heaven". In ancient times, the sacrifice of heaven and earth and the oath of renunciation often used the white horse as a sacrificial horse, believing that the white horse belonged to the yang and was driven by the gods.
Fish, a general term for fish as a type of aquatic animal, the scales on its body are cherished as auspicious and beautiful decorations, "fish scale brocade", is the traditional auspicious pattern. The image of the world on the Han tomb painting unearthed in Mawangdui, Hunan Province, also places the earth on earth on top of two huge fish. The fish is also harmonized with "Yu" and has become a symbol of life abundance. The powder made from the horn grinding of unicorns can act as an antidote to lethal anesthetics. People who drink wine with unicorn horn glasses say it can cure disease (epilepsy). In fact, people who drink unicorn horn cups and are protected from poisoning are saved from death because they also drink wine, water, or other liquids that dilute the poison.
There are legends about unicorns in both China and the West. The unicorn in Chinese mythology is an auspicious object that only appears when performing an important mission, and there are about 6 forms, the more famous of which is the unicorn. The unicorns of the West are shaped like white horses, with a spiral horn in front of their foreheads, representing nobility, pride and purity. In the legend, the horns of unicorns have a detoxification function, and many people take the opportunity to buy powder for the horns of "unicorns". Chinese myths and legends and Western myths and legends are recorded and described. However, the Eastern image of the unicorn in Chinese mythology is very different from the Western image that resembles a white horse.
In Chinese mythology, the dragon horse is an auspicious object. It only appears when it fulfills an important mission. Its appearance is seen as a symbol of the Belle Époque. When the world is at peace and the unicorn will return.
The tragedy of the extinction of the unicorn
The so-called tragedy is to destroy the beautiful things for people to see. The Unicorn was destroyed because it was the embodiment of Jimei.
In 398 BC, the ancient Greek historian Ctesias wrote in his book: "The unicorn lived in India, the South Asian subcontinent, and was a wild donkey, about the size of a horse, or even larger. Their bodies were snow-white, their heads were dark red, they had a pair of dark blue eyes, and a horn grew in the middle of their forehead, about half a meter long. This mysterious horn has been passed down for centuries ever since. The bottom is snow white, the middle is dark, the top is bright red, and the unicorn's sharp horns have strange magic. The powder that falls from the corner can detoxify hundreds of poisons, and taking the powder can resist diseases, prevent poisons, and be able to revive the dead. Magic drives people crazy about this magical horn, every nobleman wants to have a wine glass with unicorn horn, and every hunter dreams that one day the unicorn will fall into his trap. Because the unicorn horn is considered a detoxification treasure in Europe, the unicorn has become a target for public pursuit and hastened its extinction.
In medieval myths and legends, unicorns roam freely in the mountains and wilderness, and they are very friendly to humans. In the story, the simple and kind unicorn is often seduced by the charming body fragrance of the girl and falls into a terrible trap, the "pure" girl savagely cuts off its magical horn, and the unicorn that loses its magic can only be ruthlessly slaughtered by the hunter.
A horned beast haunts the snow-capped Himalayan mountains, thus forming some ancient legends. Therefore, many people believe that Tibet is the source of the unicorn legend, and the legend continues to be continued. So it's no surprise that 4 brass unicorn sculptures still exist in the king's palace.
Being destroyed because of beauty is the tragedy of the unicorn.
Unicorns are not legends
So, whether the unicorn is a real creature or a legend, we will prove it with the following points:
One. Qilin is mostly recorded in ancient texts, the earliest of which is the Spring and Autumn And the Book of Poetry. "Spring and Autumn" is known for its rigorous records, and it will never say strange things, forces, chaos, or things that God does not have, let alone blindly talk about the wind and shadows. For example, the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Chronicle of History, the Treatise on Balance, the Ganghui compilation of the dynasties, the Records of Gang Yizhi, the Records of Cao Nan, the Chronicles of CaoZhou Prefecture, and the Chronicles of Juye County have also been truthfully recorded. This fully proves that the story of "Confucius's Brilliant Pen" that is still circulating in Juye is true. In the five thousand years from Fuxi to Song Taizong, the unicorn was not only found from time to time, but also shot by arrows, indicating that the unicorn is not a legendary animal.
Two. Like China, the unicorn has been regarded as a symbol of wisdom in Europe since ancient times. The metaphorical rhetoric of culture and art. The West is also commonly called "unicorn", because it is like gold and it is used as a symbol of money and wealth, called "golden unicorn".
Three. The European medieval story says: In the middle of the night, there are many animals around a pool, but the water is poisonous, and they dare not drink it until a unicorn appears, it gently dips the horn in the water, and the pool water is immediately clean. The Horn of the Unicorn has a detoxification function, which can filter dust and poisons to prevent poisoning and other diseases, and even has an immortal effect. So European royal aristocrats prevalent cups made of unicorns. In 398 BC the ancient Greek historian Ctesias wrote in his book: "The unicorn lived in India, the South Asian subcontinent, and was a wild donkey, about the size of a horse or even larger. Their bodies were snow-white, their heads were dark red, they had a pair of dark blue eyes, and a horn grew in the middle of their forehead, about half a meter long. "This white bottom, black in the middle, and bright red horn at the top has a strange magic: the powder filed from the horn can detoxify hundreds of poisons, and taking the powder can resist the disease and prevent it from invading, and it can be revived."
Fourth, our "first corner of the world" is recorded in many ancient books. "Chronicles of the States of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty": In the thirty-ninth year of King Jing of Zhou, Lu Aigong was hunted in Daye, and the shusun family's courtiers obtained a beast, a deer body, an oxtail, a horse's hoof, and a meat horn on his head, which was strangely killed. Han Yu's "Obtaining Lin Xie" Yun: "Lin is a corner and carries meat, and sets up weapons without harm, so it is renye." Here, "a corner" is right, but the horn tip is topped with "meat" is wrong, just imagine, the horn tip is meat, how to fight? Although there are weapons and do not take the initiative to infringe on others, it shows the benevolence of the Unicorn, but when encountering infringement, it will fight back in self-defense. The correct statement should be "Lin a corner and the top flesh color", which has a defensive function, in line with the reality of the "first corner of the world" top "flesh red", more in line with the front corner of the sword shadow of the battle scars; the West calls the unicorn "golden unicorn", this unicorn horn is also golden; "there are three hundred and sixty hairy insects, and the unicorn is long", ancient texts say that the unicorn is the head of the hairy animals, indicating that the unicorn is the king of the hairy animals. Moreover, a glimpse of the whole leopard, its golden horn at the top, and confirmed its penetrating golden yellow, which is a veritable "golden unicorn".
Wounds left over from the battle of the Unicorn Unicorn, a national artifact in the town of Qiguo, photographed by Yang Yongming
Ziqi Guozhen National Artifact China Heavy Treasure Qilin Unicorn Unicorn Horn Tip Translucent "Meat" Yang Yongming photo
The golden age is now unicorn
If calculated by reference to the ratio of rhino horn to rhinoceros, the golden unicorn restored from this majestic and healthy giant horn is by no means lower than the size of the rhinoceros or even larger than it.
Excitingly, the latest archaeological findings that the Siberian unicorn went extinct only 29,000 years ago, completely overturning the scientific community's decades-long belief that it had disappeared for 350,000 years.
According to the Australian science and technology website, scientists found a well-preserved Siberian unicorn skull in Kazakhstan, using radiocarbon dating to determine that the prehistoric behemoth survived more than 300,000 years longer than expected. The Siberian unicorn is an extinct rhinoceros, scientifically known as the plate-toothed rhinoceros, with a full body hair, a huge body, a height of 2 meters, a length of 4.5 meters, a weight of about 4 tons, more like a mammoth, is a herbivorous animal that feeds mainly on grass.
For decades, scientists estimated that the Siberian unicorn — a long-extinct mammal that looked more like a rhino than a horse — went extinct about 350,000 years ago. But the well-preserved skull found in Kazakhstan completely overturns this hypothesis. As it turns out, these incredible creatures are only 29,000 years old.
The "Siberian Unicorn" is in the natural history museum of Moscow University.
Self-qiguo town national artifact Chinese heavy treasure unicorn unicorn yang Yongming photo
The above Siberian unicorn is restored, but their horns are reversed.
A true unicorn, fluffy and huge, looks like a modern rhinoceros, with only the most powerful horns on its forehead. The researchers believe the skull they found in Kazakhstan belonged to an older male Siberian unicorn.
Our unicorn horn will correct the errors in the above unicorn restoration diagram: 1. Its horn is not slender but thick and powerful; 2. The horn tip is not a back bend but a forward bend, and if it is smashed, it will kill the enemy with the power of thunder and thunder; 3. It is covered with golden long hair; 4. It is more than 2 meters tall, 5 to 6 meters long, and 5. Weighs 5 to 6 tons. This is what makes it "the king of hairy animals!" ”
Fossil Siberian unicorn skulls confirm that the Siberian unicorn extinction time is only 29,000 years. Recently, scientists are extracting DNA from the hair and bones of mammoths found under glaciers to clone extinct mammoths.
Pictured here is a well-preserved specimen of the mammoth carca
Professor Hwang and scientists are extracting mammoth DNA
Experts say: Putin supports the Russian-South Korean cooperative mammoth cloning program
Japanese scientists plan to create a live long-haired mammoth using cloning techniques within 5 years. Mammoths have been extinct for more than 4,000 years. Japanese scientists extracted intact DNA cells from mammoth skeletons displayed at the Russian Institute. It is planned to insert it into the egg cells of ordinary elephants, artificially allow them to grow, divide, and then obtain an embryo containing the mammoth gene. The embryo was then placed in the womb of a female elephant, hoping that the mother elephant would be able to give birth to a small mammoth after a gestation of more than 600 days.
In 2008, Dr. Teruhiko Wakasayama of the Institute of Physics and Chemistry produced cloned mice for the first time in the world from cells from mouse carcasses that had been cryopreserved for 16 years. Akira Irietani's team developed a new technology based on Teruhiko Wakayama's approach. As long as 2 to 3 percent of the nuclei in the thawed tissue are not damaged, they can be extracted intact using new techniques.
Xu Xun, president of the China University Genetic Chinese s Research Institute, chief scientist and executive director of the National Gene Bank, said: China's scientists have restored the full function of mammoth cells, formed embryonic cells, only wait for qualified surrogates, mammoths can travel through 4,000 years of historical time and space, re-emerge from the rivers and lakes, and amaze the world.
Xu Xun introduced that in 2013, people found a complete mammoth juvenile in the Siberian ice, and later obtained a complete mammoth nucleus through the hair of the juvenile. "Scientists resurrected mammoth cells by injecting mammoth nuclei into the cells of Asian elephants that had eliminated their nuclei, which were already mammoth genomes and exhibited the characteristics of mammoths. On this basis, mammoth cells reproduce mammoth embryonic cells, and now cloning technology and stem cell technology have achieved this goal, so that the cells achieve full functionality, they can develop into complete embryos, and finally, they can breed mammoth individuals. ”
Heaven shines on my greater China, and the sky is endlessly beautiful. This unicorn horn of our country should have been preserved under the Himalayan glacier after the avalanche, and its hair, hair, and horns were all there, and it was still "alive" intact. We can take the DNA from it, clone the Chinese Unicorn, travel through the thousand-year history time and space, re-emerge from the rivers and lakes, and amaze the world, so as to truly realize the historical life of "the golden unicorn".
Located in the National Gene Bank in Shenzhen
The golden age is now unicorn. In Chinese history, each appearance of the Qilin symbolizes the arrival of a special historical period, and the Qilin appeared during the reigns of Fuxi, the Yellow Emperor, Yao, Confucius, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Taizong of song, and brought about the prosperity of the times. Today, the reappearance of the Qilin has summoned the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Then, forty years, forty years in the long river of human history is only a white horse gap. However, in the short period of China's reform and opening up, there has been a spectacle of the three major treasures of China that have been lost for several dry years, and it not only foreshadows the irreversible and inevitable arrival of China's prosperous world, but even heralds a brand-new world of great unity and prosperity that is full of material life and carefree, fully sublimated in the moral realm, and the material civilization and spiritual civilization are already -- a ship standing on the coast and looking at the sea at a distance. Standing on the top of the mountain and looking at the east in the distance, I saw a round of sunrise that was about to burst forth, restless in the mother's womb and about to mature a baby.
The nation's is also the world's, and China's today is the world's tomorrow. We should lose no time in declaring the World Cultural Heritage, so that the three national treasures can simultaneously ascend to the peak of human civilization and shine with infinite scenery in the world of great harmony.
October 1, 2020
Yang Yongming, a writer in Yunnan and chairman and general manager of Luxi Ziqiguo Cultural Industry Co., Ltd
Deputy General Manager Yang Guangcan Yang Guangliang