The Sea Mistake Map is a set of maps drawn by the painter Nie Huang during the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty. Nie Huang used vivid pictures and texts to record the various creatures he had seen and heard with his own eyes and ears along the coast of China. Limited by the times, the book is exaggerated, there are many unreliable points, and the records of biological habits are also mixed with true and false, but they are interesting and loved by the emperors of the Qing Dynasty. There are four volumes of "Sea Mistake Map", three of which are now in the Forbidden City in Beijing and one in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
The "wrong" of "sea mistake" does not mean a large number of errors, this "wrong" means a wide variety and a mixture of things, that is, a wide variety of creatures in the ocean. At least since the Western Han Dynasty, Chinese used "sea mistakes" to refer to marine life, so the "Sea Fault Map" is essentially an ancient marine life atlas. Nie Huang can be said to be a Qing Dynasty naturalist, because there are all kinds of things painted in the "Sea Mistake Map". During the Kangxi Dynasty, he traveled to Hebei, Tianjin, Zhejiang, and Fujian to investigate coastal organisms, lived along the coast for a long time, and has always been very interested in coastal organisms. Suffering from the fact that no atlas of marine life had been circulated since ancient times, he decided to draw a book of his own. Whenever I saw one, I drew it down, flipped through the group books for verification, and asked local fishermen to verify the authenticity of the ancient books.
After decades of accumulation, Nie Huang finally completed the "Sea Mistake Map" in the thirty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1698). This is also the only work he has passed down, and the whole book does not contain words dedicated to the emperor, which shows that Nie Huang did not intend to pay tribute to the book. It was not until the fourth year of Yongzheng (1726) that the book reappeared: the imperial palace archives of this year record that the eunuch Su Peisheng brought the sea fault map into the palace. After that, Emperors such as Qianlong, Jiaqing, and Xuantong loved this atlas. In the Republic of China, due to the Japanese invasion of China, the cultural relics of the Forbidden City moved south, and in the middle of the transfer, a full set of four books was divided. Now the first three volumes of "Sea Mistake Map" are left in the Forbidden City in Beijing, and the fourth volume is hidden in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
<h1>Deer sharks</h1>
There are deer sharks in the Guangdong sea, which turn into deer on the shore. Same with Taiwanese shark deer.
<h1>Goby</h1>
The goby is produced in the Fujian Sea, with a head like a dragon and no horns and thorns, scales, golden yellow, four legs like a tiger's claw tail pointed but not a foot long, no meat, no skin. Can be put into medicine, with Zhangquan medicine room more dry Jia people often carry the four directions, pseudo cloud small Jiao, false.
<h1>Sea mermaids</h1>
The mermaid is as long as a man, with black flesh and yellow hair, hands, feet, eyebrows, mouth and nose, yin and yang are the same as men and women, but the back has wings, red, and has a short tail and callosus fingers slightly different from the ears of the person.
<h1>Salt dragon</h1>
Legend has it that a dragon produced in the south produces salt from its armor.
<h1>Sea monk (in the son</h1>).
A legendary sea monster, in the coastal area of Zhejiang, folk believe that it is unlucky to go out to sea to fish and encounter "sea monks". In the coastal areas of Fujian, the "sea monk" is by no means a good type, and the dragon and phoenix head in Pingtan, Fujian Province, has the legend of "Lei Gong Fury Splitting the Sea Monk". There are different species such as turtle type and monkey type. It is called Zaizi in the "Unitary Yang Miscellaneous Tricks".
Original text: The sea monk turtle is a human head, and the foot is slightly longer, and the "Guangdong New Language" is loaded, but it is difficult to figure it without being seen in person. In the twenty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Funing Prefecture Sea got a large turtle on the Internet, and the head of the people was also the head, and the viewers were terrified and threw themselves into the sea. This is the sea monk also. Yang Ciwen illustrated. Sea Monk Zan: The monk in the sea, ben does not ask for almsgiving. Dangerous boat sami, begging monks rules.
<h1>flatfish</h1>
i.e. flounder.
<h1>Fish tiger</h1>
The head is like a tiger, and the back skin is like a hedgehog with thorns, that is, a tiger scorpion. Legend has it that the tiger came ashore
Original text: Zhu Jie Xue Zai: Fish tiger, head like a tiger, back skin like a hedgehog, can stab people. "Materia Medica" said: The fish and tiger have thorns on their backs, and the people bite like snakes. Born in the South China Sea, it can also become a tiger. There is nothing to be done about books. Kangxi Ding ugly, Minzhong is a fish, the figure is no more than six or seven inches. Hairen Yun: The big one is rare. The back of the head is spined, and the fish are afraid of it, and dare not commit it, so it is called "fish tiger". "Fish Tiger Praise": Head Horn Zheng Rong, Tiger of Fish. Water rhinoceros, timid.
<h1>The shy beast</h1>
Doghead fish tail bipedal. That is, fur seals or spotted seals, also known as bone jackals, are said to be mandarins.
<h1>Dive cattle</h1>
There are hidden cattle in the South China Sea, bull heads and fish tails, wings on the back, often into the West River, on the shore and bull fighting, horns soft into the water is firm, comeback.
<h1>sea spider</h1>
Sea spider, born in the island of Guangdong. Huge as a wheel, stationery of five colors, silk like a fold, tigers and leopards can not touch it, killing is food.
<h1>Birthday star octopus</h1>
In the twenty-fifth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the eunuchs of Songjiang Jinshan Weiwang Township built a garden, suitable for fishermen to net octopus, different shapes, heads like life stars, two eyes, one mouth, fleshy, such as the body sitting and two feet, the cover of octopus disguised also, the fisherman wrapped his feet around his body, placed in the plate, dedicated to the king eunuch, said "the sky has a long gung star, the sea has an old man's fish." The new garden has this auspicious omen, and the sign of long life is not accidental. Thousands of spectators marveled. It is a reward, and it is still released to the sea, as if it were a sea child.
<h1>Ghost head fish</h1>
In the fifteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Li Wensi and his friends surnamed Zhou, Ke Songjiang and Shanghai, crossed the sand camp, and occasionally got a large octopus in the sea fishing net, shaped like a human, about two feet long, with a mouth and eyes, from the head down to the body, two shoulders out, but less arms and ears, below the body is eight feet long drag, still no different from the octopus, full of flesh thorns. When it first entered the net, it was like a totoaba, singing seven times, and it was killed, and the fisherman sighed as a rarity. There were many spectators, and no one dared to eat. This ghost head fish also. According to the sea monks often smell the clouds of people can do evil, every time they encounter a sea boat, they want to go up, tens of millions of people, attached to the side of the ship, can make the boat overturned. When the helmsman sees this, he will sprinkle rice and burn paper for money to be blessed. correct. But he who hears what he says, and sees his form. A few people, now three times, to prove the "Muhua Haifu", the so-called sea boy invited the road is not false.
Octopus raw spines are large and great
The ray is the ghost of the fish