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Text丨Cognitive history
Editor丨Cognitive history
A long time ago, there were many legends of "mackerel" in the South China Sea on the mainland.
Some were encountered while fishing at sea, some were encountered while playing on the shore, and the most sensational one was the accidental capture of mackerel by a fishing boat in the South China Sea in the eighties.
On this day, there was a fishing boat at sea ready to collect the net and return home, and when they collected the net, they felt that the weight in it seemed to be much heavier than before, maybe they caught a large cargo, it should be a small shark or something.
When everyone was looking forward to pulling up the fishing net, they instantly stunned everyone when they looked at it, what is this thing? How come this creature has never been seen before? After taking a closer look, one of the villagers said, "Isn't this the mackerel from the South China Sea?" The human head and fish body are a particularly ancient creature. ”
Some people say that this should be a fish that we don't know, like the mermaids often seen on TV. Everyone got together and talked about it, but no one was sure what kind of creature it was.
So, do "mackerels" really exist on Earth? If so, where do they inhabit today?
In the South China Sea of the mainland, there has always been a poignant story of "mackerel weeping pearls", and it is said that in the deep sea in the south of the mainland lives a half-human, half-fish creature, called mackerel, and other places are called mermaids.
Female mackerels not only look beautiful but also have the ability to weave cloth, but also the cloth they weave does not get wet in water. A long, long time ago, humans and mackerels lived in peace for a while, and the mackerels weaved cloth and sent it to the shore to exchange some food for humans.
One day, a beautiful maiden girl fell in love with a handsome young man on the shore, but the young man died unexpectedly not long after, so the maiden girl could no longer see her beloved, and every night she sat on the reef of the South China Sea and wept silently, leaving tears into pearls.
As humans discovered this ability of mackerels, they began to capture everywhere and force them to cry, and then sold pearls for money, and the greed of humans also led to the number of mackerels becoming smaller and smaller, and they hid in the deepest part of the sea in order to avoid human capture.
Although there are still reports of humans seeing mackerels around the world, there is no actual evidence, and we can only learn a little about this creature through ancient books.
Although the legend of the mackerel has always existed, no one has ever been able to prove that they have seen it with their own eyes.
However, in the 80s of the last century, there was a squirrel incident in the South China Sea that shocked China and abroad, the sun was very big that day, and the fishermen went to sea late, but on this day they harvested a lot, catching more than in the previous day.
Everyone decided to go home after collecting the last net, but a strange thing happened to this last net, because this net weighed more than the previous two combined, and everyone was happy to be rich today.
When the net was fished up, these people were instantly frightened and stood upright, at first glance they thought that a person was fished up, and if you looked closely, damn it, it was more terrifying than catching a person.
In addition to some fish, shrimp, seaweed, etc., there is also a creature about one meter long, which looks like a person, non-human, like a fish and a fish, to be precise, a human head and a fish body.
Everyone looked at each other, and no one dared to determine what kind of species this was, could this be the legendary mackerel?
But fortunately, this unknown creature was motionless and seemed to be dead, in short, everyone decided to return to the relevant departments for identification with curiosity.
After the fishing boat landed, this unknown creature also attracted many fishermen in the vicinity to come to watch, and some even said very firmly: "This is the legendary mackerel."
Just when everyone was discussing with relish, several people with extremely mysterious identities suddenly appeared, and paid a lot of money to buy this "mackerel" who did not know whether he was dead or alive.
According to the memories of fishermen at that time, the mysterious man who came to buy the "mackerel" still had this heavy smell of the sea, wearing very peculiar clothes at that time, and the whole body was tightly covered, and everyone who spoke with his head down did not even see his eyes clearly, but something like fish scales loomed at the cuffs reflecting the light.
Fishy smell? Scale? Could it be that this is also a group of fish people?! , but everyone realized it a little late, because these mysterious people had long disappeared without a trace, and no one had seen them since they bought the "mackerel" that day.
This matter has also become more confusing, but there is nowhere to investigate, and no one from the relevant departments continues to investigate it, and finally it is gone.
The "Classic of Mountains and Seas", one of the three strange books of ancient China, records the "mackerel people".
Not only the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there are countless books that record the mackerel in ancient times, such as the "Taiping Yuyan", which tells that the mackerel has two skills, one is to weave silk yarn, and the other is to weep into tears.
Both the Kyushu Ethereal Record and Pu Songling's Rakshasa Sea City describe legends about the Sai people. Qing dynasty painters also depicted mermaid portraits in "Sea Fault Map".
Even the "History Books" records that Qin Shi Huang once used the mackerel to make an immortal lantern, because the oil on the maiden has a very low ignition point, and a drop of oil can burn for several days, and later Qin Shi Huang also sent people to the South China Sea to capture the mackerel and come back to refine the elixir of immortality.
So do "mackerels" really exist on Earth?
Not only in China, but also in foreign countries, there has always been a legend of mermaids.
In 1991, Singapore's Lianhe Daily newspaper published a report on the discovery of mermaid fossils tens of thousands of years old on the Yugoslav coast
The report said: "This is the most complete mermaid fossil in the world that scientists have unearthed in recent times, which also confirms that the creatures living in fairy tales in the past have indeed existed in the real world." The fossil is relatively intact, and it can be clearly seen that it has a human-like upper body, one meter and five meters tall, sharp claws on its hands, and eyes like other fish, without blinds.
In 1967, passengers on a passenger ship in British Columbia, Canada, saw a mermaid basking leisurely on the shore.
The mermaid with blond hair and a long tail sitting on the beach was snapped by a tourist from the United States.
Similar events abound, not only the mainland from ancient times to the present day has the legend of the "mackerel", but also as early as 2300 years ago, a Babylonian historian published a book, which also recorded the mermaid.
In order to explore whether the creature of mermaids really exists, marine animal experts have done a lot of research work in recent decades and have also put forward many hypotheses.
A Norwegian anthropologist once believed that mermaids did exist, "whether recorded in history or described by eyewitnesses, they all have the same physical characteristics, that is, they look like people above the waist and drag a tail like a dolphin below the waist."
British oceanographers also agree with this statement, and he believes that "mermaids are most likely another variant of ancient great apes, some of which evolved to live on land, and some of which became great apes that could survive in water." ”
Some biologists on the mainland believe that these legendary mermaids may be a marine mammal called "dugong", dugong is a rare sea creature that breathes by lungs, every ten minutes to go ashore to breathe fresh air, and they are also mammals, sometimes when holding cubs on the shore to feed, it is inevitable to be dazzled by people to recognize "mackerel".
In short, the world is so big, we have never seen this kind of creature naturally dare not draw conclusions, the current human exploration of the ocean has only reached about 5%, just this 5% has been studied by scientists around the world for a long time.
Just as humans dare not determine whether there is life outside the earth, if intelligent creatures other than humans are really discovered one day, do you think their civilization is higher than ours?
We also have reason to believe that with the advancement of science, some mysteries that cannot be solved for the time being will eventually usher in the day when the truth will be revealed in the future.