For modern humans, gorillas are a very common species in nature, belonging to the primate subfamily Gorilla genus Anthropocene, which mainly lives in the jungles near the equator of the African continent.
(Image from the Internet)
However, in ancient China, there are also more detailed descriptions of gorillas, which are recorded in the Book of Rites: the original text of the Book of Rites is "Parrots can speak, not away from birds, orangutans can speak, not away from animals."
There is also a record of orangutans in the Classic of Mountains and Seas:
"There are beasts, whose shape is like a yu and whose ears are white, and who walk away, whose name is called fox, and whose food is good."
- The Classic of Mountains and Seas - The Classic of Nanshan
There is a beast in the mountains, shaped like an ape but with a pair of white ears, which can both crawl and crawl, and can walk upright like a human, the name is fox, and eating its flesh can make people walk fast.
Jiang Yinghao's Classic of Mountains and Seas (Pictured Panorama)
The ancients believed that eating orangutans could absorb the ability of orangutans to walk between mountains and mountains, and they could walk like flying. Of course, this is a primitive concept of the ancients, that if you eat the corresponding meat of an animal, you can absorb the aura of the other party to yourself, and achieve the effect of complementing the form. The most delicious part of the orangutan is the lips of the orangutan, which is one of the "Eight Mountain Treasures". In the "Lü's Spring and Autumn Taste", it is recorded: "The beauty of meat, the lips of the orangutan". High temptation: "Orangutan, beast name also, human face dog body and long tail"
(Qing Wu You ru painting treasure)
In the description of the ancients, Tang Lizhao's "Supplement to the History of the Kingdom of Tang" rolled down the clouds: "Orangutans, good wine and sandals." Whoever has a taker, place two things to tempt him. When the orangutan first appears, he will scold: Me too! It's not going away. Long time, a little persuasion. Russia was drunk, and his feet were stumbling on the sand, because he was rewarded with "...
Orangutans are very good at wine and fiddling with straw shoes. So the natives at that time often put wine on the road, and there were dozens of pairs of grass shoes next to them, and the orangutans walked by and knew the names of the natives and their ancestors who placed these two things. At first they shouted the names of the natives and their ancestors, and scolded: "Tempt me again, so that you will not be fooled!" Then just walk away. But after a while they returned, eyes fixed on the wine and straw shoes, cursed again, and then walked away again. After going back and forth like this several times, he finally couldn't resist the temptation of wine and straw shoes, so he shouted at each other to drink wine, and put grass shoes on his feet. As a result, they were very drunk, and then the natives came out to catch them, and the drunken heads and the straw shoes made them unable to run, so they were caught by the natives. They know the purpose of human wine, but because of greed, they can't resist temptation and become human food on the plate.
(Ming Hu Wenhuan)
Of course, the ancient people's description of orangutans is mixed with some imaginary components, and now we have a very scientific knowledge and understanding of orangutans.