Every generation thinks that the world they live in is the normal world. In fact, the backs of hundreds of giant whales are crowded with bay after bay, which is the way the world is.
——Zhang Chenliang's "Notes on the Wrong Map of the Sea"
The "wrong" of the sea mistake means a variety of kinds and mishmash.
Painted by Nie Huang, a Qing Dynasty painter and biology enthusiast, "Sea Fault Map" depicts more than 300 kinds of creatures and also records many coastal plants, which is a strange book with a modern naturalistic style. Moreover, the text of each creature has both observation records and literature research, and is accompanied by an interesting "small praise". There are four volumes of the Sea Mistake Map, three of which are in the Forbidden City in Beijing and one in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
Zhang Chenliang: Planning Director of Naturalist Magazine under China National Geographic, science popularization author, has written hundreds of popular science articles for major media, and has been awarded "2017 Science Popularization China" top ten science communication figures in 2017.
"Notes on Sea Mistake Maps", as the name suggests, is Zhang Chenliang's analysis and examination of the organisms in "Sea Fault Maps", reasoning and identification, just like a note for "Sea Fault Maps".
In this book, the author adopts the classification method of traditional Chinese Materia Medica, and classifies the organisms in the book into four categories: "intermediate part, scale part, insect part, and poultry part", showing how the ancients classified the organism.
Before sharing the animals that I find interesting, I will also introduce you to an ancient taxonomy- the five worms said, and everyone can roughly understand.
Feathers: Birds, the phoenix is the length of the feather insects.
Caterpillar: A beast, the unicorn is the length of a caterpillar.
Insects: Shelled animals, such as shellfish, crabs, etc., turtles are the length of insects.
Scales: Scaly animals, such as fish, lizards, snakes, etc., dragons are the length of scales.
Naked worms: also written as 倮, 蠃, hairless animals, such as humans, frogs, earthworms, etc., artificially naked worms.
So let's take a look at it as we please...
The totoaba in "Sea Fault Map" is today's big yellow croaker
Totoaba praised it as saying, "Sea fish and stone head, passed down immortally." Well-known in the Central Plains, everywhere. "You can see the number of yellow croakers. Now the yellow croaker is often thousands of dollars a piece, and the wild yellow croaker has been cut off by the door, completely lost its vitality. As soon as the researchers released the fry, they were immediately fished away by the fishermen's fixed nets. Protecting the yellow croaker is almost like sinking into the sea.
In order to protect the ecology of the Yangtze River Basin, Hubei has begun a ten-year ban on fishing this year, and recently has been resettling retired fishermen. Ten years later, the fishermen are old, the young people have lost these crafts, and the Yangtze River does not know whether it will return to its original state?
All sea snakes belong to the cobra family and are more venomous, even more venomous than cobras on land. But most sea snakes are very docile and don't attack people.
Sea 㹠: 㹠 is a variant of the dolphin, and the dolphin is "the pig in the sea". The ancient books record that dolphins look like pigs, but after Nie Huang saw it, he wondered why it didn't look like it at all. The fisherman told him "not because it looks like a pig, but because its internal organs are the same as pig offal". Dolphins are mammals and indeed their guts are not as good as fish and more like pigs.
Parasites are a major threat to dolphins, and if not removed in time, they can harm its echo localization system and respiratory system, causing it to run aground.
There is a kind of seafood that has been praised from ancient times to the present, and she is Jiang Yaozhu.
Here you can use the tone of "China on the Tip of the Tongue"
The world knows that Su Dongpo is a lychee enthusiast, but as everyone knows, in his eyes, Jiang Juezhu and lychee are of equal status. He said, "To taste the lychee thick taste, high grid two excellent, the fruit is incomparable, only the River Yao pillar, puffer fish near the ear." ”
Jiang Jue is a general term for the Shellfish of the RiverAceae family, and the shape of the River Pillar is similar to a large piece of facial flesh on the cheeks of a horse, so it is called "Horse Cheek Pillar".
Today's Yaozhu is not Jiang Jue, it is all scallops. Jiang Yao's closed shell muscle is kidney-shaped, and the closed shell muscle of scallops is rounded. But it doesn't matter, I think it's delicious enough...
China's most famous pearls are at the northernmost and southernmost points of the territory.
In the north, there is the "Dongzhu" in the three eastern provinces, and in the south there is the "Nanzhu" in the sea of Hepu, Guangxi.
Tortoiseshell, also known as tortoiseshell, why is it called tortoiseshell? The "Compendium of Materia Medica" has a cloud: "Its function detoxifies, and the jealous person who poisons are jealous, hence the name." "Tortoiseshell is the only turtle that feeds on sponges, and many of the sponges in its recipes are poisonous, causing the tortoiseshells themselves to be poisonous. Therefore, the theory of detoxification is purely false.
Tortoiseshell is organic and will slowly decompose, so the surviving tortoiseshell products are all from the Qing Dynasty.
Seahorses and sea dragons are small fish in the sea with skin and bones.
Well fish, sea turtles, cross-sharks, three creatures that look very different, turn out to be whales.
And the ugly mermaid ♂️... Will such a mermaid still cry into tears? [Cover your face]
Perhaps the Creator gave each creature a different look in order to understand one another. As a part of the biological chain, man more often needs to revere life and nature, and living in harmony with all life is the law of nature.