Did Ji Xiaolan encounter dinosaurs in Xinjiang?
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"Does your family eat grain now?"
When I asked Mr. Ji Qingyuan this, some of the friends at the same table had strange eyes, meaning that there was something wrong with this brain? How to ask such a strange question?
Only Mr. Qingyuan immediately understood, and said with a bitter smile: "Of course, of course, this is not the time for Wen Dagong..."
The "WenDa Gong" mentioned by Mr. Qingyuan was Ji Xiaolan, a famous minister of the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty.
▲ Ji Yun, the character Xiaolan, the number Shi Yun, after his death, the imperial court gave Wenda, is the sixth ancestor of Mr. Ji Qingyuan
Ji Xiaolan is recorded in volume III of the Great View of the Wild History of the Qing Dynasty: "Fair raw rice is not eaten or occasionally eaten, and rice is not eaten." During the meal, only ten plates of pork are boiled, and one pot of tea is boiled. (The gentleman did not eat much grain in his life, noodles, occasionally ate a little, rice has never been eaten at all.) When it was time to eat, only ten plates of pork were served, plus a pot of tea. ）
▲ Eat ten plates of pork in one meal?!
This is not an isolated evidence, it is also recorded in the "Worm Song Manga", saying: "Ji Wenda said that he was a wild monster who turned around and took meat as rice, and did not have grains of rice to enter." Other sources at that time also said that Ji Xiaolan still had to eat dozens of pounds of meat a day when he was eighty years old, but he did not eat grain.
For this reason, I asked Mr. Ji this question, somewhat ridiculously, and was immediately heard by Mr. Qingyuan.
We met to participate in the "favor" reader gathering of Beijing Youth Daily, and also present was Professor Wang Xiaolin, a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. ”
In a word, the two gentlemen are a bit inexplicable - Mr. Wang is specialized in Xinjiang pterosaurs, researchers are honest, and immediately ask what is going on, Mr. Ji Qingyuan is inexplicable, probably wondering when the word "dinosaur" was introduced to China in the twentieth century.
In fact, Lao Sa joked like this because he was deeply impressed by a passage in the "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang". There is such a passage in the "Reading Wei Caotang Pen Luanyang Elimination Summer Record III" -
"Yu Admiral Jin Ao said: Taste the night walk to spread the Gobi - the Gobi, the place where the sand and stones do not grow water and grass, that is, the Hanhai. Seeing a thing from afar, it seems to be a non-human, its height is several feet, it is chased very urgently, it is bent in the arc of its chest, it rises and rises, and then shoots the first servant. Just look, it is a great scorpion tiger, and it can stand on the ground. Strange. (Admiral Yu Jin'ao said that he once walked in the open Gobi Desert in the dark of night.) I saw something in the distance, like a person and not a person, almost up to a foot high, chased after it very fiercely, immediately bent the bow and arrow to shoot it, the monster fell after the arrow, stood up again, immediately shot again, and then completely fell. Looking closer, it turned out to be a very large scorpion tiger, and it was really strange that it could stand and walk like a human! ）
In the territory of today's Shanshan, the Tang Dynasty was the county rule of Puchang County, and the later yin was "Puzhan County", and Yu Jinjun did have his own person, who was a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty, and Qianlong served as the viceroy of Urumqi for thirty-eight years. Qianlong thirty-three years old Xiaolan was sent to Xinjiang for his involvement in lu jian zeng, and at that time Yu Jinjun was handling the affairs of Ili Tuntian, and the two should have exchanges in Xinjiang, all of which was logical.
So, is there a "scorpion tiger" here that is a foot long?
▲ The scorpion tiger, that is, the gecko, is a hidden ear desert tiger specially produced in Xinjiang, the longest is only 40 centimeters
▲ Modern resemblance to the scorpion tiger, can only use the hind limbs to walk animals is not nothing, double-crowned lizards such as the can also climb the water like walking flat, but their size is all
Nearly a foot tall, the only possibility is the ancient dinosaurs.
▲ Many dinosaurs walked bipedally, such as velociraptors
Interestingly, in the area of the exhibition, there was really one such dinosaur. Chinese scientists once found a dinosaur called Shanshan Flame Mountain Dragon in the local area, which is how to travel on two legs, if Admiral Yu Jinjun met it, it is inevitable that it is a "big scorpion tiger", but Ji Xiaolan or Ji Xiaolan's friend Yu Jinjun saw dinosaurs and it was completely wrong - all dinosaurs were extinct in the late Cretaceous Period more than 60 million years ago.
▲ Including the Hami pterosaur that Wang Xiaolin researchers have been pondering, all of them have also been fossilized
According to scientists, the era in which dinosaurs lived, that kind of climate and environment is not suitable for human beings to survive at all, so even if Admiral Yu Jinjun signed a contract with the starting point, he would only have to die through the past, and it was basically too late to make such a feat as shooting a dinosaur.
In fact, Mr. Ji Xiaolan wrote about a variety of mysterious animals in Xinjiang in the "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang", which was very interesting to read, and Lao Sa was also very fascinated when he read it. However, a closer reading reveals that most of them are quite entangled with the understanding of today's scientific community.
For example, Mr. Ji once said that the Xinjiang bison flocked, but the bison in northern China was extinct as early as prehistoric times, and although animals such as wildebeest may cause ambiguity, they are not gregarious, and from the habit of speaking, the Xinjiang bison described by Mr. Ji is more like the wildebeest in Africa.
Well, maybe Mr. Ki saw a wild domestic cow, but he was even more wrong when he mentioned wild camels.
Xinjiang is the last refuge of today's wild camels, and more than half of the world's wild camels live in the Lop Nur area, and it is not unusual to mention this animal in Xinjiang. However, today's wild camels are all bactrian camels, and the wild camels mentioned by Mr. Ji are dromedary camels - the historical dromedary camels were extinct in the Sahara Desert around the first millennium BC, and the farthest distribution area only reached West Asia, and it is unlikely to see their shadow in Xinjiang during the Qianlong era in China.
In addition, Mr. Xiaolan also mentioned that the humanoid creature Red Willow Baby, which is not much longer than chopsticks, seems to be outside the understanding of today's scientific community.
▲ The Marmosets in the Americas are closer to the red willow babies described by Mr. Ji, but who sold them to Xinjiang and rewilded them during the Qing Dynasty?
Based on all the above, I speculate that whether it is the Big Scorpion Tiger or the Red Willow Baby, it is probably Ji Xiaolan who was bored after he was assigned to Xinjiang, collecting mythical stories to talk about masturbation and recorded, I am afraid that it did not really exist in this world.
However, just as I was about to draw conclusions, I suddenly noticed a news - someone in Australia came in with a large gecko more than a meter long, and the owner almost scared to death on the spot.
▲ Is this scary photo of PS?
However, soon some friends confirmed that there really is such a "big scorpion tiger" on the earth.
It turns out that this is a large reptile called the sand monitor lizard (Varanus g. gouldi), which now lives in Australia and New Zealand, and can usually reach 1.5 meters in length, and can reach 2.5 meters in extreme cases (there is no gene in the crawling action object to control growth, as long as the life span is long enough, they can grow into a giant Mac), which is very close to the Qing Dynasty!
Moreover, this sand monitor lizard is suitable for living in the Gobi region and has the habit of standing on its hind feet and looking around.
▲ If a sand monitor lizard like this is seen by Admiral Yu Jinjun...
For a moment, I felt that it was better to retract the conclusion, Lao Sa is now very suspicious, either when Ji Wenda was sent to Xinjiang, there were still some very strange animals left in the local area, but unfortunately not seen by us today; or, Ji Wenda Gong once traveled to different parts of the world, different times, and brought us back the story of the vicissitudes of the sea.
Uh, suddenly feel like you're doing something superfluous, a little underwhelming— with such a good story to listen to, aren't you still satisfied?
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