Ancient text: "There is a beast, its shape of a horse and bird wings, a human face and a snake's tail, is a good lifter, known as the lake." "
Vernacular text: "There is a beast in the mountains, shaped like the body of a horse and the wings of a bird, the face of a man and the tail of a snake, which is fond of holding people up, and its name is The Lake." "
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The ancients with pictures
Now the figure
Look at the diagram I found
The squirrel [wú shǔ], also known as the flying squirrel or flying tiger, is a collective name for a species of a family under the family Scaly-tailed squirrels, known as the squirrel family. There are 34 species in 13 genera and 16 species in China, of which 3 species are specially produced in China: the compound-toothed shrew, the groove-toothed shrew and the low-foaming flying squirrel. Most of this animal species are found in tropical and subtropical forests in southeastern Asia, with only a few distributed in temperate and cold temperate forests of northern Eurasia and North America.
Its shape of the horse body - first of all, let's talk about this horse body, look at the above figure 4 when standing on the foot is still very similar to the shape of the horse. As for the size of the body, (1) it may be that the previous flying squirrel is relatively large, and the ancient creatures are not big ^_^. (2) When there is no reference object, you look at this picture for the first time, and you cannot judge the size of the creature.
Bird wing, this everyone can see clearly, not much to say.
Human face - this picture is cute, a bit like a human face. What's not to like!
This one is like it! People's imagination is actually common, and now that people paint this flying squirrel like this, ancient people may also imagine it as a "human face".
Snake tail - It is not difficult to see the tail like a snake in the picture above.
It's a good lifter — it's a pleasure to hold people up. See here, let's imagine what object to lift, is it necessary to stand upright at 2 feet. Take a look at the picture
Flying squirrels are a bit like squirrels, and they also raise their front paws to take things. As for lifting people (1) it may be that the author saw the creature raise its front paws, the author's imagination. (2) Maybe the previous big flying squirrel can really lift people. (3) In this author only said that he likes to lift people, and did not say that this creature eats people, at least it can prove that it should be a vegetarian O (∩_∩) O haha ~.
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