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China calls itself the land of dragons, and the sons and daughters of China call themselves the descendants of dragons, but when it comes to dragons, most people's attitudes say that dragons are just a species pieced together by a certain part of many animals, and there is no dragon at all. Coupled with years of anti-superstitious education, experts are even more secretive about the study of dragons.
When we say dragons today, of course, we are not promoting superstition, but only an inquiry into a species, just as we discuss the savages of Shennongjia and the vampires of the Americas.
The dragon symbolizes the Chinese nation, the Chinese people are likened to the descendants of the dragon, in the eyes of the world, the dragon is China, And Chinese culture is called dragon culture. So is the dragon a product of the illusion of the ancients? Or is it a real animal? This is a mystery that has been lost through the ages.
Folk Dragon Legend One: Yingkou Dragon Fall Incident
In 1934, after a heavy rainstorm in Yingkou, villagers found the body of a dragon in a reed pond with two horns on its head.
This seems to be known to many people, the famous Yingkou dragon fall incident, the explanation given by experts later is very far-fetched, and several local young people who have witnessed the dragon have also come forward to say this matter.
On August 8, 1934, a skeleton very similar to the legendary dragon was found in Yingkou, and what is even more incredible is that before this mysterious creature died, the local residents had seen it twice and had a long close contact with it!
In the first volume of the Yingkou City Chronicle, it is recorded: "On the afternoon of August 8 (1934), a farmer in Dongxiaojie on the north bank of the LiaoHe River found a giant animal with white bones, about 10 meters long, a corner on the left and right of the head, about 1 meter long, and a total of 29 sections of the spine.
Some elderly people recalled that the monster had appeared twice, the first 20 kilometers from the mouth of the sea.
Old Man Xiao Suqin: When she was 9 years old, her father drove a carriage for the landlord, and many people said that they found a "living dragon" in the upper reaches of the Tianzhuangtai, so they rushed there. Dad put her on horseback and helped her watch. The "dragon" she saw had a square head and a square brain, the eyes were very large, and they blinked, and the body was gray and white, bent and crouched on the ground, the tail was rolled up, and there were two claws extended at the abdomen, and what impressed her most was that she felt that this "dragon" was weak, the eyes were half open and half closed, plus the eyes were a little red, many people said that the weather was too hot, so they built a shed above the dragon to shelter it from the heat, and some people carried water to pour water on it, so that it could "relieve the heat". Later, after a long period of heavy rain, the "dragon" disappeared.
At that time, the common people believed that the dragon descending from heaven was an auspicious thing, and some people used reed mats to give the monster tower pergola, and some carried water to pour water on the monster, in order to avoid the monster's body from drying. It is said that people are very active, and even lazy people on weekdays go to fetch water and water. In the temple, many people and monks had to do it every day, and this continued until after another few days of heavy rain, the monster mysteriously disappeared.
However, after more than twenty days of heavy rain, this monster appeared strangely for the second time, this time in the reeds 10 kilometers from the mouth of the Liao River, at this time it was no longer a living thing, but a strange and smelly corpse.
According to the old man Yang Yishun's recollection: Before the discovery of the "dragon" bone, I heard the adults say that there was always a crackling sound in the reeds, and there was also a "whew..." like a cow," which sounded very dull, and the sound of struggle could be heard, and then there was no movement. At that time, the Yingkou area had been raining heavily for more than 40 consecutive days, the streets and roads were full of water, and some houses collapsed due to too much water. After the rain stopped, with the north wind blowing, the smell of emptiness was very big, and a worker surnamed Lu who was guarding the reed pond looked for the strange smell, found a large area of reeds lying down, pulled it out and went in to see it, and was startled: inside there was a huge animal that had died! The worker was so frightened that he turned around and ran, returning home and seriously ill. When the people heard about it, they went to see it together and reported it to the government of the time. At that time, the staff of an epidemic prevention hospital near the West Customs wore white coats and sprayed disinfectant water on the carcasses of the maggots. After the "dragon" bones were lifted out, 4 anchors were tied to ropes to form a circle around the bones for everyone to see.
Sun Zhengren: The light bone is not the original dragon type, the one painted and depicted is not that type, it is quite long, quite large head, two large horns more than one meter long, more than one meter three or four feet long, two long. Lying on the ground, the body is bent and curved, and it can be more than ten meters long.
Ma Guoxiang, the son of Ma Zichen, a famous orthopedic doctor in Yingkou City (who had seen "dragon" bones with his own eyes), remembers that his father once told him that when the bones were found, the flesh had not yet completely decayed, and it looked particularly like a "dragon".
When I read a time on August 12, 1934, I was surprised to find that this "dragon" actually had a "claw", and also used the "claw" to dig a pit of nearly 17 meters long and more than 6 meters wide, indicating that the "dragon" had struggled.
Related notes: "... The dragon's body is towering, the head is born on the left and right of the three armours, the spine is more than three inches wide, the ribs attached to the sides of the spine, each one is about five or six inches long, the tail is a vertical plate-shaped white bone tail, the whole is twenty-eight segments, each section is about a foot, the whole is a total of three zhang, the original dragon, there is a pit that has been dug by the claw, two zhangs long and five zhang, the pit clearly exists along the claw mark, until the keel still has tendons, until the skin and flesh are no longer visible. ”
These features also further validate the perception that it is a dragon. According to several elderly people, the relevant parties invited the old fishermen to identify them, but none of them knew the monster corpse. People are talking about it, and it is generally believed that it is a "dragon". The Yingkou Pseudo-Sixth Branch organized manpower to decompose its bones and transport them to the south bank, where they were placed in their original form on the empty field in front of the West Customs for people to visit. At that time, a certain "** Times" sent someone to interview, also known as "dragon", "heavenly dragon", "Yingchuan falling dragon", "giant dragon", etc., accompanied by photos, pictures and texts. Yingkou citizens rushed to watch, and visitors from nearby cities also flocked to see, so buying train tickets to and from Yingkou became nervous. Later, it was reported that Teacher Zhang of the Fishery and Fishing Department of Yingkou Fishery Senior High School judged that it was indeed a jiao.
At that time, the Yingkou Meida Photo Studio and the Yingming Photo Studio printed a large number of photos of the "dragon" bone exhibition, which were sold along the street near the Erhoncho Hutong, and some people who came to Yingkou from other places to visit the "dragon" bone rushed to buy "dragon" bone photos and bring them back to their families to enjoy.
Li Binsheng: I remember that year I was ten years old, 70 years ago, in the West Customs open-air exhibition around a circle of anchors, under the sampan fixed ship anchor with that intermittent circle, with a rope to block, sprinkled with white ash, because many people can not squeeze in. As the flow of people moves to the front to see, people have a curiosity to see, but there are dragons in the legend, and they have not seen the opportunity in real life, they are very curious to see. The focus is on the head, it is very long, two or three inches long, about ten meters, standing. The spine bones are facing upwards unlike fish. The strange thing is that there are horns on the head, and any aquarium has no horns.
Flipping through the relevant materials, the reporter saw a copy of the "dragon" bone photo published in a "** Times" on August 14, 1934, although the age is long, coupled with the photography technology and various factors at that time, can only faintly see the blurry figure of the crowd wearing a straw hat to watch the "dragon" bone exhibition, but the long animal skeleton and the two long horns born on its head in the picture are still clearly visible.
Unfortunately, due to the chaotic social order at that time, the aquatic products senior high school was also relocated several times, and the huge skeleton was lost.
In 1939, at the age of 16, Sun Zhengren came to Dalian to work as a housekeeper, and the hostess's husband was the younger brother of the president of the Yingkou Chamber of Commerce. Sun Zhengren was deeply appreciated by his master, and when he left Dalian in 1941, the hostess rewarded him with a piece of "dragon" bone. According to reports, the keel in the hostess's hand weighs about three pounds, in the shape of a white strip, and the bottom end of the bone is about the size of the bowl mouth, slowly extending upwards and thinner, until the tip. The white glaze on the surface of the bone is very bright, and everyone says it is 'dragon' tooth. The hostess told him that this was the keel that had been exhibited in Yingkou.
The above is the most detailed time about the dragon in the folk records, true or false to be finally authoritatively deciphered by scientists!
Seeing this old iron, you are welcome to leave your personal opinion, do you think there are dragons?
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