The angels in "history" all have wings, and the mermaids in "history" have tails, and the reason why these "humanoids" have human forms must be because humans imagined them, so "history" is just a romantic legend.
In Hans Christian Andersen's "Daughter of the Sea", the protagonist is a little mermaid, like every ancient legend in Europe, she has a human upper body, her face is very delicate, with long loose hair, below the waist is the shape of a fish, oh yes, Andersen's mermaid hair is golden, and in Hollywood cartoons, it once became ochre red, spread to China, without exception, it became black again. You see, when she gets to which mountain, she has to sing which song.
In the strange novel "Naturalist" written by Zhang Hua in the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a description of the fish people, saying that she was engaged in textile work, and when she cried her nose, her eyes did not fall teardrops, but genuine pearls, although it lacked a description of the face, it was also the face of pear blossoms with rain, not lost to Hans Christian Andersen (Andersen would only use the word "beautiful" to describe mermaids throughout).
In the Song Dynasty's "Book of Differences", it is also recorded that during the voyage to the Yellow Sea, someone saw a mermaid with a shawl and open breasts, and even greeted and communicated with humans.
Unfortunately, the Ancient Chinese did not have the poetry of Hans Christian Andersen, the ultimate use of the fish people is positioned in boiling oil, the lamp of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, according to Sima Qian's old master interpretation, is "to use mermaid paste as a candle", it is too annoying, foreigners will think of talking about love when they see mermaids, but we just want to eat into the mouth or light the lamp with grease, which is really a violent destruction of heavenly objects.
While descriptions of mermaids emerge from Europe to the United States, from foreign countries to China, from ancient times to modern times, with the spread of modern media, coupled with the powerful ps technology, it sounds more and more like the truth. But rational scientists and biologists still agree that the so-called mermaid should be the two animals of the order Manatee, and there are two families of manatees, one is the manatee family, the other is the dugong family, and the length is similar. The face is a bit like a human, of course, it is also a mammal, when breastfeeding, it will lie on the surface of the water, hold the toddler with its fins like a pair of arms, and let it lie in the arms to feed, which is no different from the human category. Occasionally, fishermen pass by, looking at the two big lumps of white flowers in the distance, it is inevitable to think that they have seen a scene that should not be seen, so their faces are red and red, resulting in a very bad reverie.
In the end, I can't help but complain about the Qingdao Manatee team in my hometown, no wonder it plummeted in the professional league and sank to the bottom of the sea, your mascot is not to send milk to others!
The picture above is the famous Little Mermaid sculpture on the coast of Copenhagen, Denmark, the picture is not misplaced, this is the original sculpture placed in place during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the Danes also love to spoof (the picture below is the real Little Mermaid sculpture).