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Mermaid once had such a legend in the history of navigation: one day, a Venetian merchant ship was returning from India. That night, the moon was as bright as silver and the sea was as flat as a mirror. Suddenly, the sailors saw a mermaid beauty in the distance, naked in the chest and holding a quiet nursing baby, but when they approached, nothing disappeared.

After all, not many people believe in these distant legends and fairy tales. In 1970s, a fish with upper body and lower body was found in the Arabian Atlantic coast, and photos were taken. Some people don't believe it, thinking it's a fake shot drawn according to legends and imagination.

The ancient legend about mermaids is widely spread all over the world, spanning cultures, regions and centuries. The bizarre story of mermaid once inspired people's rich imagination.

According to tradition, a mermaid is bounded by her waist, the upper part is a woman, and the lower part is a beautiful fishtail covered with scales. The whole body is very attractive and easy to escape quickly. They have no soul and are as ruthless as the sea; Sound is usually as deceptive as its appearance; Suit has many characteristics such as temptation, vanity, beauty, cruel and desperate love.

In history, many naturalists and explorers are convinced of her existence. Naturalist Pliny was the first person to record the mermaid in detail. He wrote in the immortal masterpiece Natural History written in 1 century A.D.:

"The mermaid known as the sea fairy is by no means an allegory. They are exactly the same as the mermaid described by the artist, except that the skin is particularly rough and the whole body is covered with scales, even the upper body that looks like a woman is no exception. " 1492, Columbus returned from sailing and also mentioned the mermaid. He described the story of one of his sailors: he saw three mermaids standing on the high sea. However, they are not as beautiful as in the picture, and their faces are similar to others.

But by the beginning of18th century, people had more and more doubts about the legend of mermaid, and naturalists began to reevaluate their views. In Norwegian Natural History, ehrlich Pontoppidan thinks that most of the legends about mermaids are nonsense. He accused some people of confusing fictional stories with history: "Obviously, people with brains will never be interested in this strange idea, or even doubt the possibility of this creature."

But many countries in the world have folklore similar to mermaid, and its lasting vitality shows that the story of mermaid is probably based on certain facts. In fact, there are probably several kinds of animals that look like mermaids from a distance: manatees, dugongs, seals and other manatees. Although ugly, it is somewhat similar to the legendary mermaid.

Manatees are almost hairless and slightly larger than humans. The prominent breasts of female manatees are similar to those of women to some extent. Manatees have no other limbs, and there is a tail consisting of two horizontal fins at the end of the fat trunk. Dugong is similar in appearance to manatee, with a prominent nose and a rough beard on its mouth. It is said that it often sticks its upper body out of the sea and holds its young on its chest with its fins when breastfeeding. Seals not only have front fins and barrel-shaped bodies similar to manatees, but also have particularly gentle and charming eyes. The jumping and habitual posture of seals are also very similar to the legendary mermaid.

Today, the mermaid still attracts us with her ancient and magical charm. Mermaids are reported from time to time in some distant places in the world. But generally speaking, mermaids now mainly exist in folklore, art and cryptozoology. As George Zucker, director of the Museum of Vertebrate Animals at the Smithsonian Institution in the United States, said, "Without a real mermaid specimen, all conclusions can only be guesses.

The legend of mermaid has a history of more than 2,000 years, spanning culture, region and century, and is widely spread all over the world. Many countries have cast mermaid statues. However, this little mermaid statue in Denmark is the best in history.

Legend has it that a long time ago, a prince sailed through Copenhagen. Because of a storm, the ship sank and the prince was saved by a mermaid. They fell in love at first sight and vowed to love each other forever. When the prince left, he promised to welcome the mermaid girl into the palace by boat one day. Since then, the spoony girl has been sitting on the rocks by the sea every day, waiting for the prince to return: the years have passed, the dream is hard to come true, and the prince has never returned. The poor mermaid turned into a stone statue, just like Wang Fu on the Yangtze River.

The mermaid statue in Copenhagen is a Danish artistic treasure and is famous all over the world. It is reported that tens of thousands of tourists come to visit every day, and as many as 50,000 photos are taken every day, which is the highest in the world. Because the world loves her, she is often quietly put on a wreath, and the relevant departments have collected as many as several tons of wreaths.

Whenever the weather turns cold, people are afraid of her freezing, and always put on all kinds of sweaters and flowered shirts. Although the relevant departments have taken away the clothes for 1000 times in order to keep her graceful posture, they still found that she wore red and green for 10 thousand times. In order to meet the wishes of domestic and foreign tourists, she was copied into souvenirs of various materials and brought to all parts of the world.

1983, when she was 70 years old, the anniversary was specially awarded the honorary silver medal by the mayor of Copenhagen in recognition of her great contribution to Danish tourism. So whenever she was hurt by gangsters, as soon as the news spread, people would come from all directions to visit her and could not help crying.

The "gravity" of the Swiss mermaid imitated a mermaid statue of 1965 on the lakeside of Raymond in the north of Geneva. The author boldly innovated, and the mermaid girl actually looked up and stared back, as if she had just jumped out of the water and climbed up the rock, amazed at the sight and ready to jump back into the water at any time. This exotic mermaid sculpture makes visitors to Copenhagen want to see the mermaid girl in Geneva as soon as possible.

In Poland, the mouth of the sea is on the Vistula River in the Piro Sea. It is said that there are mermaids. At that time, a young man named Wahl and a young woman named Shawa sailed down the river and came to Warsaw, the capital of Poland, to open up their homes. At that time, the mermaid in the river was their witness and protector. It gradually developed into a city, and later generations named them "Warsaw" as the name of the city in order to commemorate them. Meanwhile, the mermaid image is regarded as the city emblem of Warsaw.

1936, Ms. Rudvika Krakowska-Nitzhova, a famous Polish sculptor, began to carve a mermaid statue. Like other mermaids, it has a naked girl at the top and a fish tail at the bottom. The difference is that the Warsaw mermaid statue is tall, with the girl holding her head high, a shield in her left hand and a sword in her right hand. It turned out that the European war was overcast. The author is worried about the fate of the motherland before deciding to create a heroic image to defend the motherland. Now, the mermaid statue has bouquets all the year round, which shows the Polish people's love for the motherland.

There is also a mermaid statue in Songkhla, a famous coastal city in southern Thailand, near Siam Bay. Not only is the climate pleasant, but the scenery is also particularly charming. The mermaid statue on the right side of the golden beach is like yellow brocade, with long flowing hands and charming figure characteristics, showing the elegance of an oriental girl, which is attractive from far and near. Most visitors to Songkhla are fascinated by the charm of this mermaid. Some tourists lined up for a photo on the mermaid girl's knee. She showed the characteristics of Songkhla and became a symbol of the government.

Pliny Sr. is a natural scientist who describes "Mermaid" creatures. In his immortal book Natural History, he wrote: "As for mermaids, they are also called Nellie, which is not inconceivable. They are real, but their bodies are rough and covered with scales, and even parts like women have scales. "

Some scientists are trying to find the most amazing discovery in archaeology today, the origin of the mermaid mummy body 3000 years ago. A team of construction workers found this incredible creature in a grave, where the treasure was placed near the shore of the Black Sea outside Sochi. The news of this discovery was recently revealed to the west by Russian archaeologist Dr. Jeremiah. She looks like a beautiful princess with dark skin and a fish tail underneath. This amazing creature is 173 cm long from the top of the head to the scaly tail. Scientists believe that she was about 100 years old when she died.

Singapore's Lianhe Daily published a report entitled "Mermaid Fossils Found 65438+2000 Years ago on the Yugoslav Coast": Scientists have recently discovered the first complete mermaid fossil in the world, confirming that this animal that used to only appear in fairy tales does exist in the real world. Fossils were found off the coast of Yugoslavia. The fossils are well preserved, and it can be clearly seen that this animal has sharp teeth and strong jaws, which are enough to tear flesh and bones and kill prey.

"This animal is female. It appeared on the nearby coast about 6.5438+200,000 years ago. " Dr. Bailey Ogani said. Dr Ogani is an archaeologist from California, USA. He has worked in the sea where mermaids appear for four years.

Dr Ogani added, "It was buried alive in an underwater landslide, and then it was protected by the surrounding limestone and gradually became a fossil. Fossils show that the mermaid is 160 cm high, like a human from the waist up, with a developed head, a big brain, claws in both hands and no eyes of other fish.

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199 1 In August, two American fishermen discovered the mermaid incident. The report is as follows: Recently, two professional sharks in the United States caught eleven sharks in the Caribbean, one of which was a tiger shark 18.3 meters long. When fishermen dissected the tiger shark, they found an unusual bone in its abdomen and stomach. One third of the upper body of the skeleton looks like the skeleton of an adult. At that time, the fisherman handed it over to the police, and the police immediately informed the coroner for inspection. The results of the inspection confirmed that it was a half-human, half-fish creature.

For this pair of strange bones, the police asked experts to further study, input the data into the computer, and draw the mermaid shape according to the shape of the bones. Dr. Eduardo, an American who participated in this work, said that from the evidence they have, mermaids are not legendary or fictional creatures, but creatures that do exist in the world.

There are also discoveries about living mermaids.

1962 An incident happened in which a scientist captured a mermaid alive. Many newspapers and periodicals, such as The Sun in Britain and New Evening News in Harbin, China, reported on this matter. Dr. Vino Grader of the Lenin Academy of Sciences in the former Soviet Union told this story: 1962, a probe ship carrying scientists and military experts captured a child who could speak human language off the coast of Cuba. His skin has scales and gills, his head is like a man, and his tail is like a fish.

Mermaid claimed that she was from Atlantis, and told researchers that millions of years ago, the continent of Atlantis crossed Africa and South America, and then sank to the bottom of the sea. Now the survivors live on the bottom of the sea, with a life span of 300 years.

Later, the mermaid was sent to a secret research institution in the Black Sea for further study by scientists.

1958, Dr. Rothan of the National Oceanographic Society of the United States photographed the footprints of some similar people on the seabed 5 kilometers deep in the Atlantic Ocean. 1963, when the U.S navy was conducting submarine exercises in the southeast of Puerto Rico, it found a strange ship with a speed of 280 kilometers per hour, which could not be traced, which was beyond the reach of modern human science and technology. 1968, American photographer Mooney found a monster near the bottom of the sea. Its face is like a monkey, its neck is four times longer than that of a human, its eyes are much bigger than that of a human, and there is a fast "propeller" on its leg.

The existence of strange creatures such as "Mermaid" on the seabed has been proved by physical objects, so it has changed from what people call "absurdity", "superstition" and "myth" to a serious scientific research topic at present.

When reading books about marine culture, we often come across an allusion-Jiao Ren, which is a unique amphibian form on the earth-fishtail, which is different from that recorded in ancient books in China. Europeans call her mermaid or mermaid.

If we look at the mermaid from our habitual thinking, it is an amphibious marine animal and has been in contact with human beings for a long time. So it also left a strange legend of mermaids and people.

Mermaids in myths and legends are mostly women. They are amiable, not only beautiful in appearance, but also gentle in temperament. Further, you can fall in love with people and have sex with them.

According to Ren Fang's "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" in the Qing Dynasty, "there is a Jiao Ren room in the South China Sea, where water lives like a fish and weaving does not waste." If his eyes will shed tears, pearls will appear. "This may be a relatively complete source of China mermaid allusions. We can imagine this Jiao Ren, how beautiful her bedroom is under the blue waves, but she doesn't know whether she misses her brother who is shivering in the cold wind, has no clothes on, and is busy in front of the loom day and night, or hates her father who forced her to return to the Dragon Palace and shed tears while knitting, and those tears are crystal clear and fall into pearls.

Funded by the founder of Caspar Brewery in Denmark, the bronze statue of Mermaid invited the famous Danish sculptor Edward Eriksson to carve and cast it according to the protagonist 19 12 in Andersen's fairy tale The Daughter of the Sea, and moved it to the entrance of Copenhagen Port on August 23rd.

Graceful mermaid sits alone on the boulder by the sea, with fish tail, shy and serene, looking at the sea thoughtfully, revealing the innocent beauty of the girl, which is deeply loved by people. It is the most attractive tourist attraction in Copenhagen. It is not only a masterpiece of Danish culture and art, but also a symbol of Copenhagen, so it occupies a special position in the minds of the Danish people.

We talk a lot, but we really love too little and resent too much. We conquered space, but not our hearts. Daxiguo

For thousands of years, an ancient legend has been widely circulated in Europe, America and Africa: it is said that in that very distant ancient time, there was a unique and magical continent on earth, which was once the center of civilization in the world and was called a western power. The climate here is mild, the land is fertile, the forest is lush and the scenery is beautiful. People there live a rich and happy life. However, do great western countries really exist? If it exists, how did it mysteriously disappear? Plato, the great Greek philosopher, mentioned the great western country in his famous work "Crezi", saying that this country was once bigger than Bilibija and Asia Minor combined, and its influence extended to Egypt and tyrrhenian sea. This is the earliest record of western powers in history. So how did such a powerful western country mysteriously disappear? Plato told us that the powerful western powers launched wars against Egypt, Greece and all other people along the Mediterranean coast. Once the western powers launched a war against Athens, and the Athenians resisted to the death and repelled the troops of the western powers. Soon, a big earthquake sank Daxi into the waves. According to legend, Poseidon was the founder of the great western countries. Poseidon married Clayto, a beautiful girl at that time. She gave birth to ten sons for Poseidon. Poseidon divided the Great Western Country into ten parts and gave them to his ten sons, who were the top ten regents of the Great Western Country. Atlas, the eldest son of Poseidon, is the heir to the throne of western powers. The top ten law enforcers have met once and they have never interacted with each other. If one side is in trouble, all sides will support it. Daxi has a long coastline, beautiful mountains and vast plains. Daxi is rich in natural resources, and crops can be harvested twice a year. Most people make a living by farming, mining precious metals such as gold and silver and domesticating wild animals. Flowers are everywhere in cities and the wild, and many people in western countries make a living by refining perfume. In cities in western countries, the population is dense and active. Gardens are everywhere in the city, as well as temples, amphitheaters, Colosseum, public bathrooms and other tall buildings covered with red, white and black marble. On the dock, ships come and go, and businessmen from many countries trade with Daxi. As western countries become more and more powerful, their kings also become ambitious. Driven by insatiable ambition, they are determined to wage a bigger war and conquer the world. However, a strong earthquake and subsequent floods made the whole country disappear overnight. According to Plato's statement in another book, the sinking time of western powers was about 1 1 150 years ago. Plato has said many times that the situation of western powers is passed down from generation to generation, and it is by no means his own fiction. It is said that Plato personally went to Egypt to consult famous monks at that time. Socrates, Plato's teacher, also said when talking about western powers: "The good thing is that this is a fact, which is much stronger than a fictional story." If what Plato said is true, it means that human beings have created civilization as early as 12000 years ago. But where is this western country? People have been interested in this for thousands of years. Since the 1960s, wonders have been discovered in Bermuda in the western Atlantic Ocean and the seabed near the Bahamas and Florida Peninsula. 1968 One day, the Atlantic Ocean near Bimini Island in Bahamas was calm, and the sea was like transparent glass. On the way back to Bimini Island by boat, some divers suddenly exclaimed: "There is a big road under the sea!" " "Several divers looked down in unison. It was a road paved with boulders lying on the bottom of the sea. This is a road paved with rectangular and polygonal flat stones. Stones vary in size and thickness, but they are neatly arranged and well-defined. Is this the postal route of Daxi Country? In the early 1970s, a group of scientific researchers came to the Azores Islands near the Atlantic Ocean. They took out the core from the bottom of the sea 800 meters deep. After scientific appraisal, this place was indeed a piece of land before 12000. The conclusion drawn by modern science and technology is surprisingly consistent with Plato's description! Is this where the western powers sank? 197, an ocean research ship of the former Soviet Union took eight photos under the Atlantic Ocean-together they formed a magnificent ancient man-made building! Was this built by westerners? 1979, some scientists from America and France discovered the pyramid at the bottom of Bermuda's "Devil's Triangle" with very advanced instruments! The tower bottom is about 300 meters long and 200 meters high. The spire is only 100 meters away from the ocean, which is much larger than the pyramids in Egypt. There are two huge caves at the bottom of the tower, and the seawater flows out from the bottom of the cave at an alarming rate. Was this great pyramid built by westerners? The armies of western countries once conquered Egypt. Did westerners bring pyramid civilization to Egypt? America also has pyramids. Are they from Egypt or the great western countries? 1985, two Norwegian sailors discovered an ancient city under the "Devil's Triangle" waters. In their photos, there are plains, vertical and horizontal roads and streets, domes, arenas, monasteries and riverbeds. They said: "There is no doubt that we have discovered great western countries! Exactly as Plato described it! "Is that true? /You don't say. Unfortunately, Bermuda's "undersea pyramid" was detected by instruments on the sea. So far, no scientist can be sure whether it is a real man-made building, because it may also be an underwater peak in the shape of a pyramid. At present, no one can confirm that the photos of the ruins of ancient buildings on the seabed taken by the Soviets are the ruins of western powers. It is said that some scientists later sneaked into the seabed and collected samples on the "slate road" for testing and analysis. The results show that the history of these "stone roads" is less than 1 ten thousand years. If the road was built by westerners, it should not be less than 10 thousand years. As for the photos of the two Norwegian sailors, there is no way to verify them so far. The only correct conclusion that can be drawn is that there is indeed a sunken land at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. So, if the Atlantic Ocean really existed, and it really sank at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, then the remains of the Atlantic Ocean will be found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. To this day, no archaeologist has announced that he has found the remains of western powers on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. So until today, this great western country is still an unsolved mystery.