Knowledge about mermaids

There are many legends about mermaids all over the world, which are very beautiful and moving, especially the "daughter of the sea" in the fairy tale The Apprentice is the most moving. It not only touched the hearts of countless readers, but also gave good hopes and wishes to sailors drifting in the ocean. 19 12 Danish sculptor Edward. According to Andersen's fairy tales and his own imagination, Eriksson carved the statue of "sea girl" with red copper and placed it on the beach of Copenhagen Harbor Waterfront Park.

There is 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 beautiful woman with a mermaid in the distance, naked and holding a quiet 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. They think this is a fake made by legend and imagination.

The ancient legend of mermaid is widely spread in the world, spanning culture, region and century. 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. In his monumental masterpiece "Natural History" written in the 1 century, he wrote: "The mermaid who is called the' sea fairy' is by no means a fable. They are exactly the same as the mermaid described by the painter, except that the skin is particularly rough and the 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, spoony girls have been sitting on the rocks by the sea every day, waiting for the prince to return: years have passed, dreams have been hard to come true, and the prince has not returned at last. The poor mermaid girl, like Wang Mishi on the Yangtze River, became a statue.

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 crowned with garlands, and the relevant departments have collected tens of thousands of garlands.

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 made of various materials and brought to every corner 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 imitates the mermaid statue on Lake Raymond 1965 in northern 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 1.2 million 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 said: "It was buried alive in a landslide at the bottom of the water, and then it was protected by the surrounding limestone and gradually turned into a fossil. Fossils show that the mermaid is 160 cm tall and looks like a human from the waist up. She has a developed head, a big brain, claws in her hands and no eyes of other fish.

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 Qing? ; Ren Fang wrote in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "There is a Jiao Ren room in the South China Sea. The water is like a fish, and it is woven without waste. The eyes will cry and the beads will come out. " 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.

Ming? ; Yoko's Notes on Pingshan Caotang records: "In the thirteenth year of Taizu, a scholar crossed the sea in Dongting Jiaojun, but missed the wave. A few days later, the body floated on the shore, and a fisherman saw that he had a bead in his mouth, such as pigeon eggs, which was gorgeous and gorgeous. He could not bear to touch it and thought it was ominous. I woke up soon, entered the Dragon Palace and the Dragon Lady, and suddenly felt the water surging, but I didn't know where I was. " In this story, the mermaid changed the space. She is not the underwater South China Sea, but the daughter of the Dragon King of Dongting Lake. And has the chivalrous heart of saving people from fire and water incompatibility and gentle female role standards. A handsome, broad-minded and gentle gentleman was on a boat at sea, was jolted by the storm, shook off the boat and sank into the waves.

Happened to fall into Jiao Ren's arms, this beautiful underwater woman caught it gently with a jade arm, then the fish tail swung gently, swam into the blue depths, and took him into the shark room with golden walls. Then Jiao Ren was friendly to him and told him that you could stay in the palace for three days like this. The scholar is naturally surprised and grateful, but he is a man who misses home and the land. Jiao Ren is very reasonable. Only a few days of lingering with the scholar also made her give up her wish to think about the world in the underwater free world. The intercourse between the mermaid and the scholar in these three days seemed to satisfy her waiting for thousands of years, so Jiao Ren promised to take him back to land for three days. Three days passed in an instant, and on the eve of parting, Jiao Ren handed the scholar a shark bead the size of pigeon eggs. Scholars don't understand the purpose of this thing. Jiao Ren told him that this shark bead is the national treasure of the underwater Dragon Palace, and you can only cross land and water through it.

She generously lent the national treasure to her beloved lover, and when she left, she taught him the methods and essentials of holding beads. In this way, the scholar grabbed the best pearl at the bottom of the sea and was rushed to the shore by Jiao Ren after falling asleep. Three days later, the scholar drifted to the coast with a dazzling shark bead in his mouth, like a dead man. A brave man went up to touch the beads and was really burned, so he never dared to touch them again. After a while, the scholar gradually got a breath and woke up. Onlookers asked him what was going on. The scholar only remembers falling into the water and lingering with the dragon lady, and then the waves are rough. As for things related to shark beads, he doesn't remember anything.

The most beautiful legend about mermaids belongs to The Daughter of the Sea written by Andersen, a famous Danish fairy tale writer.

Daughter of the Sea tells the story that the kind and persistent mermaid Gong Yu turned herself into a bubble after saving the handsome prince. A little mermaid longs for human life. 15 birthday, she finally got her wish and surfaced. She saw the night sky dotted with white Venus, heard beautiful songs, saw beautiful fireworks and a handsome prince. After saving the life of the prince who fell into the water in the storm, she fell in love with this human prince, sacrificed everything for the pursuit of love and happiness, and finally got one. She traded her tongue for a dose of medicine from the witch, so as to get rid of the fish and become a human being.

On a moonlit night, she resolutely left the submarine coral palace and went to the palace of her beloved prince on the shore. She walked slowly up the steps of the palace and took the powerful medicine from the witch. For an instant, she felt as if a double-edged sharp knife had cut her slender body, and she fainted to the ground, unconscious. Woke up the next day, she had a more graceful figure and touching eyes than anyone else. A handsome man, her beloved prince, stood in front of her and looked at her with black eyes. But the prince mistakenly thought that another princess saved him and fell in love with her.

But the prince mistakenly thought that another princess saved him and fell in love with her. How sad the little mermaid is. In order to see the prince again, she exchanged her beautiful voice with the witch for human legs and refused the dagger that her sisters sacrificed their hair to return to the sea. She didn't let her beloved human blood spill on her. At the moment of sunrise the next day, she looked at the faces of her beloved and his bride and slowly turned into bubbles on the water. I really don't know what prompted this tragic story.

The existence of such legends and stories can also prove the richness of ancient marine natural ecology-at that time, there were also mermaid and other marine life in this sea area. In other words, there were abundant marine animals in the sea at that time, and people had contact with these strange marine animals. In the process of contact, many phenomena that they can't explain happened, so they mixed their limited thinking and imagination, leaving so many wonderful and moving mermaid legends. Today, there are fewer and fewer rare marine animals in the ocean, and human high-tech technology has already explored everything in the deep and turbulent blue, especially when ships and masts gallop on it, and the derrick for mining submarine reservoirs and gas reservoirs extends indefinitely, and all kinds of garbage are dumped here by human beings, the elegance and romance of blue have been smoked away for thousands of miles.

When countless dead shrimps and dead fish come up, when flocks of whales sing lamentations and rush to the beach to rescue people who can't drag them back, when crabs with oil leaking on the beach climb out of two or three meters and die, let alone the survival of rare mermaids is threatened, and some precious marine life is failing day by day, and even a large number of fish and shrimp species are hard to become flood season. Where will there be another story about a man's fish? As a result, the sea is no longer full of mystery and temptation, and our image thinking is gradually exhausted. I really look forward to the time when the mermaid story came into being.

If the bronze statue of Andersen really stands up and leaves, what he wants to do most is to go to the nearby Xingang Canal to see his little mermaid.

Go east from the coast of the Town Hall Square, pass the famous shopping street, the New King Square, and the romantic new port full of boats, and you will come to the seaside park with the bronze statue of the mermaid.

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.

Because of its reputation, the mermaid bronze statue was "disintegrated" three times. 1April 24, 964, its head was cut off for the first time, and its arm was sawed off in 1985. 19981On October 5th, the mermaid head was stolen for the second time. Fortunately, the sculptor's mold still remains, which enables the statue to be restored.

The bronze statue is not big, but it is not easy to take a good photo! The reason is that the mermaid leans on the shore, half of her body turns to the Danish Bay, and her eyes are fixed on the sparkling sea. Therefore, she must stand 45 degrees to the left of the bronze statue to photograph the mermaid's face. In addition, the sun is behind the bronze statue in the morning, and the result of backlight darkens the bronze statue.

If you want to leave Denmark for Oslo, Norway on a DFS cruise ship that sails at 5 pm, I suggest you come to see the mermaid two hours before boarding. On the one hand, there are not many tourists, on the other hand, the sun is in the middle or west, so it is ideal to take pictures. In addition, when the cruise ship leaves Hong Kong, the golden waves pass by the deck with the mermaid bronze statue, which has a unique flavor.