The conclusion that mussels make dragons is amazing.

From this, it seems that we can proudly say that the ancestors of Xishuipo made great achievements in agricultural astronomical observation more than 6,000 years ago, which has been affecting today and will continue to act on future generations and become eternal.

Secondly, the second group of mussels made of plastic dragons, tigers, deer, spiders and a refined stone axe should be the winter solstice map.

Our ancestors knew that the winter solstice was the end of the old tropical year and the beginning of the new tropical year. On the solstice of winter, the sun runs on the tropic of Capricorn. At that time, people in Xishuipo felt very cold in winter because of the weak sunshine. In the second group, the dragon and tiger are connected as a whole, just like mating. On the whole, the faucet faces south and is sleepy. Tiger head facing north, full of energy, like dragging a dragon together; There are deer behind the tiger, and the deer's head rests on the tiger's head, as if sleeping on his stomach; There is a spider and a smooth and delicate stone axe above the faucet.

It can be seen that the discovery of mussels and dragons is the embodiment of our high agricultural civilization 6000 years ago! Recently, I have been carefully reading the new version of the history textbook for the first day of junior high school, and it is very uncomfortable to see the above picture. The book says that it is a dragon and tiger figure carved by mussels on the western slope of Puyang. The dragon on it looks very similar, but no matter how I look at it, the picture below feels like a wolf, and the most obvious place is the tail part of the wolf. There are many pictures of tigers in China since ancient times. We know that the tiger's tail is a whip. No matter the ancient tiger pictures or the current photographic pictures, we haven't found anyone painting the tiger's tail like that. The wolf's tail is short and furry, like a dog's tail.

The picture in the dragon and tiger figure carved by mussels in Xishuipo, Puyang is exactly the same as the wolf tail we see now.

The dragon is the most important totem of the Chinese nation, and we in China like to call ourselves the descendants of the dragon. Therefore, the appearance of the dragon figure here shows that our ancestors used the dragon as their totem very early, and we are descendants of the dragon. We have had this kind of worship in Yang Yun culture for thousands of years (mussel dragon belongs to the early remains of Yang Yun culture in archaeological time, and is the authentic ancestor of various dragons in the Forbidden City in Beijing in form. Subsequently, the carbon 14 was measured in the laboratory of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The age was 6,600 years ago, and the error was less than 1.35 (corrected by tree rings). Therefore, experts nicknamed the mussel dragon "the first dragon in China". )

However, I don't understand why experts describe the picture below as a tiger instead of a wolf. Indeed, in our traditional culture, we generally compare dragons and tigers and think that dragons and tigers are "well matched". However, we must understand that we have always had a tradition of worshipping wolves. Northerners have compared themselves to wolves since ancient times. Many people think they are descendants of wolves, but on the other hand, we seldom hear people claiming to be descendants of tigers. We worship tigers as the "boss" in reality and the symbol of secular power and strength, instead of worshipping them as our ancestors. Don't equate it with worship like a dragon.

Therefore, no matter from what point of view, the above picture should be called dragon and wolf picture, not dragon and tiger picture. I conclude that the image in the picture above is a wolf rather than a tiger.