Are there really fish?

From Andersen's The Daughter of the Sea to Disney's The Little Mermaid, and then to Rumiko Takahashi's The Mermaid's Wound, we have long been familiar with the beauty of mermaids, their desperate love and sadness that seems to never get rid of.

Legend has it that mermaid is the curse of people who go to sea. Their upper body is breathtaking, but their lower body is a cold fish tail covered with scales (sometimes one, sometimes two split), accompanied by charming songs, which lead countless sailors to the point of no return. Although the life span is very long, it will still face death, and it is said that mermaids have no soul.

Many folklores have mentioned the story of mermaid marrying human beings. In most cases, men will steal the mermaid's hat or belt, or comb and mirror. When such things are properly hidden, the mermaid will live with him, and once she finds what she lost, she will return to the sea. Generally speaking, mermaid is very dangerous to human beings. The gifts they send will bring misfortune, such as causing floods and other disasters. Seeing a mermaid on the trip is a bad omen for sinking a ship. They sometimes long to see mortals drowned. Give a famous example: the Rhine. Sometimes, they lure young people to live underwater with them. Such stories are carved on benches in some churches in Cornwall and England.

Melanesians in the southwest Pacific Islands has similar myths and legends. Their mermaid's name is Adaro. Her upper body is human and her lower body is fish. She lives in the sun, comes to the earth through a rainbow, and usually hides in a tornado at sea. Unlike other mermaids, Adala is a dangerous creature in melanesians's eyes. They will attack people with flying fish, making them unconscious or even dead.

Today, we are told that the image of a mermaid is entirely due to sailors mistaking manatees that come out of the sea to nurse their cubs for women. In fact, in primitive religious beliefs, the mermaid is one of the incarnations of the goddess of the sea, and people believe that the wish made to her will come true. But after the male chauvinism gradually flourished, it became catching mermaids or threatening her combs, in order to make their wishes come true. Poseidon also changed from a graceful goddess wearing a blue robe and a pearl necklace around her neck to a male god holding a trident, calling the shots and letting the ship sink in the stormy night. But these male Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Poseidon Up to now, Mermaids still have their mysterious and charming charm. The trademark of Starbucks is a mermaid with long hair and two fish tails.

The two most famous mermaid statues are in Denmark and Poland. The Danish mermaid, based on the daughter of Hai, is located in Longrini Harbor Waterfront Park in Copenhagen, Denmark. She sat on a stone and stared at the sea under her feet, looking melancholy and full of yearning. Warsaw Mermaid is located on the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland. She holds a shield in her left hand and a sword in her right hand, and her brow is full of heroism. The story of the Warsaw mermaid is completely different from that of the Danish mermaid. According to legend, she is a girl of 18 years old. She was chased by invaders a long time ago and bravely threw herself into the river. She turned into a mermaid after she jumped into the river. Many years later, when the invaders invaded Poland again, the mermaid took up arms, held a shield and waved a sword, defeated the invaders and died in the battle.

Mermaid and fisherman, the sea beauty who lures the boatman.

Mermaids are also divided into male and female: most people think that female mermaids are beautiful and male mermaids are ugly. Female mermaids are also symbols of temptation and desire. But it's not all like this.

A long time ago, most great sailors were men, and watching whales, manatees or mermaids was almost the exclusive right of male crew members. Imagine that if all the crew members were women, the legend of the mermaid would be described as "a beautiful male body", which is very interesting. I really want to see for myself. Maybe there really is a beautiful male mermaid. Add the legend of mermaid to your fairy tale world. He should look cute and show his teeth when he smiles. When it comes to looks, most people think that half of them are human upper body, and below the waist are fish tails. But there are some differences in some parts. As we imagined, one herring is half naked and the other half has a fish-like tail. In addition, there is a larger mermaid, whose upper body is similar to that of human beings, and the lower body is a herringbone mermaid, with two fish tails separated like human legs and open arms like a big character.

The story version of "Someone's Money"—

The daughter of Hans Christian Andersen saved the mermaid princess of the prince.

In exchange for his own voice, it became an encounter between human beings and princes, but eventually it became a bubble in the sea. In Ogawa Mimei's The Red Mermaid, the mermaid's daughter was adopted by an old couple. One day, she was seen by a rich man and sold to the old couple for a large sum of money. I wonder whether the mermaid's ending is happy or tragic.

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I. Documentation

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 incredible ... they are real, but their bodies are rough and covered with scales, even in parts like women."

Second, archaeological discoveries.

1April 990, Wen Wei Po reported that:

Some scientists are studying it.

Strive 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 the Soviet 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.

199 1 On July 2, 2000, Singapore's Lianhe Daily published a report entitled "Mermaid Fossils Found on the Coast of Yugoslavia 65438+20,000 Years ago": Scientists recently discovered the first complete mermaid fossil in the world, which confirmed that this animal that once only appeared in fairy tales really exists 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 mermaid is 160 cm high, looks like a human above the waist, with a developed head, a big brain, claws in both hands and no eyes of other fish.

Third, the existing mermaid.

(1) "The upper body is human and the lower body is fish"

1991August, two American fishermen discovered the mermaid incident, and 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. The upper third of the skeleton looks like the skeleton of an adult, but from the pelvis, it is the skeleton of a big fish. 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.

(2) "The upper body is fish and the lower body is human"

Kuwait's "Torch" reported on August 24th that 1980: Recently, the miracle of the biological park-mermaid was discovered on the coast of the Red Sea. The upper part of the mermaid is shaped like a fish, and the lower part is like a woman-with two legs and ten toes like a human. Unfortunately, it was found dead. ……

(3) Living mermaid under the sea

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 is covered with scales and gills. His head looks like a man and his tail looks like a fish. The little mermaid claimed that she was from Atlantis, and told the 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.

Four. Other relevant findings

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. 1938, people found "Toad Man" on the beach in Zhumingda, Estonia, with a chicken breast, a flat mouth and a round head, and quickly jumped into the Baltic Sea.

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.

Five, the mythical mermaid

"Three Classics of Shan Hai Jing Bates" says: "Two hundred miles northeast, Longhou is called Shandong. There is no vegetation, and there are many treasures. The decisive water flows out, while the east flows into the river. Among them, the mermaid is shaped like a fish and has four feet. It sounds like a baby, and it is not stupid to eat it. " Guo Yapu's note: "In other words, the mermaid is a giant, like a giant with four legs, and her voice is like a child's crying ...". According to scripture, there are dozens of mermaids. There are herring in Beijing, Hainan, and shad in Chuci, both of which are called dugong. Later, it was said that mermaids are all beautiful women (quoted from the article "Mermaid in the Sea" in Taipingguangji (Volume 464) of Qia Wen Ji) and "Women in the sand are all naked" (quoted from Volume 56 of Tianzhongji) are all the results of myth evolution. See the words "Jiao Ren".