Do mermaids really exist?

real existence. But it's not as beautiful as you think.

Jiao Ren with black scales, the legendary "mermaid", has been found by many people in the world, and the US Navy once caught a live one. Jiao Ren with black scales is the Jiao Ren in ancient Han myths and legends. Jiao Ren mainly feeds on fish, supplemented by edible plants in the sea. Jiao Ren lives in the sea, and a few rivers and lakes connected with the sea, including underground lakes, also have a small amount of Jiao Ren, mainly depending on the depth and quality of water. Jiao Ren doesn't want to live in unclean water. The source is Shan Hai Jing, Shu Yi Ji and so on. Jiao Ren, a man, has horny fins on his back, and women are transparent and soft, so men look fierce and women are feminine. Jiao Ren has hair, and women with various colors are tightly tied up or fitted with hats.

It is recorded in China's oldest natural history "Classic of Mountains and Seas: A Classic of the South within the Sea": "The country that worries about Bo, the country that leaves the ear, the country that carves the title and the country that goes north are all in the south of the water. Note: Off-ear, off-ear, off-ear, is a pendant, that is, off-ear, in the sea of Zhuya; Carving the title, revealing its face, the painting body is a scale mining, that is, Jiao Ren also. " Among them, Jiao Ren's appearance is a fish with a human head and four feet, which later spread to Japan and became the most primitive image of a mermaid. There are also some descriptions in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that seem to describe aquatic creatures such as mountain pepper fish, giant salamander (giant salamander), eel and catfish, which look like human beings and are covered with scales, and feel closer to a mixture of people and animals.

In the 29th year of Emperor Tuigu (917 AD), he was captured by fishermen in Pu Chuan, near Shiga Prefecture, and it also happened in the Edo period, especially in the 12th year of Kuanzheng (18 AD), when the mermaid was caught in a river near Nishi, Osaka, most people made a sensation after seeing it. This mermaid, more than one meter tall, cries like a baby. From this point of view, mermaid is also a legendary fantasy beast, which can be regarded as a rather mysterious fish family. At that time, it was called shad or hairfish. In this regard, the Japanese mermaid and the mermaid goblin in western legends are very different in shape and nature. Its posture is not necessarily beautiful, but rather grotesque. Appears in Wakayama Bay, Kyushu, and Shikoku coastal waters, and shows up at the seaside when the storm approaches.

pliny Sr. is a natural scientist who described "mermaid" creatures. In his immortal book "Natural History", he wrote: "As for mermaids, they are also called Nielid, it is not unbelievable ... they are real, but their bodies are rough and covered with scales, even those parts like women have scales." ?

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In April, 199, Wen Wei Po reported that some scientists were trying their best to find the most amazing discovery in archaeology today, the origin of the mummy of a mermaid 3, years ago.

Dr. Vino Greider of the Lenin Academy of Sciences in the former Soviet Union once told the story: In 1962, a probe ship carrying scientists and military experts captured a child who could speak human language off the coast of Cuba. His skin was scaly with gills, and his head looked like a human and his tail looked like a fish. The mermaid claimed that she was from Atlantis, and told the researchers that millions of years ago, the continent of Atlantis spanned Africa and South America, and then sank to the bottom of the sea ... Now the surviving people live on the bottom of the sea, with a life span of 3 years. Later, the mermaid was sent to a secret research institution in the Black Sea for scientists to study deeply.

Kuwait's Torch reported on August 24, 198 that a mermaid, a miracle of the biological park, was recently discovered on the coast of the Red Sea. The mermaid is shaped like a fish in the upper part and a woman in the lower part-with two legs and ten toes like a human. Unfortunately, it was found dead. ..... There are also discoveries about live mermaids.

In p>1958, Dr. Rotten 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. In 1963, during a submarine exercise in the southeast of Puerto Rico, the US Navy found a strange ship with a speed of 28 kilometers per hour, which was untraceable, which was far behind the modern science and technology of mankind. In 1968, American photographer Mooney found a monster near the bottom of the sea. His face was like a monkey, his neck was four times longer than that of a human, his eyes were much bigger than that of a human, and his legs had a fast "propeller".