Is there really jiaozi in the world?

Jiao Jiao is like a dragon, generally about three meters long, and the big one is only a few meters wide. It looks like a dragon, but its horns are short or even absent. Jiao has white patterns on his neck, blue patterns on his back, ochre on his chest and colorful limbs. There are four feet. In order to paddle, the front end is like a wide paddle. There are thorns on the tip of the tail, and there are protruding pieces of meat crossing between jiaozi's upper eyebrows, so it will be called "jiaozi". Jiao often fights for control of lakes and other places. A strong dragon can win a comfortable lake, while a weak dragon can only live in a small pond or river. This dragon often bites fish, causing heavy losses to fishermen. However, it is said that as long as turtles are put in a group of fish, there will be no dragons. After hiding in cold water for 500 years, dragons can feather into dragons and ascend to heaven, but not all dragons can ascend to heaven. Some of them flow into the sea and become the subordinates of the dragon king, and are forced to live a palace life that does not belong to them. [Edit this paragraph] The difference between the dragon and the dragon is sacred, and the dragon is an animal, also known as underground. 1 has a different tail. Jiao's tail is bare. No different from a snake's tail. Legend has it that a tiger went to a pool in Sizhou to drink water. The dragon in the pool (probably Crocodile Bay, one of the fuzzy collection objects of dragons) thinks that the tiger has invaded its territory and jumped out of the water to fight with it. As a result, the thirsty tiger lost to the hungry jiaozi, and was "eaten by the tail", that is, stunned by the tail, wrapped up and swallowed. Su Dongpo wrote a poem on this basis: "There are hungry dumplings in the diving scales, and the tail is thirsty for tigers." Two claws. The dragon has two pairs of claws, while jiaozi has only one pair of claws. Trigonometric jiaozi has no angle on its head, or only a right angle. Dragon's horns are straight and short, and there is no bifurcation, unlike dragons. Dragons are bifurcated. 4. The dragon's eyes are protruding. Dragons are not like this. Jiao is a waterspout and is considered to belong to the main river. The dragon is a general name. If there is a specific name, it should be rolling in the clouds and responsible for the main rain. [Edit this paragraph] Legend Focus Most people know the name dragon. Many people can tell what shape it is. Bricklayers in the south can also draw a "Mo Long" on the wall or in front of the stove with a brush. However, there has never been such an animal in the world, it only exists in people's imagination. Some people may ask: There are no dragons on the earth, so why do Chinese medicine shops sell "keels"? It has been studied that the so-called "keel" is the bones and teeth fossils of several unrelated animals. Some people may say that the imaginary dragon may be the memory of some ancient dinosaur left by the ancients. But dinosaurs lived far away from humans, and they never met each other, so it is impossible to have such a memory. However, the imaginary thing is not completely imagined out of thin air, and there must be some basis. Coupled with distortion, forgery and postscript, it will become an imaginary thing, which is not true. In summer, there will be an emergency cyclone with a narrow width on the sea surface; From a distance, it looks like something is hanging from the clouds into the sea, and it looks like it is writhing. Commonly known as "dragon absorbs water", it means that the dragon hangs down from the clouds and absorbs water from the sea. This book is called Tornado. Tornadoes are a way for people to imagine that there are dragons in the world. Some stone tablets are often engraved with dragons and have different shapes. Some are simple, others are complicated. When Lu Xun lived in Shaoxing Guild Hall in Beijing in his early years, for a time, he often copied inscriptions in his spare time. He once told me that there is a dragon shape on the monument, which looks like a crocodile. Indeed, there are several large reptiles, which were given the title of dragon in ancient times. For example, the Chinese alligator in the Yangtze River was called a dragon in ancient times, and dumplings were also called dragons. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that crocodiles and other animals rely on the imagination of dragons. Generally speaking, the dragon's imagination consists of images such as crocodiles and "tornadoes". Or there are other factors, but it is certain that there is no physical object. Now let's talk about jiaozi. In ancient times, it was said in eastern Zhejiang that Jiao was a dragon. It is mountainous in eastern Zhejiang, and after a long period of rain, there are often "mountain torrents". That is, the water in the mountain suddenly rushes down in large quantities, which is called "flood discharge". Sometimes people and livestock are washed away. Folk belief that jiaozi is shaped like a pig. When it overflows, it goes down with the water, from the river into the sea, into a dragon and ascended to heaven. This story is obviously a bit incoherent. Dragons often live in the clouds and at the bottom of the sea (as the saying goes, the Dragon Palace is at the bottom of the sea), but why are children born under the strata in the mountains? But this situation is not surprising, because it is not scientific knowledge, but an absurd superstition. However, jiao is not an imaginary animal, but a real one. A monitor lizard is found in southern China, Malay Peninsula and the Philippines. The body is big, as big as two meters. The head is relatively small; The neck is long and flexible. There are black linear stripes on the kiss and cheeks. The limbs are developed and the body becomes bigger. The tail is long and slightly flat. According to records, the body is dark brown with yellow and black spots on the back and yellow below the abdomen. The throat is yellow with black spots. Tongue is forked, and when you walk, your tongue sticks out one by one. "Compendium of Materia Medica", Li Shizhen said: "According to Peiyuan's" Guangzhou Ji ",glutinous rice balls are more than ten feet long, like a snake with four feet, wide shape, small head and thin neck ..." The description of the shape is similar (the following description is not similar, omitted). It lives on the ground, in water or in trees, and eats small animals. Eggs are laid in tree holes. It can lay eggs, and the ancients also knew it. The book in Guangzhou says that "its eggs are also big". But it is wrong to call it "flying fish". This kind of animal is also found in Beijing Zoo, and the name written on the sign is "Zeju lizard". The name was found in the Dictionary of Zoology, which was coined by the editor, probably because it is a lizard with a huge body and often lives in swamps. But this name is obviously not as attractive and interesting as the original name "Jiao". [Edit this paragraph] In the eyes of the ancients, different jiaozi belonged to dragons. Pond fish, full of 3,600, jiaozi has been here for a long time, and it can lead fish to the surface, that is, jiaozi has left. -There is Hu Jiao in Shuowen. Note: "Jiao, like a four-legged snake, is a dragon." The female dragon is Moonracer. -"Baopu" means that there is jiaozi in the water. (The dumpling here refers to salamanders, crocodiles and other animals. )-"Shi Shuo Xin Yu Xin Yu" is another example: Jiao Qiu (Jiao Qiu. Qiu: The little dragon with horns in ancient legends. Also refers to the aquarium); Diplomatic relations (dragon. Sting: an animal said to belong to the genus Xiaolong); Jiaocheng (dragon and cow) is also called ceratosaurus, which is called Jiaocheng and dragon in ancient books. No speakers say jiaozi. -"Rhyme Society" Jiao: an animal in ancient legends, which is generally called abdominal parasite in Chinese medicine. Jiao is an ancient god beast in China. It is said that Jiao is a millennium dragon, a century-old dragon, a century-old dragon, and a millennium-old dragon. Jiao, also known as crocodile. The legendary Jiao is a kind of water god introduced to Japan from China, who lives in freshwater rivers or lakes.