Prove that any creature that appears in Shan Hai Jing and ancient Greece may really exist?

Biography of Dawan: Zhang Qian has been poor in Heyuan since his summer vacation. Who hates the so-called Kunlun Mountain in Shiji? Therefore, there are mountains and rivers in Kyushu, and the ministers are close. I dare not say anything about Yu Benji and the monsters in Shan Hai Jing. Shan Hai Jing, as a wonderful book, also subverted the cognition of the ancients, and Sima Qian did not classify it as the official history.

The Shan Hai Jing visible today is not the earliest, but the Shan Hai Jing Annotation of the Western Han Dynasty, which was preceded by Liu Xiu's Shan Hai Jing Table. As for ancient pictures, they were mainly handed down in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and these exotic animals and myths and legends also attracted the attention of experts. They think Shan Hai Jing is not a random fabrication, but a geographical work. As for exotic animals, they may be the products of ancient processing.

However, the mermaid is somewhat illusory. Under the influence of western culture, most people think that mermaids come from the west. In fact, there are records of mermaids in Shan Hai Jing. The wild west of Shanhaijing: there is a country with mutual people, the grandson of Emperor Yan, whose name is Ling, and the spirit gives birth to mutual people, which can rise to heaven.

The mutual person here is the Miao people in Hainan Jing: "The Miao people build a wooden west for everyone, and there is no enough." In fact, the record of mermaid is not limited to Miao people. There is another story in Gan Bao's "Searching for the Gods" in the Jin Dynasty: Beyond the South China Sea, there is Jiao Ren, where the water is like a fish, and the weaving achievements are not wasted. There are tears in the eyes and pearls can be produced.

The legend of Jiao Ren began in Wei and Jin Dynasties. In many myths and legends, the image of Jiao Ren became clear. In "Jinse", Li Shangyin in the Tang Dynasty also used "Mermaid tears like pearls, blue sea spits jade at the sun" to tell that Jiao Ren's tears are like pearls and Jiao Ren's oil, which can last for thousands of years.

In the Chronicle of the First Emperor, it is actually mentioned that when Qin Shihuang ascended the throne, Sima Qian recorded some current situations of the construction of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum: mercury is everywhere, machine instilled, astronomy is above, and geography is below. Take mermaid cream as a candle, and it will last for a long time. I wonder if the mermaid cream here is from Jiao Ren.

The mermaid we are familiar with is Lorelei, a beautiful mermaid from German legend. When it is dark, she will sing on the Rhine River. She bewitched the past boatmen with her beautiful appearance and singing. The mermaid image here is a mermaid with a female upper body and a fish lower body, which is perfectly restored in Pirates of the Caribbean.

Similar to the mermaid, there is Sai Ren, a half-fish and half-man siren in Greek mythology. The three sisters in Sai Ren used their sweet songs to confuse the boatmen and let them crash the boat into the rocks. No matter the legend of China, or the legend of Greek and German, the image of mermaid is similar. Do mermaids really exist?

Experts agree that the mermaid is a dugong in the sea. They will regularly surface for air, and female dugong will breast-feed on the water with her cubs. Dugong is usually considered as a "mermaid".

20 16 A tomb buried by Song and Jin couples was discovered in Ningxia, and many cultural relics were unearthed. The most striking thing is the first "Mermaid" brick sculpture in China. Its upper body is the image of a woman in China, and its lower body is a fish. In fact, mermaids should only be deified creatures of the ancients.

Just like Nu Wa, the legendary Nu Wa is a snake with a human face. Obviously, this creature can't exist. This is just an animal worship of the ancients, and the mermaid is a strange creature in the sea. With the rendering of the poet, the natural legend of the mermaid has been preserved.