The myth of the sea in the sea

In China's oldest natural history book "Classic of Mountains and Seas: A Classic of the South at Home", it is recorded that "the country that worries about Bo, keeps ears, engraves titles and returns to the north is all in the south of the water. Note: Ear removal, ear removal, ear removal is a pendant, that is, ear removal is in Zhu Yahai; Engraving, revealing his face, painting the body is a scale, that is, Jiao Ren also. " Among them, Jiao Ren's appearance is a four-legged fish, which later spread to Japan and became the most primitive mermaid image. There are also some descriptions in Shan Hai Jing, which seem to describe aquatic creatures such as mountain pepper fish, giant salamander, eel and catfish. They look like people and are covered with scales, and they feel closer to a mixture of people and animals. There is a record of "mermaid" in Volume 6 of Historical Records, Biography of Qin Shihuang, written by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty, which mentioned: "At the beginning of the emperor's accession to the throne, Lishan was ruled consistently and merged with the world. The world sent more than 700,000 people down the Tongque Terrace through three springs, making it full of strange things. Let the craftsman make a crossbow, and people who wear it at close range need to shoot it. Take mercury as a hundred rivers and seas, instill machines, there is astronomy on the top and geography on the bottom. Taking mermaid cream as a candle will last for a long time. " Liu Song Pei bamboo slips "Collection of Interpretation" quoted the ancient interpretation of "mermaid" as: "Guangxu said:' mermaid looks like a fish and has four legs." Guangyi Cloud:' Fish sounds like a child's cry, has four feet and is shaped like a herring, which can cure cattle and produce Iraqi water. Zhiyun:' Mermaid looks like a human figure, more than a foot long. Gross. Sharks with good skin, sawn wood with good wood. There are small clothes around the neck, from which the gas comes out. In the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, mermaid cream is a candle, that is, this fish is also. Out of the East China Sea, there is one in Taizhou today. "Reporter: Today, if the emperor uses lacquerware lamps in the tomb, the fire will not go out." (Press: □ for ancient books. ) "Japanese catfish" is the name of a fish. In today's Yangmingshan National Park in Taiwan Province Province, there are still "Silurus septempunctatus" and "Silurus lunatus", which are slippery and like to inhabit rivers, ponds or swamps.