Anchovies are a strange animal, with fish's body and bird's wings. It can make a bird call like a mandarin duck. Wherever it appears, it will bring floods there.
According to Shan Hai Jing, Mengshui came from Lushan Mountain. There are many Huang Bei in this river. It is a kind of water beetle, which looks like a tadpole and has a head and feet. The leader of the drowning person is another kind of animal, that is, Luo Ru raw fish. This guy has the body of a fish, but the wings of a bird. He can fly by flapping his wings. Once he takes off, the waves will be rough, and the places he passes through will inevitably be submerged.
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Judging from China's rare books and ancient books, Shan Hai Jing was generally written by Chu or Bashu people from the middle and late Warring States Period to the early Han Dynasty. Lushan Mountain is covered with water and flows southward into the ocean, with Huang Bei being the most abundant. Fish, fish with wings, sounds like mandarin ducks, see its city flood. "
Lushan Mountain, where Mengshui originates, flows southward into the ocean, where there are many Huang Bei. There is also an anchovy, which has a fish's body but bird's wings, and makes a sound like a mandarin duck's song. Where it appears, there is a flood.
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