Qin Shihuang: "I will not only kill her, but also use her oil as immortal lamp oil!" " "
Chui fook: "you can forget it, that Jiao Ren is really not ordinary ugly ..."
According to Sima Qian's record in the Chronicle of Qin Shihuang, it will take a long time to use mermaid cream as a candle. That means it was killed.
That is to say, after Qin Shihuang ascended the throne, when he built the underground palace, he not only filled it with rare treasures, but also made rivers and streams with mercury, and finally made the oil from mermaid into eternal lamp oil.
So what did Qin Shihuang do? After all, he is a mermaid.
But you're wrong, mermaid. That's what the west calls it. In our East, you recorded it in Shan Hai Jing, the earliest pre-Qin ancient book, and they all called it Jiao Ren.
The appearance is probably: there are tattoos on the face and tattoos on the body. In short, it is a beast in the Shanhaijing, which is not good-looking.
It looks like this. Look at the picture below.
So, do you think Qin Shihuang will cherish his passion for jade? In his eyes, everything is his use. Jiao Ren has no feelings.
In the Tang and Song Dynasties, Jiao Ren had a more detailed description. "Tai Ping Guang Ji" has a cloud:
Mermaid was found in the East China Sea of China. The biggest one is five or six feet long and looks like a person. Eyebrows, nose, mouth, claws and head are all beautiful women, and they are all feet. The flesh is as white as jade, without scales, with fine hairs, five colors and soft, one or two inches long. Hair like a ponytail, five or six feet long. There is no difference between a husband and a woman, and there are very few females in the offshore, and they are kept in ponds. In the process of sexual intercourse, it is no different from people and does not hurt people.
I try to form a very vivid description: there is a fish in the East China Sea, which is about the size of a human being, with a nose, eyes, hands and head. It looks like a fairy with long hair and white skin without scales.
How's it going? Isn't it beautiful? No one is tempted to see it!
However, the main event is coming, ahem, the part where the baby was born looks like a woman, but! The person who got her was not Prince Charming, but a lonely old man ... and then locked her in the swimming pool and let her do whatever she wanted.
Disillusioned, but this is the reality of the world, because in the eyes of the ancients, the mermaid did not match the status of human beings, but regarded her as a scarce resource that could be used by her.
In our ancient records, she can meet the needs, her fish maw can be made into a ever-burning lamp, and her tears can be made into pearls.
It may also be influenced by our China culture, so in Japan and North Korea, for example, the mermaid played by Qian was killed in the Korean TV series The Legend of the Blue Sea.
She shed tears for her, so she became a priceless pearl.
So to sum up, we can't look at Qin Shihuang's killing of mermaids with current empathy.
In their eyes, this is just a rare animal that has been captured. Qin Shihuang was busy living forever, but he really didn't care about mermaids. Moreover, the mermaid at that time and the books after the Tang and Song Dynasties described the distance of a galaxy.
What is even more disappointing is that according to the speculation of later generations, the mermaid recorded by Sima Qian may be a giant salamander or a whale.
In other words, it is not a mermaid at all.