At that time, Cheng Bochun was the magistrate of Jincheng County. He obtained a piece of scales from a visit, which looked like the scales of a living creature. This is probably formed from a snake mi

At that time, Cheng Bochun was the magistrate of Jincheng County. He obtained a piece of scales from a visit, which looked like the scales of a living creature. This is probably formed from a snake mirage, such as the fossil of a ground crab. "Lingbiao Foreign Object Chronicles" records crocodiles in great detail. When I was young, I went to Fujian, when Wang Juzhi was the magistrate of Chaozhou. I caught a crocodile as big as a boat, so I drew a picture of it and wrote on the picture to narrate the story. The crocodile's body is generally like a turtle, but the length of its mouth is equal to the length of its body, and its teeth are like saw teeth. There are two colors: yellow and green, and sometimes white. There are three hooks on the tail, which are extremely sharp. When encountering deer and wild boars, they will attack and devour them with their tails. They lay a lot of eggs, and what hatches out are either fish or moles, but only one-tenth of them are crocodiles. Local people hooked dogs or pigs and put them on bamboo rafts to float in the water. Crocodiles would follow the rafts and eat the pigs and dogs, and then they would be captured and die.

During the Jiayou period, Haizhou fishermen caught a marine animal with a body like a fish and a head like a tiger. The patterns on its body also resembled those of a tiger. It has two short legs on its shoulders, and its claws are like those of a tiger. He was eight or nine feet long and shed tears when he saw people. He was carried to the government office of the state capital and died a few days later. Some elders said that they had seen this kind of animal in the past, which was called "Sea Manshi (lion)". However, there is no record of this animal in various classics and miscellaneous novels in the past.

In the ninth year of Xining (1076), a cyclone struck from the southeast in Wucheng County, Enzhou. It looked like a sheep's horn and reached into the sky. All the big trees were uprooted. After a while, a whirlwind rolled into the sky. Not long after, as it gradually approached and passed through the county town, almost all the official buildings and residential buildings in the county town were swept away, and they were all swept into the sky. The county magistrate's children and slaves were all swept away and fell to the ground, killing and injuring several of them. The number of civilian casualties and disappearances was overwhelming, and the county seat was completely reduced to ruins, so the county seat was moved to its current new location.

Song Cidao's "Records of Chunming's Retreat from the Dynasty" records: "During the Tiansheng Period, in the middle of winter in Qingzhou, the thick frost on the roof tiles turned into the shape of various flowers." Such a thing had happened in the Five Dynasties. I I have personally seen this happen twice. During the Qingli period, the ice in the Jixiguan water channel in the capital condensed into patterns, which were all in the shape of flowers, fruits and trees. In the last years of Yuanfeng, I went to Xiuzhou and saw that the ice on the tiles of residents' houses was also shaped like flowers, with one branch per tile, just like the broken branches painted by the artist. Some have large flowers like peonies and peonies, and some have small flowers like crabapples and daylilies. They all have branches and leaves, and there are no details missing. The weather is so vivid that even the painter's skillful brushwork cannot draw it. If they were rubbed on paper, they would be no different from stone carvings.