The ancient Fuxi clan used a snake as a totem. In myths and legends, it has the image of a human head and a snake body. Its mother, Huaxu clan, also has a snake body and a human head. However, the formation of the dragon totem originated from the Fuxi clan. "The Chronicle of the Three Sovereigns" records: " Fuxi has a dragon, and the official name of the dragon is ." According to legend, the marriage system used deer skins as betrothal gifts and the surnames of animals and residences to avoid consanguineous and promiscuous marriages. It also started from the Fuxi clan. In some respects, the Fuxi clan was a patriarchal clan. The beginning of society has changed the state of children who only know their mother and do not know their father.
As for the dragon totem, modern scholars prefer that the Fuxi clan defeated other clans and absorbed the totems of other clans, thus forming a snake as the main body. The totem image of ears, sheep's whiskers, eagle's claws, and fish's scales is very close to the image of "dragon" in Song Dynasty.
In this regard, modern scholars explain that powerful clans did not completely eliminate their totems after defeating other clans, but added a part of their totems to their own totems to win over and achieve the purpose of unity.
In "Compendium of Materia Medica·Wing", the description of the dragon's shape is more detailed, which contains: "The dragon is the length of the scale insect. Wang Fu said that its shape has nine similarities: the head is like a camel, the horns are like a deer, and the eyes are like a deer. Like a rabbit, ears like an ox, neck like a snake, belly like a mirage, scales like a carp, claws like an eagle, palms like a tiger, yes. It has eighty-one scales on its back, with nine and nine yang numbers. Its sound is like a copper plate. There are beards and beards beside the mouth, pearls under the chin, and scales under the throat. There is Boshan on the head, also known as Chimu, the dragon without Chimu cannot ascend to the sky.Breathing into a cloud, it can become both water and fire. Since the development of "
, people are interested in looking for the existence of dragons. Therefore, the "Yingkou Falling Dragon Incident" in 1934 was quite a sensation. …The dragon’s body is towering, with three armors on the left and right of the head, the spine is more than three inches wide, and attached to both sides of the spine are ribs, each about five or six inches long, and the tail is a vertical plate-shaped white bone tail. Twenty-eight sections, each section is about more than a foot, and the whole is more than three feet in total. At the original dragon, there is a soil pit that is two feet wide and five feet long and is dug by claws. There are clear claw marks along the pit, and there are still tendons on the keel. Strips, until the flesh is no longer visible. "
The newspaper revealed an important piece of news. The dragon claw dug a hole in the ground that was nearly 17 meters long and more than 6 meters wide. There were also photos of the dragon skeleton on it, and the audience was surrounded by it. It also caused the price of train tickets to Yingkou to rise rapidly.
In the newspapers, the four characters "Jiao class dried up" are very conspicuous, and they are bolded and enlarged. "Jiao" is actually a creature in Chinese mythology and legend. Generally, it refers to the scaly generalized dragons that cause floods. According to the description of "Jiao" in ancient books, in fact, "Jiao" cannot be confused with a dragon. Although it looks like a dragon, its horns are very short, or even no It has four legs.
Whether it is a dragon or a dragon, there is word of mouth about the "Yingkou Falling Dragon Incident", but because of the war, the skeleton that can prove what the skeleton of a giant creature in Yingkou is has disappeared in the tide of history. , but there were still witnesses back then, and an old man named Sun Zhengren claimed to have a "keel" in his collection and donated it.
In 2004, in order to find the truth, the column group "Into Science" visited many witnesses of that year, and made a detailed study of the "keel" donated by Sun Zhengren, but unfortunately, this "keel" is actually a Mustang fossils from more than 10,000 years ago.
and the column team also gave their own conclusions based on everyone's descriptions, etc., thinking that the "keel" that was photographed should be the remains of a stranded baleen whale, and the staff who pieced together the bones at that time probably spelled the direction of the skeleton backwards. .
Of course, this inevitably broke many people's beautiful illusions, and many eyewitnesses said that the huge creatures they saw were not the same as baleen whales. Therefore, amid the voices of doubt, in 2005, CCTV specially launched a documentary about the "Yingkou Falling Dragon Incident" in the "Exploration and Discovery" program, and rejected the baleen whale's guess, setting it as an unsolved natural mystery. .
