On August 8, 1934, a skeleton similar to the legendary dragon was found in Yingkou. What is even more incredible is: before this mysterious creature died, the local residents had seen it twice It has been in close contact with it for a long time!
In the first volume of "Yingkou City Chronicles", it is stated: "(1934) On the afternoon of August 8th, a farmer in Dongxiao Street on the north bank of the Liaohe River found a The giant animal bones, about 10 meters long, have a horn on each side of the head, about 1 meter long, and a total of 29 spine. The No. 6 Police Station of Yingkou will transport them to the open space near the Xihai Customs Wharf for display for a few days, and go to visit People are constantly coming in.
Some elderly people recalled that this monster had appeared twice, the first time it appeared 20 kilometers away from the sea entrance. Old man Xiao Suqin: At the age of 9 years, her father was chasing the landlord In the carriage, many people said that they found a "living dragon" in the upper reaches of the Tianzhuang Terrace, so they rushed there. Dad put her on the horse and helped her to look. The "dragon" she saw was square-headed and square-headed. Her eyes are big, blinking, and her body is gray-white, curled up on the ground, her tail is rolled up, and her abdomen has two paws outstretched. What impresses her most is that the dragon is weak. , Eyes half-open and half-closed, plus some redness in the eyes, many people said that the weather was too hot, so they built a shed on the dragon to escape the heat, and some people carried water on it to let it It was able to "relieve the heat." Later, after a long period of heavy rain, the "dragon" disappeared.
At that time, the common people believed that the dragon descended from the sky was a lucky thing, and some people used reed mats to build a pergola for the monsters. Some people carry water and pour water on the monsters to prevent the monsters from drying out.
It is said that people are very active, even the lazy people on weekdays have to pick and water. And in the temple Many people and monks have to do things for them every day. This action continued until after another few days of heavy rain, this monster mysteriously disappeared.
However, after more than 20 consecutive days of heavy rain, this monster was the first It appeared strangely twice again. This time it appeared in the reeds 10 kilometers away from the estuary of Liaohe. At this time, it was no longer a living thing, but a strange and unpleasant corpse.According to the old man Yang Yishun's memory: before the discovery of the "dragon" bones, I heard the adults say that there were always crackling noises in the reeds, and there were also "Woo..." calls like cows, which sounded very dull. I could hear the sound of struggling, but then there was no more movement.
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At that time, the Yingkou area had been raining heavily for more than 40 days. The streets and roads were full of water, and some houses collapsed due to too much water. After the rain stopped, as the north wind blew, the air smelled great. A worker surnamed Lu who was looking after Weitang followed the strange smell and found a large swath of reeds lying down. After pushing aside, he went in and took a look. He was shocked: There was a huge dead animal lying in it!
The worker turned around in fright and ran back home and became seriously ill. After the people heard about it, they went to watch it together and reported it to the government at the time. At that time, personnel in an epidemic prevention hospital near the West Customs were wearing white lab coats and sprayed disinfectant water on the dead animal carcasses. After the "dragon" bone was lifted out, someone used four anchors to tie the rope to form a circle for everyone to see.
Sun Zhengren: The bare bones are not the original dragon shape. The painted and depicted ones are not of the same shape, but are quite long and have a big head. The two big horns are more than one meter long, more than one meter three or four feet. Two long. Lie on the ground, with a crooked body, it can be as long as ten meters. Ma Guoxiang, the son of the famous in Yingkou City, the doctor Ma Zichen (who had seen the "dragon" bone), remembers his father had told him that when the bones were discovered, the meat had not completely rotted and looked particularly "dragon". .
related records: "…………The dragon has a towering body with three armours on the left and right sides of the head. The spine is more than three inches wide. The ribs are attached to both sides of the spine, each about five or six inches long, with a tail. It is a slab-shaped white bone tail, with 28 sections in total. Each section is about a foot or more, and a total of more than three feet in total. At the original dragon, there is a soil pit that is dug by claws and is two feet wide and five feet long, with clear claw prints along the pit. Existence, there are still ribs in the keel, and the flesh is no longer visible." These characteristics also further verify the view of the dragon.
According to several old people, the old fishermen were invited to identify them, but no one knew the monster corpses. People talked a lot, and generally thought it was a "dragon."The Puppet Sixth Police Substation in Yingkou organized manpower to decompose the bones and transport them to the south bank. They were placed in the empty field in front of the West Customs as they were for people to visit.
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At that time, the "Shengjing Times" sent someone to interview, also known as "Dragon", "Heavenfalling Dragon", "Yingchuan Falling Dragon", "Giant Dragon" And so on, but also accompanied by photos, pictures and texts. The citizens of Yingkou scrambled to watch, and visitors from nearby cities made special trips to visit the city, making it nervous to buy train tickets to and from Yingkou.
Later, it was reported that Teacher Zhang from the Fishery Department of Yingkou Fisheries Senior Middle School decided that it was indeed a fish. At that time, Yingkou Meida Photo Gallery and Yingming Photo Gallery developed a large number of "dragon" bone exhibition photos, which were sold along the street near Erhonding Hutong. Some people who came to Yingkou from outside to visit "dragon" bones scrambled to buy "dragon" bone photos. Take it back to your family to appreciate.
Li Binsheng: I remember that year when I was ten years old. 70 years ago, the circle surrounding the open-air exhibition of Xi’an Customs was an anchor. The anchor of the fixed ship under the sampan was surrounded by a circle with the interruption, and was blocked by a rope. The ground was sprinkled with white ash, because there were too many people to squeeze in. With the movement of people, people can look at the front. People have a curious mind to see. It's just that there is a dragon in the legend, but there is an opportunity that has not been seen in actual life, so they are very curious to see. It is very long, two to three feet long, about ten meters long, standing upright. The spine does not look like a fish. The strange thing is that there are horns on the head, and any aquarium has no horns.
Looking through the relevant information, the reporter saw the photocopy of the "dragon" bone published in the "Shengjing Times" on August 14, 1934. Although it is old and restricted by the photography technology and various factors at the time, it can only be seen vaguely The blurry figures of the crowd wearing straw hats to watch the "dragon" bone exhibit are still clearly visible in the picture.
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Regrettably, due to the chaotic social order at the time, the Fishery High School was also relocated several times, and the huge skeleton was lost. In 1939, 16-year-old Sun Zhengren came to Dalian as a housekeeper. The hostess's husband was the younger brother of the president of the Yingkou Chamber of Commerce.Sun Zhengren was appreciated by his master. When he left Dalian in 1941, the hostess gave him a piece of "dragon" bone as a reward.
According to the introduction, the keel in the hostess’s hand weighs about three kilograms and is in the shape of a white strip. The white glaze on the surface of the bone is very bright, and everyone says it is a "dragon" tooth. The hostess told him that this was the keel that had been exhibited in Yingkou.
On the morning of June 16, the old man Sun Zhengren donated five "dragon" bones that he had preserved for a full 63 years to the City History Office. He hoped that the relevant departments could identify the bones in his hands.
The incident of falling the dragon at Yingkou and the emergence of the dragon bone are probably like this.
Many media have reported on this, and there are also various voices of doubt: CCTV also shot a feature film, and the conclusion reached in the film is that this is a whale stranded and the bones are misspelled. Fu Renyi, a researcher from Liaoning Province, concluded that the "dragon" bone was the fossil of the unearthed "primitive cow" based on the photos in the "Shengjing Times". Associate researcher Dong Wei believes that this may be a fossil of an elephant, and the two "horns" are long teeth. After some experts studied the keel donated by the old man Sun Zhengren, it was preliminarily believed that it was a fossil of the Quaternary wild horse.
These explanations are obviously not satisfactory: whale does not have horns and four claws. According to the bones assembled from freshly decomposed living bodies, there is little possibility of serious misplacement of length, shape and characteristics. Cows, horses, and elephants cannot have snake-shaped bones more than ten meters long. And archaeologists have overlooked the most important issue: it was bones obtained from decayed living organisms, not paleontological fossils , and fresh bones could not become fossils.
Due to the source of Sun Lao’s keel, coupled with the difference between fossils and fresh bones, people can inevitably suspect that this is the Yingkou keel at that time. Although there are a large number of witnesses and very detailed records of photos, the falling of the dragon in Yingkou remains a historical mystery that is difficult to solve due to the lack of physical objects.
Because we must try our best to ensure that things are objective, most of the above narratives are sorting out self-related articles. When sorting out some online sightings of dragons, most of the witnesses who discovered these incidents (often seen by quite a few people at the same time) claimed that the mysterious creatures they saw looked like dragons.All have bull heads, snake bodies, four claws and long horns, and their bodies are quite long and huge.
These events can be divided into two categories. The first category is sightings: many people claim to have seen dragons flying in the air. Sometimes it is a part of the body. In a witnessing incident in Inner Mongolia, multiple witnesses claimed to see a giant claw exposed in the cloud, sometimes the whole body. The most bizarre thing is that many women paratroopers of the People's Liberation Army saw dragons in the clouds during a parachuting training during the Cultural Revolution. Due to the political environment at the time, none of these people made any claims. The dragons witnessed by others were in the water.
The second category is the falling dragon. According to some article authors, there have been dozens of dragon falling incidents he has collected. As far as I can see, there are two types of these incidents: one is that it hasn’t rained for a long time when the drought is severe, and the villagers found it in the open space. A huge dragon-like creature, it seems exhausted, it has been lying on the ground, only occasionally twisting its body. Good-hearted villagers usually cover it with a mat. The length of the dragon on the ground varies from two to three days to two months, without eating or drinking during the period. The disappearance of the dragon is always on a stormy night. The villagers believe that the dragon's suffering on the ground is the punishment of heaven for its mistakes, and the dragon will return to the heaven after its sentence expires. The other is the killing of dragon-like creatures with lightning. If the former is a dead dragon, then this is a dead dragon. The number of dead falling dragons is less than that of living falling dragons. The folk explanation is that the dragon committed a serious crime and was killed by the heavens.
Some problems can also be seen from these incidents: all the sightings of the dragon occurred in China, and one case was in Singapore. People of different cultural backgrounds can’t see dragons? If this kind of creature does exist, how can this be explained? How can dragons fly without wings? In the Chinese zodiac, the dragon is said to be non-existent, but ours Why did the ancestors create a non-existent animal to be juxtaposed with the eleven existing animals? Whether the dragon exists or not is also a topic that people have been discussing. If I feel that I believe it, I will have it, and if I don’t believe it, I will be entertained.
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