Natural History: "There is Jiao Ren in the South China Sea, and the water is like a fish. Don't waste your work, your eyes are full of tears. " Ren Fang, A Liang of the Southern Dynasties, wrote: "Jiao Ren is also known as Quan Xian and Quan Ke. ..... There is the Dragon Palace in the South China Sea, the yarn is woven first in spring, and there are people from Bai Rushuang. " "Tales of Different Things" also said: "Crepe produced in the South China Sea, Spring Chamber dives into it, and dragon yarn, with a price of 100 gold, is acceptable and should not enter the water."
Be distributed
Living in the sea, a few rivers and lakes connected with the sea, including underground lakes, also have a small amount of Jiao Ren, mainly depending on the water depth and water quality. Jiao Ren doesn't want to live in dirty water.
type
The average life expectancy is seventy years. Viviparous, multiple births, six months pregnant. But only in August and September every year can you get pregnant, and most babies are born in February. Jiao Ren Jr. was born in an airbag. A few hours later, the airbag burst and he could swim. However, there are many natural enemies in the sea and the survival rate is poor. So the speed of racial reproduction is still lower than that of human beings.
appear
Slender streamline, good figure, similar to human beings, slightly thin and tall. But there are translucent skin wings and floating whiskers between the upper limbs and the sides of the body, which looks beautiful and elegant, but you should swim in the sea. A number of skirt-shaped transparent strips longer than legs are attached to the lower body from the waist. When swimming, the legs are wrapped in it, which helps to reduce the resistance of water flow and swim. According to legend, Jiao Ren is a race of ancient people. They used magic to change their physique and hid in the water to avoid the disaster of war, so they had legs. It is also said that a fisherman met a fairy in the sea and was turned into a servant, but no one knows what the real origin of Jiao Ren is, and this legend will always be a legend. Jiao Ren, the man has horny fins on his back and the woman is transparent and soft, so the man looks fierce and the woman is feminine.
Jiao Ren has hair and all kinds of colors. For the needs of labor and fighting, the lower-class men in Jiao Ren shaved their heads and tattooed their heads from an early age. Women are tied tightly or put on hats. Men's hair in Jiao Ren is usually the symbol of nobility and gentlemen.
Jiao Ren's body is covered with streamers and drooping beards, so she usually wears no clothes. When standing still or walking in the water, the skin wings and floating whiskers cover most of the body, and when swimming, the upper body is bare and the lower body is in the floating belt. Only some aristocrats don't need to swim long distances by themselves because they ride in a floating car pulled by giant fish (made of aquatic plants and light wood), so in order to show their special identity and protect their health, they use smooth aquatic plants or a special fabric called gauze (made of bubble film made by rolling snapper with fish scale powder and fish oil, which is extremely smooth and does not absorb water) to make clothes such as cloaks and belts. Jiao Ren's clothes are separated back and forth, and only tied at the neck and waist. After a long time, with the gradual popularization of cockroaches, some people began to follow suit.
Men in Jiao Ren usually have the same skin as human beings, but when they meet enemies, they will quickly turn into fighting physique, forming hard scaly skin outside their bodies, just like wearing armor. Women don't have this ability.
Aquatic constitution
Under normal circumstances, Jiao Ren can't live without water for more than one day. After landing, you must take medicine every day and spend several hours recovering in the water. Moreover, if the influence of non-seawater is not recovered well, it will affect health. The longer you stay out of the water, the weaker your body will be. Taking drugs for a long time will damage your health and shorten your life. But Jiao Ren is willing to explore many things on land, so sometimes Jiao Ren's secret stronghold can be found in the deep pools of the Great Lakes. Legend has it that Jiao Ren has a strange way to make people breathe and live in the sea, but at the same time it will shorten their life, but no one in the Terran knows this secret method.
language
Jiao Ren used a singing language to convey information in a chorus tone in the sea, so that it could spread far in the sea. When approaching, language communication also uses the fast audio produced by laryngeal bone vibration. Other races are extremely difficult to understand. Most people don't understand human language. When people hear strange songs overseas, they know that they have met Jiao Ren.
food
Jiao Ren mainly feeds on fish, supplemented by edible plants in the sea.
society
Underwater cities are built by using the buoyancy of the seabed to mine stones and planting fast-growing coral organisms with scaffolding. There are about 1000 people in a medium-sized city of Jiao Ren. There are nearly a hundred people in the ordinary village. Jiao Ren often migrates with the trend of marine fish and warm current, once every ten years on average, leaving an empty city. Other hunting tribes in Jiao Ren weave houses and nests with aquatic plants and float on the sea. There will be hundreds of such grass nests in a tribe.
Some cities use a kind of lime hollow base and column wall in the sea, and build houses with light marine plants, so they can also float in the sea, which is beneficial to migration.
Part of Jiao Ren, due to the combination of tribes, increased productivity, occupied a good ocean current zone, began to domesticate fish and marine plants, formed a settled life, and a country appeared, and no longer migrated. Jiao Ren is basically a city country.
Jiao Ren has a king. Both men and women can be kings, hereditary system. There is an official system and a small number of standing guards, but during the war, the army was temporarily transferred from the nationals. Ministries have ministers to handle affairs, and citizens are divided into citizens and slaves. Slaves are made up of criminals, aliens and prisoners of war. The main way for them to get rid of slavery is to seize property and redeem themselves or make meritorious deeds in the war. But the army is also limited, and the main force of Jiao Ren's fighting at sea is carnivorous fish. There are special sea whisperers (mages) who use exorcism spells. After a war, the sea is red.
Jiao Ren is rich, and there may be differences among countries, such as starfish, turtle shells and so on. But the most common is a rare golden pearl with the same diameter, which is difficult to cultivate artificially, and is called Zhu Ming. Because it is rare, they also use the live shellfish that already contains this kind of pearl in the sea, which is called He Hui, because the pearl has not finally grown, and some of them are similar to advance payment. Some sharks, close to humans, trade with Terrans by the sea, barter, and sometimes accept rare Jiao Ren currency on land. There are also some sharks or Jiao Ren people who have close contact with people who have something to stay on the shore and use human money.
Communicate with races on the ground.
Many people in Jiao Ren regard the waters as their own territory. They hate other races swimming or sailing in the water, because they think the ground is a filthy world and the races on the ground will pollute the water. Therefore, Jiao Ren often attacks sailing ground races, which greatly hinders the development of maritime civilization in ground races. Jiao Ren often appears in the Three Seas of Kyushu. Jiao Ren doesn't need a bow, only uses a fishbone crossbow or a hydraulic catapult. The underwater range is close, less than 100 feet, but it can reach dozens of feet when it is launched outside the water, hitting people on distant ships. But the hydraulic catapult is inconvenient to use on land, because it can't be launched again without water injection.
However, with the increase of inter-ethnic contact and understanding, some tribes in Jiao Ren began to become friendly. Terrans hold a sea sacrifice ceremony, and after washing the boat with wine, they can go to sea. During the voyage, the sailors kept spilling wine into the sea. When Jiao Ren smelled the wine on board, he stopped attacking. Of course, not all tribes in Jiao Ren are like this.
Jiao Ren and Terran can intermarry, but it is extremely difficult to have children. Even if there is, children are terrans. Although they were also born in airbags, they no longer have the physical characteristics of Jiao Ren. If they were born in water, airbags would drown. Jiao Ren's marriage with other races is based on racial marriage.
Most of the communication between Jiao Ren and the ethnic groups on the ground is seaside trade, or fishermen sail to coral reefs in the sea. Because there are Jiao Ren in the three seas of the earth, it is not surprising that people on land are becoming more and more familiar with Jiao Ren. Jiao Ren is good at spinning an extremely thin silk called ragweed from raw materials in the sea. It is light and tough, and its surface is extremely smooth. Used in marine architecture and clothing. In Kyushu, this is an extremely precious silk fabric. Legend has it that the occasional "mirage" at sea is the market where Jiao Ren sells and exchanges this limp. Anyone who can go can buy this kind of baby. In fact, a mirage is the result of Jiao Ren tribe's magic and fog rising to the surface. There are many reasons why Jiao Ren tribes appear on the water, such as offering sacrifices to the stars, being caught by the rising current, avoiding the seasonal dangerous cold current in the deep sea, or using the stars to predict the direction when moving.
Because some tribes are willing to trade with the ground race, and some hate the ground race, going to Jiao Ren is as dangerous and attractive as a mirage.
Another legend says that when Jiao Ren cried sadly, the tears she shed were beautiful pearls. Quoted from Natural History: "There is Jiao Ren in the South China Sea, and water lives like a fish. Don't waste your work, your eyes are full of tears. " The name of this allusion is the tears of sharks. In fact, this is the crystallization of Jiao Ren's tears when he cried. Due to the composition of Jiao Ren's body fluid, it will quickly condense in water and air after leaving the body. When Jiao Ren is on land, he often cries because he can't touch water. The vast majority of Jiao Ren's tears are fragile, mixed with colors and worthless. However, in some cases, such as the power of stars or the influence of special physique and mental state at that time, one in ten thousand may condense into a pearl-like treasure that is not fragile and shining. Therefore, Jiao Ren himself is regarded as a gift from heaven. It is said that shark beads can improve people's perception of nature spirituality. Legend has it that when Jiao Ren cried on a full moon night, the rolling shark beads were particularly round; When the moon is short of horns, shark beads are grotesque, which may be an example of the influence of stars on Jiao Ren with corresponding physique.
It is inconvenient for Jiao Ren to move slowly on the ground. He often trips over his ribbon. Even if Jiao Ren occupies this coastal city, it will not occupy it, because it will be uninhabitable unless seawater is introduced and injected into it. Because Terrans believe that the ancient city under the Mediterranean has a lot of treasures, people often venture into the territory of Jiao Ren, and some evil people even think of expelling Jiao Ren. Of course, there are also some Jiao Ren-speaking people who think about how to make the sea water rise and clean the world.
Almost the only land stronghold in Jiao Ren, Fujian and Zhongshan are in the center of the Three Seas. There is a big lake leading to the sea in the mountains, which is one of the common places in Jiao Ren. It is also the legendary place where Chinese and American Jiao Ren and treasures gather, and it is the dream place of countless wild navigators.
Donghai Jiao Ren
"Jiao Ren in the East China Sea can live for thousands of years, and tears become pearls, which is priceless; Oil burning lamp, eternal; Woven jiaozi is as light as a feather; Its scales can cure all diseases and prolong life. After his death, he turned into clouds and rain, rose to the sky, and fell into the sea. " -"Looking for Ancient Stores"
Jiao Ren's discovery.
Does Jiao Ren exist?
It is not the first time that Jiao Ren has black scales. Many people in the world have found the mermaid's bones, and the US Navy has also caught a live one. It is said that Jiao Ren's ointment in the sea not only has a low burning point, but can burn for months with only one drop. In ancient aristocratic tombs, its oil was often used as lanterns for thousands of years. Jiao Ren in the East China Sea is the most lewd and bloodthirsty. They all live under the island formed by dead corals in the sea. That's the mermaid's lair. They make noises in the nearby waters, attracting businessmen from passing ships. All the victims were eaten to the bone. Someone caught Jiao Ren with live black scales, slaughtered him, dried him, poured ointment on him, and made an immortal candle for him, worth 3,000 gold beads.
Jiao Ren's Realistic Prototype
The legendary "Jiao Ren" is mysterious and beautiful. The partridges they produce are not wet in water. When they cry, their tears turn into pearls. Jiao Ren is not only a legend, they probably live on islands outside the South China Sea, and they have trade with China. In addition, a "King of Jiao Ren" died in Shandong, leaving his descendants in China.
In the Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin wrote the poem "Mermaids shed pearl-like tears on the moon-green sea, and the blue fields breathed their jade on the sun", which fascinated countless people for thousands of years. If you ask the meaning of this poem, the most admirable thing is Liang Qichao's sentence: "I don't care what I say." Let me explain something. I can't even figure out the meaning. "(The emotion expressed in China's verse) That is to say, this kind of poem is poetic and picturesque, which can only be imagined but not taken seriously. Readers only need to taste the beauty of poetry, and don't have to ask the material of the beauty of poetry.
Although the poet's function words are "nothing in reason, something in sentiment", these two incomprehensible poems are not function words, but have allusions. Westerners call this rhetorical method of forming a vehicle through the complex combination of allusions "metaphysical metaphor". Just like guessing riddles, the interpreter needs to be very familiar with the implied meaning of allusions in order to solve riddles. "erudition and fearlessness" is a stubborn disease of scholars. What interests me is that in the first part of this poem, the three tearful images of the sea, the moon and the pearl are all related to the legendary "Jiao Ren".
The legend of Jiao Ren has existed in China for a long time. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the records about Jiao Ren became more and more detailed. Jiao Ren has been mentioned in the poems of Cao Zhi, Zuo Si and Zhang Hua. The legendary Jiao Ren lived a mysterious life. Gan Bao's "Searching for the Gods" says: "There is Jiao Ren outside the South China Sea, and the water is like fish, so it is not in vain. If his eyes cry, he can produce beads. " Although some scholars have verified whether Jiao Ren is a marine animal or a mermaid, I personally think that they are human beings living in the ocean, and their living habits are unfamiliar to mainlanders, which adds a sense of mystery to them.
Jiao Ren's two products are regarded as treasures by the world. First, the lacrimal gland. Ren Fang's Shuo Wen Jie Zi said: "Tears yarn is produced in the South China Sea, and Spring Chamber is a hidden weaver. A dragon yarn, the price is 100 gold, I am sure it will not get wet. " The second story is depressing, saying that Jiao Ren's tears can be turned into pearls. Du Fu's poem "The Guest Arrives" tells that a friend brought him a spring guest pearl, and the result was "silence for a long time" and "eyes turned into blood". Pearls are Jiao Ren's tears, but Jiao Ren seems to value friendship more than pearls. "Two Pearl Heroes in Tailanbao" quoted Zhang Hua's "Natural History": "Get out of the water, live with people for a long time, sell their utensils, take their main utensils, and cry into a plate of pearls for their owners." As a small thank you, Jiao Ren immediately sent a plate of pearls. So some people say that Jiao Ren doesn't value pearls, because tears are worthless. However, it would be more reasonable if Jiao Ren's hometown is rich in pearls rather than expensive.
Jiao Ren often does business with China people in the southern coastal areas of China, and they also have their own scripts. Song Jiaoren by Li Qi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote: "Jiao Ren dived into the water and swam with the fish. It is difficult to distinguish the colors of literature and art. Every night, the waves are clear and the moon is bright. Sometimes boarding in the city, the island is endless. I will repay you with tears and never give up. See you next year. At first, I knew that there were all kinds of people, and a hundred feet deep spring was used to build houses. Birds don't have time to look at mountains, just look at clouds and waves. " In Li Qi's poems, Jiao Ren is a good friend who will meet each other this year and next. Poets are full of curiosity and yearning for their marine life.
So, where is Jiao Ren from? When Guo Pu annotated Shan Hai Jing, he said that Jiao Ren was the "carved country". In the ancient sound, "carved country" and "shark" are interchangeable, which is quite similar to the Li nationality in Hainan Island. The Li people have developed textile technology for a long time. It is said that Huang Daopo of Songjiang learned textile technology from Li people and was honored as a textile god by his hometown people. However, the contacts between the Li nationality and the mainland are early and frequent, and there is not much mystery. Judging from the fact that Jiao Ren only comes to the mainland once a year or even several years, it seems that they live farther than Hainan. Jiao Ren's description of underwater life may mean that there is water all around the house, just like being underwater. Based on these factors, Jiao Ren should be a small island resident living in the ocean outside the South China Sea. From the production and origin of pearls, sulu archipelago people in the southern Philippines are the closest.
Sulu people also have many contacts with the mainland. It is recorded in Dade Nanhai Zhi, Island Brief and Yuan Shi that Sulu people live in Nanhai Island, and their custom is that "men and women break their hair and wrap soap, which is water printed cloth." Pearls are "blue, white and round, and their prices are very high ... those with diameters." Their pearls are the best in the world, and their residence is near Java, which produces colored silk.
Different worlds
1. Human head and fishtail, very beautiful, very good at singing. Weaving water is thread, tears become beads. Dark blue hair and dark blue eyes. Life expectancy is about ten times that of human beings. Slave owners raised Jiao Ren, and when they came of age, they cut the fishtail into two legs and sold it to the eastern and western markets for profit in human form.
2. Jiao Ren was born without gender. As an adult, her sexual consciousness woke up, her body changed, split into a man and a woman, and she was sterilized for life. As for the turning point of gender, it depends on their own wishes. It takes several months to a year or two to change, and Jiao Ren can only choose her sex once in her life.
Jiao Ren has a kind of "hidden sound"-that is, ultrasound. It was originally used for underwater communication. Later, the Legion of Paradise took advantage of the characteristics of Jiao Ren puppet and used it as a way of communication between falcons in the war. So my Jiao Ren here is used as "driver+operator+kamikaze".
Jiao Ren was born at sea, so his body is absolutely "balanced", and his heart is in the middle of his chest.
Jiao Ren's eyes were dug out and processed, and they were called jelly beads, which were priceless.
6. Jiao Ren's genes are very strong, so the hybrid offspring of Jiao Ren and human will show most features of Jiao Ren, such as fish tail and gills. But in details, such as hair color and eyes, hybrids are sometimes the same as humans. -"The Mirror"