He said that in the deep mountains of Urumqi, herders often see "little people", who are only one foot tall, men, women and children. Compared with ordinary people, short hands and short legs are funny, but they are not dwarfs, but strangers in the mountains.
Whenever the willow blossoms, these little people will break the branches of the willow into small circles and wear them on their heads like garlands. They are singing and dancing on the garland of red willows, making a loud noise together, which is very unified, just like singing to music.
They are not bad by nature. Sometimes herders get hurt in the mountains. They will collect herbs to help him recover, and they will show the way for the lost people. It's just that they have the habit of stealing They often steal food from tents in military camps. When you are caught, you will kneel down and cry, speaking a language that others don't understand as if you are pleading. Some little people, because they have been in contact with ordinary people for a long time, can speak a sentence or two in the language used by ordinary people, but they have to listen carefully to understand what they are saying, because their pronunciation is strange and they sound like groundhogs. (Isn't this Gollum? )
If you tie him up, he will cry and not eat until he dies of hunger. If you let him go, you won't dare to leave at first. Take a few steps, you turn back, take a few more steps, and turn back. It seems that you don't trust the soldiers to let him go.
If the soldiers catch up and scold him, he will kneel down and cry again. A little farther away from people, I guess I can't catch up, so I ran away and crossed the stream and the mountain like an ape.
Some soldiers saw that it was a rarity, so they ganged up the mountain to look for their shelter, but they could never find it. Some local elders told me that this thing is not a refined tree in Shan Ye, nor a monster or monster in the mountains, but a real person, just shorter than ordinary people, and the customs are close to apes. Because I love to wear red willow, I got the name "Red Willow Baby".
No one knows what kind of species they are, but it is probably the "salvation" of the local legend dwarf country. As a dwarf in ancient legend, Liezi Tang Wen wrote, "Forty miles east of Zhongzhou, there is a country with a people one foot and five inches long"; Duan Shicheng's Youyang Miscellany in the Tang Dynasty also said: "Li Zhangwu is short, his head is full of political achievements, his eyes are clear, and his words are innocent."
Qiu Tianjin, the county magistrate, caught one while patrolling the grassland. Unfortunately, he accidentally killed it, so he had to bring the body back and invite Ji Xiaolan and other colleagues to watch this world miracle. Ji Xiaolan described the man's beard and hair as normal, with a small nose and mouth, slightly larger eyes and ears, and short hands and feet, just like a child.
He believes that this should be the "thin man" recorded in Shan Hai Jing, in which Shan Hai Jing, the country of the thin man, records that "the thin man is very small with big eyes." ; Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty also claimed to have seen such a strange villain. In It's Hard to Go, he wrote, "Northerners are nine inches long, and when they open their mouths, they will laugh louder. Eat and drink a little grain, and life and death will last forever. "
Ji Xiaolan thinks that the records in Shan Hai Jing are irrefutable. He claimed that everything in the world is very small, and the "land of the dragon's eyes" (the country of adults) mentioned in Liezi is also irrefutable.