Red Rooster, a spiritual beast. The red croaker is a strange spiritual beast. There are not many of them and they often hide in swamps. Spiritual beasts like Red Rooster are very weak, but they are good at hiding and are difficult to capture. However, it is said that red clam is delicious and a rare delicacy.

In folklore, the body shape of the red croaker is similar to that of a carp, but it is several times larger than a carp. However, it has a face similar to that of a human. Even its nose, eyebrows and eyes are the same as those of humans. two. The sound of the red duck is like that of a mandarin duck, and it has only one partner in its life.

Related records of red croakers

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas·Nanshan Classic": "The Yingshui comes out Yan, and the south flow flows into Jiyi Lake. There are many red croakers in it, and they look like The fish has a human face, and its sound is like a mandarin duck. "

Guo Pu's "Illustrated Praise": "The red duck has a fish body and a human head. p>

Read "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and see the mythical beast: Red Rooster

The Yingshui comes out of Yan, and the south current flows into Jiyi Ze.

Among them are many red ducks, which look like fish but have human faces.

Their sounds are like mandarin ducks, and they will not cause scabies when eaten.

In Qingqiu Mountain, a river called Yingshui originates from here and flows southward into Yize. There is a kind of magical fish in the quiet Yingshui, called red turtle. It looks like a fish, but this fish has a beautiful face. The cry of the red cockroach is like that of a mandarin duck. If a person eats it, he will not get scabies.

Historical origin

Red: empty and empty; Creep: connected to "need", soft. The red croaker belongs to the human fish species. It has a different name for fish in ancient myths and legends. It was first seen in the Pre-Qin Dynasty's "Shan Hai Jing Nan Shan Jing": "The mountain of Qingqiu. The Yingshui comes out, and the south flows into the Jiyi Lake. There are many of them. The red duck has a shape like a fish and a human face, and its sound is like a mandarin duck. It is not scabies when eaten." Later, the mermaid in the Northern Classics, the fish in the Seven Classics of the Middle Ages, and the dragon fish in the Overseas Western Classics. , "Lingyu" in "Hai Nei Bei Jing" all refer to red croakers.

Wu Renchen cited Liu Huimeng and said: There is also a baby fish in Cizhou, with four legs and a long tail, and a sound like a baby's cry, and its fat will burn forever. According to Liu, it is the fish. Mermaid is also called salamander. According to "Guangzhi", the sound of salamander is like the cry of a child and it has four legs. The red creeper has a human face and a fish body, and its cry is like a mandarin duck. It is said that if people eat its meat, they can prevent diseases, and it is also said that they can avoid scabies.

Appearance

Guo Pu's "Pictures and Praises": "The object of the red turtle (one shape) has a fish body and a human head." There are two shapes in the red turtle pictures: one is a human The face is a fish body; the second is a fish shape, but not a human face. The red turtle is a strange fish in ancient myths and legends, with a sound like a mandarin duck.

According to research, the scientific name of red croaker is "deep sea salmon", and specimens of sea fish similar to red croaker have been found in the Sea of ??Japan.

The mythical story of "Red Rooster", one of the ancient spiritual beasts

Red Rooster is a very strange spiritual beast. In ancient times, it was a common animal. There are a lot of them, they often travel together, and they are often hidden in swamps. Spiritual beasts like Red Rooster are very weak, but they are good at hiding and are difficult to capture. However, it is said that red clam is delicious and a rare delicacy.

The reason why red croakers are called spiritual beasts is because they have extremely high IQs. According to folklore, there was once an emperor who wanted to eat the meat of red cockroaches, so he sent an army to hunt and kill red cockroaches. On weekdays, red croakers are just like ordinary fish, with no ability to resist at all. But when this army came to the swamp to hunt the red roosters, they did not want to fall into the trap set by the red roosters.

In order to protect themselves from harm, the red ducks built a large net in a bottomless swamp to cover the bottomless swamp. This army had no idea and slowly went deep into the swamp. When they came to the center, the red crocodiles bit through the big net. The army sank into the abyss and was completely destroyed. It sounds magical. The "Book of Mountains and Seas" records some magical animals. The reason why it is so miraculous is that in addition to literary and artistic processing, there are also elements of folk legends added to it.