What did the ancients think of crocodiles? 10

Crocodiles have been recorded in ancient China, and there is a record of "Season and Autumn July, cutting Jiao and taking dragons", and the "dragons (pronunciation: camels) drums" made of crocodile skins are important ritual vessels in the sacrifice at that time. Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty.

Because of the crocodile problem, the "Crocodile Sacrifice Text" is like a thief text, righteous and strict, and scares away the crocodile. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty in the "Compendium of Materia Medica".

It also classifies crocodiles as medicinal, "scales-crocodiles-name: earth dragon."

And the medicinal properties are set as: "'Indications: Abdominal Disease' and 'Moisture and Evil Qi'" undoubtedly shows the role of crocodiles in human life, and in modern times, crocodile leather is used to make luxury goods to show its value.

Basically, it is the same as in modern times, making medicine or leather products.

The ancients called the crocodile, generally called the "dragon" pig dragon or earth dragon, which is what we call the crocodile.

The ancients depicted crocodiles:

According to the Naturalist Chronicles, "there is a crocodile in the South China Sea, which resembles a turtle (tuó)" Modern research believes that the animal of Qingxiao is the Yangtze crocodile, and it is also called the "pig dragon" by the ancients. It should be noted that the character "鼍" also exists in the oracle bone inscription, which is an animal with a shell on its back and four legs and two eyes. This further suggests that the crocodile shaped like a dragon is not a dragon.

According to the Ridge Table, the crocodile has four legs, a long tail, and is shaped like a ray, and its movements are agile. It has sharp teeth like saws in its mouth and often eats people. There are many deer in the mountains of Jiangnan, and they are most afraid of crocodiles.

If the deer walks on a cliff near the river, the crocodiles howl incessantly, and the fawn falls off the cliff in terror and will be eaten by crocodiles in the water.

It is recorded in the book that Li Deyu, the Taiwei of the Tang Dynasty, was demoted to Chaozhou, and his boat broke down when passing by Crocodile Beach, and the treasures, antiques, ancient books and paintings collected in his life fell into the water. He let Kunlun Nu, who accompanied the ship's reply, go into the water to fish, but found that there were so many crocodiles in the water that no one dared to go into the water, and it was rumored that this was where the crocodile's nest was.

According to the Chronicles of Foreign Objects on the Ridge Surface, Wang Juzhi, the governor of Chaozhou, once caught a crocodile, the size of a small boat. It resembles a ray, its mouth is about the length of its body, and its teeth are as terrifying as its serrations. There are two colors, yellow and green, as well as white.

The crocodile's tail has three hooks, which are very sharp, and when encountering deer, wild boar, etc., it is taken by attacking the hook with its tail.

According to the book, the local people are good at hunting crocodiles, usually tying dogs and pigs to bamboo rafts, covered with iron hooks, so that the bamboo rafts drift with the water, and after the crocodiles find out, they come to the raft to hunt pigs and dogs, and are injured by iron hooks, and then people take the opportunity to kill them and take them out of the water to cook. <>

鼍 tuó, refers to a kind of reptile with a short snout, a body length of more than two meters, and scales on its back and tail. Cave dwelling on the banks of rivers, skin can be drummed. It is also known as "Yangtze crocodile", "dragon dragon", "pig dragon", and earth dragon.

As early as oracle bone inscriptions, there are records of rays.

In the "Daya Lingtai" of the poetry collection "Book of Songs" in the Spring and Autumn Period, there are also verses of "drums and drums". This means that the squirrel's cry makes a "bang, bang" sound like a drum.

Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Shuo Wen Jie Zi", Zhang Hua's "Naturalist Chronicles" of the Western Jin Dynasty, and Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" of the Ming Dynasty all have records about the Yangtze crocodile.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Nine Classics of the Middle Time, Minshan, the river flows out of Yan, and the northeast flows into the sea, among which there are many good and prolific rays.

Mao Shi Wen Wang Lingtai" The drum is a meeting.

The Book of Rites: The Month of Order" In the autumn month, cut down the dragon.

Said the text" Ray, water worm, lizard-like, long zhang, from the turtle single voice.

Ji Tomb Zhou Shu Wang Hui Hui Hui Hui Ji Yi Xuan. (Note: The skin can be crowned with a drum).

鼍tuó

When you were in school, you studied "Public Loss", right? There is a saying in it.

The bay crocodile, located at the highest level of the wetland food chain, is generally 3 5 meters long and can reach more than 7 meters in length, which is the largest of the 23 modern crocodile species and the largest reptile in the world. Once distributed in the coastal and mangrove forests around Lingnan, it has been extinct in Chinese for thousands of years due to the great threat posed to humans.

Malayan crocodile, also called Malayan alligator. The average body length is 3 meters, but some reach 4 meters. Historically, the Malayan crocodile has a wide range of distribution, and it also appeared in southern China hundreds of years ago. In 1973, a fossilized skull of a Malayan crocodile was found in Xinhui County, Guangdong, 3,000 years ago.

As for the inland, the crocodiles in the ancient Red River and Lancang River in Yunnan may also have the crocodile, and now this fierce and blood-eating medium-sized crocodile is still distributed in India, Ceylon, and Iran.

The crocodile is the most carnivorous amphibian, and many freshwater animals and even humans and animals are often the objects of its attack and devouring. However, crocodiles also have a habit of devouring rocks. It is especially strange that it swallows stones in proportion and regularity, and no matter how big the crocodile is, it swallows only 1,100 stones of weight, no more, no less.

Initially, it was thought that chickens and ducks swallowed grit to help digest hard food. However, when the crocodile was dissected, it was discovered that this was not the case. In the stomach of the crocodile, not even the thin shell of the snail is ground.

So, why do crocodiles swallow rocks? It turns out that after the crocodile swallows the rock, the stone in the belly plays the same role as the ballast in the ship, with which the crocodile can move steadily underwater and not be swept away by the torrential water. At the same time, it is also a great help for crocodile diving, allowing it to move freely underwater.

When crocodiles swim, they float low, with only their nostrils and eyes above the water, they swallow stones, which they deposit in their stomachs so that they can keep their bodies upright in the water, and without these stones, they may turn upside down.

I know a lot, at that time crocodiles were bigger than crocodiles now, and they were more ferocious, probably because of the air, or environmental problems caused these crocodiles to become smaller, and not as good as before.

In fact, I don't understand, the crocodile is a beast, and it is very ferocious, and you will not know much about these large beasts.

I know a lot, because I have always had a unique understanding of the habits of crocodiles, so I know a lot.

The ancient Chinese name of the crocodile: earth dragon, dragon.

Yangtze alligator, a reptile of the family Alligator Sinensis, is native to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and is a Chinese specialty. Also known as "Dragon", commonly known as "Pig Dragon".

Fish, turtles, turtles, hail, and sting. "Mozi Gong Loses".

In the Han Dynasty of China, it was known that there were crocodiles in the south, and there were records in the Tang and Song dynasties, and they were occasionally seen on coastal islands since the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the "Book of Rites", it is called a kind of crocodile, and later in the Tang Dynasty, Han Yu wrote "Sacrificial Crocodile Text" because of the crocodile problem, such as a thief text, righteous and strict, and scared away the crocodile. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", Li Shizhen, the source of the Ming Dynasty, classified crocodiles as medicinal properties, "scales-crocodiles-release names:."

Earth Dragon. And set the medicinal properties as: "'Indications:'

"Abdominal syndrome" and "dampness and evil spirit" undoubtedly show the role of crocodiles in human life, and in modern times, crocodile leather is used to make luxury goods to show its value.