Is there really a dragon in the world?

Are there really dragons? ! 1934 A preliminary study on the dragon descending in Yingkou

1On August 8, 934, a skeleton very similar to the legendary dragon was found in Yingkou. Even more incredible is that before this mysterious creature died, local residents had seen it twice and had long-term close contact with it!

It is recorded in the first volume of Yingkou City Records: "(1 934) On the afternoon of August 8, a farmer in Dongxiao Street on the north bank of Liaohe River found a giant animal white bone, which was about 10 meter long, with a corner on the left and right sides of the head, about1meter long and a spine of * * 29 knots. The pseudo-Yingkou Sixth Police Department transported it to the open space near Xiguan Wharf, and for several days, people came to visit it in an endless stream.

An old man recalled that this monster appeared twice, the first time it appeared 20 kilometers away from the estuary.

Xiao Man Su Qin Sr: At the age of 9, her father drove a carriage for the landlord. At that time, many people said that they had found a "live dragon" in the upper reaches of Tianzhuangtai and rushed there. Dad put her on horseback and watched for her. The "dragon" she saw was square-headed and square-brained, with big eyes and blinking, while its body was gray, curled up on the ground, with its tail rolled up and two claws sticking out of its abdomen. What impressed her most was that it was very weak, its eyes were half open and half closed, and its eyes were a little red. Many people said that it was because of the hot weather that they built a shed on it. Then it rained heavily for a long time, and this "dragon" disappeared.

At that time, the people thought that the dragon in the sky was auspicious. Some people gave the pavilion to the monster tower with reed mats, and some people poured water on the monster to prevent it from drying out. It is said that people are very active, and even lazy people have to carry water. In the temple, many people and monks cross over for it every day until the monster mysteriously disappeared for a few days after another rainstorm.

However, after more than 20 days of continuous rain, this monster appeared strangely for the second time, this time in the reeds at Liaohekou 10 km. At this time, it is not a living thing, but a corpse with a strange smell.

According to Yang Yishun's memory, before the discovery of the "dragon" bone, I heard adults say that there was always a crackling sound in the reeds, and there was a cry like a cow. It sounded dull, and I could hear the struggle, but then nothing happened. At that time, it had rained heavily for more than 40 days in Yingkou area. Streets and roads were flooded, and some houses collapsed because of too much water. After the rain stopped, with the north wind blowing, the smell in the air was very strong. A worker surnamed Lu, who was in charge of the reed pond, followed the strange smell and found a large reed lying down. Pushing them aside, he went in to see them. He was shocked: there was a huge animal carcass lying inside! The worker turned and ran away in fear and came home with a serious illness. When people heard about it, they went to see it together and reported it to the then government. At that time, the staff of an epidemic prevention hospital near Xiguan wore white coats and sprayed disinfectant on dead animals with maggots. After the "dragon" bone was carried out, someone tied a rope with four ship anchors and surrounded the skeleton in a circle for everyone to visit.

Sun Zhengren: Bare bones are not the original dragon shape. It's not that shape, but it's quite long and has a big head. The two big horns are more than one meter long, not only one meter three or four feet long, but also two. Lying on the ground, the body is crooked and can be as long as ten meters.

The son of Ma, a famous osteopath in Yingkou (who has seen the "dragon" bone with his own eyes) remembers that his father told him that when the skeleton was found, the meat had not completely rotted and looked particularly like a "dragon".

The reporter was surprised to find that this "dragon" actually had claws and dug a pit nearly 17 meters long and more than 6 meters wide with its claws, indicating that this "dragon" had struggled.

Related records: "... the dragon is towering, with a head about three inches wide, a spine more than three inches wide, ribs attached to both sides of the spine, each about five or six inches long, and a vertical plate-shaped white bone tail at the end, all of which are * * * 28 knots, and each foot saved is more than * * * three feet. At the place of the original dragon, there was a pit two feet wide and five feet long dug with claws.

These characteristics further verify the view that it is a dragon.

According to several old people, old fishermen were invited to identify them, but no one knew the monster's body. People talk about it in succession, and generally think it is a "dragon".

Yingkou Pseudo-Sixth Police Branch organized manpower, decomposed its bones, transported them to the south bank, and placed them in the open space in front of the West Customs for anyone to visit.

Are there really dragons in the world? ! 1934 A preliminary study on the dragon descending in Yingkou

At that time, Shengjing Times sent people to interview, which was also called Dragon, Dragon Descending from the Sky, Dragon Descending from Yingchuan and Dragon, with photos and illustrations. Yingkou citizens are scrambling to watch, and tourists from nearby cities are in an endless stream, making it tense to buy train tickets to and from Yingkou. Later, it was reported that Mr. Zhang, the fishing department of Yingkou Fisheries High School, judged it to be "a jiaozi".

At that time, Yingkou Meida Photo Studio and Yingming Photo Studio printed a large number of photos of the "Dragon" bone exhibition and sold them along the street near Erbending Hutong. Some people from other places came to Yingkou to visit the "dragon" bone, scrambling to buy photos of the "dragon" bone and bring them back to their families for appreciation.

Li Binsheng: I remember I was ten years old that year. 70 years ago, the circle around Xiguan open-air exhibition was an anchor. The anchors used to fix the boat under the sampan are intermittently surrounded in a circle, blocked by ropes, and the ground is sprinkled with white ash because many people can't squeeze in. With people's exercise, people have a curiosity to see it. It's just that there is a dragon in legend, an opportunity that has never been seen in real life. They all want to see it. It is very long, two or three feet long, about ten meters long, standing. The spine is not like a fish. It is strange that there are horns on the head, and any aquarium has no horns.

Looking through the relevant information, the reporter saw a copy of the photo of the "Dragon" bone published in Shengjing Times on August 1934. Although it was a long time ago, due to the limitation of photography technology and various factors at that time, only the vague figure of people wearing straw hats watching the "Dragon" bone exhibition could be seen vaguely, but a long animal skeleton and two long horns born on its head were still clearly visible in the picture.

Regrettably, due to the chaotic social order at that time, the fishery high school was relocated many times and huge bones were lost.

1939, 16-year-old Sun Zhengren came to Dalian to be a housekeeper, and the hostess's husband was the younger brother of the president of Yingkou Chamber of Commerce. Sun Zhengren won the master's appreciation. 194 1 When he left Dalian, the hostess gave him a "dragon" bone as a reward. It is reported that the keel in the woman's hand weighs about three kilograms and is white. The bottom of the bone is about the size of a bowl, slowly extending upward and tapering until the top. 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 is the keel that was once exhibited in Yingkou.

On the morning of June 16, Mr. Lao Sunman donated five "dragon" bones that he had preserved for 63 years to the Municipal Archives Bureau. He hopes that the relevant departments can identify the bones in his hand.

This is probably the secular process of keel in Yingkou dragon falling incident. In this regard, many media have reported that there are also various voices of doubt:

CCTV also filmed a feature film, and concluded that the whale ran aground and then the bones were misspelled.

Fu Renyi, a researcher in Liaoning Province, inferred from the photos of Shengjing Times that the "dragon" bone was the fossil of the "primitive cow" unearthed.

Dong Wei, an associate researcher, believes that this may be an elephant fossil, and those two "horns" are tusks.

Some experts have studied the keel donated by Lao Sunman Zhengren, and initially think that it is the fossil of the Quaternary wild horse.

These explanations are obviously unsatisfactory:

Whales have no horns and four claws, so it is unlikely that bones assembled from newly decomposed living bodies will be seriously misaligned in length, shape and characteristics.

Cows, horses and elephants can't have snake bones more than ten meters long.

Moreover, archaeologists ignored one of the most important problems: the bones at that time were decomposed from living things, not paleontological fossils, and fresh bones could not become fossils.

Because of the origin of Sun Lao's keel and the difference between fossils and fresh bones, people can't help wondering if this was the Yingkou keel at that time.

Although there are a large number of witnesses and very detailed photos, the dragon falling in Yingkou has become a historical mystery that is difficult to solve because of the lack of physical objects.

Because we should try our best to ensure the objectivity of things, most of the above descriptions are related articles sorted out by photoacoustic. Dare not be greedy, thank you here!

I sorted out some dragon sightings on the Internet, and found that most of the witnesses (quite a few people saw them at the same time) claimed that the mysterious creatures they saw were very similar to dragons, all with cow heads, snake bodies, four claws and long horns, and their bodies were quite long and huge. These events can be divided into two categories. The first kind is witnessing: many people claim to have seen dragons flying in the air. Sometimes it is a part of the body. In an eyewitness event in Inner Mongolia, several witnesses claimed to have seen a huge paw in the cloud. Sometimes the whole body. The most bizarre thing is that several female paratroopers of the People's Liberation Army said that they saw dragons in the clouds during a skydiving training during the Cultural Revolution. Because of the political environment at that time, these people did not advocate it. The dragon witnessed by others is in the water. This is similar to witnessing a water monster. Not much to write.

The second category is dragon descending. According to the author of some articles, he collected dozens of dragon falls. As far as I know, there are two kinds of such incidents: one is that it didn't rain for a long time when the drought was serious, and the villagers found a huge dragon-like creature in the open space. It seems to be exhausted, and it has been lying on the ground, only occasionally twisting its body. Kind villagers usually cover it with mats. The time that dragons stay on the ground ranges from two or three days to two months, during which they don't eat or drink. Dragons always disappear on that stormy night. The villagers think that the dragon's suffering on the ground is God's punishment for his mistake, and the dragon will return to heaven after his sentence is over. The other is that lightning kills creatures like dragons. If the former is a living dragon, then this one is a dead dragon. The number of dead dragons is less than that of alive dragons. The folk explanation is that the dragon committed a great crime and was sent to earth by heaven.

Are there really dragons in the world? ! 1934 A preliminary study on the dragon descending in Yingkou

Some problems can also be seen from these incidents: all the dragon sightings occurred in China, and one case occurred in Singapore. There are some in Japan and South Korea, but I haven't found any examples. People from different cultural backgrounds can't see dragons? If this creature does exist, how do you explain it? How can a dragon fly without wings? It is said that only dragons in the zodiac don't exist, but why did our ancestors create a nonexistent animal to stand side by side with the existing eleven animals? Please don't take this article as a curious work, I just want to find the answer to the matter.

Attachment: Records of dragons in past dynasties (I believe it is very incomplete, please provide information from friends)

● (Records of the Five Elements in the Later Han Dynasty): Longliangtang

This sentence is quoted from the Qing Dynasty [Luoyang County Records, Thousand Different Records], which is as black as a car hood, brilliant and colorful, and the book of the Later Han Dynasty is more clear.

In June of the first year of Ling Diguang and Ding Chou, a black gas fell into the East Hall of Wen Ming Temple in Gong Bei, black as a car cover, full of excitement, colorful, a head, more than ten feet long, shaped like a dragon.

Liu Hong, the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was a spiritual emperor. Guanghe was one of the appellations he used when he was in office. In June of the first year of Guanghe, Ding Chou was on 1 July 781day. The capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty is in the suburb of Luoyang, Henan Province, and Wenming Hall may be the emperor's bedroom. In the east courtyard of Wenming Hall, a huge black object fell from the sky, like a round car umbrella, showing five colors of light in the rapid rotation of the body. Although it has a head, it has no feet and no tail, like a dragon, more than 20 meters long.

● [yuan dynasty history. Five elements] Cloud: In July of the twenty-seventh year of Yuan Dynasty, a dragon was seen in Longshan, Linxiong County, Yidu, and a huge stone weighed a thousand pounds.

To the twenty-seventh year of the Yuan Dynasty. Linxiong County is in today's Shandong Province. A dragon appeared in Longshan, and I don't know what the long one looks like. Its arrival can actually float a thousand pounds of boulder.

● In the twenty-four years of Jian 'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Huanglong appeared in Chishui, Wuyang, and left after nine days. A temple was built for this purpose.

● In April of the first year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 345), two dragons, one black and one white, appeared in Longshan. The prince personally led the courtiers to hold a sacrificial ceremony more than 200 steps away from the dragon.

● In the local chronicles of Ming and Qing Dynasties, the records about dragons are found from time to time. According to the Records of Lin 'an Prefecture, in the fourth year of Chongzhen (AD 163 1), dragons appeared in the Yilong Lake in the southeast of Shiping County, Yunnan Province. Dragons have appeared in Longshan and Yilong Lake more than once. Otherwise, it will not be called "Longshan" or "Yilong Lake"!

"Supplement to the Year of the Tang Dynasty" records that one day in the last years of Tang Xiantong, a Qinglong fell in Tongcheng County and died on the spot because of a throat injury. This dragon is more than ten feet long, half body and half tail. The tail is flat. Its scales are similar to those of fish, with double horns on its head, a mouth that must be two feet long, feet under its abdomen, and a red membrane on its feet.

● Lang Ying's "Seven Manuscripts" records that at the end of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, a dragon landed on the beach in Xinhui County, Guangdong Province and was killed by fishermen. This dragon is about one person tall and dozens of feet long. Much like the dragon in the painting, only the abdomen is red.

● In the thirty-second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1 162), a dragon was found near Taibai Lake, with a huge scale, a white belly and a green back, fins on its back and high horns on its head, and it could smell fishy for miles away. The local people covered its body with mats, and the government sent people to offer sacrifices in person. The dragon disappeared after a thunderstorm overnight. It left a deep ditch where it lay.

● According to the Records of Yongping County, in the summer of the 19th year of Daoguang (AD 1839), a dragon landed in Laoting County in the lower reaches of Luanhe River, and flies were everywhere. The locals built a shed for it to keep out the sun and poured water on it. Three days later, in a thunderstorm, the dragon left its position.

● In August 1944, hundreds of people saw a black dragon lying on the beach behind Chenjiaweizi Village in Fuyu County along the southern edge of Songhua River. According to Ren Dianyuan, a witness who is still alive, the dragon is about 20 meters long. This animal looks like a four-legged snake, and its face is similar to the dragon in the painting. It has seven or eight thick and hard beards, and the first half of its body is about one meter in diameter. Four paws plunged deep into the beach. It is covered with scales, shaped like crocodile scales. Ren Dianyuan is still full of doubts. Why does that huge animal look like a dragon in the painting?

●/kloc-in the summer of 0/953, an unknown animal landed somewhere in eastern Henan, and many busybodies walked for miles to watch. According to the shape described by the witness, this thing looks like a huge shark. Its fishy smell attracts many flies. This fish should be a rare fish that lives in the deep sea. As for why it fell from the sky, it seems to be related to the reason why the dragon fell.