There was a tremor in his voice, and I hurriedly followed his trembling fingers to see a yellow-brown "trunk" of seven or eight meters on the surface of the water moving slowly, and it was obvious that only part of it was emerging from the water.

Wow! Such a big tree......

On second thought, how could the trunk of a tree move?

Looking at it carefully, I was so scared that my scalp exploded!

Where is the trunk of a tree, the back of a certain large animal, because the light is dim, they may not be able to see clearly, but I am a night vision!

There's also a protruding fin-like thing on the back!

Big fish?

Giant snakes?

Or...... I thought of another possibility—it couldn't be a dragon, could it?

At least since the time of Yao Shun, there have been records of dragons, and there are relevant descriptions in the oracle bone inscriptions and gold inscriptions unearthed so far. Whether dragons really exist in the world has been debated for at least a thousand years.

First of all, let's discuss the authenticity of the existence of the dragon as a creature, the earliest record of the dragon can be traced back to the time of the Yellow Emperor Chiyou, about 5000 years ago, that is, when the Chinese culture began, the reason for the formation of the dragon totem, one theory believes that it originated from the Yellow Emperor's Busan. "Historical Records: The Five Emperors" records: After defeating Emperor Yan and Chiyou, the Yellow Emperor toured the Quartet and "fit Busan".

This "Hefu" not only unified the letter of the military orders of the various ministries and established the political and political alliance, but also took some elements from the original totems of each tribe and combined them to create a new animal image - the dragon.

Since then, all tribes in the Central Plains have a common dragon totem, and the history of unified Chinese civilization has begun, so the Chinese are all "descendants of the dragon".

There is also evidence that dragons may be a real creature, and that is the zodiac. We all know that there are twelve animals in the zodiac, and in addition to the dragon, the other eleven of these twelve animals can be found in reality, and everyone has seen it, so why is there only a lack of dragons?

Regarding the origin of the 12 zodiac signs, it is impossible to really determine now, and there was a relatively complete zodiac system in the pre-Qin period.

The earliest hand-me-down document that records the same 12 zodiac signs as in modern times is Wang Chong's "On Balance" by Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Regarding the origin of the zodiac, the folk legend is that Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor chose twelve animals as court guards, and later each animal competed and finally selected the twelve zodiac signs that we know now.

The zodiac seems to be just the arrangement of the twelve animals, but it contains a lot of things, definitely not a few animals to fill the number, about the mystery of the zodiac, now there are many scholars in the study, interested friends can go to consult. Regardless of when the zodiac appeared, we wonder why dragons are in the zodiac.

Since it appeared, it should exist like the other eleven animals, why haven't we seen it?

Some people may say that it may be that the ancients imagined the dragon and put it in it when they ranked the 12 zodiac signs, this explanation is of course not right, the zodiac is such a great thing, how could the ancients get a non-existent animal to fill the number? The real situation may be that in the era when the zodiac appeared, the dragon was real, so it was ranked among the zodiac signs.

For dragons, experts have come up with three explanations, let's take a look at them below.

The first explanation is that the dragon is a powerful intelligent creature in ancient times, it can call the wind and rain, go to the heavens and the earth, but its number is very rare, and the whole body of the dragon is full of treasures, so the same powerful monks in ancient times will look for and hunt the dragon in order to obtain the treasure on the dragon's body.

This seems to be the content of some oriental fantasy today......

Under the continuous hunting of dragons by ancient humans, the number continued to decrease, and finally disappeared in the long river of history.

This explanation is actually in line with the characteristics of human beings, many animals on the earth are hunted by humans and become fewer and fewer, and then become extinct. If it weren't for the current rare animal protection law, I believe that animals such as giant pandas and polar bears would have disappeared long ago.

The second explanation is that the dragon may be an alien creature that does not belong to the Earth, but came to the Earth in ancient times and lived there for a long time.

Dragons are intelligent beings from other planets in the universe, and although their appearance is very different from that of humans, they are very powerful intelligent beings. When dragons came to Earth, they showed their great power: they could blow the wind and call for rain.

After the dragon came to the earth, he lived in peace with the ancient humans at that time, and sometimes helped with rainfall, so that the ancient humans treated the dragon as a dragon god, and later the dragon left the earth and returned to their planet, but the legend of the dragon on the earth was also passed down from generation to generation by the ancient humans.

Moreover, the records of Emperor Xuanyuan and Chiyou in ancient documents are very magical, and they are also treated as gods, which I have described before.

If dragons are alien intelligent creatures, then will the Emperor and Chiyou also be aliens? Especially the description of Chiyou, there is no human appearance at all, and human beings are completely different, and in the record, the battle between Emperor Xuanyuan and Chiyou has seen a lot of incredible things, of course, in the eyes of the ancients, it is the magic of the gods, artifacts, etc., but in the eyes of modern people, it looks like a technological product. Rotten Books Network

It is possible that the emperor, Chiyou and Long are all alien civilizations from the universe, they discovered the earth at the same time, Emperor Xuanyuan is the righteous party, and wants to educate the primitive human beings and help the human beings on the earth grow up, so they stayed on the earth and established a dynasty to spread culture. Chiyou is the evil side who only wants to destroy humanity and then take over the earth, while the dragon's camp may be divided into two factions, one supporting Emperor Xuanyuan and the other supporting Chiyou.

The final ending is believed to be known to everyone, Chiyou was defeated, the dragon left the earth and returned to his own planet, and Emperor Xuanyuan may have finally left the earth to return to his home planet, but their legends have been passed down from generation to generation.

The third explanation: the dragon is a kind of flying machine of the earth's prehistoric civilization, and the scientific community also has different views on whether the prehistoric civilization existed, but more and more archaeological remains have been discovered, proving that the prehistoric civilization may have really existed, and the prehistoric civilization may be more developed than the current human civilization, and the description of the Chinese dragon has the characteristics of an aircraft.

The legendary dragon flies through the air like an airplane and can suck water to irrigate fields; The legendary dragon can fire powerful weapons and fight in the air just like modern airplanes; The legendary dragon soars through the clouds and clouds like modern airplanes, calling the wind and rain, and its power is boundless.

The legendary dragon, like modern airplanes, can carry people and overweight cargo

The above three are people's three possible explanations of ancient China, which one is possible, and perhaps there is a fourth possibility, which still needs scientists to continue to explore and find the truth.

However, from the creatures in the zodiac, there are many documents and legends, all of which show that the Chinese dragon may not be a kind of totem virtualized by the ancients, and it may really have a prototype.

Of course, at this moment, I have a fourth explanation: there are dragons in the world, but dragons live in special places, such as deep underground, and there should be people who have seen dragons in ancient times, which explains why there are so many descriptions and legends about dragons since ancient times, but later people can't see dragons, so they gradually mythologize dragons.

The huge "back" quickly sank to the bottom, and I believe that my first feeling was that what I just saw was a dragon.

Several people were sweating, and even the uncle was visibly nervous.

"Uncle, what is the source of life?" I hastened to change the subject.

The uncle thought for a moment before replying, "I think it should be the place where all life is born!" Many people don't say that life on Earth originates from the ocean, but this understanding may be biased - life may come from some special water source. ”

Hao Minyuan hurriedly asked, "Is this where we are going?" ”

As he spoke, the ship suddenly shook violently again.

"Not good! There are water monkeys again......"

"Where's the water monkey — you see, what's that?"

Uncle has been sitting on the bow of the boat, following the direction of his finger, I first saw a huge light not far away, and then saw a huge tree in the light, as if it was the kind of Fuso tree seen in the underground space of the Yellow River before, but at this time this one is even bigger and huge, it seems to be more than a hundred meters high, and the branches and leaves of the whole big tree glow faintly, reflecting a halo around it.

The huge hibiscus tree reflected the surroundings, and it was vaguely visible, and there seemed to be many small insects flying in the huge halo.

What's even more shocking is that this big tree grows in the water, I don't know how much part of the water, a large puddle has formed around the big tree, and the river has come to an end.

"Oh my God! How could there be such a huge tree in the world! ”

"Yes! It's still growing underground......"

Everyone, including the eldest uncle, let out a burst of exclamations.

"Uncle is at the end of the river in front of me, so to speak...... So, that's where we're going? ”

The uncle had a look of surprise on his face.

He nodded: "It should be!" You think! To be able to give birth to such a huge tree, would the water here be ordinary water? ”

Hao Minyuan looked at the big tree in front of him with his mouth open: "Yes! If you look at the creatures in the water, you can guess a thing or two. ”

As the boat continues to move forward, the closer we get to the giant hibiscus tree, the stronger the visual impact and the shock to our hearts. In a trance, I even suspected that I had entered the world of mythology.

Think about it, isn't it? It's not really our world.

As the boat moved forward, I noticed an even stranger phenomenon, at the end of the river, the water seemed to flow up the slope.

This is really evil! Isn't there a saying since ancient times - "People go to high places, and water flows to low places!" ”