Xuan Chu thought to himself, the world in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is not true, are these described countries, people, animals and plants all true?

And this nail spirit country, it's really interesting, and there are people who don't want their own human feet, but they have horses' hooves, which is really amazing!

However, this picture of a horse's hoofed human body, the picture is spicy eyes, but when I think about it, I look so much like the kind described by foreigners. What about centaurs, unicorns? The centaur is a half-man, half-horse monster in Greek mythology. Their upper body is the human torso, including the hands and head, and the lower body is the body of a horse, which also includes the torso and legs. In some games, a centaur is a sacred beast that is half human and half horse. In the online game, centaurs are a type of cruel and irascible monster. In single-player games, centaurs are creatures in the wild. There is also the game card of the same name, "Centaur".

There are many different stories about the origin of centaurs in Greek mythology, and generally they are related to Lapithai, king Ixion, and the clouds. There is a theory that they were the descendants of Ixion and Nephil (she was the nymph), another version is that Ixion got drunk and began to face the queen of heaven, Hera moved his feet, and with the help of Zeus, Hera turned a cloud into his own image, and the centaur was the descendant of Ixion and the cloud, or the son of Ixion and the cloud, and so on.

In Greek mythology, there are many well-known centaurs. They are generally portrayed as rude, violent, and unreasonable. Generally they are taken as representatives of barbarism, as opposed to people. But there are also a few (such as Chiron, i.e. Charon) who are very knowledgeable and educated. After being taught by Apollo and Artemis, Chion became a mentor to several heroes, including Iason, Hercules, Orpheus, and Achilles. After being accidentally shot by Hercules, he was unwilling to continue to endure the pain and gave up his eternal life. He is the "wounded physician" – embodying the idea that pain is part of human existence, that painful experiences can be used to help others. The image of a centaur, also used to symbolize that a man is trapped by his own flesh, is a trap for animal sexual impulses. In Greco-Roman mythology, the lascivious centaur represents the uncivilized, lawless, and instinctive side of human nature. At the wedding feast of King Rapitae, the centaurs tried to kidnap the bride, the jy lady, and attacked the host with tree trunks and stones. The Lapitaeans eventually triumphed over the centaurs, symbolizing the triumph of knowledge and reason over instinct and animal affection. Some believe that the centaurs were not seen at that time, and that the Greeks were a reflection of the nomads from Central Asia. The constellations represented by Centaurs in the sky are Centauri and Sagittarius.

Xuan Chu said, "The strange man of the Nail Spirit Country, what kind of country is this?" "It sounds so mysterious...... "Could it be that our Chinese ancestors have already been to Greece and seen monsters like centaurs?" Or maybe in our ancient times, there were also such centaur weirdos?

Lu Dongbin said with a smile, "There are records in many books such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and the experiment is done so that people can walk as fast as horses, but this kind of experiment of the forerunners is not completely meaningless, but on the other hand, it provides an idea, if the galloping ability of horses can be refined and condensed into a small medium - such as hair, installed on human beings, plug and play, give human beings the power to run." This technique quickly succeeded, and this is the legendary Scud, and many people are written to have long hair on their legs or feet, and they can travel 800 a day or something by relying on long hair - they are the experimental objects of the gods. After the success of the experiment, since the power of the horse can be condensed, the power of the bird can also be condensed, so that it will not give the ability to fly, "Said Tang San Biography" wrote a person named Ma Chang, he has two flying feathers on his legs, and he can fly to the sky with a pull of the hair. Later, it was Guanyin Bodhisattva who really made full use of this technology, and the three life-saving hairs he gave to Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West" condensed many magical characteristics - this is not just to find the driving force. ”

Xuan Chu said, "I'll go, this sounds too incredible, Scud actually came like this, this ancient person really took great pains to get on the road......

Lu Dongbin said with a smile, "Nail Ling Country, a Ding Ling, Ding Ling, Ding Ling, also known as the Horse Shin Country, its people are horse people, above the knee is the head of the human body, below the knee is the horse's legs and hooves, not riding a horse, but walking like a horse." Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Biography of Dongyi

Elder Wusun said that Beiding Ling has a horse shin country, its voice is like a goose, from the knee above the body, people also, hair below the knee, horse shin and horse hooves, do not ride a horse and walk a horse, it is brave and brave to fight. ”

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Classic of the Sea" has the country of nails, and its people obey? (a "knee") has hair under it, and the horse's hooves are good at walking. Guo Pu's "Tuzan" horseshoe is strong, whipping himself. The staggering steps are like galloping, and it is difficult to wait for the traces. The body is impermanent, but it is appropriate. "Exotic Chronicles: Volume II" Ding Lingguo, whose country is in the (North) Sea. People grow hair from their knees, horses' hooves are good at walking, and they whip their feet, and they can travel 300 miles in a day.

Wang Fu note: "Nail Lingguo is also made of Ding Zero, out of mink." Its people are hairy, with leather as foot clothing, such as horses' hooves and walking, that is, the boots of later generations are carried out, not real horseshoe.

Xuan Chu said, "There are really people who transplant animal hooves and graft them onto people, which is really creative!" "I don't know if the centaurs of ancient Greece also had hooves grafted like this.

Lu Dongbin said with a smile, "The Tao gives birth to all things, raises the masses, the world is big, there are no surprises, even if there is anything, it should be, as the so-called taste of yin and yang, what you have seen is not necessarily what should appear, in the eyes of those animals and plants that should not appear, it has not seen, you are also a strange person, strange thing?" ”

Chu thought to himself, eh? Don't say it, Master, it's really Master, when you talk about it, you know, it seems that it's really like that.

We just think it's normal within the range we've seen, and what I haven't seen thinks it's abnormal, and what is not within the normal range thinks it's expensive, and if it's weird, we think it's weird monsters, but in the eyes of those who haven't seen us normal people, aren't we also monsters, for example, in the eyes of the weirdos in this nail spirit country, we're probably also monsters, right?

Xuan Chu said, "Master, since the ancients wanted to go so desperately, what happened later? Did the weirdos grow like that themselves, or did they graft horseshoe on them? "It's a bit confusing. I don't know, what happened later, instead of developing into animals, but towards flying?

"Hahaha, the apprentice is so stupid, one yin and one yang is the Tao......"

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