"At that time, the people's technology level was not high enough, so it was rumored that there were huge sea monsters living in the abyss around Abyss Island, and when the ships approached Abyss Island, the sea monsters would open their mouths and suck all the ships into their mouths, and no one could get out. So no one dared to go near Abyss Island again. Fortunately, Abyss Island is only a very small island, and you can see all the scenery and details of the island when you look up from the boat. ”

Gu Qingniao listened to the old man's narration and began to find it interesting, there have been many legends of sea monsters in Europe.

Since ancient times, there have been stories of terrifying sea monsters among fishermen and sailors from all over the world. According to legend, these sea monsters tend to be huge and strangely shaped, even with seven or nine heads. The most famous of these is the "Norwegian Sea Monster," described by Pombidan, Bishop of Bergen, in his Norwegian Naturalism in 752, and it is said that "its back, or rather the upper part of its body, appears to be about a mile and a half around it, like an island." …… Later several shiny tips or horns appeared, sticking out of the water, stretching higher and higher, some as tall as the masts of medium-sized ships, these things were probably the arms of monsters, and were said to pull the largest warships to the bottom of the sea. Since the nineteenth century, with the development of modern zoology, the legend of the sea monster that is too absurd has gradually disappeared. But there are some reports that deserve our attention: On November 0, 1861, the French warship "Alitton" was on its way from Cádiz in Spain to the island of Tennalife when it encountered a sea monster with a 5-6 meter length and a two-meter-long tentacle. Captain Sheyer later wrote: "I think it's the big octopus that has caused a lot of controversy and many people think is fictional." Sheyer and the crew forked it with harpoons and ropes around its tail. But the monster frantically danced its horn hands, broke the harpoon and fled. Only a piece of meat weighing about 40 pounds was left on the rope. On November 2, 1978, three fishermen in Newfoundland, Canada, found a huge marine animal stranded on the beach due to low tide, the fishermen said that it was 7 meters long, some horned hands were more than 11 meters long, the suction cups on the horn hands were 10 centimeters in diameter, and the eyes were the size of the face discs. The fishermen hooked it with hooks, and the monster struggled for a while and soon died. The Belgian zoologist Hefelmans collected and analysed 587 reports of sea monster sightings over a period of more than 300 years from 1639 to 1966, and found 358 credible ones, excluding those that might have been misunderstood, deliberately deceitful, and unclear. He fed all the details of these reports into a computer and analyzed them, and came up with nine different seas. While there are still exaggerations in these reports, at least one of them has been confirmed by a sea monster that was previously thought to be "impossible": the king squid. In the seventies of the nineteenth century, there were several instances of the remains of the king squid washed ashore on the coast of Canada, at least one of which was still alive, and with the help of these entities, people finally learned something about the king squid. The king squid lives in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, with a body length of about 20 meters and a weight of about 2-3 tons, making it the largest matte vertebrate in the world. It has an extremely ferocious temperament, feeds on fish and invertebrates, and can fight giant whales. There are often reports abroad of king squid fighting sperm whales. It is recorded that on one occasion a king squid was seen stalking a sperm whale with its thick horned hands and suckers, and the sperm whale used all its strength to bite the tail of the king squid. The two giant beasts of the sea tumbled violently, stirring up the turbid waves, and then both sank to the bottom of the water, and did not know what to do. Most of these fights are won by sperm whales, but there have also been cases where the king squid has suffocated the whale by clamping its nostrils with its reckless hands. In this way, the sea monsters mentioned above in 1861 and 1878 are certainly the king squid. How big is the biggest king squid? It's a difficult question to answer. A 17.07-metre-long king squid was measured to have a sucker diameter of 9.5 centimetres on its horn hand. However, from the captured sperm whales, sucker scars with a diameter of more than 40 centimeters have been found. It is speculated that the king squid that has fought with this whale may have been more than 60 meters long. If there really is such a big king squid, it is not far from the legendary Norwegian sea monster.

In the "Xining Mansion New Chronicles" compiled by Qianlong in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, it is specifically recorded that "Qinghai lives in Mongolia, sees things in the sea, the head of a bull and a leopard, white matter and black text, the hair is mixed and red, the waves are leaping, as fast as a magpie, and when you see people near the shore, you dive into the water, and you don't know what kind of beast it is." Those herdsmen who stepped on the "sea monster" were not sincere and fearful, bowed and worshipped, sacrificed to the sea, and offered cattle and sheep three animals, so the various legends of the sea god's manifestation spread ten, ten and hundred. In recent decades, information about the "sea monsters" of Qinghai Lake has been circulating from time to time. For example, in 1947, a Tu lama named Qi 63 of the Tibetan Monastery in Huzhu County went to Tibet with his teacher to worship through Qinghai Lake, and when the sun was about to set, a monster four or five times larger than the Yan Niu surfaced, cleaving the waves and swimming to the shore, like a dragon but not a dragon, with a round head and horns, and shining eyes. In the spring of 1949, Ma Sanwa, a Han farmer in Fei Village, Hala Zhigou Township, Mutual Aid County, was forced to go out to pan for gold because of life, and when she stopped to eat by Qinghai Lake, a thick black "log" appeared on the surface of the lake and floated and glided, about more than a zhang long, and then the slowly gliding "log" stretched out a long neck, with a snake-like head on it, and the scales were shining like gold under the sun, floating towards the center of the lake, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. In 1982, when a sailboat was working on the lake, the people on board saw a wave that looked like a fishing boat not far ahead, and was about to get closer to take a closer look, when it had already taken off into the water. In 1987, a gentleman from a travel agency in Qinghai who did not want to be named, went to the lake in the afternoon to take pictures, and suddenly found that there was a monster the size of two or three cows emerging from the rippling blue waves, with a gray-brown back, and thought it was a big fish. He suddenly realized that it might be a plesiosaur, and snapped a black-and-white photo, and when he took it again, the monster had sunk into the water, about twenty or thirty seconds before and after. There are still dozens of people who have witnessed the monster in the lake, which is indeed a mystery and is waiting for scientists to explore further. The legend of the "sea monster" of Qinghai Lake has cast a strong layer of mystery on Qinghai Lake.

The sirens are monsters in Greek mythology with the head of a fish (or a bird's head and a human body, or even a mermaid's like), and often wander between reefs and isolated islands to deceive people, and are also known as krakens. The sirens used their singing voice to make the passing sailors lose their attention, and the ship ran aground and sank. Sirens come from the ancient Aegean Sea (Aegea

According to the myths and folktales of the Sea) region, she was portrayed as a mermaid with the body of a mermaid, often appearing as a beautiful woman, delicate, beautiful, believable, singing, etc., to attract the sailors of the ship to bewitch them, causing them to fall into the blood basin of the mermaid. The sirens are the daughter of the river god Ekrous, a beautiful goblin born from his blood. Due to the defeat of the music competition with the Muse, the Muse plucked his wings, making it unable to fly. After losing their wings, the sirens had to live in Asia Minor

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The Sirens have two well-known mythological excerpts.

The first is recorded in Theseus's voyage "Homer's Odyssey", and the first encounter on the way takes place on the island inhabited by the sirens. They specialize in confusing seafarers with their beautiful singing voices. They sat on the green shore, and when they saw the ships passing by, they sang a beautiful magic song. People who are attracted by the song and want to land are always killed. Therefore, the shore here is full of bones and bones, which looks terrifying and eerie. Our ship came to an abrupt halt near Banshee Island, as the tailwind that was blowing our way suddenly stopped. The sea is as calm as a mirror. My friends lowered the sails, rolled them up, and began to rock the oars forward. At this time, I remembered the prophecy of Circe, who said: "When you pass by the island where the sirens live, the fairies will seduce you with their songs, and you must plug your friends' ears with wax so that they do not hear them." If you want to hear their singing yourself, ask your friends to tie your hands and feet to the mast first. The more you ask them to let go, the tighter they have to tie you up. I immediately cut off a piece of beeswax, kneaded it softly, and plugged it into my friends' ears. They also did as I commanded, and tied me to the mast, and then shook the oars with great force. When the sirens saw the ship approaching, they all turned into charming beauties and came to the shore and sang in sweet and crisp voices. I listened, listened, and suddenly I had an irrepressible desire to run there. I motioned to my friends with my head and asked them to let me go. The friends couldn't hear anything, just rocked the oars hard. Two of my friends, Euryrocos and Perimedes, took my command to heart, and they came and tied me tighter. It was not until we sailed safely across the Sirens, and could no longer hear their songs, that my friends took out the wax strips from my ears and untied me from the mast. I am grateful that they moved forward unwaveringly, free from the seduction of the sirens. The second is the legend of the famous Argonaut hero: Iason, and Medea got on board and suddenly a warm westerly wind blew. The heroes set sail happily, and the big ship slowly sailed into the sea, taking advantage of the wind. After a while, they saw a beautiful island in front of them. It was the dwelling place of the Bewitched Banshee Siren. They seduced the sailors of passing ships with their beautiful songs, and then buried them in the belly of the fish. Half like birds, half like women, they always crouch on the shore and look into the distance. No one who approaches them can escape the temptation of their flattering eyes. Now, they are singing a beautiful song to the Argo heroes. The heroes are throwing cables, preparing to land. Orpheus suddenly rose from his seat and began to play the magical guqin, the melodious sound of which drowned out the banshee's song. At the same time, a rattling south wind blew from behind the ship, blowing the banshee's song out of the clouds.

It is said that the sirens originally had a naturally beautiful singing voice, a free-flying nature, and an incomprehensible wisdom, her singing voice came from her mother Ceto, her flight came from the East, and her wisdom came from her father who was the god of the sea. In Homer's epic poem, the siren is described as living on the island of the siren's beautiful torso, with a plump and smooth back, a slight turn of the head, a noble silhouette, a hand protecting the ** that falls gently on the chest, and nothing to do and a heavy heart, this is the siren after the catastrophe. Great calamities arise from wisdom, beauty, and negligence. It is said that the maiden's siren, because of her natural singing voice and unpredictable wisdom, was sent by the god Zeus to accompany his beloved daughter, Bosbia. Hades, the brother of Zeus, fell in love with the daughter of God, and finally saw an opportunity to take away Bosbia when the maiden was gathering flowers in the garden of Nice, and the sirens were also in the garden. Maybe the sirens appreciate love and violence, or maybe the sirens know that they are powerless, but the sirens don't interfere. Hades plundered his beloved daughter, and afterwards Zeus thundered and took the blame on the siren, and even broke the siren's wings, and the siren could no longer fly freely in the sky. This is the price of wisdom and negligence. Later, the sirens drifted on the sea, singing sad songs alone when the sea rose and fell. The sirens are sad, and their beautiful and charming songs often turn man, god and devil upside down, and are known as seducing by later generations. The siren's heavenly singing, sorrow and desolation, comparable to that of the shepherd's flute of the gods, aroused the jealousy of the muse, the goddess of music, the most famous of which was the goddess of nine goddesses, the most famous of whom was in charge of music and poetry, and who was also the wife of the sun god. She took advantage of the abundant harvest to hold a music competition to compete with the sirens, but the result was naturally evil and the sirens were defeated. In this way, the muses plucked the feathers from the broken wings of the sirens and braided them into a crown of victory. If you later see the proud poet with a feather in his cuff, please understand that there is a siren's sadness there. From then on, the sirens returned to the island of sirens, which was only three stones, and never left there again. The legend of Siren Island is in the sea of no return, and the wanderers will be fascinated at her feet every time they hear her legend, her song, and her story. In addition to her charming singing voice, the siren's language is said to be more seductive, she will soothe the heart of every man who comes close to her, and her voice will be sweet and sad, so that the wandering person will be intoxicated and forget the future, or the apocalypse will reach the realm of selflessness, and the true meaning of life in the universe will be enlightened, so that she will no longer feel lonely and helpless, and no longer feel the passive confusion of life. Find your full self and never wander again. In the record, only Orps, the son of the sun god Apollo, and Odysseus, the hero, passed through the Sea of No Return. Both are related to the Kraken, tenacious and tragic characters. The former is said to play the most beautiful piano in the world, and has a slender body like many southerners. When he lost his beloved wife, he was depressed and lived in isolation. When the despicable Menna attacked Orps in the jungle, he knew that his time was near, and he played his lyre, and the sound of the lyre was so moving that the branches, sticks, and stones in the hands of the thieves were so moved that they refused to attack him, and the despicable Menna tore Orps to pieces with his teeth and hands. The sun god grieved and his wife Muse together with the qin as the king of musical instruments, which is also the origin of the qin as the king of musical instruments, the oriental people are good qin, does anyone know that the noble mark of the qin turned out to be a victim of conspiracy. The latter, Odysseus. The king of Ithaca, who vowed to bring back Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, from Troas, fought for ten years, and captured the city with a Trojan horse plan. He went through all kinds of tortures and hardships and did not look back, but after hearing the siren's song on the sea of no return, he was obsessed and melancholy, if it were not for the tight binding on the mast of his men, he would have taken the initiative to become the white bone of the siren island. Despite their suffering, the sirens continued to sing the praises of fate with wisdom and serenity. Before Nietzsche, almost no one really understood Greek mythology, except for the Greek ancestors. The Greek spirit contained in Greek mythology has been completely distorted by later generations. People can no longer face and understand the tragedy of life's suffering with a calm mind and a positive spirit like the ancient Greeks. On the contrary, in the increasing abundance of matter, in the ever-advancing technology, in the breakthrough of nature's limitations, worldly solace is found. Wandering in this boundless sea of suffering full of uncertain dangers and hardships along the way, human beings are helpless, always feeling the helplessness of life and the confusion of the future, only the sirens, between man and God, can not only peek through the secrets of nature, but also experience the sorrow of life, see through the pain and fate, and explore the truth alone.

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Due to its huge size, some sailors mistook its body for an "island" when it surfaced, and even climbed the island, camped on it, and died at the bottom of the ocean when it sank. The North Sea Monster has multiple giant tentacles that can sweep giant ships or ships to the bottom of the sea, so it is believed that its prototype is actually the king squid near the Norwegian Sea. Like the earthly python in Norse mythology, the North Sea Monster will surface when the end of the world comes.

Since the late 18th century, there have been many different theories about the Norwegian sea monster, most of which describe it as an octopus-like creature. Pentopidan's account may have been based on the sailors' observations of the giant squid. In the earliest descriptions, the Norwegian sea monster resembled more like a crab than an octopus. Norwegian sea monsters generally have traits associated with whales (rather than octopuses). In addition, some of the characteristics of the Norwegian sea monster are similar to those of submarine volcanism in Iceland, including blisters, rapids, and the emergence of new islets. In 1802, the French mollusk Pierre de Montfort (Pie

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octopus), which has been described by Norwegian sailors and American whaling crews, as well as by ancient writers such as Pliny the Elder. The second octopus, the giant octopus (colossal octopus), has a much larger body (pictured above). I heard of an attack on a ship coming from San Malo off the coast of Angola. De Montfort later made a more sensitive view: he said that 10 British battleships mysteriously disappeared one night in 1782 and therefore must have been attacked by a large octopus and sunk. Unfortunately, the British knew exactly what was going on with those ships. De Montfort's reputation was so damaged that it never recovered. In 1820, he starved to death in Paris. It is worth mentioning that the origin of many of De Montfort's concepts of the Kraken octopus may have described a very realistic large octopus (which was confirmed to exist in 1857). In 1830, Jafred Denison published his popular poem The Norwegian Sea Monster, which influenced the later narrative of the imaginary nest of the great octopus in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Since the 19th century, with the development of modern zoology, the legend of the sea monster that is too absurd has gradually disappeared. But there are some reports that deserve our attention: on November 30, 1861, the French warship "Alitton" was on its way from Cádiz in Spain to Tennalife Island, and encountered a sea monster with a length of 5-6 meters and a tentacle of two meters. Captain Hierre later wrote: "I think that's what has caused a lot of controversy, and many people think it's a fictional octopus." Sheyer and the crew forked it with harpoons and ropes around its tail. But the monster frantically fluttered its tentacles, breaking the harpoon and escaping. Only a piece of meat weighing about 40 pounds was left on the rope.

The Basilisk, which was born under the influence of Tiamat in Hebrew mythology, has a name that means "something coiled up". As its name suggests, it is a serpent with a huge body capable of coiling around the earth. In addition to "Leviathan", it can also be pronounced as "Lebayasan" or "Levian". In the legend of the ancient city of Ugarit on the Mediterranean coast, it is called "Lota".

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The Protestant Bible and the Catholic Bible Scoop Translation is translated as the Inner and Outer Church, a kind of biblical monster that may have been based on whales and crocodiles. The word "Leviathan" means "twisted" or "whirlpool" in Hebrew, and in Christianity it is the demon corresponding to "jealousy" in the Seven Deadly Sins. The Book of Isaiah describes Leviathan as "a serpent that twists and turns," and the epic of Ugaritus describes Leviathan as Lita

), and described it as a "winding snake". In later generations, whenever the term was mentioned, it referred to huge monsters from the sea, and most of them took the form of sea serpents.

The Leviathan in the Bible is a monster whose image is very similar to the sea monster "Rahab" in the Book of Isaiah, and there are many similar creatures in the Bible, which are believed to be the source of Leviathan's image. In the book of Job (chapter 41), the Leviathan is mentioned as a gigantic creature. When it swims in the sea, the waves also swim against it. It breathes flames from its mouth, smoke from its nose, sharp teeth, and a body as strong as armor. Ruthless and violent, it seeks out prey in the ocean and makes the creatures around it smell and discolor. Legend has it that on the sixth day of creation, God created two monsters, one male and one female, the female being the Leviathan who was entrenched in the sea, and the male being Behemoth of the Megatron Desert (all the world's land). When the end of the world comes, the three-headed monster of Leviathan, Behemoth, and Ziz will be sacrificed to the Holy One. Some say it was a giant marine reptile such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dragons, while others said it was a whale.

Qing Guangxu lithographic edition of "Dianshizhai Pictorial" in the "huge fish bone", "the fish skull is like a house, the mouth is as big as a door". As early as in the mythology of the flood era, there was a prototype of the sea monster, in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and other ancient books, in the six dynasties of the monsters, in the coastal chronicles, there are also the figure of the sea monsters. The revival of folk narratives continues to add new images to sea monsters. The story of the sea monster has also been reunited into a new sea monster with the input and output of sea trade, fission.

The term "sea monster" appeared relatively late. Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty "Notes on the Book of Water" contains: "Sea monsters, fish and turtles, turtles and turtles, turtles and fresh crocodiles, rare and strange objects, thousands of kinds, can not be remembered. At that time, most marine animals were still blind spots in naturalism, and those who did not know were strange. The ancients were relatively unfamiliar with marine animals, so the occasional sea animals also became sea monsters. For example, the beast that appeared in "Erya Shi Beast": "In the seventh year of Jin Taikang, Zhaoling Fuyi County got a beast, like a dog and leopard, with horns and two front feet. "Now it seems that the cat is an animal like a seal, but the accompanying picture of "Erya" depicts it as a two-legged cow-shaped monster, which is far from the actual situation. From sightings to hearsay, to written accounts, images are generated from them, and after these transformations, they are unrecognizable. Coincidentally, in the Ming Dynasty court's medical book "Addendum Lei Gong Concocted Handbook", the sea seal (腽肭umbilicus) was painted in the shape of a yellow dog, and a fish tail was added behind its buttocks. The paradox of early naturalism lies in this, those who have seen the real thing with their own eyes do not know how to paint, and the person in charge of painting has not seen the real thing, so they can only rely on hearsay, and the geographical barrier makes the rumors more and more bizarre, and once these fallacies enter the atlas, they will become a classic paradigm, and the preconceived image is difficult to shake. The Ming Dynasty's only book "Fisherman's Book" has a special volume of "Sea Beasts", the author believes that these strange so-called sea beasts "are strange to reproduce, or they are rare to see and hear, so they are like tigers, and the former people are known for their Jiang Fu, and the raccoon dog is in the shape of a cow, and the ancient history can be examined", it seems that he is quite confident. According to scholars, the ancient texts left by the sages can provide answers, but these experiences are themselves suspicious. It is even believed that these strange-looking sea beasts possess elusive and mysterious powers. For example, the monk fish that is widely spread along the southeast coast, also known as the sea monk - a kind of sea monster with a human head and turtle body, as long as it encounters it, the ship will sink, Mr. Wei Yanzhi of Huaiyang in the Ming Dynasty took a boat from the Leizhou Peninsula to Hainan, and met the sea monk, and the people on the boat were panicked, thinking that the disaster came, "the boat is crying, and it is said that there is a worry about the belly of the fish", it is said that Mr. Wei's moral strength is outstanding, and a boatload of people was spared, the so-called "demon is not victorious", which is seen in the "sea language" of the Ming people Huang Zhen. The sea monk may have been a large turtle such as a leatherback turtle, but the Ming Dynasty in the 15th century regarded it as a monster. There are too many sea beasts that have suffered the fate of demonization because of their strange appearances, and there are legends of sea monsters attached. Such sightings continue. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there is a frame of "Where does the sea beast come from" in the "Dianshizhai Pictorial", this is a sighting incident, it can be regarded as a copy of the beast in "Erya", the place of the incident is Haiyan, Zhejiang, after the hurricane, a strange-looking sea beast stranded on the beach, according to the painter's description, the head of this monster is like a camel, all four legs are fin-shaped, and there is a slender tail behind it, the mouth and eyes are as red as cinnabar, the locals don't know what this is, take a knife to it, it actually shed tears like a person. People couldn't bear it, so they released it. This sea monster should also be a seal, walrus, etc.

At the end of the seventeenth century, Pu Songling, a tutor, once recorded the rumors of a whale stranding in Laizhou, which was in the Kangxi period, when a big fish was stranded on the coast of Laizhou, and people carried the burden and rushed to cut the meat, and the poor big fish was slaughtered after his death. According to Pu Songling's memory, "the fish is big and mu, the wings and tails are all there, and there are no eye beads", its eye sockets are empty, full of water, the eyeballs do not know where to go, and a common man who came to cut the fish meat fell into the eye socket of the big fish and drowned. The big fish is big, so naturally it is not a problem. "Zhuangzi" said that "there is a fish in the north of the underworld, its name is Kun, the Kun is so big, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is", Kun is also a kind of whale. The body of the big fish is majestic, has always been a topic that people talk about, "Taiping Guangji" quoted "Xuanzhong Ji" said: "The great man of the East, the East China Sea fish." Those who walk the sea meet the head of the fish on one day and the tail of the fish on the seventh day. Fish production is blood for 100 miles. "Witnesses saw the body of the big fish moving continuously within the field of vision, and it took seven days to completely pass through. The "Treatise on Great Wisdom" mentions the incomparable Magala Fish King: "In the past, there were five hundred estimators who went into the sea to collect treasures. When the king of the Magala fish opened, the sea water entered the middle, and the ship went to sail. The shipmaster asked the man upstairs: What do you see? Answer: Seeing the three sunrises, the white mountains are listed, and the water flow is interesting, such as entering a big pit. The ship's master said: It is the mouth of the king of the fish of Mogaro, one is the real day, the two days are the eyes of the fish, the white mountain is the tooth of the fish, and the water flow is the mouth of the fish. "The visual shock and psychological impact of the body characteristics of the Mogala Fish King are incomparable: the eyes compete with the sun, the teeth are like white mountains, and the eyes and teeth are still so majestic, the size of the Mogala Fish King is incalculable. In the Shandong Peninsula, people still retain the awe of the big things in the sea, and when they see the big fish on the sea, they all call the big fish "old man" to show respect. In the eyes of the fishermen, the "old man" has gone through immeasurable years before he has grown into a behemoth, and the so-called "old things are strange" in Taoism, the old man has spirituality, which cannot be offended. However, when a whale is stranded, people rush to cut the meat, why does the attitude change so quickly? Pu Songling explained the reason: "If the big fish is degraded in the sea, it will be removed", it turns out that the stranded big fish is degraded for crimes in the sea. From respecting them like gods to drawing their swords against each other, their attitudes have changed so quickly. Here, you can also see the subtle seclusion of the world's human heart.

In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there is a group of strange people from overseas, and on them, there are traces of coastal fishing and hunting tribes. The most typical is Danzhu, who is the eldest son of Emperor Yao, who was exiled to the South China Sea by Yao because of his violence. In the South China Sea, Danju's body underwent a violent deformation, with a beak on his beak and a pair of fleshy wings behind him—unable to fly, and only fanning the wind as a boost when running. Later, the descendants of Danzhu evolved into an ethnic group called the Touguo, and the people of the country are also like Danzhu, they are an ethnic group that makes a living from sea fishing. There are many bizarre overseas weirdos like this, such as long-armed people and long-legged people, which are also typical of them. During the reign of Cao Wei, Xuansu Taishou Wang Qi conquered Goguryeo, and when he arrived at the seashore, it was the closest place to the sunrise. Wang Ji asked the local old man, who else is there on the east side of the sea? The old man replied: "Taste a cloth of brown in the sea, the body is like a Chinese person, the two sleeves of the clothes are three zhang long, that is, the long-armed man is also clothed", this palm story can be seen in the fourth century AD mystic Guo Pu annotated the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", at that time one zhang is about two meters today, three zhang is more than seven meters, it is really a long arm, such a long arm can stretch out the hand into the sea to fish, effortlessly. Similarly, Guo Pu speculated that the legs of the long-legged people also had three feet, and the long-armed people and the long-legged people were adjacent to each other, and the two often cooperated, "the long-armed people often carried the long-legged people into the sea to fish". There is also a long-bearded country in the Tang Dynasty Duan Cheng-style "Youyang Miscellaneous Tales", when Wu Zetian was in power, a scholar followed Silla to cross the sea, encountered a strong wind, and was blown by the wind to a long-bearded country, where everyone has a long beard that is dragged to the ground, and women are the same. By mistake, the book was born as a colt of the country of long beards, and later I learned that this was the country of shrimps, and the scholar was charmed by the shrimp spirit, and the long beard was the shrimp whiskers. The indigenous people of Hokkaido, Japan, are called Ezo, and the country of Ezo is featured in the Ming edition of "Illustrated Legends of Exotic Regions", and the custom of the country is that animals have long whiskers, which may be a shadow of the reality of shrimp essence. It can be seen that the tradition of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is still playing a role, and overseas gods and alien races are constantly adding new members. Most of the overseas supernatural races are strangely shaped, implying that the Central Plains culture discriminates against the overseas races, and the thinking of demonizing the overseas races is endless. The "General Map of the Four Seas", engraved in the late seventeenth century, seems to be more revealing, on this color map, the Central Plains is a vast landmass, surrounded by sea water, and the sea is also scattered with dense islands, in addition to the country of long arms and long legs, there are also the country of one eye, the country of three bodies, the country of breasts, etc., as described in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". Until the late Qing Dynasty, Chinese people still looked at overseas visitors differently. In 1857, the British "London News Illustrated" published a picture of a sea monster, which was the image of a British naval soldier in the eyes of the people of the Qing Dynasty: a bird's beak, unkempt head, covered with animal hair, three fingers on his hands, and two pointed toes on his feet, as if he were an alien life, where there was still a shadow of the British Navy. It also spewed out a large column of water from its mouth, which was the mark of the sea. Before and after the Opium War, the British navy was stunned by the physical appearance and clothing characteristics of the British navy, which regarded it as a sea monster. At that time, it was believed that this sea monster "eats every person and cannot be injured by a sword", and when it is besieged, it will "turn into blood and water", which is an incomprehensible life form.

All in all, in this world, the so-called sea monsters are generally huge and incomprehensible giant creatures that people encounter when they sail to the sea, and of course, when they don't know what these creatures are, they are called sea monsters. The sea monster itself is just some people's cognitive impairment of the world, or there is also the role of people in the Xuanmen, but fundamentally speaking, the sea monster does not exist at all, and such an invincible existence does not exist in this world.

So Gu Bluebird couldn't help but ask: "The abyss of Abyss Island, has no one been interested in it since then?" ”

The old man laughed: "How is it possible? Later, after the scientific and technological level of human beings rose, of course, someone dug up the story of Abyss Island again, and then put it on the table, and then an expedition team came here to investigate, and the result was that there was a huge tidal hole under the bottom of Abyss Island, coupled with the surrounding abyss and complex seabed structure, resulting in the sea water around Abyss Island will continue to change and flow in a strange way under the action of tides and ocean currents, resulting in the approaching ships being pulled into it by the current. Under the mutual impact of the current, they were crushed to pieces. After that, people also boarded Abyss Island, and conducted a detailed investigation on Abyss Island, but Abyss Island itself is very funny, there is not much to investigate, and it is very barren, they took a few photos of Abyss Island, which has covered almost all the places of Abyss Island, because there is nothing to investigate, there is nothing to develop, there are dangers around, and the boats are not easy to pass, so it has become a forbidden area, in order to ensure the safety of fishermen and boats, a cordon has been set up there, Usually no one has passed. But I know you want to go over, I have prepared for you to go over there, the owner of the ship is a familiar old crew member, who has lived in this sea for many years, and knows the situation in this sea area well, to ensure that you can reach the vicinity of Abyss Island safely, if you can get close to Abyss Island, in the surrounding sea area, I am afraid that she is the only one who can do this. ”