According to tradition, a mermaid is bounded by her waist, the upper part is a beautiful woman, and the lower part is a beautiful fishtail covered with scales. The whole body is very attractive and easy to escape quickly. They have no soul and are as ruthless as the sea; Sound is usually as deceptive as its appearance; Suit has many characteristics such as temptation, vanity, beauty, cruel and desperate love. Speaking of the exotic "mermaid", a kind of marine life that is half man and half fish. In 2008, Amsterdam published a book about marine animals in the Indian Ocean, which contained many illustrations and detailed descriptions of the mermaid in east indies. According to the book, the mermaid, also known as the "wife in the sea", is a "monster like a beauty". It was captured in the waters of Borneo Island near Amboyna province, and it is 19 inches long and looks like an eel. After being arrested, he lived in a vat full of water for four days and seven hours. However, the legend of "Mermaid" often has some mythical colors, especially the fairy tale & gt19th century written by the famous Danish writer Andersen. With the development of modern zoology, the mystery of "Mermaid" is gradually revealed. Some zoologists claim that mermaid is a kind of marine mammal, named "Confucian", born in the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean. "Confucians" belong to mammals, manatees and Confucianism, and are born in tropical areas of the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Feeding on plants in green algae water. Female "Confucians" often hold their young animals with their flippers and feet, and breathe or feed them in the water in a vertical posture. Because "Confucians" have poor eyesight, whenever a ship passes by, they tend to stick their heads out of the water and look up. Sailors on the ship saw from a distance that it had a pair of breasts, hugging its young, and its upper body was somewhat humanoid. It is said that this is the origin of "mermaid". This statement was quickly accepted by zoologists. So the saying that "mermaid is a Confucian" was written into popular science books made by many zoologists and became a "standard" explanation. However, some biologists still don't believe this statement. They think that the ugly face of "Confucian" is far from the legendary beautiful mermaid, and it is not human at all. People who witnessed Confucianism with their own eyes. In any case, it will not be regarded as a "mermaid." Therefore, the real mermaid will never be Confucian, so she can only find someone else. 1979, British scholar Roy Wignal went to Papua new guinea for investigation. There, he heard that there was a strange animal called "Sun" by the local natives. The aborigines said: "Sun" lives in the water, but breathes like a human being, with a human body and head. But no feet. There is a forked tail fin under the trunk, just like a whale's tail. In order to find out what kind of animal "Li" is, Roy visited many indigenous villages in Papua and collected a lot of information. A few years ago, an indigenous fisherman caught a "RI" with a net. He dragged it ashore and asked a group of children to watch it for him. He went back to the village to call someone. But he brought people back to the seaside. The children were ashamed to see Sun naked like a human being, so they let it go. A fishing boat captain who used to be a policeman told Roy that he once met "Li" while fishing on a long voyage. At that time, "Sun" was only seven meters away from him. He struggled to throw the harpoon in his hand, and the harpoon missed. "Day" did not escape, but continued to stare at him. He said that Sun's face looks a bit like a monkey. There is also an old myth among the Kela people on the east coast of Papua: a long time ago, a Kela artist lost a dance competition in Kabbah Grand Square. In order to protect the honor of the clan, he jumped into the sea from a high cliff and committed suicide. His soul became a "day". Therefore, "Sun" has always been protected by the Krauts. Local officials. It's a person! "The aborigines took Roy to the seaside frequented by RI. After they waited for more than an hour, the aborigines suddenly shouted excitedly: "There! There it is! "I saw a dark brown object swimming hundreds of meters away. Roy couldn't see its shape clearly because of the distance. Later, it dived into the water and never appeared again. Therefore, it seems that it is not "Confucianism" but "Japan" that is the real mermaid. But what kind of animal is "Sun"? People still know nothing about it. If we can catch a "RI" in Papua New Guinea, then we may be able to solve the mermaid mystery that has been circulating for hundreds of years. He said that the protection of dugong will definitely affect the survival and protection of other creatures in the whole ecosystem. The existence of dugong represents the existence of ecological community in Beibu Gulf, the existence of biological community including people and dugong, and the clear water there. At the same time, dugong also carries people's fantasies and sustenance. It is a beautiful animal that the whole world dreams of and contains rich cultural connotations. Recently, the reporter interviewed shatian town, Hepu County, the only national dugong nature reserve in China. Ms. Qin, an expert in dugong protection agency here, told us that only very lucky fishermen can accidentally discover the "trace" of dugong, which is in an endangered state. Some experts point out that each species plays a more or less role in the ecological balance, but there is no doubt that the extinction of each species means that mankind is one step closer to the road of destruction. This is not an alarmist. Saving dugong and mermaid is our appeal this time. Many people know about the mermaid from the love story about the little mermaid and the prince in The Daughter of the Sea by Danish writer Andersen. In fact, the origin of the word mermaid can be traced back centuries ago, when the American continent was just discovered, and European countries sent ships to America to explore and look for treasures. Whenever dusk falls, or the bright moon is high, explorers and sailors who have been wandering at sea for months often see some beautiful "women" swimming and playing by the sea through the diffuse water mist in that clumsy monocular telescope, and some hold their "babies" on their chests and suck their milk. And the lower parts of these women are like fish. Sometimes they appear, and sometimes they are covered by fog at sea. This wonderful sight of a mermaid nursing a baby at sea evokes people who have traveled across the ocean to miss their wives and children, and the legend of "Mermaid" was born. In ancient China, there were also legends about mermaids. The most famous is the description in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio in the Song Dynasty: "The Taoist priest made Korea see the woman's red dress naked, with messy bun and reddish cheeks, and ordered her to stay in the water, but she didn't feel love-it was a mermaid. "Mermaids are also called Nanhai Jiao Ren in the South China Sea. Legend has it that a "Jiao Ren" was caught by a fisherman. The kind fisherman couldn't bear to hurt it and put it back into the sea. " Jiao Ren was so moved that her tears turned into pearls. Because these legendary stories about mermaids are vivid and full of romance, they are widely circulated and the artistic image of mermaids is also popular all over the world. In fact, a closer look at mermaids shows that they are not only ugly, but also ugly. It is a large aquatic mammal, which lives in tropical and subtropical waters all its life or swims near the sea. Local fishermen call them manatees. Because its female breast is plump and towering, and it also has a pair of nipples of 4 to 5 cm, it often picks up the baby with two large pectoral fins and exposes it to the sea, so it is easy to have illusions in the evening or under the dim moonlight. Before 1950s, fishermen who had been with the sea for generations thought the mermaid was the prince of Dragon Palace, regarded her as a "divine fish" and regarded her as a god, and never dared to kill her. I didn't mean to catch it, but I let it go. Therefore, mermaids were often seen in the waters around shatian town in Hepu at that time. An old fisherman once saw more than 30 mermaids playing on the beach in shallow water. In the past, he often saw manatees here. They eat seaweed on the beach, and when they are full, they play and shit on the beach. When the tide is low, you can often pick up cow dung on the beach. But in the late 1950s, under the misunderstanding of superstition slogans, fishermen killed dugong. If the mermaid was hunted because of poverty and ignorance in the past, has the fate of the mermaid been changed now that the country has repeatedly applied for the protection of the mermaid? We stood on the fishing pier in Sha Tin Port and looked up. On the sunny sea, except for fishing boats, we saw scattered snail sheds, which were used for farming by the sea. Experts from dugong nature reserve management station told us that there are no mermaids hunting now, but fishermen breed around the sea surface, dig sand worms and raise oysters and snails in shallow water, which has caused great harm to seaweed. Mermaids like to feed in shallow waters. They live on seaweed. Raising oysters, snails, digging sand worms, uprooting seaweed, mermaid will have no shelter, and the skin does not exist, how can hair attach? What do mermaids do for a living without seaweed What's more, some fishermen illegally use electric trawls, which has seriously damaged underwater pastures. How can a mermaid live in this roaring sea of motors? Some people want to narrow the scope of marine grassland protection areas to develop the economy. These people failed to deal with the contradiction between the protection of dugong and its survival and development, and the relationship between the long-term interests of nature protection and the short-term interests of the collective or individual. This may be a common problem when we are protecting natural resources. According to Wang Pilie, a famous mammal expert in China, there are only a few dozen dugong in Hepu Nature Reserve. "This is a very dangerous thing for a species," Wang Pi said. It is gratifying that worrying about the fate of mermaid and saving mermaid has changed from national laws and regulations to the actions of many people. Comrades from Dugong Protection Station said that in recent years, Hepu County and shatian town City have cleared beaches, dismantled snail sheds and oysters illegally reclaimed from the sea, cleared unlicensed fishing boats, and prohibited electric trawling, thus creating a good environment for the growth and reproduction of Dugong. The state has also invested a huge sum of money to set up boundary markers in Sha Tin Reserve, speedboats patrol frequently, and fishing is strictly prohibited in the reserve. The staff of the protection station often go deep into the fishing village to publicize various laws and regulations to protect dugong. Some old fishermen in shatian town are also very supportive of the work of the protection station. Every time the administrator goes to sea to find the trace of dugong, he will take the initiative to accompany him. Fu Nai often walks more than ten kilometers to the seaside, looking for seaweed specimens in the management station for scientific research. Finding and protecting the mermaid became his only wish in his later years: "We are atoning now. "The comrades of the protection station also revealed that shatian town will set up a defense team to supervise and regulate the fishing behavior of fishermen. Because of some useful work done recently, fishermen who go out to sea will meet mermaids from time to time. According to incomplete statistics, from February 2003 1997 to October 2003165438+2003, dugong was found 42 times in the nature reserve and its adjacent waters (most of them were found by local fishermen, so no photos were taken), and the protection station has received five reports of finding mermaids this year. It is said that at the end of July last year, a young fisherman saw a red and black mermaid eating grass. This shows that the mermaid still has great feelings for her former home. But because the mermaid's reproductive rate is very low, she can only have one child every three years, and each child only has one child. According to experts from Guangxi Fishery Environmental Monitoring Center, although the news that mermaids appeared in Sha Tin was reported in newspapers from time to time, when they conducted investigations in Sha Tin for two consecutive years, no one could produce evidence to prove it. Wang Pi Lie, a researcher who has personally seen dugong in Sha Tin, said that no one has personally seen dugong except the fishery supervision station, the town government and the protected area management station in 1998, but only heard of it. Compared with the past, it is not difficult to meet mermaids when fishing in the sea, and the protection of mermaids is not optimistic now. Therefore, it is necessary to resolutely ban aquaculture in the 350-square-kilometer Dugong Nature Reserve in Sha Tin and severely crack down on fish frying and electric fishing. It is necessary to provide local fishermen with new employment opportunities and income sources by establishing a number of industries, so that they can get out of the traditional production mode of "relying on mountains and relying on water to eat water". Protecting and saving mermaids has a long way to go. In addition to strengthening law enforcement management, we can also make some efforts from the cultural level: First, widely publicize the role of mermaid in protecting the ecology of Beibu Gulf among fishermen. This kind of publicity can not only rely on rigid laws and regulations, but also mobilize literary and artistic means, such as drama, film and television, songs and essays, invite writers to write plays about mermaids, and songwriters create songs about mermaids and shoot a mermaid. At the entrance of shatian town, make a sculpture of a mermaid ... Then, let the people who appreciate the mermaid watch the drama about the mermaid, listen to the songs of the mermaid and create literary works around the theme of the mermaid. Second, build a mermaid museum, show the legend, story and current situation of the mermaid, dig out the cultural connotation of romance, humanity and affection represented by the mermaid, and let people love and care for the mermaid from the heart. Third, the mermaid is gentle and has many mysterious connections with human beings. It is a rare human animal. It is said that some countries have been able to artificially breed mermaids, and we can also establish scientific research bases as soon as possible to artificially breed and domesticate mermaids. Maybe in the future, we can watch the mermaid roaming in the shallow sea by fishing boat ... Of course, the most important thing is that every civilized country and every civilized person should have a sense of urgency, and all this is not enough just by appealing.