Here are some sayings about raccoons, among which the big female monkey is mentioned.
Ancient books in China recorded an animal named Sui. What kind of animal is Sui? Opinions vary and there is no conclusion. As far as I know, there are roughly five kinds of statements.
(a) "old macaque" said. Lu Ji's poem Shu said: "Macaques are called monkeys by Chu people, and old people are dogs."
2 "big macaque" said. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" said: "Hey, big female monkey." Cihai (revised edition) also said, "Hey, big female monkey." The "female monkey" mentioned by the ancients does not mean "female monkey", but refers to a kind of monkey-"bathing monkey", also called "macaque". Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica said: "Monkeys are good at wiping their faces, so they are called bathing. Later people mistakenly wash their mothers, and their mothers are macaques. The more mistakes they make, the more they lose." So raccoons are "big female monkeys", but they are actually "big macaques".
3 "old monkey" said. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica (Volume 51) said, "It's an old monkey".
4 "Big Monkey" said. Etymology (revised edition) says, "Hey, big monkey."
(5) Animals as big as macaques say. "Er Ya Shi Beast" and "Zhu Fu" (that is, Zhu), Guo Pu noted: "It is as big as a macaque." Sima Xiangru's Shang Fu Lin said: "So the mysterious ape is female, and it can fly." Zhang Yi Note; "Hey, as big as a macaque." (see selected works)
Based on the above five statements, the author thinks that the animal theory of "as big as a macaque" is more realistic, and the other four theories do not conflict with this theory. Because the ancients did not observe carefully, they mistakenly thought that this "as big as a macaque" was "old macaque, big macaque, old monkey, big monkey" and so on.
What animal is this "as big as a macaque"? After textual research, the author thinks it is an adult male black gibbon (excluding females and young apes).
Hylobates concolor, a mammal, a primate and a gibbon family, is one of the three existing gibbons in China.
Forearms are very long and can touch the ground when standing upright. The body length can reach 46 ~ 64 cm. The male is black, the female is brown and the young is white. Living in subtropical forests, they feed on fruits, flower buds, insects and birds' eggs. China is now produced in Hainan Province and southern Yunnan, with a small number. There are only more than 20 in Hainan Province. For the national first-class protection of animals.
Textual research on body shape, coat color, sex, way of looking at things, way of action and place of origin shows that raccoons are the black gibbons of adult males today.
1. shape. This monkey is as big as a macaque and has long arms. How old is this macaque? Macaca mulatta is the most common monkey, primate, macadamia, with brownish yellow or brownish gray fur, flesh-colored face and ears, and a body length of 45 ~ 5 1 cm. Black gibbon is 46 ~ 64 cm long and has very long arms. So black gibbons are as big as macaques and have long arms.
2. Coat color and gender. Raccoon coat is "dark" and "purebred without raccoons", and it is an adult male. The coat colors of three species of gibbons in China are as follows: Black gibbons are black in adult males, brown in females and white in larvae. The white-browed gibbon (H.hocolck) has two white lines on its forehead, which are shaped like white eyebrows. Adult males are black or dark brown, females are golden yellow or milky white, and their young are white. H.lar, hands and feet are all white, with light yellow, yellow gray and black hair, and the color has nothing to do with gender and age. It can be seen that only the adult male black gibbon is light black, which is the same as the pheasant.
3. look at things. "Good care" means that its eyes are very flexible and good at turning their eyes to see things. According to modern zoology books, the same is true of the way black gibbons look at things. It "has a big head, developed cerebral hemisphere and keen vision." When looking at things, its eyes often turn, which makes people fondle it. "
4. Mode of action. "Walking" and "walking" mean that it can not only walk on two legs like people, but also be good at running on all fours. Black gibbons live in arboreal life and can walk on two legs when they get down to the ground. But because their legs are underdeveloped and their arms are too long, they have to raise their arms very high to keep their balance, so they can only stumble when walking. When it runs on all fours, it only needs to tap the ground with the fingertips of two arms, which is extremely fast. It can be seen that the black gibbon is exactly the same as a raccoon whether it can walk or walk.
5. Place of origin. Bricks are produced in the mountains of Sichuan. Today, black gibbons are distributed in Hainan Island, Guangdong and southern Yunnan: from Lu Chun and Yuanyang to Ailao Mountain and Wuliang Mountain, and Xishuangbanna. Their different habitats are related to climate change, large-scale deforestation and ecological environment changes. The habitat of raccoons is constantly moving south until it moves to sparsely populated and densely forested areas. This is the same as the elephant born in Sichuan in ancient times, but it was born in a corner of Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan today.
Judging from the above five results, the ancient raccoon is an adult male black gibbon.