Does Jiao Ren really exist?

There is faith, but if you don't believe it, there is nothing.

Jiao Ren in the shape of a fishtail is called a mermaid. Jiao Ren recorded in China's ancient books is a mermaid in western mythology. The partridges they produce are not wet when they enter the water. When they cry, their tears turn into pearls. Jin Ganbao's Search for the Gods (Volume 12): "Beyond the South China Sea, there is Jiao Ren, and the water is like a fish. If you don't waste your knitting achievements, your eyes will shed tears and you will surely produce pearls. " This statement "natural history" and "story of difference" are included in parallel, but the words are slightly different. There is a cloud on the volume of Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Suburb people are the first spring, also known as spring guests. Jiaozi yarn was produced in Nanhai, and it was first dived into the water to weave it in spring. A dragon yarn is worth more than 100 gold. Thought it wasn't wet in the water. There is a Dragon Palace in the South China Sea. Spring weaves first and people are Bai Rushuang. " In addition, Volume 803 of Taiping Yu Lan quoted Natural History (now there is no more) as saying: "Jiao Ren went out of the water, lived in other people's homes, and sold silks for a long time. I will go, grab a device from my master and cry a plate full of beads with my master. "

Natural History: "There is Jiao Ren in the South China Sea, and the water is like a fish. Don't waste your work, your eyes are full of tears. " Ren Fang, A Liang of the Southern Dynasties, wrote: "Jiao Ren is also known as Quan Xian and Quan Ke. ..... There is the Dragon Palace in the South China Sea, the yarn is woven first in spring, and there are people from Bai Rushuang. " "Tales of Different Things" also said: "Crepe produced in the South China Sea, Spring Chamber dives into it, and dragon yarn, with a price of 100 gold, is acceptable and should not enter the water."

Be distributed

Living in the sea, a few rivers and lakes connected with the sea, including underground lakes, also have a small amount of Jiao Ren, mainly depending on the water depth and water quality. Jiao Ren doesn't want to live in dirty water.

type

The average life expectancy is seventy years. Viviparous, multiple births, six months pregnant. But only in August and September every year can you get pregnant, and most babies are born in February. Jiao Ren Jr. was born in an airbag. A few hours later, the airbag burst and he could swim. However, there are many natural enemies in the sea and the survival rate is poor. So the speed of racial reproduction is still lower than that of human beings.

appear

Slender streamline, good figure, similar to human beings, slightly thin and tall. But there are translucent skin wings and floating whiskers between the upper limbs and the sides of the body, which looks beautiful and elegant, but you should swim in the sea. A number of skirt-shaped transparent strips longer than legs are attached to the lower body from the waist. When swimming, the legs are wrapped in it, which helps to reduce the resistance of water flow and swim. According to legend, Jiao Ren is a race of ancient people. They used magic to change their physique and hid in the water to avoid the disaster of war, so they had legs. It is also said that a fisherman met a fairy in the sea and was turned into a servant, but no one knows what the real origin of Jiao Ren is, and this legend will always be a legend. Jiao Ren, the man has horny fins on his back and the woman is transparent and soft, so the man looks fierce and the woman is feminine.

Jiao Ren has hair and all kinds of colors. For the needs of labor and fighting, the lower-class men in Jiao Ren shaved their hair and tattooed their heads from an early age. Women are tied tightly or put on hats. Men's hair in Jiao Ren is usually the symbol of nobility and gentlemen.

Jiao Ren's body is covered with streamers and drooping beards, so she usually wears no clothes. When standing still or walking in the water, the skin wings and floating whiskers cover most of the body, and when swimming, the upper body is bare and the lower body is in the floating belt. Only some aristocrats don't need to swim long distances by themselves because they ride in a floating car pulled by giant fish (made of aquatic plants and light wood), so in order to show their special identity and protect their health, they use smooth aquatic plants or a special fabric called gauze (made of bubble film made by rolling snapper with fish scale powder and fish oil, which is extremely smooth and does not absorb water) to make clothes such as cloaks and belts. Jiao Ren's clothes are separated back and forth, and only tied at the neck and waist. After a long time, with the gradual popularization of cockroaches, some people began to follow suit.

Men in Jiao Ren usually have the same skin as human beings, but when they meet enemies, they will quickly turn into fighting physique, forming hard scaly skin outside their bodies, just like wearing armor. Women don't have this ability.

Aquatic constitution

Under normal circumstances, Jiao Ren can't live without water for more than one day. After landing, you must take medicine every day and spend several hours recovering in the water. Moreover, if the influence of non-seawater is not recovered well, it will affect health. The longer you stay out of the water, the weaker your body will be. Taking drugs for a long time will damage your health and shorten your life. But Jiao Ren is willing to explore many things on land, so sometimes Jiao Ren's secret stronghold can be found in the deep pools of the Great Lakes. Legend has it that Jiao Ren has a strange way to make people breathe and live in the sea, but at the same time it will shorten their life span, but no one in the Terran knows this secret method.

language

Jiao Ren used a singing language to convey information in a chorus tone in the sea, so that it could spread far in the sea. When approaching, language communication also uses the fast audio produced by laryngeal bone vibration. Other races are extremely difficult to understand. Most people don't understand human language. When people hear strange songs overseas, they know that they have met Jiao Ren.

food

Jiao Ren mainly feeds on fish, supplemented by edible plants in the sea.

society

Underwater cities are built by using the buoyancy of the seabed to mine stones and planting fast-growing coral organisms with scaffolding. There are about 1000 people in a medium-sized city of Jiao Ren. There are nearly a hundred people in the ordinary village. Jiao Ren often migrates with the trend of marine fish and warm current, once every ten years on average, leaving an empty city. Other hunting tribes in Jiao Ren weave houses and nests with aquatic plants and float on the sea. There will be hundreds of such grass nests in a tribe.

Some cities use a hollow pedestal and column wall made of sea lime, and light-colored marine plants to build houses, so that they can also float in the sea, which is conducive to migration.

Part of Jiao Ren, due to the combination of tribes, increased productivity, occupied a good ocean current zone, began to domesticate fish and marine plants, formed a settled life, and a country appeared, and no longer migrated. Jiao Ren is basically a city country.

Jiao Ren has a king. Both men and women can be kings, hereditary system. There is an official system and a small number of standing guards, but during the war, the army was temporarily transferred from the nationals. Ministries have ministers to handle affairs, and citizens are divided into citizens and slaves. Slaves are made up of criminals, aliens and prisoners of war. The main way for them to get rid of slavery is to seize property and redeem themselves or make meritorious deeds in the war. But the army is also limited, and the main force of Jiao Ren's fighting at sea is carnivorous fish. There are special sea whisperers (mages) who use exorcism spells. After a war, the sea is red.

Jiao Ren is rich, and there may be differences between countries, such as starfish, turtle shells and so on. But the most common is a rare golden pearl with the same diameter, which is difficult to cultivate artificially, and is called Zhu Ming. Because it is rare, they also use live shellfish that already contain this kind of pearl in the sea, which is called He Hui, because the pearl has not finally grown, and some of them are similar to advance payment. Some sharks, close to humans, trade with Terrans by the sea, barter, and sometimes accept rare Jiao Ren currency on land. There are also some sharks or Jiao Ren people who have close contact with people who have something to stay on the shore and use human money.

Communicate with races on the ground.

Many people in Jiao Ren regard the waters as their own territory. They hate other races swimming or sailing in the water, because they think the ground is a filthy world and the races on the ground will pollute the water. Therefore, Jiao Ren often attacks sailing ground races, which greatly hinders the development of maritime civilization in ground races. Jiao Ren often appears in the Three Seas of Kyushu. Jiao Ren doesn't need a bow, only uses a fishbone crossbow or a hydraulic catapult. The underwater range is close, less than 100 feet, but it can reach dozens of feet when it is launched outside the water, hitting people on distant ships. But the hydraulic catapult is inconvenient to use on land, because it can't be launched again without water injection.

However, with the increase of inter-ethnic contact and understanding, some tribes in Jiao Ren began to become friendly. Terrans hold a sea sacrifice ceremony, and after washing the boat with wine, they can go to sea. During the voyage, the sailors kept spilling wine into the sea. When Jiao Ren smelled the wine on board, he stopped attacking. Of course, not all tribes in Jiao Ren are like this.

Jiao Ren and Terran can intermarry, but it is extremely difficult to have children. Even if there is, children are terrans. Although they were also born in airbags, they no longer have the physical characteristics of Jiao Ren. If they were born in water, airbags would drown. Jiao Ren's marriage with other races is based on racial marriage.

Most of the communication between Jiao Ren and the ethnic groups on the ground is seaside trade, or fishermen sail to coral reefs in the sea. Because there are Jiao Ren in the three seas of the earth, it is not surprising that people on land are becoming more and more familiar with Jiao Ren. Jiao Ren is good at spinning an extremely thin silk called ragweed from raw materials in the sea. It is light and tough, and its surface is extremely smooth. Used in marine architecture and clothing. In Kyushu, this is an extremely precious silk fabric. Legend has it that the occasional "mirage" at sea is the market where Jiao Ren sells and exchanges this limp. Anyone who can go can buy this kind of baby. In fact, a mirage is the result of Jiao Ren tribe's magic and fog rising to the surface. There are many reasons why Jiao Ren tribes appear on the water, such as offering sacrifices to the stars, being caught by the rising current, avoiding the seasonal dangerous cold current in the deep sea, or using the stars to predict the direction when moving.

Because some tribes are willing to trade with the ground race, and some hate the ground race, going to Jiao Ren is as dangerous and attractive as a mirage.