Am curious, I heard this a few years back from a radio discussion talking about all these mystical stuff in Chinese history and someone mentioned back in the Warring period (possibly the Warring states) there was a group of army that went into hiding in the sea or water after their kingdom was captured and so they hid into the water while waiting for a chance to rebuilt their kingdom, over time they began developing fish gill and scales that they can live in the water and on land. It was said this account was recorded in some ancient history book, has anyone hear of read of this incident? Thanks!
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I am not familiar with that exact myth, but men going to live in the sea with the Dragon King of the Sea is a fairly common theme among Chinese myth. It is not usually mentioned that they grow gills and scales, but is understood that they can live and breath in that watery kingdom.
(Excuse me for switching account as my previous won't cont. let me post as I haven't passed the exam) 
On a revelant note, someone in HK once said they saw a weird shaped human-like feature but it's hairy like a spider and moves like it coming onto the shore at a beach. When spotted it went back into the water. Another responadent said there was a similiar case in history during WWII during the Japanese invasion, in Hainan island they once captured a weird looking creature that looks like a human but it's hairy and moves like a spider (pretty much matching), they caught it and put it in display in a big glass cube where people can pay and see for themselves. I was wondering if anyone ever heard of this, this seem so real. I'm wondering if this has any connection with the anicent scales armies over time period of evolution.
newB
On a revelant note, someone in HK once said they saw a weird shaped human-like feature but it's hairy like a spider and moves like it coming onto the shore at a beach. When spotted it went back into the water. Another responadent said there was a similiar case in history during WWII during the Japanese invasion, in Hainan island they once captured a weird looking creature that looks like a human but it's hairy and moves like a spider (pretty much matching), they caught it and put it in display in a big glass cube where people can pay and see for themselves. I was wondering if anyone ever heard of this, this seem so real. I'm wondering if this has any connection with the anicent scales armies over time period of evolution.
newB
QUOTE (kaiselin @ Mar 9 2008, 01:23 PM) 
I am not familiar with that exact myth, but men going to live in the sea with the Dragon King of the Sea is a fairly common theme among Chinese myth. It is not usually mentioned that they grow gills and scales, but is understood that they can live and breath in that watery kingdom.
Yes, that is pretty common in Chinese myth. However, it's especially interesting since the incident was said to be recorded in ancient history, also the Hainan case. Would like to find out more about them, just found it very interesting.
QUOTE (newbie06 @ Mar 9 2008, 02:29 PM)
(Excuse me for switching account as my previous won't cont. let me post as I haven't passed the exam)
On a revelant note, someone in HK once said they saw a weird shaped human-like feature but it's hairy like a spider and moves like it coming onto the shore at a beach. When spotted it went back into the water. Another responadent said there was a similiar case in history during WWII during the Japanese invasion, in Hainan island they once captured a weird looking creature that looks like a human but it's hairy and moves like a spider (pretty much matching), they caught it and put it in display in a big glass cube where people can pay and see for themselves. I was wondering if anyone ever heard of this, this seem so real. I'm wondering if this has any connection with the anicent scales armies over time period of evolution.
newB
On a revelant note, someone in HK once said they saw a weird shaped human-like feature but it's hairy like a spider and moves like it coming onto the shore at a beach. When spotted it went back into the water. Another responadent said there was a similiar case in history during WWII during the Japanese invasion, in Hainan island they once captured a weird looking creature that looks like a human but it's hairy and moves like a spider (pretty much matching), they caught it and put it in display in a big glass cube where people can pay and see for themselves. I was wondering if anyone ever heard of this, this seem so real. I'm wondering if this has any connection with the anicent scales armies over time period of evolution.
newB
First let me congratulate you on passing your exam.
I have seen reference to a particular crab that is common to an area in Japan. When you look at it , it looks very similar to the mask worn by the samurai the article suggested that it was a case of when the crabs were harvested the ones that looked like the masks were thrown back in because they were thought to be the souls of the samurai. As these were left to breed and the others were taken for food, the local crabs all started evolving through inadvertent gene selection to look more and more like the masks they were thought to look like.
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