In 1934, after a rainstorm in Yingkou, villagers found the body of a dragon in a reed pond with two forked horns on its head.
The famous Yingkou dragon falling incident, which seems to be known to many people, was also reported on CCTV-10 in that year. Later, the explanation given by experts was far fetched. Several local old people who witnessed the dragon in their childhood also deliberately came forward and said it.
On August 8, 1934, a skeleton very similar to the legendary dragon was found in Yingkou. What's more incredible is that before the mysterious creature died, local residents saw it twice and had close contact with it for a long time!
It is recorded in Volume I of Yingkou City Chronicle: "(1934) On the afternoon of August 8, a farmer in Dongxiao Street on the North Bank of Liaohe River found a giant animal white bone in Weitang nearby, about 10 meters long, with a corner on the left and right of the head, more than 1 meter long, and 29 spines in total. Puppet Yingkou sixth * * Department transported it to the open space near the West customs wharf for display for several days, and there was an endless stream of visitors.
Some elderly people recalled that the monster had appeared twice, the first time 20 kilometers away from the entrance to the sea.
Xiao Suqin: when she was 9 years old, her father drove a carriage for the landlord. At that time, many people said that they found a "living dragon" on the upper reaches of the Grange platform, so they rushed there. Dad put her on the horse and held her to see. The "dragon" she saw had a square head and a square brain. Her eyes were big and blinked. Her body was gray white, bent and curled on the ground, her tail rolled up, and two claws stretched out in her abdomen. What impressed her most was that she felt that the "dragon" was weak, half opened and half closed, and her eyes were red. Many people said it was because of the hot weather, Therefore, a shed was built on the dragon to avoid the summer heat, and some people carried water to pour it on it, so that it could "relieve the summer heat". Later, it rained heavily for a long time, and the "dragon" disappeared.
At that time, the common people believed that the giant dragon falling from the sky was an auspicious thing. Some people used reed mats to give the monster a canopy, and some carried water to pour on the monster in order to avoid the monster's body from drying out. It is said that people are very positive. Even lazy people carry and water water one after another. In the temple, many people and monks practice and spend time for it every day until the monster mysteriously disappeared after another rainstorm for several days.
However, after more than 20 days of heavy rain, the monster appeared strangely for the second time. This time, it appeared in the reeds 10 kilometers away from the estuary of Liaohe River. At this time, it was not a living creature, but a strange smelly corpse.
According to Yang Yishun's memory: before the discovery of the "dragon" bone, I heard adults say that there was always a crackling sound in the reed marsh, and there was a cry like "woo..." like a cow. It sounded very dull, and I could hear the sound of struggle. Later, there was no movement. At that time, Yingkou area had been under heavy rain for more than 40 days, the streets were full of water, and some houses collapsed due to too much water. After the rain stopped, with the north wind blowing, there was a great smell of air and smell. A worker surnamed Lu who was in charge of the reed pond looked for it along the strange smell and found that large tracts of reeds fell down. After pulling it aside, he went in and was shocked: there was a huge dead animal lying in it! The worker was so frightened that he turned around and ran away. He got seriously ill at home. After hearing this, the people went to watch it together and reported it to the government at that time. At that time, the staff of an epidemic prevention hospital near the West customs wore white coats and sprayed disinfectant on the bodies of maggots. After the "dragon" bone was lifted out, someone tied a rope with four ship anchors to form a circle for everyone to visit.
Sun Zhengren: the bare bone is not the original dragon type. The one painted and painted is not that type. It is a long, big head. The two big corners are one meter long, more than one meter, three or four feet long, and two feet long. Lying on the ground, the body can be as long as more than ten meters.
Ma Guoxiang, the son of Ma Zichen, a famous orthopedic doctor in Yingkou City (who once saw the "dragon" bone), remembers that his father once told him that when the bone was found, the meat had not completely rotted and looked particularly like a "dragon".
When reading the Shengjing Times on August 12, 1934, you can be surprised to find that the "dragon" actually has "claws", and it also used the "claws" to dig an earth pit nearly 17 meters long and more than 6 meters wide, indicating that the "dragon" had struggled after.
Relevant records: "... the dragon has a towering body and three armours on the left and right sides of its head. The spine is more than three inches wide. The ribs attached to both sides of the spine are about five or six inches long. The tail is a vertical plate-shaped white bone tail. There are 28 sections in total. Each section is more than 30 feet in total. At the original dragon, there is an earth pit two feet wide and five feet long dug by the claws. The pit clearly exists along the claw marks. Until there are tendons on the keel, until The flesh is no longer visible. "
These characteristics also further verify the view of dragon. According to several old people, old fishermen were invited to identify them, but no one knew the monster body. People talk about it one after another and generally think it is a "dragon". Yingkou puppet sixth * * branch organized manpower to decompose his bones and transport them to the south bank. They were placed as they were on the empty yard in front of the West customs for people to visit.
At that time, Shengjing Times sent people to interview, also known as "dragon", "sky subduing dragon", "Yingchuan falling dragon", "giant dragon", etc. at the same time, it was also accompanied by photos, pictures and texts. Yingkou residents are eager to watch, and there is also an endless stream of visitors from nearby cities, so they are nervous about buying train tickets to and from Yingkou. Later, it was reported that Mr. Zhang of the fishing Department of Yingkou fisheries senior high school determined that it was "really a Jiaotong".
At that time, Yingkou Meida photo studio and Yingming photo studio developed and printed a large number of photos of the "dragon" bone exhibition, which were sold along the street near erbenting Hutong. Some people who came to Yingkou to visit the "dragon" bone from other places scrambled to buy photos of the "dragon" bone and take them back to their families for appreciation.
Li Binsheng: I remember that year when I was ten years old. 70 years ago, in the open-air exhibition of West customs, there was an anchor. The anchor of the fixed ship under the sampan was surrounded by a circle intermittently, blocked by a rope, and sprinkled with white ash on the ground, because many people couldn't squeeze in. With the movement of the flow of people, people can go to the front to see. People have a curious psychology to see, but there is a dragon in the legend. They are very curious to see the opportunity they haven't seen in real life. It's very long, two or three feet long, about ten meters long, standing. The spine is up, not like a fish. Strangely, there are horns on the head, and no aquarium has horns.
Looking through the relevant materials, the reporter saw the copy of the photo of "dragon" bone published in Shengjing Times on August 14, 1934. Although it was a long time ago and restricted by the photography technology and various factors at that time, the vague figure of the crowd wearing straw hats watching the "dragon" bone exhibition can only be vaguely seen, However, a long animal skeleton and two long horns on its head are still clearly visible in the picture.
Unfortunately, due to the chaos of social order at that time, fisheries senior high school was relocated several times, and the huge skeleton was lost.
In 1939, 16-year-old sun Zhengren came to Dalian as a housekeeper. The hostess's husband was the younger brother of the president of Yingkou chamber of Commerce. Sun Zhengren was deeply appreciated by his master. When he left Dalian in 1941, the hostess rewarded him with a "dragon" bone. It is reported that the keel in the hostess's hand is about three kilograms, in the shape of a white strip, and the bottom end of the bone is about the size of a bowl. It slowly extends upward and becomes thinner and thinner until it reaches the top. People say that the surface of the glazed teeth is white. The hostess told him that this was the keel once exhibited in Yingkou.
On the morning of June 16, sun Zhengren donated five "dragon" bones that he had preserved for 63 years to the municipal chronicles office. He hoped that relevant departments could identify the bones in his hands. (source: WeChat official account, "the mysterious community".
