Chapter 35 From apes to apes

Dear Xiaowen: The last letter talked about things with tails, but this letter talks about things without tails, that is, "apes" and "orangutans". The first is the "chimpanzee", they are the most intelligent animals other than humans, they can learn many actions, and even solve problems by themselves, for example, if you give it a hammer, nails, or plank, it will nail it randomly.Chimpanzees can live fifty years, but after seven or eight they are unreliable and have a bad temper. The second is the "gibbon", the smallest of the apes.In fact, not only gibbons have long arms, all orangutans have long arms.Chinese novels describe Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms period, saying that he "has his ears hanging down his shoulders, and his hands are over his knees." All orangutans can stand up with their hands over their knees.

The third type is "gorilla" (gorilla), which looks fiercer than they actually are. In fact, people don't mess with it, and it doesn't mess with people.Gorillas, which can weigh up to six hundred pounds, are shy and quiet. The fourth is the great apes (orangutan) of Borneo and Sumatra. They always climb on the trees and rarely come down. There is a legend that if a woman does not marry for life, she will go to hell to lead (lead) orangutans after she dies.So if a woman says: I would rather have led apes in hell. (I would rather have led apes in hell.) It means that she doesn't want to get married.

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato said: The most beautiful of apes is ugly (the most beautiful of apes is also ugly.) Because it is ugly, no matter how you dress it up, it is still it.There is a German proverb: Apes are apes though you cloth them in velvet. (Apes are apes though you cloth them in velvet.) Similar to this German proverb, there are also three Chinese ones: 1. Orangutans can speak, and they are inseparable from animals. 2. The monkey sits in the Golden Luan Hall, looking like a gentleman. 3. Washing the monkey and crowning it (the washing monkey is a kind of monkey, and the word "mu" here does not mean the word "mu" for bathing).

There is an English sentence that turns around and scolds people: Not that you resemble a monkey, but that the monkey resembles you. (Not that you resemble a monkey, but that the monkey resembles you.) With this Not that...but that... form, you can create a lot of "slippery" English 1. Not that I do not want to help you, but that I am unable to do it. (It is not that I do not want to help you, but that I am unable to do it.) 2. Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. (Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.) This is what the assassin who killed the Roman ruler Caesar said.

There is an American writer named Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote a novel called Tarzan of the Apes.Tarzan is the son of an American jazz. He was lost in Africa and was raised by orangutans. He is very capable, so in English it is said that people can run, jump and swing among the trees in the woods. This kind of strongman is like It is called Tarzan. Because the pronunciation is very similar to the Chinese "Taishan", it is translated into "Taishan". In fact, if Taishan refers to a person, it refers to the father-in-law in China. In the Himalayas (the highest mountain in the world), it is said that there is a "snowman" called Yeti, also called Abominable Snowman, whose body looks like an orangutan and a face that resembles a mans, but 21 years ago , Edmund P. Hillary, a beekeeper in New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepalese, climbed Mount Everest (29,028 feet), the highest peak in the Himalayas, and did not see this snowman (29,028 feet is only five A mile and a half, but five and a half miles up a hill is hard work.)

Scientists say that humans evolved from animals such as orangutans, so between orangutans and humans, there is a kind of "homo erectus" (Homo erectus) that is both like orangutans and humans. Homo means human, and erect means upright. Orangutans will stand upright soon, but both apes and humans can stand upright.The bones of "Peking Man" were found in Zhoukoudian, Hebei Province, and it is inferred that they were "ape man" 500,000 years ago.Too bad the bone was lost before World War II. dad June 30, 1974