正像大象因其象牙,犀牛因其鼻角而遭人类猎杀一样,抹香鲸则由于它腹中珍藏的龙涎香而成为捕猎者的首选目标。今天这种庞然大物正处于濒临绝种的境地了。关于龙涎香,我国有很多传说。龙涎,顾名思义,是龙的唾液。中国古代的炼丹士认为“龙”的唾液凝固后就变成了龙涎香,在未凝固前,谁碰上它就会给国家带来来亡国之灾。在《东周列国志》中,就记载着有一位14岁的姑娘不小心踩到了龙涎,未婚而孕,怀孕48年才产下一女。此女长成后貌若天仙,被周幽王纳为宠妃。但这个名叫褒似的美女终日不笑,为了搏她一笑,幽王竟烽火戏诸侯,失信于民。后来犬戎入侵,诸侯均不来救援,幽王与褒似被杀于骊 Just as elephants are hunted by humans for their ivory horns because of their ivory, sperm whales are preferred targets of hunters because of their ambergris. Today, this monster is in the verge of extinction. About ambergris, my country has many legends. Dragon saliva, as the name suggests, is the dragon’s saliva. In ancient China, the alchemists thought the saliva of the “dragon” became an ambergris after it had coagulated, and before it solidified, anyone who touched it would bring disasters to the country. In the “National Records of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty,” it was recorded that a 14-year-old girl accidentally stepped on a dragon saliva, unmarried and pregnant, giving birth to a woman for 48 years. If this woman grow into a seemingly innocent, the week was satisfied that Wang Wang Wang Fei. But this name is praised like beauty does not laugh all day long, in order to stroke her smile, Youwang actually flames opera princes, lost faith in the people. Later intrusion, princes do not come to rescue, You Wang and praise like to be killed in Li