Turtle shell comprehension answer
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It is a well-known fact that the Chinese regard the turtle as a supernatural creature blessed with magical qualities and long life. To the fisherman whose livelihood comes from the perilous sea, the turtle is both a protector and a symbol of survival.
You can thus imagine the excitement in Hong Kong when some fishermen found a giant turtle in the South China Sea one April morning. A fleet of Chinese trawlers had set out in the grey-blue dawn to catch fish. When they drew in their nets, the fishermen noticed something unusual entangled among their fish, prawns and squid - it was a giant turtle.
Immediately they took the creature ashore and asked some zoological experts to estimate its age. They analyzed the calcium content of its shell and discovered that the turtle was about 260 years old! It weighed about 160 kilograms, and its moss-green patterned shell measured a meter long.
The fishermen were filled with awe. "It is the gods who sent us this turtle," they said. "We're going to give it to a charitable institution and have it set free on an auspicious day." Their reason for doing this was simple: they believed that if they restored the turtle to the sea they would share its magical powers.
As for the turtle, it belonged to the species called "chelonia Mydas' or the "Green Turtle' which usually roams the tropical waters of the Malay Archipelago. How then did it come to the South China Sea?
Professor Lai Ying offered an explanation. "The turtle must have strayed north in search of food and so got caught in the net."
However, the fishermen disagreed, saying that it had instead come to pay homage to the goddess Tin Hau on her birthday. Tin Hau is the patron saint of the fishermen, and her birthday is ceremoniously observed on the twenty-third day of the third moon in the lunar calendar
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