When it comes to the earth written by the female writer Pearl Buck, what comes to everyone's mind should be the scene of a large swarm of locusts. Suddenly, large swarms of locusts obscured the sky, like black clouds pressing down on the top, making a humming sound like the sky shaking. In an instant, the fruits of hard work were swept away. After the nightmare, what awaits the peasants is a harsh famine.
Plagues caused by locust plagues and large enemies of rice, leafhoppers or black-edged leafhoppers, are no different from those caused by great floods or droughts. Wang Zhen's "Book of Agriculture" describes this as follows: "The spring and autumn two hundred and forty-two years of the book 'Great Year' is only two, and water, drought, cockroach, insects are repeatedly written"
In addition, according to a survey by Xu Guangqi, the author of the Complete Book of Agricultural Politics, it is said that in the four hundred years from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, the number of records of "locust plagues" was actually as high as 111. All in all, the arrival of large swarms of pests such as locusts has been a huge threat since ancient times, and can put people in the dilemma of life and death. The Book of Poetry. The "Daejeon" in Daya is a song celebrating the joy of harvest. While increasing moderate rainfall, it also sang that the grain had not been damaged by pests such as locusts and ants. Like the monsters of floods and droughts, the yellow borer is also a natural enemy of crops.
Swarms of insects like locusts unexpectedly fly from the outside world, turning the inner world into a hell of chaos and hunger. From this point of view, they are no different from the strange gods of floods and droughts. Perhaps because of this, locust plagues are also thought to be caused by supernatural beings. In the villages around the Yugo Mountains, it is believed that a beast-like monster called an armadillo is the god of locusts.
The Mountain of The Rest of The Ghou....... There are beasts, whose shape is like a bird's beak, whose tail is snake-tailed, who sleeps when he sees a man, whose name is an armadillo, whose song calls itself, and whose locust is defeated when it is seen.
"Sleeping when you see people" should mean pretending to be dead. In the "Guangyun", it is said that "armadillos are like fish, snakes have tails, and when they see people, they pretend to be dead". It was a beast that perched in the water like a fish, with a pointed beak and a long tail, and the shape of a rabbit. Although it looks like a monster, the image of this armadillo is actually exactly the same as that of amphibious pangolins.