We all know that wild South China tigers have been extinct for many years, but before the middle of the last century, in fact, the number of wild South China tigers in mainland China was still very large.
At that time, people's awareness of the protection of wild animals was not strong, plus tigers were beasts of prey, and people themselves were very afraid of them, especially around the villages where tigers were infested, and people hoped that tigers within a hundred miles were killed, so that they did not have to worry about being taken away by tigers on the mountain.
As a result, in many places, since the early 50s of the last century, there have been vigorous "tiger fighting operations", one of which is worth mentioning, that is, the "tiger fighting team" in Hunan, according to the data, from 1952 until 1962, nearly 700 wild South China tigers were killed in the hunan region of the mainland alone.
During the "tiger fighting operation" in Hunan, there was also a shocking incident, that is, the "BaihuWei Village" incident in 1957, which is still controversial, so where is the point of controversy in this matter?
In 1957, a village in Hunan encountered the "Baihuwei Village"
According to the records, this incident occurred in September 1957, the location was in a small village under the Xuefeng Mountain in Tongdao County, Hunan Province, at that time, there were only more than 70 residents of this small village, one afternoon, suddenly the village issued a series of exclamations, it turned out that I did not know what was going on, around this small village, it was constantly asking tigers to approach.
The tigers gathered more and more, staring at the village one by one, as if they were about to pounce at any moment. The villagers hurried around the village, lit a circle of fires, and kept banging on the gongs and drums in their hands, hoping to scare the tigers away, but the tigers had no intention of leaving.
Soon, someone found that it was the village, someone caught a small tiger, thinking that it may be the tiger came to "want children", so they hurriedly released the little tiger, but did not expect that the little tiger returned home, but the big tigers did not leave, but immediately pounced into the village, and all the living creatures in the village were bitten to death.
However, because the villagers were hiding in their homes, the gate was closed and did not dare to make a sound, so the people in the village were not injured, so the villagers "did not go out of the gate and did not go out" and the hundred tigers surrounding the village, deadlocked for 3 days and 3 nights, until later a little girl from a family accidentally walked out of the house, and was suddenly taken away by the tigers, and these tigers also seemed to be "satisfied", and finally removed the encirclement and returned to the mountain forest.
Later, some people who witnessed the "Hundred Tigers Walled Village" also wrote memoirs, and said that they really saw the terrible scene of the "Hundred Tigers Walled Village", and even remembered the little girl who was taken away by the tiger, still have palpitations and feel very scared.
However, at that time, this matter was not reported by the relevant media, but later the son of one of the witnesses, after becoming the editor-in-chief of the magazine, re-wrote about the matter in 2006, so that people were hotly discussed and curious about it, and some reporters said that when interviewing the survivors who were still alive, they were also villagers at the time who said that this matter did exist.
So, did the "Hundred Tigers Wai Village" really happen? Where is the controversy over this?
The two sides of the stalemate in the matter of "Baihuwei Village" are the villagers and tigers, but many people are skeptical about this matter because tigers are not social animals, but are "solitary people", in short, tigers and lions are different, they do not live in groups, and among tigers, there is no so-called "tiger king".
Therefore, the controversy of the Hundred Tigers Surrounding the Village is that there is really a Tiger King who has gathered hundreds of tigers, just to get back the cubs captured by humans, he can lead the crowd to surround the village, and then have the courage to fight with human beings, until the human cubs are captured, and then for tat to leave?
Obviously, this doesn't make sense. In addition, if the "Hundred Tigers Walled Village" really happened in 1957, at that time, many parts of the country were carrying out "tiger fighting operations", such a big news, it is impossible that the mainstream media at that time did not report, which is also another place of controversy.
Therefore, in general, this matter is more likely to be "fabricated", or because the "tiger fighting operation" has fallen into a white-hot stage at that time, in order to exacerbate people's fear and hatred of tigers, more tigers can be killed, so that this sensational story will be circulated.
Of course, we don't know what the truth is. However, after the "Tiger Fighting Operation" in the 50s and 60s of the last century, the number of wild South China tigers continued to decrease, until the 1980s, there was no record of wild South China tigers in the wild, it can be said that people personally eliminated them.
Nowadays, although the wild South China tiger is a national first-class protected animal, it is only a "false name" because of the extinction in the wild, hoping that one day, the wild can once again find the figure of the wild South China tiger.