My students debated with me: Teacher, "Bear Strike" is not "Bear Strike". "Bear Strike" has a single horn and can eat people, and "Bear" is a brown bear, although it can also eat people, but it does not have a single horn! I was speechless.
In the 1970s, the "Bear Strike" incident spread more and more mysteriously in some districts of Changbai Mountain, and people constantly exchanged news from various localities, and constantly processed and recreated, becoming a popular folk tale. Therefore, they only recognize "bear strike", not "bear".
At that time, although my mountain village school was located deep in the mountains, there was a forest farm, and it was on the verge of Songhua Lake, which was a dry water and drought pier, so the news about "bear strike" that came every day was renovated. At that time, there was no entertainment in the mountains, and these "bear strike" stories became legends that people talked about.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > ★ Student Essay: People who jump up to the ditch are eaten by "bear strikes"</h1>
At night, the foothills of Changbai Mountain and the shores of Songhua Lake are very quiet, and sometimes there are a few distant dog barks and intermittent owl cries, like crying and laughing, like crying.
I started grading essays under the kerosene lamp. The essay I tutored was titled "A Small Meaningful Thing", which placed special emphasis on the political and ideological nature of "meaningfulness". However, the title of the first essay opened was "Someone jumping up to the ditch was eaten by the "bear strike"" "." I was so shocked that I opened the texts of other students in a row, and it turned out that more than thirty of the more than forty people wrote about "jumping to the ditch and the bear strikes' and eats people." - They understand "meaningful" as "interesting"!
Bears just bears! I tried my best to hold back my excitement and began to read these essays one by one, wanting to explore from the students' essays, what is the matter with this "bear strike" eating people who jump up to the ditch? Who is eating? At what time to eat? How to eat?
One student wrote: "Bear Strike" sneaked from the deep mountains and dense forests into the village of Jumping Dagou, grabbed a person from the house of the family at the head of the village, and ate it. The teacher said, "It's not a bear, it's a bear", but the hunters say that who has ever heard of a brown bear eating people...
Another wrote: "Bear Strike" came to the head of the village of Jumping Dagou and met a man with a scythe in his hand. The man was a hunter, very courageous, he used a scythe to cut the "bear strike" a few times, and finally the "bear strike" with a single horn and a horn to the sky, and then hung on the tree, fell to the ground and fell to his death, and then ate...
Another wrote: The old man who jumped to the head of the village was really pitiful, and as soon as he pushed open the door of the house and came out, he encountered the unicorn "Bear Strike" that had sprung out of the forest. Before the old man could return to the house, he was plucked by the horn of the "bear strike" to the big elm tree outside the door, died, and then ate him...
Another girl wrote: Grandma's family lives in Jumping Gougou. After hearing this news, my mother made a special trip back to my grandmother's house. It turned out that there was really an old man in the village who was eaten by the "bear strike". The man lived in the small east ditch at the head of the village, a single family, only a widow. Grandma said that she only heard the villagers say that the man was eaten by the "bear strike", as if he had been caught and eaten under the big elm tree outside the door...
I read more than thirty essays in one sitting, and although the students wrote different plots, the basic events can be determined: someone jumping up to the ditch was eaten by the "bear strike". The time is basically the same: the first few days. The location is very consistent: jump to the ditch. The man-eating beasts are exactly the same: "Bears." More than thirty essays, of which more than two dozen describe "bear strikes": there are "unicorns"...
This made me, who liked to explore, have a greater desire to explore. I was determined to find time to figure it out.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > ★ the forest farm director said: The people who jumped to the ditch were indeed eaten by the "bear strike"</h1>
The next day, I took the time to visit the forest farm manager first. I think his information must be accurate, because his forest farm employees are usually assigned to various villages to carry out forest protection and fire prevention propaganda, and there must be his employees in Jumping Dagou. And the forest farm workers who went to jumping to the ditch must know more about this matter than others.
The director said: Your student's essay is very accurate, there is such a thing. Because my employee came back to report this matter, saying that the person who jumped to the ditch told him personally, so-and-so who jumped the ditch was eaten by the "bear strike" that came out of the forest. I heard that it was simply eaten alive and stripped, and that people were eaten by "bears" in such a miserable way, and that their arms and legs were like people eating sweet poles, chewing rattling and rattling, and their mouths were full of blood. A person who is eaten with nothing left, you say scary no? Frightened, the people in the tun did not dare to enter the mountain alone. As for the teacher, what you said about not being a "bear" is a "bear", I don't know who is right and who is wrong, but the hunters all say that the "bear" your teacher said is a horse bear, that is, a brown bear, which does not grow a single horn and does not eat people.
I was horrified to hear it, and the "bear" view was also rejected. I asked for a few more details. But the length of the field is unclear. He said regretfully, but unfortunately, my staff member stationed in Jumping Dagou Tun got up early this morning and returned to the village. Otherwise you just listen to him. I learn to speak, and some places learn more, and some places learn less.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" The director of the > ★ brigade said: Wolves can eat people, tigers can eat people, and "bear strikes" cannibalism</h1>
During the day, I had four classes and didn't have time to look around for anyone to inquire about it. I had to run to the home of the director of the production brigade at night to ask for verification.
The director of the brigade is a hunter, very majestic, usually does not smile, says one thing or another, and has a high prestige among the villagers of more than 20 production squads in the 32 natural tuns of the whole brigade.
I carefully asked about the student's essay about someone being eaten by a "bear strike" in the jumping ditch, and I don't know if it is true or not.
Unexpectedly, the director of the brigade said very happily: There is this matter, and many people are spreading it. However, there is no wind or waves. The common people have a name and a surname, that is to say, there is such a thing. You have nothing to doubt.
I questioned: That bear, no! "Bear strikes", can it really eat people?
The captain of the brigade said to me with a rare smile: This is not strange. Changbai Mountain is deeply forested, as the saying goes, the forest is big and there are birds. In fact, when the forest is big, there will be any strange beasts. You intellectual teacher may only believe in "bears" and not "bears." But "bear strikes" can eat people. But I ask you, wolves can eat people, do you believe it? I nodded. He asked again: Tigers eat people, do you believe it? I nodded vigorously. He also asked: Do you believe that black blind people and wild boars can eat and hurt people? I nodded more forcefully.
The captain of the brigade laughed loudly: Then you say, "Bear Strike" can kill and eat the boss's cattle. Why do you not believe that it eats people?
The language logic of the director of this brigade is incredible, and it is advancing layer by layer, and the momentum is like a bamboo. If he were a teacher, this kind of rhetorical heuristic induction method, surely no student would not understand his lessons.
I hastened to explain: It is not that I do not believe in the "bear strike" cannibalism, but that the "bear strike" thing still has a single horn, and I can't believe it. Look up the dictionary, there is only "bear", no "bear strike". When I visited the people, they all said that they had never seen or heard of this one-horned "bear" before.
The captain of the brigade smiled more roughly and cheerfully: In this world, there are more things that have not been seen and heard of. Think about it, are there many things and stories in this Changbai Mountain that you have never heard of or seen when you were studying in Shandong? I said convincingly, yes. Finally, the director of the brigade said: If you want to find out, you should visit the house where the cannibals are eaten, and that is not the most reliable news?
I completely obeyed the director of this brigade. I took his approach and personal charm.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > ★ Sunday I went on a field trip, and it turned out that the person who was eaten was an elderly person who stopped outside the hospital</h1>
As soon as Saturday arrived, in the name of home visits, I followed the students of Jumping Dagou to Visit the Homes of Jumping Dagou to actually investigate the truth and falsity of the "Bear' cannibalism."
Jumping Da Gou Tun is located at the foot of KangDa Lizi Mountain, if you don't walk into the valley, you really don't know that there is a tun here. Students also do not know why Jumping Dagou is called Jumping Dagou, probably a Manchu name. Because this Changbai Mountain was the earliest Manchu hunting world. More than a dozen houses were built along both sides of the main ditch river, but the homes were far apart. Students told me that many families in the team still lived in ravines on both sides, and each family occupied a small hill to build a house. Now the house is not visible. The family that was "eaten by the bear" is in the innermost part of the ditch, not far away, just two or three miles away!
I interviewed the parents of several students about the "bear strike cannibalism", but the parents said that the plot was the same or different. In the end, it was the old captain who found me the two old men who could most truthfully introduce the situation.
It turns out that the plot of the matter is indeed very different!
That day, Old Zhang Tou'er and Old Li Tou'er teamed up to go into the mountains to dig ginseng, and just walked to the door of Old Shen Tou in Xiaodonggou, they found him hanging on the old elm tree on the side of the road outside the house. The two old men hurriedly reported to the captain. The captain asked them to stop the hanging old Shen tou under the old elm tree. The captain thought of informing Old Shen Tou's only daughter in Jilin City.
It turned out that the daughter of old Shen Tou was married to Jilin. Because he was determined not to go to Jilin to live, his daughter had to be by him. Old Shen Tou was usually in good health, but this year he suddenly didn't know what kind of illness he had, and he quickly lost weight. Because he was a five-guarantee household, the team did not look for him to work, so if he was not hanged on the elm tree outside the door this time, no one would really find it! Old Zhang Tou and Old Li Tou judged: It must be that Old Shen Tou was too sick to bear it, so he simply hung himself on the elm tree outside the door, so that people could see and help him collect the body. He was afraid that he would die quietly on the kang, and outsiders would not know. It seems that Old Shen Tou has cruel wisdom.
Those who died outside could no longer stop in the house, and the two old men put up wooden planks with stones under the big elm tree and stopped the old Shen head on the top. At night, a bonfire is burned nearby, and several elderly people are accompanied by him to guard the spirit.
In the middle of the night, suddenly someone noticed something clicking and eating something under a big elm tree. Everyone used burning firewood as a torch to take a picture of the big elm tree, and it turned out to be something like a tiger instead of a tiger, like a bear instead of a bear, and was eating and chewing on the body of old Shen Tou! But no matter how everyone shouted, the guy screamed and just wouldn't leave. It despised the old men who guarded the corpses. These old men had hunted when they were young, and they had a murderous spirit on their bodies, and the beasts were generally hiding away from him. But this guy wasn't afraid. The old people know that such a large-sized guy is not afraid of people, not good, although it is not clear what it is. Everyone had to throw firewood with fire under the old elm tree, and finally scared the guy away. However, Old Shen Tou's body was also taken away.
No one dared to enter the mountain in the middle of the night, and the next day, the captain led dozens of people into the mountain to look for it, but except for the torn clothes that were torn off along the way, not even the bone slag was found. As for what was in the light of the fire that night, the old men judged, based on popular stories, that it was probably a "bear strike," because neither the way it stood or walked did it look like a tiger nor a bear.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > ★ experts explain: Except for tigers, carnivores like to eat carrion</h1>
This "bear strike" theory has always been a mystery!
Later, I specifically consulted animal experts on why the "bear strike" did not eat the living people but went to the village to eat the dead old Shen tou. Experts tell me the following:
First, there is no literature on what you mean by "bear strike". I do not know.
Second, except for tigers, all carnivores like to eat carrion. They smell rotten flesh from afar. Carrion is delicious and tempting to these animals. It also needs to be noted that because the cost of eating dead bodies is small, and eating live animals requires hunting, there may be a cost of injury.
Third, carnivores can not only smell the smell of carrion, but also the smell of death emanating from terminally ill people. Therefore, the object of carnivore hunting is first of all the old, weak, sick and disabled. If there is a dead thing, it does not hunt even the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled.
Fourth, brown bears, the bears you call them, also like to eat carrion and rob others of their food. (About the author: Wang Tianxiang, a native of Qingdao, Shandong, is a senior journalist and writer, who has published 42 monographs on novels, tourism literature, reportage literature, history and culture, tourism culture, poetry appreciation, enterprise management, market analysis, success studies, and talent studies, written more than 200 episodes of TV series, created dozens of special TV films such as history, culture, scenery, and documentary, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 1,000 online articles. ）