When it comes to one of the most mysterious places in China, many people will think of Shennongjia, although it has long been opened here and has become one of the scenic spots for sightseeing, but in fact, shennongjia open places are still very few, most of the places are still "forbidden areas", forbidden to be approached by humans, then, why does Shennongjia exist "forbidden area"? What's in it?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > how mysterious is Shennongjia? </h1>
Shennongjia, located in The Hubei region of China, is said to have been found as early as 6,000 years ago, the ancestor of the Xia Dynasty, Emperor Yan, in order to relieve the suffering of the people, so he built a ladder here, not only tasted all the grasses, but also taught the people to grow crops, so because the original surname of the Yan Emperor was "Shennong", it would be called Shennongjia.
From the perspective of geological exploration, as early as the middle of the Triassic period more than 200 million years ago, Shennongjia was formed here, and in the past 3 million years, due to the complete experience of the cold and warm changes of the Quaternary Ice Age, this also made the terrain and landform here in Shennongjia very changeable and very distinctive.
As for why Shennongjia is mysterious, it is because there are many unexplored places here, and under the original natural environment, there are many rare beasts here, and there may even be many unknown creatures, which is also the mystery of Shennongjia.
For example, in the folk has always been rumored, there are "nine-headed birds" and "donkey-headed wolves" in the Shennongjia area, and many people say that There are "wild people" in Shennongjia, especially the legend about the "Shennongjia Savages", and over the years, many researchers have gone to look for investigations, but they have been found.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > so, does Shennongjia really have a "wild man"? </h1>
In the Shennongjia area, there has always been a story of "wild people", the earliest witness record of which occurred in 1956, according to the data, at that time, a 12-year-old cattle herding girl came home in the evening, encountered a strange humanoid creature on the road, because this humanoid creature attacked her, so the cowherd girl also immediately shouted for help, fortunately, there were many villagers around, everyone united, and killed this "monster".
The magic of this incident is that the "monster" who was killed was later made into a specimen collection by a biology teacher, but the later investigation into the specimen showed that the "monster" who was killed at that time was actually just a monkey, not a so-called "wild man".
So, does this study result mean that the "Shennongjia Savage" does not exist at all? Unfortunately, no final conclusion can be reached at this time.
In 1976, the Chinese Academy of Sciences also organized a group of scientific researchers to go to the primary forest of Shennongjia to find the whereabouts of "wild people", after many days of investigation, many of the researchers involved in the investigation and research at that time said that "wild people" should be real, but they should not belong to the real sense of "people", may be in the middle of the transition between apes and humans.
That is to say, the so-called "wild people" may be an unknown high-level primate, and they only live in the primeval forest area of Shennongjia, which belongs to a state of complete isolation, so it will be very difficult to find them, unless they actively appear.
However, there is another problem here, if there are really "wild people" in the Shennongjia area, and from an evolutionary point of view, they have existed on the earth for at least hundreds of thousands of years, then, since they can always exist, this means that the Shennongjia area has a stable population of wild people, and it needs at least hundreds of individuals to be functionally extinct.
However, until today, no strong evidence has been found, and at the same time, no clear whereabouts of a wild man have been photographed, so it is still unreliable to say that there are unknown high-level primates in the Shennongjia area.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="21" > so why is there a large area of "forbidden area" in Shennongjia? </h1>
As we mentioned above, there are very few areas open to Shennongjia, which also means that there are many "forbidden areas" in Shennongjia, and many people think that in these "forbidden areas", there may be wild people living, but in fact, the reason why Shennongjia exists in the "forbidden areas" is not as complicated as we think.
Researchers said that there is a "forbidden area" in Shennongjia, mainly to protect local rare animal and plant resources, as well as to protect the local primitive ecological environment, after all, once humans enter and destroy the local natural environment, then it is likely to destroy local biodiversity and destroy the original natural resources of Shennongjia.
Secondly, the depths of Shennongjia are primeval forests, there are many wild beasts in it, and the terrain is complex and changeable, the climate is also strange and changeable, if you let go, there will inevitably be many people lost in it, or danger, which will cause a lot of safety hazards, therefore, only open the relatively safe area of Shennongjia, other places are the "forbidden areas" where human beings stop.