The story of Wu Song fighting the tiger is well known to everyone, Wu Song defeated a fierce tiger by himself, so he became a hero of fighting the tiger, but this is from the story in the classical novel "Water Margin", which is fictional, but in the 1950s and 60s of the last century, there were many "fighting tiger kings" in the mainland, and formed a tiger fighting team.
Since 1952, the whole territory of Hunan in the mainland has erupted in the disaster of hungry tigers, according to the Hunan Forestry Chronicle, as close as the Yuelu Mountains in Changsha, as far as Yuanling Guanzhuang, Xinhua, Anren, Leiyang and even the passageway, dozens of counties and cities in Hunan have reported that tigers have attacked people and cannibalism.
More than 120 people were killed in the tiger's mouth during the year, and there was even a terrifying incident in which the tiger ate 32 people in one day.
Chen Qingnai, a 14-year-old grandson of Chen Qifang, an old hunter in Xiatang Township, Was Taken Away by a Tiger while digging sweet potatoes in his own field, and when the Chen family looked for someone to find the ground, only one of Chen Qingnai's shoes was left on the land, next to a string of tiger footprints.
Chen Qifang was indignant and resentful, and vowed to kill the fierce tiger from now on, and the tiger would not be able to seal the sword! He took two people on the road of fighting tigers, hunting more than 40 tigers in a year, and also made his own reputation, and went to all parts of Hunan to fight tigers.
Because of the hunger of the tiger, hurt many poultry and villagers, the county not only distributed guns to tiger hunters, but also gave each person a monthly subsidy of 300 pounds of beams, so many villagers joined the tiger fighting queue, in 7 years, a total of 168 tigers were hunted in Leiyang, four-fifths of which were hunted by Chen Qifang, who was also invited to Beijing.
In 1953, the Yanling tiger group collectively descended the mountain, living in the deep mountains of the 33-year-old hunter Chen Changkui became the first person to face the tiger group, after which Chen Changkui hunted a total of 12 large tigers, when the reporter came to the door to interview, Chen Changkui also happily took out the tiger teeth, telling reporters that this is the largest tiger he hit in Yanling.
In addition, in the Hunan Daily on October 9, 1962, it was reported that a hunting expert named Zhong Yongtai not only captured 11 tigers alive, but also hunted 46,900 wild boars, mountain cattle and other wild animals, accounting for two-thirds of the total hunting volume of Yanling at that time.
However, in the 10 years since 1952, tigers have eaten a total of 2,000 people, saying that "one mountain does not allow two tigers", and these hungry tigers are often accompanied by activities, especially the "BaihuWei Village" incident that occurred in September 1957.
At that time, the cattle rushed back from the outside, alarming the people and dogs in Gaoping Village, the dogs stopped barking, and the villagers desperately banged the gong, that is, to inform the villagers that the tiger was coming, and wanted to scare the tiger, but a large number of tigers still surrounded the village, and the villagers all closed the doors and windows, waiting nervously.
The tigers gathered one after another, reaching hundreds, surrounded the villagers for three days, first there was no action, waiting for the villagers to release the tiger cubs, they began to attack the village, attack the poultry, there was a 30-year-old cargo lang Xie Yaozong came to Gaoping Village soon encountered this matter, horrified, and then often talked about this matter with his son, felt incredible.
According to the recollection of Yao Rongyi, the party in Gaoping Village, who "beat the tiger county magistrate", the situation of the tiger eating people is unforgettable, with one on the back, one in the stomach, and three with the mother.
Later, the tigers were killed, it is difficult to see the traces of the South China tigers in Hunan, people also know the truth about their cannibalism, in the 1950s, the people need to eat, to solve the problem of food and clothing, so large-scale reclamation of mountain forests, but wild animals have lost their habitat, first mountain cattle, wild boars and so on were forced to eat seedlings in the farmland.
Villagers have hunted mountain cattle, wild boars, etc., and finally the tigers without food have starved and began to attack the villagers together, and now the South China tiger has become one of the top ten endangered animals in the mainland and a national protected animal.