The only surviving painting of the Yuan Dynasty painter Xie Chufang, "Qiankun Business Map", is collected in the British Museum.
Part of the scroll is two butterflies dancing on a plant, a peaceful place, but a closer look reveals that there are killing machines everywhere:
Hidden in the plant is a lizard, waiting for an opportunity to hunt locusts; The praying mantis in the willow stalk has just captured a cicada; A tree frog is staring at a praying mantis not far away...
The brutal struggle for survival is going on all the time, and every life is not easy.
And we, too, were once hunters.
Xie Chufang: Part of Qiankun Business Map, Yuan, British Museum
In the 80s of the last century, there was also a call for birds. As soon as we got out of school, we swung our air guns on the embankment, beating sparrows, doves, quails, and pigeons.
Swallows are often lined up on wires, and this bird is full of aristocratic style, flying away with one shot, and the rest does not move. I once caught a swallow, helplessly too angry, how to feed it can not eat, had to fly.
It is said that the most gaseous is the squirrel, if you steal the pine nuts stored by the squirrel, it directly commits suicide.
My father once soaked corn in high liquor and sprinkled it on the roof, saying that the bird would get drunk when it ate it.
I watched the roof all afternoon, and I didn't see a bird fall, I was disappointed!
Birds can't catch them, but cicadas can be caught.
The new hole in the ground can be seen at a glance, and it only takes a moment to fill the water, and the cicada crawls out with its head in.
Makikei: Part of "Willow Swallow Diagram", Southern Song Dynasty, Tokugawa Museum of Art, Tokyo
Once I fell asleep on the grass by the Jalu River and woke up to find myself surrounded by four dogs!
They've been keeping an eye on me since I stepped on this meadow! I was in a cold sweat, and I was treated as a prey. This is really in nature, and it is really difficult to say who made whom.
Walking the dog in the neighborhood encounters a small group of stray cats. The puppy screamed and rushed over, and several cats quickly formed a pinch formation back and forth, revealing their murderous breath without a sound.
The puppy was originally pretentious, and when he saw this formation, he immediately clipped his tail and bowed his head to admit it.
Don't talk about dogs, it scares my hair up! Is this training?
In the autumn of last year, in the landscape corridor next to Zhengzhou East Railway Station, a horse honeycomb appeared on the shelf.
A swarm of wasps were busy on it, taking off and landing from time to time.
I came back another weekend and found an extra spider web next to the honeycomb.
Another day, see a wasp struggling online!
The spider stayed far away and did not move, quietly waiting.
It turns out that the silent guy is the most powerful.
Flying around every day, it is better to calm down and weave your own net.
Bruegel: The Snow Hunter, 1565, Vienna Museum of Fine Arts
On the Jalu River, an unnamed bird suddenly fell straight down from the air. Did someone hit a bird? Who is so hateful!
I didn't expect that the moment the bird landed on the surface of the water, it actually grabbed a fish and flapped its wings and flew away!
Several fishing people by the river looked up and stared, except for "Animal World", I had never seen a bird catch a fish, and it actually happened in front of me.
The little fish probably didn't understand what was happening, twisting and turning in the air to flash silver!
A pheasant suddenly popped out of the grass next to it, picked up a zhizhi that had fallen to the ground and flew away.
Anon. : Hunting Chart, Partial, Meta
Qi Baishi has a painting called "He Calls Each Other Every Day", which depicts two chickens fighting for bugs.
I once saw the child and the big rooster at the same time found a zhi who fell on the ground, sprinted hard but was finally preempted by the big rooster, and the child grinned and cried.
Cheetahs also beat their heads and bleed when they compete for food, but when they are full, they will sit down to help each other lick their wounds.
Animals also know that "he calls each other every day", and people are not necessarily.
Or look at these paintings to make this article:
Huang Xiao: Sketching Rare Birds, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Palace Museum
Xie Chufang: "Qiankun Business Chart", Yuan, British Museum
Qi Baishi: Morning Glory Flower Worker Worm, National Art Museum of China
Dürer: The Lioness, early sixteenth century, Louvre
Qian Xuan: "Flowers, Birds and Grass Insects", Yuan, Freer Museum of Art, USA
Boucher: Diana after bath, 1742, Louvre, Paris, France
Anon. " Deer Map", Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lang Shining: "Qianlong Shooting Hunting Map", "Qianlong Emperor Thorn Tiger Map", "Qianlong Falling Goose Map"
The Hunt of Kuslau: The Earliest Surviving Ottoman Painting, Turkey, 1498, Illustration of a Collection of Persian Poems, George Wright
Jean Baptiste O'Dri: The Wild Boar Hunt, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, circa 18th century
Algerian petroglyphs: Hunting Charts, Neolithic
Thomas Brinks, Walter Venus at Wimbledon Racecourse, 1888
Piero di Cosimo: The Hunt Returns, Hunting Scene, circa 1507, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Paul Uccello: Hunting in the Woods, 1460, Collection of the Asgardian Museum, Oxford, England
Anon.: Hunting Map, Northern Wei Dynasty, Murals, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes 249 Caves
Anton Van Dyck: The Hunting Statue of Charles I, 1635, Louvre, Paris
Jean Baptiste O'Drie: The Coyote, 1739, National Museum of Schwerin, Germany
Uccello: The Hunt, 1460, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Miskin: Bull in Battle, Mughal Empire, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Japan: Myna Map, Azuchi Momoyama Period, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Makiki: "Yanagi-yaki", Southern Song Dynasty, Tokugawa Museum of Art, Tokyo
Probably more compatible music
Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of Animals – Swans
Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G major (Symphony of Consternation)
Daizhou Drum: "Bull Fighting Tiger"
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