The Golden Eagle is the air overlord of the Northwest Plateau, with a wingspan of nearly 3 meters, a weight of nearly 10 kilograms, and a dive speed of 320 kilometers per hour, comparable to China's modern high-speed rail! It can take away lambs, it can capture foxes, it can capture hungry wolves. However, when encountering a master like the Mongol hunter Lao Batu, the golden eagle only had the share of subservience.
Old Batu is a legendary figure under the Kunlun Mountains, who has been shepherding sheep and hunting for generations. He used gold eagles for shepherding sheep, gold carvings for guarding circles, and gold eagles for hunting. He never treated the golden eagle as a beast, but as a hero.
When I interviewed old Batuu that day, he jumped off his horse with a big laugh, took a sheepskin wine sac from his waist and threw it at me, saying: To know about the golden eagle, first drink three mouthfuls of stuffed donkey (Mongolian spirits). Drinking wine is the friend of the golden eagle, otherwise why should I tell you about the golden eagle?
Helplessly, I had to hold my breath and swallow three mouthfuls of "smothering donkey", choking my tears. Old Batuu laughed and told me about his hero Golden Eagle.
★ Good hunters, falcons can only tame gold eagles
At the southern foot of Kunlun Mountain, there is a vast alpine wasteland surrounded by snow-capped mountains. But there are herds of yaks and sheep in the wilderness. Old Batuu was a shepherd in this wasteland. He looked up at the blue sky, his curved fingers in his mouth, and a loud whistle echoed through the clouds. In an instant, above the blue sky, a golden eagle landed on his saddle with the roar of a cannonball falling.
Old Batuu pointed to a few sheep in the distance and said: Atomic bomb, drive back those naughty sheep and you can play with them! Old Batu actually called the golden eagle "atomic bomb"? What a strange eagle! The golden eagle let out a cry, flapped its wings and flew away, and in the blink of an eye, it drove back the sheep that had left the herd far away.
Old Batuu said that herders in the northwest love to play with eagles, which is both a hobby and a symbol of hunter status. But some people like goshawks, some people like crested eagles, the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty likes Haidongqing, but my old Batuu likes golden eagles. The golden eagle is large, has long wings, is fierce, and has strong hunting ability. A good hunter has to tame a golden eagle. Riding a horse, whether it is shepherding sheep or hunting, it is all majestic!
★ Since ancient times, the golden eagle is equipped with heroes
I asked: Whether it is wild yaks, wild horses, wild donkeys or wolf bears, including roosters and pheasants, they are all stronger than females. Your golden eagle must be a male eagle, right? Old Batuu laughed when he heard this: You are really a two-hundred-and-five who doesn't know how to pretend to understand. Tell you that the taming of the eagle can only tame the female eagle, and the male eagle, you are taming it, and it will not work for you.
I was astonished: Is there such a thing? You see, even your shepherd is a male mastiff much larger than a female mastiff, and it is also more powerful. Old Batuu smiled and said: Only the female eagle in the golden eagle is larger than the male eagle, and it is more heroic.
For a golden eagle to become a heroic eagle, it must begin with domestication. The golden eagle is the overlord of the air, it despises the people who nest and sac the most, so the falconer must personally hunt the eagle from the age of ten, let the golden eagle witness your heroism, at this time, it will respect you and fear that you will obey you. If the golden eagle disobeys the Lord, the light will not work, and the heavy will fly.
★ Boiling eagles should boil out the heroism and reverence of the eagle
Old Batuu said: What kind of owner there is on the plateau has what kind of carving. If the master is strong, the carving is strong, and the master's nest is carved with straw bags. If an adult eagle is caught in your net, its sharp eagle eyes will stare at you viciously, and wherever you go, it will look at you, eager to pick your skin and eat your flesh.
Some people were scared by the eagle, thinking that this eagle was too fierce to discipline and simply gave up. Actually this is the best carving. If you have the heart to tame the eagle, you should have the intention of winning the eagle! I just stared at me, and I stared back fiercely, and when I turned my eyes back and didn't dare to stare at me, I began to tame it.
Taming an eagle is boiling an eagle. I would stay up for three days and three nights in one go, not giving it food or letting it sleep. As soon as it snoozed I woke it up and looked at it viciously. Three days and three nights made it wild, and began to fear my every move, and I fed it a small amount of meat. Don't boil the eagle into a stupid eagle! If the golden eagle does not have wildness, it will not have heroism!
After the Golden Eagle paid attention to me all the time, I repeatedly trained it according to the special password. If the action is done well, a piece of meat is rewarded, and if it is not done well, it will be punished. Eventually, foxes and Tibetan mastiffs were used to repeatedly train their bravery and hunting ability. The carved eagles in this way are fierce, brave, murderous, and invincible, full of heroism.
★ As long as the golden eagle is there, the fox and the wolf are afraid to stay away
Old Batuu proudly said to me: Others can put a group of livestock alone, but my old Batuu can put two groups of livestock alone. You see, on the hillside are yaks, guarded by two shepherds. If a wolf attacks a yak, two shepherds are sufficient to cope. If the wolves are big and the shepherds can't cope, I'll let the Golden Eagle go and help first.
With the attack of the golden eagle on the air power and the desperate resistance of two Tibetan mastiffs below, the average wolf pack could not get a bargain.
If the wolves were too big, the shepherds would scream and report the news, and then I would get on my horse, swing my wolf stick, and rush into the wolf pack and beat them hard. Dogs fight human power, carving borrow human might. Attacking on three sides, seven wolves of eight, I will be beaten to death in a moment.
If I am happy, with a whistle, the golden eagle will chase me in the air. There is no wolf pack that does not flee for their lives.
Usually, I put the grassland on horseback and let it chew grass. I drank old wine and sang a minor tune, looked up at the blue sky and white clouds, and looked at the grassland sheep. You say, how good the herders are living now!
The task of the Golden Eagle is to look after the sheep. It has air superiority, and as soon as the wolf fox approaches, it will quickly swoop down to drive them away. If I was in a panic, I would leave the sheep and tent in the custody of the golden eagle, and I would ride my horse to find friends to drink and chat. You don't have to worry about the safety of the flock. With the golden eagle guarding the sheep and guarding the circle, you put your Chinese heart into your Chinese belly, and it is time to play!
★ The golden eagle catches the fox, annoys it first, and then kills it in a second
Golden Eagle Fighting Fox, it was a very beautiful hilarity, much better than the yak roof.
In the wilderness, foxes are no less than wolves. In addition to eating prairie pikas, they always worry about the lambs in the flock. Oh yes! Lamb meat is delicious, or how does this Chinese character "beauty" turn the four legs (four dots) below into a "big" character? That is to say that lamb meat is so delicious, the words of the Japanese devils - it is very delicious!
Foxes always want to steal lambs, but this doesn't work here in the Golden Eagle. The fox was not convinced, and sometimes played with the prong, preferring to challenge my golden eagle. The golden eagle would never let the fox get close to the lamb, and as soon as he saw the fox sneaking over, he swooped down from the sky. The two sides of the fox in and out of the eagle retreat, the fox retreat carved into the entanglement for a while. The cunning fox was soon annoyed by the golden eagle and began to jump to catch the golden eagle in the air.
Flying is the strength of the golden eagle, and jumping high is the weakness of the fox. At first, the fox could sneak a meter or two high, and the two front paws hated not being able to catch the golden eagle, but they couldn't jump for three or two rounds, so they had no strength. At this time, it was the turn of the golden eagle to attack, it saw the opportunity to swoop down, and it had already opened its sharp claws, grabbing its ass with one claw and grabbing its neck with one claw. As long as the steel claws are close to the fox's body, the fox will not want to escape. Because the steel claws of the golden eagle are very sharp and the grip is too strong, it will catch the bone at once.
When encountering a female fox who steals lambs to feed fox cubs, the golden eagle will make them remember for generations - after three or five rounds, a wing falls, two claws grab the fox's back, suddenly fly up, fly to the high above the fox nest, and suddenly release both claws. The fox would scream and crash to the ground, screaming for its life. The little fox cubs who waited to eat the lamb would watch the female fox fall to her death and then go into the fox hole with nightmares and not come out.
★ The golden eagle catches the wolf, and the martial arts are super high
I said, I heard that the Mongolian herders in the Inner Mongolian steppe and the Kazakh herdsmen in Xinjiang like to tame eagles and catch wolves, but I don't know if you let the golden eagle catch wolves?
Old Batuu laughed when he heard this: My old Batuu tamed the carving of one to herd cattle and sheep, and the second was to hunt foxes and wolves. To say that my golden eagle has not caught a wolf, even my golden eagle will be angry when he hears it! Tell you what, my golden eagle has caught nine wolves in four years!
The time I catch wolves with the Golden Eagle is generally in winter. At that time, the plateau was icy and snowy, and everything withered. The wolf had nothing to eat, and was so hungry that it hunched over its waist, and ran around with its tail between its legs in search of food.
At this time, the golden eagle is released, and the golden eagle will immediately adopt the art of pursuit, and the wolf will be too tired to run, and then it will quickly fall on the wolf, grasp the wolf ridge with one claw, the nails will go straight into the bone marrow, and the wolf will grasp the wolf's mouth with one claw, so that the wolf cannot open its mouth and cannot bite indiscriminately.
The golden eagle hunts the wolf, and the hunter must follow on horseback. The golden eagle could not be left to last so long alone. The wolf's dying struggle was great. Once the golden eagle is exhausted, the wolf is likely to kill the golden eagle. Even if the wolf can't kill the golden eagle, the golden eagle has no interest, or will no longer have the courage to hunt the wolf in the future. If the heroism of a sculpture is gone, the eagle is ruined.
Remember, when people live one breath, the golden eagle also lives one breath! (About the author: Wang Tianxiang, senior journalist and writer, has published 42 monographs such as novels, written more than 200 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.) ）
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