The tiger is called king in the mountains and forests, its size is very large, and its force value is even higher, so it is called a fierce beast and is feared by people. There is indeed a Wusong fighting tiger in history, but Wusong's force value is not everyone's own, most of them encounter tigers, it is too late to run, let alone go up to fight.
Ordinary people encounter tigers, if there is a fight, it is basically the unilateral crushing of tigers, human beings are difficult to escape the mouth of the tiger, either injured or killed, beasts of animals are very afraid.
In modern times, the chance of encountering tigers is already very small, tigers living in mountain forests, or zoos are specially raised, and the threat to humans is already very small. However, in the history of the mainland, it is not so peaceful between people and tigers today, and there have been tiger plagues in history, and many people have died under the claws of tigers.
Number and location of tiger plagues
The worst time of the tiger plague was the Ming and Qing dynasties on the mainland, and further back, there were also tiger plagues, but the number of tigers was very small.
According to relevant records, between the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, there were only 16 tiger plagues, and only six occurred in the south, so in fact, at that time, from the number of occurrences of tiger plagues and the direction of occurrence, the south was undoubtedly much safer than the north.
However, this new phenomenon was changed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, when tigers in the south were very serious, and even tigers appeared in groups in the busy city, injuring many people. According to incomplete statistics, tiger plagues during the Ming and Qing dynasties occurred 514 times, which is a very frightening number. There were only 16 tiger plagues in a thousand years, and more than 500 in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the number of tiger plagues that occurred in hundreds of years was more than 30 times that of the previous millennium, which is very terrifying.
And the productivity was not high at that time, and the means that could be used to deal with the tiger plague were also very primitive, and it can be imagined that the damage was heavy at that time.
The disaster caused by the tiger plague
Of course, although tiger disasters have occurred in many counties and cities, the situation of tiger disasters in different places is still different, ranging from mild to heavy. Because of the topography, there are few mountains and forests in the plain, so the occurrence of tiger plagues is not serious, most of the areas where tiger plagues are more serious are hilly areas in the south, where there are mountains and forests, so tigers have living conditions, and tiger plagues occur relatively many and more serious.
At that time, the provinces where the tiger disaster was more serious were Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian. And the tiger plagues that occur here have several common characteristics, that is, tigers appear in groups in the market during the day, and then injure people. This phenomenon is very scary, the appearance of a tiger is already very overwhelming, not to mention the swarms of tigers hurt people. And these tigers appeared in the daytime market, as we all know, the daytime market is a lively time, and most of the people are trading during the day, so this also caused serious injuries and deaths among the population at that time.
Of course, the damage caused by the tiger plague is manifold, but the most serious is the loss of human life. After all, most other things can be repossessed after destruction, but people cannot be resurrected after death, so the most serious is the human casualties caused by the tiger plague.
Every time the tiger plague, people died in the mouth of the tiger, only a few when the casualties were few, and hundreds or thousands when the casualties were serious, which is a shocking number.
Specifically, many people died in the mouth of the tiger during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and now we have no way to know specifically, but from the relevant records, we can roughly see the casualties at that time.
According to records, there were 31 tiger plagues with hundreds of casualties, which can be described as very frightening, and of these 31 tiger plagues with hundreds of casualties, 4 were killed and injured in the thousands. The tiger plague with thousands of deaths and injuries was already very serious once it appeared, but the number of times like this turned out to be 4 times. It can be seen that the tiger plague in the Ming and Qing dynasties was quite serious.
The reason for the frequent occurrence of tiger plagues
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the severe tiger plague in the south could not escape the natural environment and man-made reasons at that time. The south is hilly, located in the subtropics, the trees are very luxuriant, so the wildlife species in the south are very rich, and the natural environment here is very suitable for the survival of the South China tiger, which is the reason for the natural environment.
For human reasons, we must look at the economic development of the Ming and Qing dynasties, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the economy continued to develop and the population increased, so it was necessary to expand the cultivated land area.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the government has been advocating reclamation, increasing the area of cultivated land, ensuring the survival of the population, and in terms of reclamation, the government has also formulated many preferential policies to support the reclamation activities of the people, so there were many reclamation behaviors for mountains and forests at that time. As a result of human reclamation, tigers lost their environment.
Under the combined effect of natural environment and man-made causes, in order to survive, tigers in the Ming and Qing dynasties entered human society in groups, competing with humans for living space, and frequent injuries occurred, forming many tiger disasters in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
From the frequent tiger plagues in the Ming and Qing dynasties, we should learn some lessons. Human beings should protect the environment and achieve harmonious development between man and nature, and excessive exploitation will lead to many disasters, and the tiger plague is a manifestation of this.
In today's society, environmental damage is also very serious, land desertification, soil erosion, human living space has become smaller; Air pollution, global warming, frequent climate problems; There is also excessive demand for natural resources, many non-renewable resources are facing the current situation of depletion, this phenomenon not only causes great trouble to human beings, but also destroys the ecological environment of organisms, and many animals are facing the status quo of losing habitat. We should protect the environment, protect the land on which we depend.
