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The ancients said: "One sparrow is equal to four or two ginsengs" As everyone knows, the sparrow's feces are more valuable than its meat.
According to the market price, a pound of sparrow can be sold for a few hundred yuan, is it someone who thinks that the countless sparrows who looked at the trees and telephone poles before are treasures.
Why is a sparrow's so valuable? Is it true that a small grain of is worth more than its sparrow meat, sparrow brain, or sparrow eggs?
Sparrows everywhere
Whether we live in the city or in the countryside, there is a bird that is like our friend, always around us, even if it is driven away, they still do not leave it, this bird is the sparrow, which can be seen all year round.
And the reason why they can "never abandon humans" starts with their ancestors.
Many years ago, scientists discovered through the study of sparrow DNA and bird fossils that the ancestor of the sparrow was the red-billed, a bird that lived in the Palearctic realm.
Experts have found from the fossils of cardinal that they have distinctly beak-like birds and have a similar body structure to those of today's sparrows.
In the early Miocene, a long period of 15 million to 20 million years ago, although no samples of sparrows were found, some scientists found that in the long process of evolution, sparrows evolved into many different species, including Eurasian sparrows, African sparrows, and South American sparrows.
Due to the super reproductive ability of sparrows, the population of sparrows has been expanding, and they are found in many countries, and now the sparrow population has spread all over the world, becoming the most common bird representative.
In addition, sparrows are very adaptable, very lively, and often move in groups, which can be said to be a very common phenomenon in rural areas.
Especially when the farm is busy, when drying wheat on the road, I often see a group of sparrows foraging, and they also make a chirping sound from time to time, which is relatively noisy.
If they meet a driven human, a flock of sparrows will immediately fly over the power lines, and when the driving people are gone, they will fly back to the wheat to find insects to eat.
Sparrows eat a variety of food, mainly seeds, and sometimes small insects, but they are not all vegetarians, and some sparrows also eat carrion, but the vast majority of sparrows eat grains, grass seeds, and fruits for food.
There are often scarecrows in the vegetable fields in the countryside, and these scarecrows are mainly to drive away the sparrows, because the sparrows with "natural powers" specialize in finding the freshly planted rapeseed in the land for food, which really kills the vegetables in the cradle.
Because sparrows are easy to feed and do not need to go to the south for the winter like swallows, we can see them all year round, so to speak, they are all over the world, except for the cold Arctic and Antarctic and alpine deserts, it is really the most typical biological science word to describe sparrows.
However, due to the excessive number of sparrows, which also harms crops, this has attracted the attention and attention of human beings, and it seems that the so-called "sparrow problem" will occur all over the world in history, especially in modern history.
Europe was one of the first regions in modern times to control the number of sparrows, and Germany also legislated to control the number of sparrows.
In the 18th century, sparrows were concentrated in Germany's grain-producing areas, which seriously endangered Germany's economic problems, so German biologists stood up and demanded that the number of sparrows be controlled.
Unfortunately, the first control of the sparrow population did not end well, and in the 19th century, the sparrow once again threatened the German economy, when thousands of sparrows destroyed Germany's eventual material grain, and the shortage of grain posed a serious threat to the security of the whole of Germany.
Although Germany was able to overcome the food crisis with the introduction of potatoes, the "scourge" of sparrows still existed, and later, the number of sparrows was not controlled, but there was a war, and the sparrows became less because of the war.
However, the eradication of sparrows in Germany still attracted the attention of neighboring countries, and even Britain carried out extensive discussions on the issue of sparrows in China, and the extermination of sparrows continued until the end of the 19th century.
One might wonder if the European declaration of war on the sparrows would affect other countries and regions, especially China, an agricultural powerhouse, but it is certain that the mainland had already made it clear that it did not approve of the West's extermination.
The Republic of China's "Xifeng County Chronicles" recorded the breeding situation of sparrows in the United States at that time: "Those who talk about animals today, Japan and the United States, a hundred years ago, did not see this kind of this, some people brought 1,500 heads to graze them, less than 30 years, to spread all over the country, and its evil breath is strong, especially visible." It can be seen that the United States at that time was quite tragic in killing sparrows.
In the eyes of the Chinese people, sparrows are not only not pests, but also the source of important medicinal materials, which is recorded in the "Shennong's Materia Medica", and traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can be used to treat blindness, cataracts, malaria attacks and corneal damage.
In addition, it is also recorded that sparrow meat can nourish the kidneys and strengthen the yang, and the eggs laid by the sparrow can also strengthen the spleen and appetize, which is deeply loved by many male compatriots.
It is said that during the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were people who specialized in breeding sparrows to obtain their medicinal value, and some dignitaries and nobles could also catch wild sparrows on a regular basis and eat meat to replenish the yang.
In other countries, sparrows have become "pests" that everyone shouts about, but in the mainland, they are an important source of medicinal materials, especially loved by old Chinese medicine practitioners.
Especially in the 70s of the last century, with the improvement of living conditions, people paid more and more attention to health preservation and nourishment, resulting in the role of sparrow meat to tonify the kidney was discovered by most Chinese medicine personnel.
As a result, the experts of the Chinese Medicine Hospital conducted a more comprehensive investigation of the sparrows, and as a result, they really discovered the new world.
Some experts have found that the feces of sparrows contain a large number of herbs called "white cloves", and the value of this herb is even higher than the effect of sparrow meat on nourishing yin and yang.
White cloves have the effect of dissipating accumulation and brightening the eyes, and are often used for accumulation, hernias, and tonsillitis.
Sparrow feces also have an important role, that is, to treat whooping cough, especially children's cough, perhaps in the past, when children were ignorant, they picked up the underground sparrow feces to eat, so that they would not cough all year round.
Although this is a joke, it just shows that the sparrows are all treasures, and even the they pull out has such a big effect.
In addition, sparrow feces contain unique medicinal ingredients that can be used externally to treat skin diseases, especially for women, and have a significant effect on lightening spots and beautifying the complexion.
With the growth of age, coupled with the exposure to the sun, most women will have such and such freckles on their faces, melasma, etc., although it does not look affected, but it does not look beautiful, especially these spots seem to be contagious.
Therefore, now many medical cosmetology will recommend thousands and hundreds of blemish projects, even cosmetics have a lightening effect, and because of this discovery, the demand for "white lilacs" in the market is also great, and it has also set off a craze for catching sparrows, in order to meet market demand, the sparrow breeding industry has re-emerged,
Many people who want to breed have obtained sparrow breeding from the relevant departments through correct and standardized breeding methods, and then obtain sparrow manure.
However, it should be said here that there are also some criminals who will catch sparrows through irregular means and will also be punished by the law.
Although the sparrow is not a rare bird, it is a third-class protected bird in our country.
With the acceleration of urbanization, the destruction of the sparrow's habitat and the decline of the wild sparrow population, in order to protect the sparrow and the health of the entire ecosystem, the relevant part of the relevant department has taken protective measures to prohibit illegal hunting.
With the efforts of the relevant departments and the public, the number of sparrows has gradually regained its vitality, and now both in the suburbs of the city and in the countryside, sparrows can be seen jumping happily on the branches.
Every life has a unique value in the ecological balance, and only by cherishing every life around us can human beings maintain the ecological balance and truly enjoy the blessings brought by nature.