The "five poisons" of the jianghu: centipedes, poisonous snakes, scorpions, toads and geckos, since ancient times, the story of the "five poisons" has been widely spread in China, and some places have produced the custom of "avoiding the five poisons". The folk song says: "During the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hot, and the "five poisons" wake up and are restless." Therefore, every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, in order to prevent the harm of the five poisons, people will generally paste the five poisons in the house, print the five poisons on red paper, and then use five needles to stab the five poisons, that is, the poison is stabbed to death.
The toxicity and poison source of centipedes, poisonous snakes, scorpions, and toads in the "five poisons" are well known, but there are many different theories about geckos, and there is a saying in Chinese medicine that the gecko's urine is highly poisonous, blind in the eyes, deaf in the ears, dripping on people will cause ulceration, eating what the gecko crawls over will be poisoned to death, there is also a saying that the gecko's broken tail can drill into the human ear and has high poisoning will lead to deafness, it is these that make the gecko listed as the "five poisons".
But these statements have been reasonably explained in the verification of science today, the gecko itself is actually non-toxic, its urine is slightly poisonous but not as terrible as the legend, its broken tail is even less poisonous, that is just a way for it to escape, but today we want to say that the poison and non-poison of the prey on the gecko, we want to talk about the other skills of the gecko, in fact, it is a martial arts master.
<h1>Cornices walk the wall</h1>
Speaking of martial arts masters, everyone's mind is not showing the image of a master in various film and television works. As a master, flying cornice walking wall is their indispensable basic skill, martial arts practitioners through hard training to make their posture more light and healthy and then can reach the wall eaves like walking flat, but geckos do not use, cornice walking wall is their innate ability, their martial arts master road from childhood.
Why can geckos swim on walls so easily? This question caught Aristotle's attention as early as the 4th century BC, but he failed to give a good explanation, and this problem has plagued scientists for many years. Some people think that the gecko's foot is a suction cup, so it can be easily adsorbed on the wall to swim, some people say that the gecko secretes viscous substances, thereby sticking itself to the wall to swim around, and some people think that this is like a spider with a barb on the foot that can be climbed at will.
It seems that everything they say makes sense, but with the progress of research and the popularity of electron microscopy, these claims have been slowly overturned. The soles of the gecko's feet under the microscope are clearly visible, and you can see that the soles of its feet do not have powerful suction cups like octopuses or ants, nor do insects climb the wall to secrete sticky substances on the soles of their feet, of course, there is no barb, how strange it is to have a barb.
So how is it done to fly the cornices to the wall, the master of course has the way of the master. It may startle everyone to say that geckos apply the most basic principle of physics in the universe——— molecular gravity. The master shot was really extraordinary, and even the physical principles were used. Molecular gravity, also known as van der Waals force, is a weakly alkaline electrical attraction that exists between adjacent neutral molecules or atoms. This gravitational force is common and weak, and the human body and the wall will exist before, but people will not easily adsorb the wall, so no one cares. But this gravity shines when applied to the gecko.
Microscope under the feet of the gecko
Through microscopic observation, we will find that the gecko has bristles on its feet and the number is not ordinary. Each of its feet has grown millions of bristles, and the end of the bristles has 400-1000 thinner branches, some like human hair slits but this number is out of reach, in such an inaccessible bristle case, each bristle and the surface of the wall can produce molecular gravity, according to scientific calculations, a bristle can lift an ant, so the gecko's sole millions of bristles can easily support its body on any surface, scientists also said, In fact, the gecko only needs one foot to make it adhere to the wall intact.
Flying cornices are just a skill of geckos to become masters, and the speed of geckos' movements is also an inaccessible factor for geckos to become masters.
<h1>The world's martial arts, only fast is not broken</h1>
Zhou Xingchi's movie "Kung Fu" in the classic fragment of the fire cloud evil god do you remember, it is said that a nameless pawn played by Zhou Xingchi was sent to a mental hospital by the axe gang to rescue the fire cloud evil god after success, the fire cloud evil god performed his own kung fu to everyone, that is, with a gun pointed at his head and then shot and then between the electric light and flint, he actually caught the bullet himself and then said lightly, "The world of martial arts, indestructible, only fast is not broken."
Yes, yes, geckos become masters in addition to the cornice walking wall and its "fast" is also closely related. The "fast" of the gecko is reflected in many different aspects, and it can be said that it is an all-round "fast" master. The first is its speed of action, its cornice walking wall is truly fast, according to our personal experience as a child, we can also know that when we encounter a gecko, we will see it slip away in an instant, and the next second we don't know where it is.
Another "fast" gecko is to prey on food, when it finds prey, it will first quietly approach and then when the hunting distance is reached, he begins to wait for the opportunity. The gecko launches its tongue, the tongue is long and dexterous to lick the prey and retract it into its mouth, mosquitoes are their favorite food, mosquitoes often annoy people but can not be caught, geckos eat it like a probe.
Gecko also has a "fast" is the opportunity to "make a decision", when the gecko encounters danger, it will not want to entangle with the danger, it will immediately cut off its own tail to escape, this is really when the opportunity "immediately" does not hesitate, but the gecko can continue to grow its own tail after the tail is broken, this is its magical "regeneration technique", after all, to be a martial arts master skill is not pressed.
<h1>epilogue</h1>
Geckos are beneficial to humans in terms of preying on insects, but due to ancient legends and the views of the ancients, it has always given the impression of being one of the "five poisons". We should abandon the wrong views of the past, re-examine our geckos, and never forget that geckos are actually martial arts masters, masters with multiple skills.