Introduction: Heilongjiang tigers down the mountain, 64 years ago Hunan "Hundred Tigers Walled Village", what was the final outcome?
Today was brushed by a piece of news, but also aroused the attention of many people, that is, in Heilongjiang there was a "fierce tiger into the village". This occurred in Group 10 of Baiyuwan Linhu Village in Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province, when a tiger was found in an abandoned house in the village. Later, the police station and the Forestry Bureau rushed over and preliminarily determined that it was an adult Siberian tiger. At that time, although it attacked like a passing vehicle and smashed the glass on the back of the car, it fortunately did not attack humans.
The reason why this incident has attracted so much attention online is because it has not been heard about wild tigers for many years, especially such wild tigers. Therefore, many people are also very concerned about the further development of things. However, this also reminds some people of the "Baihuwei Village" incident that occurred in a county town in Hunan many years ago.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" what is the tiger > in Hunan's "Baihuwei Village"? </h1>
Tigers, who have long held the title of the king of the forest, are large and fierce, and in many animations or comics, they will have a king on their foreheads, which shows its status as the "king of the hundred beasts".
When it comes to tigers, many people will first think of the "Wusong Fighting Tigers" in literary works, which should also be the deepest impression of many people for tigers. Some parents also use tigers to scare people. If children are disobedient, parents will scare them into telling them to let the tiger take them away, so many people know from an early age that tigers eat people.
In fact, this is not accurate, although the tiger is a carnivore, but it is very afraid of humans. As the saying goes, "People have three points of fear of tigers, and tigers have seven points of fear of people." Only when it is forced to do so, tigers will take the initiative to attack humans, and more than 70 years ago, China's tiger infestation was quite serious, of which The Hunan region is one of the more serious areas of tiger infestation, and 69 years ago, the incredible "Hundred Tigers Walled Village" incident occurred.
There are not many tiger species in the world, among which in the Hunan region because it is in south China, the distribution at that time is the South China tiger, it is a subspecies of tiger, and it is mainly distributed in the southern region of China, so it is also known as the Chinese tiger, of which Hunan is the main distribution center of the South China tiger.
This tiger has a large body, a body length of 1.6-2.9 meters, and a weight of about 350-400 pounds. It is typically characterized by a rounded head and short ears, but large limbs and a long tail. It is orange-yellow all over and has black transverse lines.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" the small village of 80 people > has caused a sensation in the country because of the "Baihuwei Village"</h1>
This is a small village that occurred in September 1957 in the southern foothills of Xuefeng Mountain in Gaoping Village, Tongdao County, Hunan Province. According to the recollections of the villagers at that time, it was just after noon, because many people had just finished lunch. Then the cows in the village began to roam around, and then the dogs ran toward the house while barking, hiding in fear.
Then someone noticed that there was a tiger in the village hair, and the villagers began to ring gongs and call. However, these tigers not only did not have the slightest intention of dispersing because of fear, but also gathered more and more, and the maximum number was as many as 100. What frightened the villagers even more was that the tigers besieged the village for three days and three nights. When the villagers thought that the tigers would eventually disperse, they all rushed towards the village as if they were organized.
Even the villagers lit torches and kept beating gongs and drums, hoping to scare them off. But the tigers, like crazy, were not afraid at all, but rushed directly into the village, and then the wind swept away the leaves, quickly looting the livestock in the village. However, in this Baihuwei village incident, only one young daughter accidentally walked outside the house and was taken away by the tiger, while the other villagers were not injured. Then they all disappeared, and there were no tigers seen here again.
Some elderly people in the village later recalled that this time the tiger surrounded the village very strangely, it felt very incredible, at first the tigers only surrounded and did not attack, did not attack any livestock. Then someone released the tiger cub, because someone caught a tiger cub in the mountain, and then they began to attack, tearing up the cattle everywhere and looting the village.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > questions and puzzles</h1>
For this BaihuWei village incident, some people say that it is unlikely to happen, because tigers, animals, are generally alone. The old saying that "one mountain does not allow two tigers" is this truth. And such a large-scale tiger gathering has never happened in history. Moreover, these tigers were so clever that they only surrounded the village and ransacked only livestock, which is not similarly recorded in history. However, at that time, it was really recorded in many newspapers.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > cause</h1>
As for the incident of the Hundred Tigers surrounding the village, in fact, the cause is also very simple, that is, the "tiger eradication plague" at that time was caused, which was also the fuse of the "human tiger war".
Soon after the founding of New China, land reform movements arose in many parts of China, and the land reform in Hunan was also in full swing. In order to allow farmers to have land and enough land to cultivate crops, so the land in various places is also vigorously opened up, and even some of the land in the wilderness ridges is also reclaimed on a large scale. Along the way, they also encountered one of their biggest enemies, tigers, also known as "four-legged bandits."
Because for tigers, they are originally a very territorial animal, because of their large size, the amount of food is naturally very large. A South China tiger needs about 70 square kilometers of forest, and to meet their food needs, it needs at least 150 wild boars, 300 antelopes, 200 sika deer, and some small animals.
However, at that time, while the wasteland was being reclaimed everywhere, there were also a large number of hunting, and there were professional hunting teams in each village, who drove out wild boars, hares, goats, bison, etc., and tigers who did not have enough food to eat targeted humans.
Since then, there have been continuous attacks and injuries of livestock and poultry by tigers, and from time to time people have been killed by tigers. At that time, there were reports that tigers had been infested in many areas in Hunan Province, that is, tigers hurt people, and the sneak attack on poultry and livestock was tens of thousands, and at most tigers ate 32 people in one day. Therefore, in order to put an end to tiger infestation, a campaign to eliminate tigers was launched, and all counties and villages set up professional "tiger fighting teams".
In order to encourage everyone to fight tigers, not only guns were distributed to hunters, but also a subsidy standard of 300 catties of food per person per month. In addition, after the end of the tiger fight, there will be a meeting to celebrate, so the tigers everywhere have suffered. At that time, in Yanling County, there was a tiger fighting influence called Zhong Yongtai, who captured 11 tigers alive and hunted 46,900 wild boars, mountain cattle and other wild animals. According to the county chronicle, Yanling County fought as many as 25 tigers from 1952 to 1963, and at the highest number in the county, there were 425 tiger teams alone.
In addition, in Hunan Leiyang is the county with the worst tiger disease, in 1952 more than 120 people were killed in the tiger's mouth, and the injured poultry and livestock were countless, and the most terrible thing was that 32 people were eaten in one day.
There is an old man named Chen Qifang in the area, who is the captain of the Leiyang Tiger Fighting Team, although he is more than 50 years old, he is known as the "Fighting Tiger King". In the seven years since, Leiyang has killed a total of 168 tigers, of which the tigers led by the "Tiger King" Chen Qifang have killed four-fifths of the tigers. In 1953 it also set a record for an average of 10 days to kill a tiger, of which a total of 138 tigers were hunted in seven years. It was also because of his summer performance in this regard that he was invited to Beijing and was received by Premier Zhou, becoming a veritable "tiger king".
It is precisely because the conflict between people and tigers is becoming more and more intense, so in September 1957, the incident of Baihuwei Village occurred, and the tigers were also forced to be helpless, there was really no way, it should be the last cry. But since then, it has rarely been heard that the tiger has hurt people. In 1976, workers at the Xinhua Fengjia Mountain Forest Farm in Hunan province caught the last South China tiger, but died of their injuries