In the 1950s, the "Hundred Tigers Walled Village" incident in Hunan Province, more than 2,000 people died tragically in Hukou, what was the reason?
Historically, China used to be the habitat of large beasts of prey, and tigers in China were mainly divided into South China tigers, Xinjiang tigers, Bengal tigers and so on. As a tiger distribution with many varieties, it inevitably leads to human contact with tigers. As a subphylum of predators of the big cat family, tigers are extremely deadly to humans.
In the Water Margin, there are heroes who have been passed down through the ages---- the deeds of Wu Song fighting tigers. But did you know that in the 1950s, there was such a horrific "Tiger Walled Village" incident? This happened in September 1957 in a small, inconspicuous village in a remote mountainous area of Tongdao County, Hunan Province, with only about 80 households in the village.
I. Description of the events circulating in the folk:
It is rumored that hundreds of tigers circled around the village that day, and many women and children in the village were frightened to hide in their homes and close their doors. After seeing the tiger's menacing presence, the people of the village were frightened. People are afraid of tigers, which is actually a fear that remains in the genes of our ancestors, who in ancient times often faced these wild and fierce animals. So in the bones, people are actually afraid of tigers. The people in the village were no exception, they were anxious, fidgeting at home until the evening, and no one dared to light the kerosene lamp.
At night, it is the world of cats such as tigers, and people's vision will be greatly affected at night, and the use of the camouflage of the tiger in the night is tantamount to a fish in the water, like a tiger adding wings. The villagers thought that at night the tiger would be able to retreat into the mountains, but instead of retreating, the tigers had the courage to enter the village in an organized way, and they wantonly nibbled at the livestock, and for a while the chickens and dogs in the village jumped, and the villagers hid in their homes one by one in panic. This scene can frighten the villagers!
In the past, people's impression of tigers was nothing more than a ferocious beast, how could a beast act as organized as a human? Could it be that these beasts have developed their spiritual wisdom and have not succeeded in human nature? Thinking of this, the villagers were even more frightened, and some people began to wonder, this must be someone who did something harmful to nature and angered the mountain god, and the mountain god sent tiger generals to punish them.
But is this really the case? Is it really so mysterious? Such speculation is scorned by many people in the folk, after all, it has reached new China, and some people are so ignorant. So someone began to look for the truth of the matter!
Second, the tiger's revenge:
And on the way people pass it on, there is such a saying. This is to say that after the land reform began in 1947, hunan also began land reform in 1952, and people wantonly reclaimed barren mountains and wild land to plant crops. And this open up the wasteland, it will inevitably reduce the living space of some wild animals, and eventually some wild boars, bison and other animals in the mountains can only migrate to the depths of the mountains. And when people continue to open up to the mountains, eventually these wild animals are deprived of living space and have no way to retreat. Therefore, in the farmer's crop field, there are often wild animals in the mountains, eating crops, wreaking havoc, trampling and other things.
This has led farmers to complain and come up with ways to deal with these wild animals. Some people spread poison around farmland to prevent wildlife invasion, and others use traps to capture wild animals. Until some people find that the fur of these wild animals is rare and can be sold for a good price. Knowing this, many people in many villages spontaneously formed hunting teams and would regularly go up the mountain to hunt. One is to reduce the number of wild animals and reduce the loss of wild animals to waste crops, and the other is to be able to use these wild animals to make money, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone and killing two birds with one stone.
However, with the passage of time, there are fewer and fewer wild boars, bison and other animals in the mountains. In Hunan and other places, it is the main habitat of the big cat South China tiger. The South China tigers are short of rations, and they are all hungry with their chests pressed against their backs, skinny and skinny. In desperation, tigers often enter the vicinity of farmers' crop territories from deep in the mountains. It is rumored that there were many incidents of hungry tigers injuring people at that time.
Farmers who have just solved the problem of wild animals spoiling crops, but they have not thought about it but have attracted more ruthless characters! And the farmer thinks about it again, the skin of this wild animal is coarse skin, that is, general and so on, and it is not particularly valuable. But this tiger is different, this tiger is the king of a hundred beasts, full of treasure! It is said that in the 1930s, the famous Beiyang warlord Zhang Zuolin drank a bowl of tiger blood every day. However, the tiger was extremely fierce, and if he hit the king of the hundred beasts with the slightest inattention, he might kill the tiger's claw.
But the villagers also understand that wealth and wealth are in danger, and with this huge interest drive, some people will take the risk. At that time, many people formed a tiger fighting team in groups, and even the officers and soldiers in the city also participated in the tiger fighting operation. It is said that at that time, hunan Leiyang alone fought more than 160 tigers in a few years.
But it didn't matter, the tiger also wrote down the beam. Thus there was the later organized "Baihuwei Village" incident. That is to say, among the people who support such remarks, the hatred of saying that the tiger is to repay the tiger's mouth for food and hunting will have the courage to surround the village to demonstrate.
However, this statement seems to be normal at the front, but this theory of revenge is somewhat unconvincing. Let's not say that tigers are solitary animals, and the truth that one mountain does not tolerate two tigers is also passed down from ancient times. When people hunt and kill other tigers, then the surviving tigers should be happy before it is too late, how can there be revenge? Moreover, tigers are not human beings after all, and it is impossible to have the consciousness of the same race, if they are really forced to say so, then do tigers also have a group integrity? This is naturally too absurd, so this statement has gradually become a talking point for people after tea and dinner.
III. The Saying of the "Tiger King Seeking His Son":
After the revenge remarks of the tiger group gradually faded from people's sight, such a saying came out of the people. According to the traceability of some people with hearts. At that time, just a few days before the Tiger Siege Incident, the tiger fighting team in the village had just returned from hunting in the mountain. And this hunt, the biggest gain is to hit a young tiger cub. And people see this tiger cub, the color of the coat and the temperament between the eyebrows is very extraordinary, in the feeding of the larger will be able to sell a good price. So the people in the village put the tiger cub in a large iron cage and fed it every day.
However, although this tiger cub is not yet a child, it already has some bloodiness and is extremely fierce. When several women in the village went to feed the tigers, they were bitten and scratched by the tigers across the cages. And almost all the injured people are seriously ill. And just after the tiger cubs returned to the village, some villagers said that sometimes some tiger tracks were often found in the mountains close to the village. The villagers were afraid of a mistake, so they killed the tiger cubs and skinned the tiger.
And just when the tiger cubs were being killed, people were surprised to find out. The blood of this tiger cub was black blood, and people at that time originally had some feudal superstitious thoughts in their hearts, and immediately some people jumped out and said that this tiger's face was the face of the king, and even more so, it was pregnant with the blood of the king. This is probably the cub of the Tiger King in the Mountains.
It may be that under the wanton depiction of these people, it is gradually perfected that such a story has been passed out. This tiger cub is the beloved son of the King of the Hundred Tigers in the Mountains, and just after the tiger cub was lost, the Tiger King was extremely angry. All the tigers in the mountain were gathered to look for the trail of the tiger cubs. This explains why tiger tracks frequently appear around the village after tiger boys enter the village.
When the Tiger King learned that there was a smell of tigers around the village, he led more than a hundred tigers to the surrounding area of the village and stalemated with the villagers. There is a folk rumor that "people have seven points of fear of tigers, and tigers have seven points of fear of people!" "Even if it is as powerful as a tiger, it does not dare to easily break into the peasants' villages, and the tigers are unlikely to negotiate with people, so they can only surround and stalemate with the villagers outside the village." At night, it was different, and the tigers, with their natural advantages, began to enter the village in a big way. And the Tiger King, who was eager to find the tiger boy, couldn't bear to see the corpse of the tiger whose skin had been stripped off. He was even more angry and began to lead the tigers to wreak havoc and bite the livestock.
And this statement is actually a little too divine. As mentioned above, tigers are solitary animals, and one mountain does not allow two tigers. Even if there is such a tiger king who can command the tigers. Then just if the Tiger King's cubs were lost, they would have to gather the tigers of a mountain to look for them together, and the tigers would not really pay attention to it. Tigers are proud by nature, they are the king of the hundred beasts, and it is impossible to be ordered to gather together these "overlords" who dominate the mountain just to find a tiger boy.
summary:
And one of the most convincing claims is that, simply, people go into the mountains to hunt. As a result, the tiger's rations have been drastically reduced, and the living space has begun to shrink. Individual tigers did not dare to go into the village to forage for food, and out of hunger, tigers invaded the village in droves to find food. This statement may be relatively more acceptable. The more than 2,000 tiger cannibalism incidents in the past ten years are not necessarily related to this "Hundred Tigers Walled Village" incident.
Because as mentioned above, there are only about eighty people in the village, so why is it said that there are two thousand? The so-called two thousand wounded people are more of a statistical summary of the number of casualties in various areas since the tiger fighting operation was launched in Hunan.
Today, the distribution of tigers in our country has been extremely rare, and all kinds of smuggling, hunting activities and human occupation of tiger territory. As a result, the king of the hundred beasts in China, ---- tiger, has sharply reduced its number by more than 95% in one hundred years, becoming a major endangered species in China. Nowadays, china has not found any trace of wild South China tigers for decades, and only a small number of South China tigers still exist in zoos, and the reproduction and continuation of this population has been very difficult. The number of wild Siberian tigers is only a few dozen, and it may face extinction at any time.
And I would say that wild animals, like us humans, are the spirits of all things. We should love the environment, respect nature, and treat the lives of wild animals equally. In recent years, because of some people's greed, rhino horn, shark fins, ivory and other products are loved by high-end people. Although China has explicitly banned the hunting of national protected animals, as long as the market still exists, chaos is difficult to cure the symptoms and root causes.
There is no harm without buying and selling! The protection of wild animals starts from each of us, and our country is now vigorously promoting the world community of human destiny. In fact, the fate of all things is in a ship, the extinction of a species seems to many of us as light as a feather, but in fact, the extinction of a species on the entire food chain, the butterfly effect caused by the ecological environment is extremely huge. Helping wildlife is also helping us ourselves, and if we don't overhumously occupy and destroy wildlife habitats, incidents such as human-tiger contact above can be greatly reduced! We are born of nature, we should respect nature, and human beings should coexist peacefully with all living beings, this is the long-term solution, this is the right way.
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