In Gaoping Village, under the Xuefeng Mountain in Hunan Province, there has always been a legendary story.
Whenever tourists from other places travel here, the old people always talk about the interesting and somewhat terrifying legend of that year - "Baihuwei Village", but the village has another reason.
In the mid-to-late 1950s, tigers afflicted the area around Hunan Province.
There is a villager in Gaoping Village called "Cat Lingzi", this day up the mountain to check their own condoms, I did not expect that there was actually a small tiger cub was trapped, the cat boy saw the situation, thought it was funny, he took the little tiger home and locked it in an iron cage.
Unexpectedly, after a while, the tigress followed the smell and yelled behind the cat's house.
The low, terrifying cries alarmed the other villagers, who took out their guys to drive away the tigers.
The tigress knew that she was weak and returned to the mountain.
Just when the villagers were about to disperse, a tiger roar suddenly sounded on the other side of the mountain forest, and then dozens of tigers came out of nowhere and surrounded Gaoping Village.
However, the tigers had no intention of retreating, and still surrounded the village deadly.
However, the tigers did not seem to mean to hurt people: some tigers seemed to crawl there seemingly without moving, some tigers looked around, and some licked their paws, so the tigers and the villagers confronted each other for three days and three nights.
At this time, the cat boy remembered: Could it be that he caught the little tiger cubs and caused the tigers to surround the village? Under the repeated persuasion of the villagers, the cat boy carried the little tiger cub out of the house.
At the moment when the little tiger cub jumped and jumped back to the tiger group, only one of the tigers was heard to roar, and the tiger group pounced in response, and rushed into Gaoping Village unscrupulously to loot the poultry in the village, and the strange thing was that the tiger group did not hurt anyone.
Among them, a little girl did not have time to hide in the house, and was picked up by one of the tigers, but the little girl did not cry, and the tiger did not hurt her.
Soon a tiger roar was heard again, and dozens of tigers, as if ordered, methodically withdrew from the village and disappeared into the distant mountains.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="16" behind the > "Baihuwei Village" is a tug-of-war between man and tiger</h1>
Most of the contemporary people's understanding of tigers comes from the famous plot of "Wusong Fighting Tigers" in "Water Margin".
In the text, this white-fronted insect pounced on Wu Song, lifted it, and watched the audience nervous, excited, and adrenaline soaring.
But for the older generation living in Hunan, this kind of fighting against tigers is not tense and exciting, but terrifying and dangerous, and will lose their lives at any time.
In the 1950s and 1960s, in just a decade, there were thousands of cases of tiger injuries, of which more than 2,000 people were killed.
So why do tigers hurt people?
Generally speaking, tigers do not actively go to human swarms to attack and plunder.
However, since the 1950s, China's population began to grow explosively, in order to facilitate development, it is natural to reclaim more wasteland, which indirectly robs many wild animals of their natural ecological resources.
Among them, the tiger's "territory" is particularly seriously encroached upon: it should be known that the "territory" of a tiger is about 70 square kilometers.
In the process of human and tiger land grabs, even the fiercest tigers can not compete with advanced hunting equipment.
As a result, more and more tigers' living space is squeezed, which leads to less and less prey that tigers may get.
The so-called rabbit will bite people when it is anxious, and the tiger will hurt people when it is anxious.
According to a February 1956 Hunan Daily newspaper, there were five incidents of tigers injuring people.
At that time, the relevant departments issued a reward, calling on hunters from all over the country to go up the mountain to remove all kinds of beasts, including mountain cattle, wild boars, tigers and so on.
Tigers without wild boars, mountain cattle and other prey, but also to escape the pursuit of humans, the tigers have to fight back to humans, so tigers go down the mountain to hurt people and animals from time to time.
For a time, in those small villages close to the deep mountains and wild forests, the people lived in an atmosphere of extreme panic every day.
Although they had strengthened their homes early with farm tools and added wooden thorns to the windows, the hungry tigers did not care about these things, as long as they found something to eat, according to statistics, when the tiger was at its worst, 32 people died in one day.
Faced with such a passive situation, the Hunan Provincial Government had to organize the establishment of the "Tiger Fighting Team".
With the help of the government, the hunters changed the relatively backward "cold weapons" in the past and replaced them with "firearms" and various hunting tools.
In addition, the government will award honorary titles such as "Tiger Fighting Hero" or "Model of Killing Harm" to teams or individuals with outstanding hunting, and will also reward each person with hundreds of catties of grain per month.
With the strong support of the government, the hunters boldly shot the beasts of the forest mercilessly.
The tigers gradually lost their combat effectiveness and were forced to flee everywhere.
According to statistics, in 1956, due to the frenzied hunting of tigers by hunters around the world, the number of tiger skins purchased at that time was as high as 1750.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > painful memories of the Human-Tiger War</h1>
Finally, in 1957, the desperate tiger came to Gaoping Village in southwest Hunan.
Under the ignorant behavior of the "cat servant", the last patience of the tiger group to humans was ignited, and when the little tiger cub returned to the tiger group, the wild nature belonging to the tiger was finally stimulated and wreaked havoc.
To this day, the local elderly always have a lingering feeling when they mention this story.
In the course of nearly a decade of struggle with tigers, there was an old man from Hunan who made the local people regard it as a contemporary Wusong.
He is Chen Qifang, an old man who fights tigers in Leiyang County.
In the autumn of 1952, Chen Qifang found her 14-year-old grandson, not as usual, returning home before going dark, and while looking for his grandson along the field, he found his grandson's shoes.
And with the trail, deep into the mountain forest, a scene that shocked the old man occurred: he found a stump leg of his grandson.
Chen Qifang can be sure: it was the tiger that bit his grandson.
So with resentment towards the tiger, he took his two sons to join the hunting party.
As a result of learning to hunt at a young age, Chen Qifang quickly achieved fruitful results in the team: in the 7 years of joining the hunting team, Chen Qifang led the team to capture 138 tigers.
In 1953, he set a record for hunting a tiger in an average of 10 days.
In Leiyang County, 4/5 of the tigers died at the hands of Chen Qifang's team.
In 1957, Chen Qifang, who had made meritorious contributions to fighting tigers, was invited to attend the National Model Workers' Conference and was also received by Premier Zhou Enlai, and many of his deeds in fighting tigers were successively reported by People's Daily and New Hunan News.
With the frenzied plundering of the tigers' "territory" by human society, in the early 1960s, the former "four-legged bandits" were difficult to trace, and the people's activities and production returned to normal safety levels.
But tiger populations have been hit hard in the wild and are at risk of extinction.
According to authoritative survey results, in the 1970s, the number of wild South China tigers was less than 100; by the end of the 1990s, the number was even smaller, and there were only 20-30 wild tigers left.
Today, all known South China tigers live in captivity.
Since the early 1960s, Guizhou Qianling Park has been breeding South China tigers, and by 2010, there were about 10 zoos across the country with the ability to breed South China tigers.
Due to the excessive hunting of tigers by humans for their own development, the South China tiger is now in the danger level of "wild extinction", in other words, in other words, in the wild environment, the wild South China tiger can no longer be seen, and if you want to see it, you can only go to the zoo.
One might ask if the zoo tigers could be released back into the forest and restored to their populations.
The answer is no.
Because the tigers in the zoo now grow up in captivity and can no longer adapt to life in the wild.
Releasing it into the mountains and forests will undoubtedly lead to their death and further accelerate the possibility of extinction.
It can be said that in the 1950s and 1960s, in order to develop, the right of tigers to survive in the wild was indeed sacrificed.
In the struggle for "territory" with people, the tiger suffered a lot of damage.
Both people and tigers have become their own victims in a specific era, and the development of history will not be forgotten.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > are the tigers in the wild doing well? </h1>
In April 2021, a Siberian tiger injury incident occurred in Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, shocking the whole country.
Fortunately, the tiger only slapped the person down without biting, and smashed the window of another owner's car on the way.
This incident caused a heated discussion among the whole people, and under the handling of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, the Siberian tiger that "fell from the sky" was captured after the birth.
After 45 days of quarantine and observation, on May 25, the tiger was finally released in the Wandashan area and named "Wandashan No. 1".
Many people may ask, you are a South China tiger at this time, and a Siberian tiger at the same time? What kind of tiger is that?
In fact, in our country, as long as there is a forest, there are tigers.
According to the regional division, it can be divided into South China Tiger, Siberian Tiger, Indochina Tiger and Bengal Tiger.
Unlike lions, which prefer the prairie, tigers are more closely associated with humans because they live in forests, and natural tigers get more attention.
Tigers are solitary animals that prefer to inhabit forests or places with dense vegetation.
In the forest ecosystem, it is at the top of the food chain, mainly inhibiting the population development of most herbivores and some carnivores, and playing a role in maintaining the balance of the ecosystem.
At present, the largest number of wild tigers in China is the Siberian tiger, according to authoritative reports, there are currently about 27 Siberian tigers in the territory, sadly, although the most used adjective, but there are only so many dozens;
The South China tiger has long been extinct in the wild due to excessive hunting in the 1950s and 1960s, and now it can only be seen in the zoo;
Bengal and Indochinese tigers live in a small part of the southwest.
With the smooth release of the "Wandashan No. 1" into the mountain forest, the topic of animals and nature has once again come to the forefront.
Among them, Li Cheng, secretary general of the Wildlife Conservation Association of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province, pointed out that the Siberian tiger has a strong migration capacity, and the longest spread distance recorded is 700 kilometers.
If its existing habitat is not suitable for survival, it will continue to look for a healthier habitat until it finds a suitable habitat.
Li Cheng especially explained that at present, the domestic ecological environment is getting better and better overall, and the number of Siberian tigers is also growing steadily, and this time the "Wandashan No. 1" enters the village, which shows that we have made great progress in the governance of the entire ecological environment.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="84" > Conclusion:</h1>
In 1996, the International Convention on Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora issued by the United Nations International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources listed the South China tiger as the number one endangered species.
These kings of the forest, who were once on the land of China and had a great deal of wind and clouds, ended with such a result in the man-tiger war more than half a century ago, which cannot help but make people feel sorry.
In the course of human history, countless species have been directly or indirectly exterminated by humans, resulting in the destruction of the original ecological environment of the earth, in exchange for the natural regurgitation and punishment.
Reverence for nature and respect for life is an eternal topic.
With the efforts of the party and the state, it is necessary to have both golden mountains and silver mountains and green mountains, which has become the theme of China's development in the new era, and how to balance the natural ecology in the process of economic development has become the primary task of the current government.
As Chinese in the new era, we should respond to the call, start from ourselves, start from the drops, and protect the environment, you and I together.