After human society moved from the primitive fishing and hunting civilization to the agricultural civilization, hunting is still a major hobby of human beings. This may have been created by the genes of the ancestors of primitive people. Hunting is inseparable from hunting dogs, so hunting dogs are the longest domestic animals that accompany human beings.
China is vast and vast, so there will be a variety of excellent hunting dogs of different breeds everywhere, accompanied by colorful hunting activities of various ethnic groups, thus leaving many hound stories.
In the northeast, the most famous excellent indigenous hound is the "Khan King Dog".
The "Khan King Dog", as the name suggests, is the dog of the Khan King. What is the Khan King?
The Khan King is not the "King of Han". Khan King is the honorific title of the leader of some nomadic peoples in the ancient north, generally referring to khan", such as the ancient "Mulan Ci" "saw the military post last night, the khan big point soldiers" "Khan" is the Khan King, the Han people called the emperor. Mr. Baidu explained: Khan, also known as the Great Khan, Hehan, Khan King, referred to as Khan, is the title of the leader of the high-level political body of the Mongolian plateau nomadic people after the fourth century AD.
The "Khan King" of the "Khan King Dog" in this article refers specifically to the earliest supreme leader of the Manchu people whose ancestors lived in the white mountains and black waters, the Great Qing Taizu Emperor Nurhaci.
The Manchus, who have lived and multiplied in northern China for generations, were formed in 1636 by the earliest Su Shen, and Ru Lou, and Beji, and Jurchen, and Jurchen, and finally by Emperor Taiji, the son of Nurhaci, into "Manchuria", referred to as manchus.
Nurhaci was originally the leader of the Jurchen tribe in Jianzhou, and he began a long-term conquest to unify the Jurchen tribes in northeast China from the first month of the nineteenth year of the Wanli calendar (1591) at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and by 1616 (the forty-fourth year of the Ming Dynasty Wanli), he was called "Ying Ming Khan of the Overthrowing Nations" in Hetuala, and the national name was "Dajin" (historically known as Houjin), becoming the Great Khan of Houjin, the year name Of Heaven.
This is where Nurhaci 'Khan King' comes from!
The Khan King Dog is the hunting dog used by the old Khan King Nurhaci when hunting.
The hounds used by the old Khan King Nurhaci when hunting in the Changbai Mountains are naturally not the "foreign dogs" introduced by people at high prices today, nor the Tibetan mastiffs in the snowy plateau, but the native native earth dogs in the Changbai Mountains!
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, although Nurhaci's father was the leader of the Jurchen Left Guard in Jianzhou and one of the Liaodong guards of the Ming Dynasty, Nurhaci followed the adults into the Changbai Mountains from an early age to dig ginseng and hunt on horses, which was naturally inseparable from hounds.
Hounds are not dogs that can be hunted by nature, but the result of human cultivation and exercise in special living environments and living conditions.
Changbai Mountain is high and densely forested, sparsely populated, and there are many wild animals. The Manchus are a fishing and hunting people who hunt through the mountains and forests all year round, so they need hounds with a keen sense of hearing, smell and fierce temperament to help hunters find animal tracks in the snowy fields of the forest sea, and attack wild beasts and cover hunters.
Hounds are also cultivated and trained by domestic dogs. Domestic dogs lack the brave fighting spirit and hunting skills of hounds.
However, in the past, in the Changbai Mountains, the earthen huts where people lived were completely surrounded by jungles, and people were in the company of many wild beasts day and night, so even domestic dogs often clashed with wild beasts that invaded people's homes. Coupled with the nature of murderous and aggressive dogs, many domestic dogs also dare to fight with wild animals, and even hunt small herbivores, such as rabbits, roe deer and so on. This makes it possible for any good domestic dog to be bred as a good hunting dog.
The hounds of Changbai Mountain must first have good physical fitness conditions: First, the body frame should be mighty and majestic, and it should have a deterrent effect on wild beasts. In the duel of wild animals, the largest one dominates. Second, it is fast, endurance, long-distance tracking and protracted combat. Third, the sense of hearing and smell is sensitive and can accurately help hunters predict the situation. Fourth, there are fighting skills. Fifth, there is the courage to fight. Of course, many domestic dogs are brought to the hunting site by hunters to exercise. Therefore, the hounds of Changbai Mountain are not born.
The Changbai Mountains are vast, with steep mountains, ravines, dense forests, abundant water and grass, and flocks of wild animals. Winter is covered in ice and snow, and the climate is cold, up to five or six months. This provides excellent conditions for cultivating good hunting dogs from the natural environment.
Folk people give full play to their own advantages by means of certain external conditions, called "the stars stain the light of the moon.". Liu Yuxi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, once said, "The mountain is not high, but the immortal is named." The water is not deep, but the dragon is the spirit", in fact, this is the truth.
The mountain dogs of the northeast have been breeding and living in this land for many generations for many years. Regardless of the Manchus, Orunchun, Evenk, Hezhe and other ethnic minorities, for many years they have been accompanied by hunting dogs and raising their families. But hounds were never famous.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it was also a hunting dog in the black water of the White Mountains, but because a large yellow dog followed Nurhaci in the Southern Expedition to the Northern War, and accompanied Nurhaci on hunting in the gap between the horses and horses. This dog is famous. Because Nurhaci later founded the Later Jin Dynasty and became the Khan King, the hounds that followed him also had the name of "Khan King Dog".
Why did the indigenous hounds of Changbai Mountain become famous after following Nurhaci? That's easy to understand. Because Nurhaci was the founding emperor of the "Later Jin" state before the Great Qing Dynasty. According to the Tradition of the Han People, the horse ridden by the emperor is called the "Royal Horse", and the dog used by the Emperor is naturally the "Imperial Dog".
However, the northeast ethnic state regime formed by Nurhaci in that year was called "Dajin" (historically known as Houjin), he was the "Great Khan" of the Jurchens, which was the highest political leader of the ethnic minority regime in the north and was the Khan King, so the Jurchens were not used to calling it "Royal Dog", and naturally it was more appropriate to call it the "Khan King Dog".
During my long-term interviews with hunters in the Changbai Mountains, I learned that the ancient Area of Zhuque Mountain in Jilin City, with its lofty mountains, surrounded by rivers and rivers, rich forests and grasses, and many wild beasts, was the place where Emperor Nurhaci of the Qing Dynasty often came to hunt during the conquest of the "Three Dozen Urals", and personally hunted the rare and rare animals of Changbai Mountain.
Folk legends here also say that the descendants of the hunters of the local Qing Dynasty Jilin cattle Ula Governor Yamen are rumored that the hounds used by Nurhaci are not Mongolian dogs, but authentic native hounds of Changbai Mountain.
Legend has it that when Li Chengliang, the Ming general stationed in the Kwantung Dynasty, pursued Nurhaci, trapped him in reeds, and set fire to him, it was his Changbai Mountain Hound Big Yellow Dog that dipped in water and wet clothes, allowing the smoke-soaked Nurhaci to escape the fire.
Legend has it that when Nurhaci was fighting in the east to conquer the Ula Department of the Four Parts of the Jurchen Lun of Haixi, due to the defeat of the army, he had to flee with the hunting dog into the dense forest in the Longtan Mountain to take refuge, and it was a critical moment, and his Native Hounds of Changbai Mountain cleverly sneaked out from the side and took the pursuing soldiers into the dense forest elsewhere, so that Nurhaci could hide under an ancient birch tree and escape with his life...
Thus, the name of the "Khan King Dog" came out of the mouth of the hunters of the Jilin Ula Commandery Yamen, and then spread to the Kanto... (About the author: Wang Tianxiang, senior journalist and writer, has published 42 monographs on novels, tourism literature, reportage literature, history and culture, tourism culture, poetry appreciation, enterprise management, market analysis, success studies, talent science, etc., written more than 200 episodes of TV series, created dozens of special TV films such as history, culture, scenery, and documentary, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 1,000 online articles. ）