On a sunny day in December, a few friends and I came to the famous and long-admired tourist scenic spot - Hainan Penang Valley Tourism Scenic Area. Here, we not only saw the unique Style of the Li ethnic group and the unique tropical rainforest scenery, but also stepped into a spider kingdom that we never knew before, and witnessed a spider culture garden jointly built by the International Spider Science Research Institute and the Hainan Wuzhishan Spider Science Research Institute.
Penang Valley is the most attractive aboriginal style tourist area in the whole Hainan Island, and is a pristine ecological cultural scenic spot built on the basis of the original Li indigenous villages. The Li Traditional Culture Museum in the scenic area treasures the most complete and precious Li folk cultural relics in the whole Hainan Island, and is a vivid and magnificent "Li history textbook". Walking into this scenic area, visitors can explore The Culture of Li Miao, taste the food of The People's Republic of China, enjoy the traditional performances of ancient bands, etc., all of which can make you linger. But what opened our eyes and surprised us the most was the visit to the largest spider cultural attraction in the country launched in this scenic area.
In the scenic area full of tropical rainforest atmosphere, we snake along the green path to a "spider culture center" halfway up the mountain. The cultural center covers an area of more than 500 square meters, is made of tree slabs, and above the entrance of the gate, hangs a large spider with a diameter of 2.5 meters. Bustling tourists crowd under the spider shape to watch, cameras and mobile phones take pictures one after another. Accompanying us was the tour guide of the scenic project, a beautiful Li girl Chunxiao. She pointed to spider specimens and images, telling legends, histories and myths about spiders. Her beautiful big eyes under her long eyelashes flickered, transporting us into an ancient and time-honored age of myths and legends.
The Li people are one of the Lingnan ethnic groups in China, evolved from the Nanyue ethnic group and are descendants of the Zhuang Dong ethnic group. The proper name "Li" began at the end of the Tang Dynasty and was not fixed until the Song Dynasty. The ancestors of the Li people lived on Hainan Island 10,000 years ago, leaving behind many remains of petroglyphs, many of which are related to the worship of spider-sun totems. For example, a petroglyph on the top of a mountain called Qingchun Ridge in Wuzhishan City has a clear and vivid picture of the worship of the spider - the sun (sun halo) 5,000 years ago. Above the painting is a sun halo (composed of eight solar rays radiating from a large circular halo with light radiating in all directions), below it are two morning stars and a large spider with long legs, and on the ground stands a wizard with curved legs and arms and a "ten" hair vessel in his hand as a worshipper. The moral of this painting is the same as the ancient li concept of spider-sun halo joint totem. The creation myth of the Li people is derived from the Hercules spider: the Hercules in the creation myth of the Li people "walks straight and unimpeded, looks at millions of squares of energy, surrounds the white jade wall, and opens a silver wire web on eight sides", living off the glorious image of a large spider. Spiders are the totem of the Li people; spider worship encompasses sun worship, Hercules worship, and fertility worship.
We reluctantly walked out of the Spider Culture Center, and once again looked at the shape of a huge spider in the upper left of the front door of the museum.
Spiders are generally web-knotted in high places, condescending, and are already a god in the Nether realm. The spider's tail is constantly producing silver wire, which is really a difficult mystery for the ancient people. When the spider breeds, it always carries a bag full of countless small spiders, showing its magical fertility. Through analogy and association, the ancient Li people imagined that the generation of the world also had a matrix, and then turned this matrix into the totem of their own national beliefs. In the eyes of the li people, the spider is the most mysterious and omnipotent divine power, worshipping it as a "treasure given by the Five Finger Mountain" and deriving it into a "Hercules Totem".
Chunxiao told us that spiders have a highly sensitive system of perceptual and visual nerve organs, especially the round web spider in the spider family, with 12 eyes, each eye is composed of 4 pairs of compound beads. In this way, there are 48 pairs and 96 compound beads in 12 eyes, which are distributed on the sides of the head, chest, abdomen and spider, and their gaze is 360 degrees of full space. Therefore, spiders can see everything outside of themselves when lying in the web or at any angle; no matter where the insect touches the web, the spider can quickly and accurately identify. In the past, some gua masters and wizards believed that the ancient Bao Clan was based on the trembling of the cobwebs hanging in the air, combined with the deduction of the concepts and appearances of the five elements of the heavens and the earth, the sun and the moon, the four positive and four dimensions, the twenty-eight houses, etc., and drew a Bagua diagram and created the Bagua. "In Lizhai, Maoxiang Village, Nansheng Town, Wuzhishan City, the elder's family has twenty-eight spider astrological charts!" Chun Xiao whispered to us with a mysterious face.
"The spider's venom has a great effect on humans!" Chun Xiao said and led us to the top of the scenic mountain, stopping in front of a house with a dark yellow wooden structure in the shape of a mountain. A wave of tourists looked left and right with a curious eye, while listening to the tour guide's explanation. The house is 800 square meters, and the middle roof of the entrance is written with the words "Spider Poison Experience Hall". Our eyes lit up and we hurriedly squeezed in from the crowd. Ho, ho, the tall and spacious hall is arranged in a simple and modern way, and there are all kinds of spiders of different shapes and colors! Looking down, I was startled; Many of these spiders are the size of crabs and have beautiful stripes like tigers! "This is the tiger-striped bird-catching spider." Chun Xiao saw that we were full of surprise and quickly explained.
Originally, spiders are a large family, widely distributed in most parts of the world, with 3821 genera and 42055 species; there are more than 3000 species recorded in China. Among them, the tiger striped bird catcher spider and the Jingzhao pubic hair spider are the two largest and most toxic spiders found in China in the last century, and their scientific research, ornamental and medicinal value are also the highest, so they are favored by many scientific research institutions in the world. Because of its largest size and the most poisonous, the tiger striped bird-catching spider is known as the "world poison king" in the spider family.
There are six or seven platforms in the experience hall, each of which is surrounded by many tourists, bustling and full of tongues. Looking closer, it turned out that several Li guys and little girls were experiencing a Li medicine spray called "Spider King Spirit" for tourists suffering from rheumatism, gout or neck and waist pain. Perhaps the treatment effect is unique and good, attracting tourists to buy it. Chun Xiao told us that the Li medicine "Spider King Spirit" spray was extracted from the venom of tiger striped bird catcher spiders. Yunnan Baiyao is well known to everyone in the world, and Hainan Liyao is indeed very little known.
In fact, the history of Li Yao is also long-standing. We learned that the Li medicine "Spider King Spirit" spray is derived from the ancient Li medicine formula of the Li people, which is the precious experience accumulated by the Li people in the five finger mountain for thousands of years in the prevention and treatment of diseases such as rheumatism in the tropical rain forest. In the past ten years, with the return of medical research to nature worldwide, the International Spider Science Research Institute and the Hainan Wuzhishan Spider Science Research Institute have gone deep into the Lijia village of Wuzhishan to discover the magical formula of Li medicine, and carried out scientific experiments in research institutions such as Oxford University in the United Kingdom and the University of Sydney in Australia, produced by Hainan Spider King Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and began to enter thousands of households to benefit mankind.
Just as we listened intently to the explanation, The Spring Dawn Girl "ah" as if she had discovered a new continent, and quickly stepped forward to introduce us to a gentle and elegant scholar-like person. It turned out that this was an expert professor who was quite influential in the medical field in Hainan. The expert professor told us that this Medicine produced by Hainan Spider King Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is expected to overcome rheumatism, rheumatoid and gout diseases that have long been regarded as difficult chronic diseases in Eastern and Western medicine. When he heard that we were engaged in literature, he happily chatted about the heavens and told us a story about Su Dongpo and the "Spider King Spirit" medicinal liquor.
According to the Yongle Canon, in the third year of the reign of Emperor Zhezong of Song (1098 AD), Su Dongpo was again degraded because of his political disagreement with the imperial court, and he left Danzhou to take up his post. Pillow blue sea gushing, looking at Kyushu gradually farther away, Su Dongpo's mood is mixed, infinite emotion. In the time of landing on the island, Su Dongpo was drunk by the blue sea around the island, and often invited friends to eat seafood and drink and have fun. For a long time, suddenly the joint swelling pain, not much, limbs deformed, the movement is hesitant, is a great fear. The Li people informed that this was the so-called "paralysis" of Chinese medicine, known as "gout" in the folk, and Li Yiyun "joint wind", and added Ji Beibu, offering the Li medicine developed by the tiger pattern bird catcher on the Five Finger Mountain - Spider King Spirit Medicine Wine. Su Dongpo is the instruction of the Li people, and the "Spider King Spirit" medicinal liquor is not left and drunk every day. Soon, sure enough, the wind calmed the spasms, pain relief, detoxification, wind and dehumidification; the gout was completely eliminated, and it was a great joy to compose the "Reply to the Father of the Whole Father", praising the miraculous effect of the Li medicine spider king medicinal liquor. Its text says, "That is, it is rare, the entrance is as deep as it is, and the cover has not tasted the ear." Therefore, Su Dongpo was overjoyed, and his spirit grew stronger, he persuaded farmers to cultivate, dug Dongpo wells, set up Dongpo Academy, taught the first jinshi in Danzhou, and composed a poem "Visiting Li Ziyun" for Li You Li Ziyun: "Wild trails meet children, Li Yin laughs and says Po Weng." The east walking stick is to find Li Lao, and the dog and the chicken are like a sick wind. "He deeply felt the affection of the Li people, and wrote the poem "Drinking with the Winter Solstice and The Lives", which has clouds;" Huayi two Bohe, drunk and laughing a cup of the same. He expressed his gratitude to the Li people, and also expressed his happy mood after his recovery. Although the times have changed, it still sounds evocative to this day.
When the professor saw us listening in fascination, he warmly invited us to a small stone platform outside the museum under the shade of greenery. He smiled and continued to tell a story of Su Dongpo and the "Li Family Double Treasure". After Su Dongpo's birth, the Buddha entered the heart, and Yuxi Zen Buddhism often interacted with the masters. After being demoted to Danzhou, he often climbed the mountain to find a temple, and worshiped the Buddha to meditate. And the mountain temple mosquitoes flying, Su Dongpo is always bitten by mosquitoes, Zen heart is difficult to determine, there are words of suffering. Later, according to the teachings of Li Min, he carried the "Li Family Double Treasure" to his body, and when he meditated, he applied it to his body, and there was no slightest mosquito entanglement, and he was clean and undisturbed all the time. Since then, Su Dongpo has tasted tea and enlightened the Tao, worshiped the Buddha, sat in meditation, and enjoyed himself, and could not help but give poetry and chant, singing a song "Hainan Wanli True Hometown". Soon after, he wrote a poem cloud: "The clouds scatter and the moon is bright, and the sky dissolves and the sea color is clarified." The empty Lu Shuo took advantage of the meaning, and roughly understood the regulus to play the music. Nine dead Nan Huangwu does not hate, Zi you qi is the best in life. Whether this story is still from the "Yongle Canon", the professor did not say it, but su Dongpo's poem "Crossing the Sea on the Night of June 20" we certainly remember.
"What is the Li Family Double Treasure?" The professor cleared his throat, laughed and said that we really asked the right person, while replying: The modern Li Jia Shuangbao is supervised by the International Spider Science Research Institute, which integrates the natural active ingredients of spiders and a variety of precious Chinese medicinal materials, using the li ethnic millennium experience formula, and refining the spray coating with modern special technology. It has two models, one is used to drive away mosquitoes, and the other is used to relieve itching, remove scars, reduce swelling and relieve pain. It has magical effects in repelling mosquitoes, relieving itching, and scarring. It will be fully launched this year to benefit the masses. We clap our hands together, rejoicing that on a hot day we will no longer be disturbed by mosquitoes.
Bidding farewell to this knowledgeable and humorous medical expert in laughter and laughter, we walked along the winding path and watched, bathed in the freshness of the rainforest. In twenty minutes, we came to the top of the Penang Valley Scenic Area and was once again attracted by the "Spider Science Park". This large wooden park built on the mountain covers an area of at least 1,000 square meters and looks like a large spider from a distance. We didn't let the Chunxiao girl explain what to say, we just let ourselves be fascinated by one exhibit and one exhibit and one exhibit to observe carefully. To be honest, we have visited many scenic spots at home and abroad, and many animals, creatures and other gardens have also been visited, but we have never seen such a large spider culture garden here! All the bad impressions that spiders used to bring us, what horror, boredom, disdain, etc., all vanished, and replaced by cuteness, magic, admiration, and a little worship!
We are determined to promote and promote the Spider King Cultural Park in Penang Valley to more friends. So we took the initiative to find the relevant departments of the Penang Valley Scenic Area and asked them to introduce the relevant dynamic information of the Spider King Cultural Park. Just in response to an old saying, "Don't listen and don't know, listen to the next jump". The fact is that Hainan Spider King Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. uses the Wuzhishan spider as raw material to develop and produce the original ecological ethnic medicine, medical insurance products and daily chemical products; it is the first high-tech biopharmaceutical enterprise in China to use this strange species of spider into medicine and food, and to carry out modern scientific and technological transformation on the basis of the traditional prescription of the Li ethnic group. The enterprise is building a comprehensive spider culture circle and cultural park, including the creation of the World Spider Culture Exhibition, the Spider Science Museum, the Spider Dream Theater, the Rainforest Spider Park and so on. At that time, a wonderful painting full of the meaning of history and reality, myth and human beings, art and spirit, and the unity of heaven and earth and spider culture will be displayed in front of us.
Dusk is gradually approaching, and the blood-like sunset shines on the jungle of the tropical rainforest, revealing colorful beauty. The surrounding tourists gradually left, and the Spring Dawn girl waved goodbye to us; and we still stopped in front of the Spider Culture Center, watching, imagining, and looking forward to it. The shape of the spider king hanging on top of the huge wooden house, caressed by the sunset into a golden spirit, transforms into a group of soaring eagles or Kunpeng in front of our eyes, and what awaits it must be the infinite vast sky.
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