The Chinese rhino is a collective name for the populations of three species of rhinos (Indian rhinoceros, Sumen rhinoceros, Javan rhinoceros) that grow in China.
Chinese rhinos are generally 2.1-2.8 meters long, 1.1-1.5 meters high, and weigh 1 ton. It has many unique physical features, an unusually bulky body, short column-like limbs, a large head, a thick skin like armor, a single or double horn on the snout, and a pair of small eyes born on the sides of the head. Although they are large and ugly, they are timid and harmless animals. However, when they are injured or trapped, they are fierce, often blindly rushing to the enemy and stabbing each other with the horns on their heads. Although bulky, they can still walk or run at fairly fast speeds, reaching about 50 kilometers per hour over short distances.
Rhino horn is a precious hot and cool blood Chinese medicinal materials, its skin and blood can also be used in medicine, in the Chinese Song Dynasty there are records of rhino horn, but due to human activities and overexploitation, so that their habitat is reduced year by year; coupled with the economic and medicinal value of the rhino horn on their heads is extremely high, so that they have been hunted by humans since ancient times, and the number of arrests and killings is closer and closer to modern times, so that they finally disappeared almost nowhere in China in the early 20th century, and completely disappeared in China in 1922.
By the beginning of the 20th century, there were very few rhinos left in China. At this time, the rhino horn was more precious, but according to the official information at that time, from 1900 AD to 1910 AD, in just 10 years, there were more than 300 rhino horns paid tribute by the official and private people, and this did not include smuggling to foreign countries! After that, rhinos rarely catch them.
In 1916, the last double-horned rhinoceros (Sumatran rhinoceros) was arrested and killed;
In 1920, the last large one-horned rhinoceros (Indian rhinoceros) was killed;
In 1922, the last small one-horned rhinoceros (Javan rhino) was killed;
In the more than ten years after the founding of the Republic of China, only about 10 heads were hunted and killed. Since then, rhinos that have survived in China for thousands of years have completely disappeared in China.
Although the Chinese government has imported some rhinos from overseas, and although people can still see and see rhinos from Chinese zoos 90 years later, the rhinos that were native to China's wild environment will never return. Although these three species of rhinos still exist today, they are still endangered and critically endangered, and still urgently need our human protection.
Three thousand years ago, in the Yin Shang era, encountering rhinos in the wild was a common thing, roughly equivalent to encountering a rabbit in the field today. According to Oracle records, rhinos were called "sì" at the time, and after being hunted and killed, they were mainly used for human consumption. In the 2507th piece of the "Yin Ruins Text", it is said that king Yin captured 71 rhinos in the forest at one time.
The skin of the rhinoceros is very thick, it can withstand the attack of weapons such as knives and arrows, and it is a superior material for making shields and armor, which can be made into "rhinoceros armor". According to the "Wu Yue Chunqiu Gou Jian Wu Wai Biography", there were 13,000 warriors wearing rhinoceros leather armor in Wu Wang Fucha alone. Historical records may be exaggerated, but if this number were reduced tenfold, the demand for rhino skins would still be staggering. In the Song Dynasty, rhino horn was used. As rhinos begin to become scarcer, rhino horns are becoming more and more precious.