Fujian dug up a stone tablet, but the inscription was unbearable to look straight at. Scholar: It is impossible for Wu Song to kill a tiger.

Today, tigers have already become national endangered protected animals. They are regarded as our "national treasures" because of their bravery and beauty. However, who knows, in ancient times, these "national treasures" were "plague gods" that people were afraid to avoid. And the disaster they caused is called "tiger disaster"!

In South China, South China tigers were once widely distributed. As China's economic center moves southward, the conflict between the ancients and tigers becomes more and more fierce. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the tiger disaster reached a shocking level.

in 1956, a stone tablet was unearthed in xiapu county, which is located at the junction of the mountainous area in northeastern Fujian and Zhejiang, and described a frightening "tiger disaster". In the second year of Hongwu (1369), Xiapu County was also known as Funing Prefecture. Because of the war and people's displacement, the mountains are flooded with tigers. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the refugees in Funing returned to their hometown, only to find that this place had become a paradise for tigers.

These tigers have almost never seen hunters, so they are not afraid of humans at all, and dare to attack humans in broad daylight. Inscription records:

"Tigers criss-cross villages, hurting countless people, crossing walls and biting people, and the roads are few and far between".

It can be seen from the inscription that tigers, who used to fight alone, appeared in the village in droves, and even entered the house to eat people, and almost no one dared to travel on the road.

Because the tiger disaster was so serious, people in Funing Prefecture, who were originally prepared to settle down, fled their hometown again.

The inscription says:

"The fate of all people is death, continuous migration, consumption of household registration and shortage of fields. The tiger in Beishan eats people, injuring hundreds of people, and the mountains are deserted for months. "

As can be seen from the above, the ferocity of the tiger actually caused hundreds of casualties. It is said that human beings are the primates of all things, but in the face of fierce tigers, even human beings with weapons often suffer. Because the inscription also wrote that the state officials had organized Orion to encircle the tiger. The result is:

"There are dozens of people traveling during the day, and some are injured."

In other words, dozens of hunters holding spears and heavy crossbows and leading hounds can still be injured by tigers. This shows how fierce the tiger is. In order to eliminate the tiger disaster, people went to the Chenghuang Temple to pray, hoping that the gods could stop the tiger's atrocities. Finally, the inscription says that Chen Liang, the state official, went to the Chenghuang Temple to pray in person, and sent elite hunters into the mountains to suppress tigers again, and finally captured six tigers, which ended the tragic tiger disaster.

From this, we can guess that this monument should be erected by the people to praise the state official Chen Liang. And this inscription reveals the horror of the ancient tiger disaster for us more intuitively.

some readers will ask, didn't humans invent crossbows and sharp instruments? Why are you so afraid of tigers? Don't we still have Wu Song who killed the tiger with his bare hands? However, the author must emphasize that Wu Song is a legendary figure. It is impossible for a person to kill a tiger with his bare hands. Even if he uses cold weapons, he is likely to be killed by a tiger.

The tigers we see today are mostly farmed. They lie lazily in cages every day and look very cute and stupid. However, in the wild, the tiger is a killer, and all the indicators have completely exploded human beings. The average weight of the tiger is close to 27 kg, and the average speed is twice as fast as Bolt. The palm hitting power reaches 1 ton, but our top boxer-Tai Sen's boxing power is only 282kg, which is not an order of magnitude at all.

In the face of such a high-powered and agile opponent, let alone unarmed, it is difficult for human beings to be opponents even if they hold spears and crossbows. When hunting tigers, ancient people had to get on a special tiger shooting car and shoot tigers under the protection of the carriage. If you encounter mountains, you should concentrate dozens of people on hunting tigers in the mountains. "History of Jin" once recorded that during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Jin Dynasty, tigers actually ate people near Kaifeng. And the emperor actually allocated one hundred of his own soldiers to kill the tiger.

Apart from the terrifying strength and speed of tigers, the most frightening thing about tigers is that they like to sneak attack. They always hide silently in the dark and attack you from behind. They are obviously soldiers, but they can make the assassination a flower. Sometimes, before the hunters pulled out their weapons, the tigers would have slapped their brains out with one hand. Even if you really use cold weapons against the tiger, the end result is likely to be that you are dead and the tiger is dead. After all, the tiger skin is very thick.

Therefore, before the popularity of hot weapons, the tiger disaster is hard to disappear. Throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, tiger disasters were everywhere in South China. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Eight Banners Army of Manchu went south and slaughtered people in South China, resulting in a serious loss of control of the tiger population. For example, in the Fuzhou prefecture in the 21st year of Kangxi, "tigers come out in the daytime, but they don't eat more than 1 people every month". Tigers went out many times during the day and ate hundreds of people.

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In addition, according to the records of Shunqingfu County in Yongzheng period, 56 registered people were recruited and 228 were bitten by tigers. There are 74 new recruits and 42 tiger bites. The ferocity of the tiger is simply frightening.

in my opinion, the main reason for the large-scale tiger disaster in South China in Ming and Qing Dynasties was that the economic center moved south. A large number of immigrants exploited the mountains and hunted animals, which invaded the territory of the South China tiger and took away the tiger's food. In the end, tigers ventured to attack human settlements for food, thus causing serious tiger disasters.

in the late Qing dynasty, with the popularization of advanced hot weapons, tigers began to go to the end. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the South China tiger was even more devastated in the large-scale "tiger-killing operation". Nowadays, the South China tiger has been functionally extinct, and the wild South China tiger no longer exists. The extinction of the South China Tiger is not only due to human greed, but also due to human fear and hatred.