"Wu Song Fighting Tiger " is a household story in "Water Margin ". Wu Song went home to visit his brother Wu Dalang . After drinking eighteen glasses of wine in "Three Bowls of No Gang", he went to Jingyanggang and killed a white-headed insect with a hung eye that "had ruined twenty or thirty big men's lives". Wu Song was respected by the locals for killing the tiger. He was appointed as the head of Yanggu County by the magistrate. He changed from a "free employed person" to a "security captain", and turned over.
Not to mention whether humans can really kill tigers. If Wu Song travels through time to modern times, he will not be able to see tigers on Jingyanggang. The South China tiger , which was distributed in most of China back then, is now extinct in the wild.
South China tiger is a type of tiger unique to my country. Although it is called South China tiger, they have also survived in North China, Central China region, and maybe it is more suitable to call them Chinese tiger .
As top predator , the South China tiger can reach up to 2.8 meters in length and its maximum weight reaches 225kg, making it a veritable "big cat". The South China tiger is second only to the Siberian tiger and the Bengal tiger , making it the third largest tiger in the world. The biggest natural enemy of wild South China tigers is humans, and "human-tiger conflict" is inevitable.
Before the Song Dynasty, there were not too many "human-tiger conflicts" but not without them. Emperor Dongwu Sun Quan was attacked by a tiger while out for a trip, almost injured. At the time of the Tang Dynasty, a tiger even ran to the city, scaring the people to sleep day and night. After the Song Dynasty, the "conflicts between people and tigers" began to become sharp. During the Southern Song Dynasty, a large number of northern population migrated south to South China region, and the habitat of South China tigers was greatly reduced. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the surge in China's population, the "human-tiger conflict" reached its peak, and the "tiger disaster" became more and more serious. According to the "Baoshan County Chronicles" of the Ming Dynasty, a fierce tiger actually injured 65 people. The "tiger's disease" in Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty was extremely serious. "There were tigers everywhere, some in groups of ten or twenty, or seven or eight on the same road, crossing the walls and houses, floating on the water and boarding boats and climbing stairs. These are all unheard of in ancient times and those who do not believe in it."
In order to eliminate South China tigers, people invented many traps and weapons and hunted a large number of South China tigers. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were about 4,000 wild South China tigers, but the human-tiger conflict continued. In the 1950s, many people still died. The state encouraged the formation of a "tiger-fighting team". 530 South China tigers were arrested and killed in Fujian Province alone. By the 1980s, the number of wild South China tigers was less than 100. In 1986, a young South China tiger was captured by iron clips and died of serious injuries half a month later. This was the last time that people caught a wild South China tiger.
1989, South China tiger was listed as national first-class protected animal . However, it was too late. People seemed to have let go of their fear of the "King of All Beasts" and conducted field investigations one after another, but in the end, only some traces were found, and the owner of these traces was not seen.
The existing South China tigers are all descendants of the six wild South China tigers captured in the early days, and the inbreeding problem is serious. There is a long way to go to protect the South China tiger.
The author believes that we should express our "support" for the protection of South China tigers in captivity, but we cannot "sympathize" with them. After all, tigers are wild beasts, extremely cruel and cannot be stopped if they hurt people. After all, human beings are selfish, and protecting animals must be based on human beings’ own safety.
In today's India, more than 40 people die every year. While we regret the extinction of the wild South China tiger, we should also be glad that the incident of "evil tiger hurts people" disappeared from us. At the same time, let us wish that the cause of protecting the South China Tiger will get better and better, so that the South China Tiger, a beautiful and cruel species, will survive on this planet forever!
