There is an old saying among the people that "A gentleman takes revenge, it is not too late."
As a high-level creature, humans will also think about revenge and think about it again and again. But can you believe it? As reptile , snakes, , can actually "hold revenge". Although they can't express it in words, their behavior gives people a feeling of "revenge".
So, will snakes really hold grudges? Many people may think this is an "incredible" phenomenon and may even sneer.
However, as early as 1991, something like this happened in Lichuan City, Enshi Prefecture, Hubei Province. A snake catcher named Cheng Diming killed 73 venomous snakes in 1986. As a result, he was "chased" by a large number of venomous snakes within 5 years. The end result was that he was besieged by the venomous snakes and bit him to death.
After his death, the grave became a nest for snakes, and hundreds of poisonous snakes go to lay eggs every year, so his grave is also called "snake tomb" by the locals.
What is going on? What are the grudges and grudges between Cheng Diming and the snake? Why did the snake bit him to death at all costs? Will they really "revenge"?
Behind any incredible things, there are actually scientific theories supported. Cheng Diming's death is closely related to his crazy snake catching.
Lichuan City , it is located in the west by Shuyu, in the east by Enshi , in the south by Xiaoxiang, in the north by Three Gorges , it is a good place with mountains and water. The landscape of Zhongshenxiu has given birth to a large number of wild animals and plants, and snakes are the most commonly seen animals between landscapes.
As the saying goes, "Eat the mountains and rely on the mountains to eat water." In the last century, driven by economic interests, a large number of snake catchers were born in Lichuan City. They walk in the mountains and forests every year to catch wild snakes for profit.
Cheng Diming, as a native Lichuan City, he spent the first half of his life shopping in the land. Later, he saw that snakes could be sold for money, and a few snakes could be sold for about a hundred yuan, which was worth the land he had planted for the first half of his year. So he joined the army of snake catchers, but he could not have expected that he would die a few years later.
As a snake catcher who became a monk, Cheng Diming has always learned his skills by observing. Seeing that other snake catchers can catch dozens of them a day, he secretly vowed that he would also become the top snake catcher. Nothing else, because in his eyes, these people are just picking up money on the ground. What else can be done in the world faster than this? So Cheng Diming learned everything and was full of energy.
After consciously achieving success in his skills, Cheng Diming couldn't wait to devote himself to the actual combat. He is not a stupid person either. At the beginning, he only caught non-venomous snake , among which " cauliflower snake " is his favorite.
cauliflower snake is non-toxic and can be used as medicine and can be eaten, but there are many varieties, among which Wang Jinshe is the most. In the last century, cauliflower snake was a very common snake. It was really common to catch it and fight tooth sacrifice . However, on August 1, 2000, the snake had been included in the "three-in-one" protected animals by the China Forestry Administration. If you catch more than 20, you will be sentenced.
Cheng Diming likes to catch Wang Jinshou, not only because it is a type of cauliflower snake, but more importantly, Wang Jinshou is of extremely high value and is sold at much higher prices than ordinary snakes.
The world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit. Cheng Diming is also an ordinary person, so he naturally cannot get rid of such rules. Although he became a monk halfway through, he is familiar with the locals, so he has many advantages that snake catchers from other places do not have.
In the first few years, Cheng Diming's snake-catching career can be said to be smooth and exciting. With the income from snake hunting, he built his old house in his family and became a famous local "snake hunting celebrity".
With his reputation, and Cheng Diming's huge income also made the villagers very envious. Naturally, someone came to him to become a disciple, and Cheng Diming was also very happy and accepted two apprentices at once.
In fact, Cheng Diming also has his own plans, because in his previous years of snake catching experience, he encountered poisonous snakes several times. If he hadn't been avoided quickly, he would have been bitten by poisonous snakes, and the consequences would have been unimaginable. Therefore, Cheng Diming felt that walking with others could take care of multiple people and help each other even in emergencies.
April 1986 is a good season for snake catching. In order to prevent accidents, Cheng Diming took his two apprentices to the forest he used to visit. When he was familiar with the family, the probability of catching the cauliflower snake was very high. But even so, unexpected encounters are unexpected.
Cheng Diming and his three men walked carefully in the mountains and forests, concentrating on finding the cauliflower snake. Suddenly, a red snake appeared in front of him. Cheng Diming recognized it at a glance that it was red neck trough snake , which the locals called "red flower pheasant neck snake".
Cheng Diming was very disappointed when he saw that it was not a cauliflower snake, because in his eyes, this snake had no value at all, and no one was willing to acquire it. So Cheng Diming didn't say anything, and just picked up the stick in his hand and pointed it at the snake's head.
In Cheng Diming's eyes, the red-necked trough snake is a "non-venomous" snake, and if it is killed, it will be killed. In fact, the cervical trough is located at the back of the oral cavity and is a posterior trunk, rather than a more advanced tube tooth. It needs to be bitten deeply and chewed before to inject toxins, so it has not been paid enough attention to it.
Until the beginning of this century, a large number of cases showed that cervical trough snake was highly toxic, and after being bitten, toxins would enter the blood, causing bleeding from multiple organs. There is currently no corresponding serum for cervical trough snakes, and it can only be treated through serum dialysis. On August 1, 2000, the genus snake was also included in the "three-in-one" protected animals.
After killing the neck-trough snake, Cheng Diming and the other two continued to look for cauliflower snakes around, but what they didn't expect was that several neck-trough snakes ran out. Cheng Diming caught the snake for several years, but had never seen any scenes before. He pulled out the sickle hanging from his waist and killed the snakes in just a few seconds.
Then, what the three of them were unexpected was that more and more neck trough snakes ran out, and they rushed towards the three of them like fountains. In the end, even Cheng Diming couldn't finish killing them, so they had to call on their two apprentices to come and help.
Unexpectedly, these two apprentices had never seen such a scene. At this time, they were so scared that they were so scared that they shouted that Cheng Diming would run quickly. The three of them began to run wildly into the village like frightened birds.
After finally getting rid of the pursuit of the snake group, Cheng Diming told the villagers about this, but everyone thought he was sensational. Until another snake catcher went to check and found that the scene was densely filled with dead snakes, with as many as 73, people had to believe what Cheng Diming had encountered.
Since this incident happened, the two apprentices hurriedly parted ways with Cheng Diming. After all, this kind of thing happened once, and the shadow of their hearts for a lifetime was buried. Later, the incident was reported by some media, causing a considerable sensation in the local area.
Perhaps this incident made Cheng Diming feel scared. In the next two years, he did not go out to catch snakes again. Until later, Cheng Diming heard that the market for snake collection began to rise, and many people bought bicycles by catching snakes. His heart, which had been silent for two years, was ready to move again.
After deciding to catch snakes again, Cheng Diming quickly sorted out his snake-catching tools. However, after he went up the mountain, he found that the valuable snakes around had already been caught by the local snake-catching people. In the mountains where snakes were often caught, Cheng Diming searched for several days but had no gains, so he decided to go to the deeper mountains to catch snakes.
On this day, Cheng Diming came to a local place called Huolongping, which is the easternmost boundary of Lichuan City. Because it is remote and inconvenient, few snake catchers are involved.
After entering the forest, Cheng Diming was overjoyed because there were a lot of cauliflower snakes here, so he caught more than twenty in a day.Because he was too far away from home, Cheng Diming didn't go home for a few days and caught snakes in the mountains and forests day and night. By the third day, he had already caught more than fifty people.
Until the night of the third day, Cheng Diming discovered a snake. Maybe it was because his skills were unfamiliar, or maybe it was because his eyes were blurred, and he actually regarded the neck-trough snake as a cauliflower snake. As a result, he was accidentally bitten when catching it, and the snake venom was injected into Cheng Diming's body.
At the beginning, Cheng Diming didn't care, but within two hours, he felt a little weak and shouted in his heart that he was not doing well. So he rushed to a nearby village overnight and was finally sent to the hospital. He finally saved his life.
This time, Cheng Diming thought that it was just that he was accidentally injured. Under the temptation of catching snakes and selling money, Cheng Diming recovered and came to Huolongping again to continue his great career in catching snakes.
For the three years after that, Cheng Diming came to this place every year, but he was bitten by a snake twice, and the ones who bit him were all neck trough snakes. Many villagers advised him not to catch snakes. They believed that Cheng Diming's experience was not accidental, but that the neck-trough snake was looking for him to "revenge".
Cheng Diming was already afraid at this time. After thinking about it, he finally decided not to wash his hands. After all, over the years, he has made a lot of money by catching snakes, so there is no need to take risks with his life. So Cheng Diming began his own farming life again. But what he didn't expect was that even if he worked hard in the sweet potato field, he still couldn't escape the fate of being bitten to death by a neck trough snake.
One day in the summer of 1991, Cheng Diming went to work in the fields in the morning and never returned home. When people found his body in the field, they saw a total of 9 snake-biting wounds on his body, and there were dozens of dead neck snakes next to him. People can't believe that Cheng Diming died in the mouth of a poisonous snake. So do snakes really hold grudges? Why did he still speak out against Cheng Diming after five years?
Not only that, after Cheng Diming was buried, locals rumored that hundreds of poisonous snakes appeared around his grave every year, becoming the famous "snake tomb" in the local area.
Of course, since there is such a legend in the local area, it may not be groundless, but we cannot believe rumors. Everything needs to be analyzed with a scientific attitude.
According to existing research data, the earliest time of snake activity on earth should be traced back to 130 million years ago. After that, snakes began to evolve, but they seemed to be carved from the same mold. Except for the sizes, they were surprisingly similar in size, with no legs or feet. A small head dragged a long body and had to walk on the ground or in the water on the abdomen.
Not only that, the brain capacity of snakes is particularly low, so they are a creature with low IQ, or even zero IQ. They mainly rely on the surrounding temperature to judge whether there is danger. If they do not disturb it, they will never easily attack humans. From this point of view, the situation of snakes "holding revenge" and "revenge" is scientifically untenable.
But some people refute why the two people with Cheng Diming were not attacked by the neck trough snake, but he was bitten to death? In fact, this is scientifically based.
Snake catchers have a word of mouth: "A king's snake, ten miles of no poisonous snake." Wangjin snake is a type of cauliflower snake. It has an anal gland . It can secrete a unique odor when encountering natural enemies. It smells very common for people, but for other snakes, it is a smell that makes them disgusted.
Cheng Diming caught hundreds of cauliflower snakes, including several of Wang Jin snakes. Every time he catches, his body is covered with the smell of cauliflower and snake, which cannot be removed even by taking a bath, but it is difficult for humans to smell this smell.
The most important point is that over the years, the nearby cauliflower snakes have been hunted by Cheng Diming. The neck trough snakes have lost their natural enemies, so naturally more and more people have reproduced.
So from beginning to end, the smell played the greatest role in it. Cheng Diming's two apprentices stopped catching snakes, so they did not have that smell on their bodies, but the smell on Cheng Diming's body is the best goal for the neck trough snake.
Because of this, when Cheng Diming went to work, he attracted a large number of neck trough snakes. The neck trough snake judged that the smell on Cheng Diming was not particularly powerful natural enemies for them, so the enemy was particularly jealous when they met, so the neck trough snake attacked Cheng Diming. It is easy to explain that snakes appear in Cheng Diming's tomb after
. In that era, people were basically buried after death. The smell of Cheng Diming's rotten corpse still carried the smell of cauliflower snakes. Therefore, more and more natural enemies of cauliflower snakes entered Cheng Diming's tomb in groups, which led to the phenomenon that his tomb became a snake.
More than that. In the village where Cheng Diming is located, some people saw this phenomenon and began to describe it in an invigorating way, and then spread rumors about a "snake tomb". In fact, this is a natural phenomenon caused by the support of science.
Although Cheng Diming's death and the appearance of the "snake tomb" are normal, we can still get a lot of warnings from the ending of Cheng Diming!
Although humans are primates on the earth, they should maintain awe of nature at all times and follow the laws of nature, because once the harmonious ecological chain between man and nature is broken, it will cause irreparable harm.
In the countryside, our elders have educated us that no matter whether it is poisonous or not, we must walk away in time, because when facing snakes, if you don’t touch them, they will not actively attack people. Moreover, the elderly think that the snake entering the house is a kind of snake , and they can't be beaten, but can only be rushed. It is actually a superstitious statement to think that they are spiritual animals, but the elderly are really good at it. They are afraid that maliciously provoking snakes will cause harm to their families. Isn’t this a way to protect snakes?
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