However, a careful analysis of the story of Song Wu's killing a tiger can reveal many debatable places. For example, there were tigers in Jingyanggang at that time, and the government had no choice. I haven't heard that they care too much, but simply tell past businesses to go hand in hand. The tiger became famous after Song Wu killed it. People walk around the street with tigers, but they are not curious about tigers. You know, now we can only see tigers in the zoo, but many people have never seen them.
In the history of China, the tiger is an animal with totem nature, such as warrior troops, tiger generals, tiger ministers, tiger symbols used for dispatching troops, etc. Generally speaking, in a culture, only objects that can be feared can become totems. There are mountain gods just for mountains and rivers, and water gods for fear of floods, just like tigers. China people have complicated feelings for tigers. On the one hand, they respect its strength and ferocity, on the other hand, they are troubled by it and afraid of it.
The word "tiger disaster" is unimaginable today, but it was very common in ancient times. Confucius said that tyranny is fiercer than tigers, and Sun Quan's mount was eaten by tigers. In Lun Heng, Wang Chong once recorded that "the tiger enters the city and walks among the people". In Records of the Historian, Huang Xie told Zhao Haoqi of the State of Qin that when the State of Qin attacked Chu, it was like two tigers fighting. The older one will get hurt, and the younger one will die. Du Fu wrote in "Memories of Time Past" that there were no jackals on Kyushu Road when recalling the prosperous times of the Tang Dynasty. It means that tigers can be seen everywhere in the future. Zhang Ji, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, also wrote a poem "Tigers walk around the forest in the daytime".
After Zhang's Sichuan massacre, writers used tigers visible in Chengdu to describe the desolation and destruction of Sichuan. Ouyang Zhi once recorded in his book that at the beginning of Kangxi's accession to the throne, Sichuan was "full of tigers" and "tigers are masterpieces, which are harmful day and night". In the history books of the Ming Dynasty, there is also a clear record about the tiger disaster: the tiger disaster lasted for years, and tigers haunted and harassed, injuring 500 to 600 people.
There are many records about "tiger disaster" in history, which seems unimaginable now. Why is this happening? Fundamentally speaking, human beings and tigers compete for survival resources. Humans are not the only creatures living on the earth, but tigers also need territory. With the increase of population and the deforestation, tigers have nowhere to live, so they can only roam around. During the war years, the government lacked mobilization ability and was unable to resist the tiger disaster, which also contributed to the rampant tiger disaster. In the later "Man-Tiger War", the tiger was completely defeated, caged and sent to the zoo, but this was not the best result.