Once upon a time, in India, some poor people had to take risks to hunt pythons in order to earn some money.

It was a huge python, a python that burrowed in a damp cave, with yellow-brown markings on its back and a white belly, and liked to swallow corpses, especially human corpses. As a result, the Indians of certain tribes regarded them as gods, believing that they were sent by higher gods to take on the task of digesting human corpses. When a deceased person dies, he often carries him to the mouth of a cave occupied by a python and prays to be swallowed by the python as soon as possible. To make it easier for the python to swallow, the corpse was anointed. The ointment gave off a special fragrance, and as soon as the python smelled it, it crawled out of the hole......

The poor people who were forced to live tried to hunt this huge python, so they pretended to be a corpse, anointed themselves, and dived into the python's burrow, where they lay straight at the entrance of the cave. Naked, naked, of course. The main point is to keep your feet facing the hole. The python swallowed from the feet of the man in the hole. The person was gradually swallowed, and the python's body gradually crept out of the hole. If you don't understand this and head towards the entrance of the cave, then you will die in an instant, and the attempt to hunt the python will become wishful thinking......

Whether it is because the python likes to swallow people's corpses that it was superstitious and mapped, or because the python was first superstitious and mapped, it developed the habit of "eating white food", no one can explain clearly.

When I was a teenager, I read an Indian novel that described in detail the process of a man hunting a python. The man was not an adult, but a thirteen-year-old child. He and his father depended on each other. His father was seriously ill and dying, and he had no money for medical treatment. As long as there is money for treatment, the doctor guarantees that the disease can be cured. There wasn't much money, but the boy's family couldn't afford it. So the boy came up with the idea of hunting pythons. He understood that as long as he could hunt a python and sell the python skin, his father would not die in plain sight......

One night, he really used his actions to realize his idea. He stripped naked at the foot of the mountain infested with pythons, and applied the same kind of ointment to himself. He applied it very carefully. Not even a toe was neglected. If a teenager is bent on doing something that must be done, his seriousness at that time often surpasses that of adults. When I read this, I was both shocked by the courage of the young man and terrified for him. I think there is nothing more cruel in the world than life forcing a child to risk death. The obligatory nature of this kind of adventure is by no means contained in the four words "regard death as home". "Seeing death as home", sometimes it is enough as long as you are not afraid of death, and sometimes even "just ask for death". And the adventure of the python hunter is not to die fearlessly, but to live by luck. Living is the ultimate goal. Compared to the importance and difficulty of surviving, dying is very simple and insignificant......

The young man had a sharp knife in his hand and lay on his back at the mouth of the python's burrow at night. At dawn, the python spotted him and began to swallow him with his feet together. He held his breath. It doesn't matter if the python swallows fast or slowly. Python hunters must hold their breath. The python was extremely sensitive at that time, and the slightest obvious breathing would be noticed by the python. Usually it swallows an adult with an ointment, and it takes more than twenty minutes. When the python hunter swallowed half of itself, that is, when it swallowed it to its waist, it sat up unexpectedly - with instant speed, lifted the python's upper jaw with one hand, and slashed the knife horizontally with the other hand with all its might, so that half of the python's head, along with its eyes, would be cut off. The life and death of one's own family depends entirely on the speed and strength of that moment. Cut it off and throw it away. The speed is reached but the strength is a little lacking, and the python hunter is no longer alive. When the python is suddenly stimulated by a strong pain, it will vomit out half of the human body that has been swallowed. The man rolled on the spot and ducked. The python loses its palate and eyes, and wants to bite, but can't, and wants to entangle, but can't see. Angry to the extreme, he blindly whipped the rocks with his body, and finally died of exhaustion. But if the upper half of the python's head is not cut off, and the python's eyes can still see, then it will rush over and entangle the person with the great anger of being deceived, until the person is entangled to death, and the person dies with the person......

The misfortune happened when the boy's body was almost halfway swallowed by the python - a small ant got into the boy's nostrils, which was beyond the patience of willpower. The boy finally sneezed, and the result was predictable......

A few days later, the boy's father also died. The corpse was anointed with oil and was also carried naked to the mouth of the python hole......

More than 30 years have passed, but I will never forget the novel I read. Other aspects of the after-reading impression gradually faded with the years. Now there is only one stubborn question left in my mind -- there are many ways and experiences to hunt pythons, why do people choose the most adventurous one? This is undoubtedly the choice of wisdom and courage to put oneself in the place of death and then to live. But can this kind of "wisdom" also be regarded as a kind of cunning? Isn't it? The python likes to swallow human corpses, and people do what they like, devise a plan from an aspect that the python never expected, and use itself as bait to send it to the python's mouth, allowing the python to swallow half of it first, and then "striking at the rear" by surprise! But the question arises again -- can cunning really be regarded as a kind of "wisdom"? Can it be barely counted, but what kind of "great wisdom" can it be regarded There are some differences between the two. Zhuge Liang retreated from the city army with an "empty city plan", which is called "wisdom". Cao Cao took Xu Shu's old mother captive and used her as a "hostage" to force Xu Shu to work for himself, which seems to be only cunning! And how despicable is his cunning!

So in the contest between man and beast, why did man choose the most cunning way to take risks? If the way the Indians hunted pythons in the past was not enough to prove this, then the way the hunters in the Ancol region of Africa hunted bison was just as cunning and risky. The bison in Africa's Ancol region are tall and ferocious, and the local natives have hunted them in a different way for generations. They took advantage of the bison's habit of not trampling on or touching human corpses.

Why Ankle bison does not trample on or contradict human corpses is also something that no one can explain.

The hunter can almost be said to be naked, except for the bark around his waist and the armbands on his arms. A small bow, a few poisoned arrows, and a knife attached to an armband were the full armament of the bison hunt. They always act alone, ambushing in the grass where bison are frequented. Acting alone is to avoid partitions.

When the buffalo graze in herds, the hunters in ambush secretly seek out their targets for murder and then cautiously crawl closer. While the target lowered his head to chew grass, Huo Ran, the hunter who had already aimed at it, stood up and released his arrows. Then he fell down again, and his movements were as swift as the arrows that had gone off the string.

The arrow fluttered on the buffalo's stout neck. The behemoth snorted and shook its head, as if to drive away pesky cowflies. After a while, it began to stare up in alarm, suspecting that there was a cunning foe lurking nearby. After a few minutes of fidgetiness, the bison looked back at the distant herd and wanted to chase after his friends. And just then, a second arrow hit it. The bison, though sharp-eyed, failed to spot the enemy lurking in the grass. But it heard the sound of a bowstring. The second arrow in its neck made it doubly frenzied, and its nose was cocked high, and it hurried towards the ringing of the bowstring. It doesn't feel fear, it just feels angry. Suddenly, it stopped, because it smelled something suspicious. Smell and search forward......

The bison bowed his head, and with two sharp horns, he rushed straight forward. For the hunter, the situation was dangerous. If he could not hold his breath and got up and ran away, then he would be dead! The bison stomped its hooves and ploughed the ground in front of the hunter, bobbing its head, snorting heavily, and staring at its eyes bloodshot with rage...... In the end, it did not attack the "human corpse", and turned away with contempt......

But this is just a "tactic" - the "tactic" of the bison. This "tactic" may have been instinctively summed up from the sad fate of many of its kind. It jerked around again, rushed back to the man, circled around the man, stamped his hooves, and dug the ground, its eyes more bloodshot and wider, and at the same time it snorted heavier and heavier, and the nasal fluid sprayed directly on the man's face. And the hunter had extraordinary composure. He could always hold his breath, his eyes unblinked, his heart did not beat, he lay on his back, staring at each other eye to eye with the bison, more like a dead man than a real dead man. The bison killed five times again and again, but still did not see any flaws in the "dead man". The bison, on the contrary, thought that he was too suspicious, and decided to stop tempting the "dead man", let go of all four hooves and run after his herd, and this time the exhaustion of his life hastened the poisonous attack on the arrowhead, causing it to weaken on all fours and fall to the ground with a bang. This behemoth, which weighed more than 1,000 pounds, died in the hands of a cunning little man......

Modern zoologists have analyzed and concluded that animals not only have habits, but also have species and personalities. Bison are very proud creatures, and they can be described as "stubborn and conceited" when describing people. To attack something that is dead is to violate the character of its kind. People can often do things that go against their character, but animals cannot. The character of the animal determines its behavior pattern, or "behavioral principle". It will take at least 100 generations to change it. Until their species and character have changed, they will not violate the "principle of conduct" even if they die. And it is the cunning that people take advantage of their dull kind of character. Modern zoologists believe that the reason why bison never trample on or resist dead bodies is also because of their "mental hygiene" habits. They are extremely disgusted with dead things, and regard dead things as filthy, lest they defile their hooves and horns. The power of weapons is only used in two situations - when estrus is fighting for mates with your own kind, and when encountering lions. Its "return pistol" can also be counted as a kind of cunning. But no matter how cunning it is, it cannot be expected that a cunning person would rather pretend to be a "dead corpse" that it considers to be filthy in order to murder it......

Even more cunning than the African natives hunting Anker bison was the way the Gilbert Islanders hunted the giant octopus. Gilbert Island is an ancient island in the Pacific Ocean. The size of the octopuses in the surrounding waters is enough to shock the world. Their tentacles can easily overturn a small boat with a person on board.

The Gilbert Islanders who hunt the big octopus cooperate together. One acts as a "bait" and the other as a "killer". In order to pay due tribute to the "bait", the people of the island also call them "victims".

The "victim" dives first and swims slowly near the reef where the large octopus is infested to attract the attention of the lurking large octopus. Then he suddenly turned around and bravely rushed straight to the entrance of the cave, fearlessly breaking into the strike range of the eight tentacles of the big octopus.

The one who acted as the "killer", lying in ambush not far away, waiting for the opportunity to attack. When he saw that the "bait" had been dragged to the hole by the octopus, the big octopus had greedily probed the "bait" flesh with its hard beak, looking for the softest part of the mouth. So the "killer" quickly swam over and pulled his partner out of the cave with the big octopus. The big octopus was enraged and tightened its grip on the "victim" even more ferociously. And the "victim" also hugged the big octopus tightly to prevent it from realizing the danger and abandoning itself and slipping away. So the "killer" quickly grabbed the head of the big octopus, twisted it towards his face, and then aimed it between its eyes - here is the fatal part of the octopus, to paraphrase a common word in martial arts novels can be called "death hole" - and gnawed desperately. One bite, two bites, three bites...... After a while, the big octopus with its teeth and claws gradually relaxed its suckers, and its tentacles hung down like dead snakes, and it was so dead......

It is interesting to analyze the cunning of humans in hunting and "murdering" animals. First of all, we can conclude that cunning is often a scheming force of the weak class by the living environment. Our ancestors did not have sharp teeth or sharp claws, nor even horns or hooves to defend themselves, nor thicker skin, nor were they fast enough to flee for their lives. In eternal times, man was undoubtedly one of the weakest animals on earth. There is simply no way to survive without living in groups. So the environment of survival and the instinct of survival forced to give birth to cunning. Cunning has become a special ability of man against animals. Secondly we can conclude that man has used his cunning abilities against his own kind, apparently after he has become stronger than all animals. When all animals can no longer seriously threaten the survival of human beings, one part of humanity directly becomes the enemy of another. The main contradiction has been alleviated and eliminated, and the secondary contradiction has risen and been transformed. For example, the contradiction of distribution, the contradiction of possession, and the contradiction of dividing spheres of influence. Because people know people best, it is much more difficult for people to deal with people than people to deal with animals. Especially when one part against another, thousands against thousands. Then the cunning of mankind became even more cunning, and the scheming became a trick. "Undercover agents", spies, and spies, their roles are much like the "victims" of the Gilbert Islanders when they hunt large octopuses. The military tactic of "putting to death and then reliving" can be vividly explained by the adventures of the ancient Indians when they hunted pythons. Then, a military feint is like the method of killing an Ancol bison when an African natives hunt an Ancol bison.

At the end of the day, I think cunning is not wisdom, just as ridicule is not humor. Cunning is often risk-taking, the scheming to achieve the goal through risk-taking. Big cunning is a big adventure, and small cunning is a small adventure. For example, during World War II, the Japanese army's military act of sneaking up on Pearl Harbor was to completely provoke a strong enemy and strengthen the military will to retaliate. Later, the two *** that the United States threw in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tantamount to the price of their own cunning for Japanese militarism. The German fascists' undeclared war on the Soviet Union during World War II was also a kind of military cunning. The price is to make a nation that has defeated the invading army commanded by Napoleon live and die with the same enemy. The eventual fall of Berlin, and its split in two within a few decades, was the price paid by the German nation for Hitler as a national sinner.

Wisdom is the cure for human beings to overcome their cunning habits, and it is the result of human self-education. Wisdom is a method of thinking that seeks to avoid risk-taking. It often bypasses the cunning impulse to take risks and seeks a better way to achieve its goals. Acts of cunning are the acts that most easily arouse hatred among human beings, and are therefore despicable acts. Wisdom alleviates, dissolves and transforms the contradictions and hatreds between human beings. It can also be said that wisdom is for cunning. As for Zhuge Liang's "empty city plan", although it is a risky choice, it is almost the only choice, and there is no choice. Moreover, the purpose is to defend, not to attack, so there is no inferiority, which just reflects the charm of wisdom.

A person who is too cunning is likewise an adventure in relationships. The price is that if you are recognized as a cunning person, then you are also recognized as a despicable person. Whoever is recognized as a despicable person will not be able to change the general perception of him or her for almost the rest of his or her life. Moreover, I'm afraid that no one wants to associate with it anymore. What a great adventure and what a price to pay for a person!

If a person is too cunning, he cannot be called a lovely and respectable person. For people in the same human environment, it will be doomed to be dangerous. For the human environment in which he or she exists, it will be doomed to be harmful. Because cunning is an invisible weapon. Because it is invisible, those who possess this weapon will always use it again and again for one end or another, until they pay a terrible price for their cunning. But at that time, others, the surrounding human environment, were also seriously harmed.

A person is too cunning, no matter how knowledgeable or highly educated he or she is, there will inevitably be traces of indigenous people on his or her body. That is, the traces of the behavior of our ancestors when they were uncivilized. Modern humans, even when dealing with animals, do not adopt the cunning and adventurous ancient methods of our ancestors. Cunning is really a degradation of the character of the human species, reducing the human being to a stage where it is only slightly higher than the intelligence of animals. For example, the people of Gilbert Island hunted octopuses by gnawing, and who can say that they are not cunning and animalistic?

Man, so that we do not bear the consequences of cunning, and do not pay the price for excessive cunning, we should not take the risk of cunning. Try to be a less cunning person, and maybe you will feel that you are not living badly.

Of course, if you can be a wise person, and always look at life, others, fame and fortune disputes, and interpersonal friction from the perspective of a wise person, it is more worth learning.