Europe and the United States are rampant with white left, and Monsanto has received little resistance under the new wave thinking, and the public opinion environment in our country is ...... The above requirement is that unless you can make a perfect genetic unlock like yours at one time, no human trials are necessary. ”

Yang Pingfan was unmoved, "If you want to draw my blood, you can, if you want my essence to clone embryos, don't talk about it." ”

Li Suifeng still wanted to advise again, but the prompt light on the bracelet flashed and flashed, and there was important news, so he immediately waved his hand to let Yang Pingfan leave first and browse by himself.

The next day, Yang Pingfan received a call from Li Suifeng again, asking him to go to the conference room for a meeting immediately.

When Yang Pingfan arrived, he found that Li Donglai was also there, Li Suifeng saw him come in, motioned him to close the door, clicked a few times on the computer, and the entire conference room suddenly darkened, leaving only the holographic projection screen.

"I'm calling you here today because I recently received an urgent message that requires both of you to help. This thing involves a dusty past, so I'm going to give you a lesson on science popularization first. ”

Li Suifeng's voice fell, Yang Pingfan and Li Donglai glanced at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's eyes, and they didn't know what medicine Li Suifeng was selling in the gourd.

"You all know about witch hunting and cat slaughtering in the Middle Ages in Europe, right?"

The two nodded, "I knew about it when I watched the movie, but I don't know the specifics." ”

Li Suifeng said, "As a pet with a long history of domestication, the status of cats in human society has also gone through ups and downs - sometimes they are held up to the clouds and respected as sacred beasts to worship, and sometimes they fall into hell and become evil demons that everyone shouts and fights."

Cats used to be very noble – in ancient Egypt, where domestic cats were first domesticated, the Egyptians regarded them not only as important family members, but also as rodent exterminators and high-quality caretakers of the Nile barns.

Because the importance of cats to grain hoarding is self-evident, so over time, the ancient Egyptians gradually deified the cat, creating the cat goddess Bastet with a cat head and a human body, every spring, the ancient Egyptians will hold a grand sacrifice event, gathering hundreds of thousands of people to sing the praises of the cat goddess Baste, it can be said that it is the cat's highest status in human society.

And in the East, there are no fewer similar cases.

As early as the Song Dynasty, cats jumped from the status of "catching mice in the field to feed themselves" to the status of "sleeping beauty in the arms of fish and meat", and became a tool for the powerful and rich to enjoy and enjoy.

Not only do you no longer have to hunt for your own food, there was even a pet market in Lin'an during the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was recorded in the "Xianchun Lin'an Zhi": "All people, animals, cats, long-haired white, famous lion cats, cover not to catch mice, and cats to watch beauty." This imported Persian cat is very valuable, and does not eat mice, but can only "burn pig liver and food, so that the hair is moist".

The high status of cats can be seen in the pen of the literati, Lu You wrote the famous article "Lying in the night listening to the wind and rain, the iron horse and the glacier come into a dream" on the day, but also left "The stream firewood is soft and warm, I don't go out with the raccoon slave" Such pet cat poems, even after being dismissed in his later years, Lu You's family was in distress, hungry and full, and saw his master suffering with him, and wrote a poem to express his guilt.

Wrapped in salt to welcome the little raccoon slave, protect the mountain house thousands of books;

I am ashamed that my family is poor and thin, and I have no felt to sit and eat without fish.

The love of the literati of the Song Dynasty for cats was directly passed on to the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Yang Shiqi, a cloth cloth, relied on a few words such as "the quiet one accumulates power, the moving one resists change", "I am the emperor's road, and the teeth and claws are the division", and he directly took a step forward.

In 1560, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi's cat died, in order to commemorate the cat named "Frost Eyebrow", Jiajing directly used Taoist etiquette to set up an altar to sacrifice the cat, and regardless of the cabinet ministers "this move is not done by the Ming Jun" dissuasion, directly with a gold coffin to bury the cat.

In the end, the cat was buried on the north slope of Wanshou Mountain, and a tombstone was erected, and three vigorous characters were printed on the tablet: Qiu Long Mound.

The golden coffin was not enough to comfort Jiajing's grief of losing his beloved, so he asked the ministers to write an essay for his beloved cat "Recommend the degree of superbirth", a minister named Yuan Wei waved his pen and submitted a brilliant sacrificial text, the sentence "turning a lion into a dragon" made Jiajing greatly appreciated, the emperor waved his hand, and Yuan Wei's fate was also opened: from a mere bachelor of the Ministry of Rites was promoted to a servant of the Ministry of Officials, and it didn't take long for him to be promoted to Zongbo, plus a product, and directly entered the cabinet. The speed of his promotion is unprecedented.

To the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, followed the Ming Dynasty emperor's generation of cat slave genes, especially after the death of Zhang Juzheng, he was more addicted to wine and cats, the number of cats in the palace was flooded, and when he met the young princess, he "fought with each other, tempted and howled".

A similar situation is happening in our neighbor Japan. First Reading Network

It is recorded in the "Guangjiyuan" that Japan is surrounded by the sea and does not produce cats, until the Nara period, in order to prevent the Buddhist scriptures from being damaged by mice on the way, the Japanese sent Tang envoys to introduce a few cats from China, because of the scarcity, only the royal family has the right to raise, and the general public does not even know what the cat looks like. Therefore, for a long time, having a cat was a symbol of power.

When it first appeared in front of the people, Japanese cats had a prominent position, and even the legend of the famous "beckoning cat" appeared.

Legend has it that during the Edo period, a cat named Kodama lived in the declining Tokyo-ji Temple in Tokyo, and the host hoped that it would bring good luck to the temple.

One day, the city lord and his party passed by the temple, Xiaoyu held his front paws and swayed at the door, as if inviting them to enter the temple. The lord of the castle felt the guidance of fate, and since then he has frequently visited Haode Temple, and the incense of the temple has been flowing since then.

This is just one of the many legends that have been born of the beckoning cat, which today seems to be very naïve and crudely written, and can all be summed up in one sentence: the blessing and good fortune that cats can bring to the poor people. This simple but beautiful story is especially easy to spread among the common people, and today almost every Japanese store has a beckoning cat, which shows the weight of the beckoning cat in the hearts of the Japanese people.

What's more, the Japanese have always believed in "gods and Buddhas", which means that each shrine or temple only needs to worship its own gods, but cats have broken this rule perfectly: many shrines and temples also worship cats in addition to gods. In the "Dictionary of Japanese Cultural History", the Japanese writer Hiroji Naoe directly pointed out in the entry of "cats" that the phenomenon of cats being "worshipped by gods and Buddhas" in Japan reflects the leapfrog characteristics of cats among the gods.

The examples I have listed just want to show that in human history, the status of cats has always been in a state of favor, and there is rarely abuse, but there is an accident somewhere.

That was the medieval period in Europe.

In the Middle Ages, as Christian power gradually took control of the European continent, the sacred worship of cats quickly became a thing of the past in the Western world.

The church began to vaguely feel that there was something wrong with the cat, always a little evil.

On the surface, it is the church's misunderstanding of the Bible, which records that human beings are God's people, and that God created all things to serve and be ruled by men.

But instead of being commanded by dogs or other domestic animals, cats are elusive creatures that hover between the familiar and the unfamiliar, and they happen to be nocturnal, so they were associated with the devil and witches by the Christian fanatics of the time.

I believe that in the film and television dramas that you have come into contact with, the reason why those evil witches often have a black cat next to them, or the witch herself will become a black cat, and then engage in various evil activities in the night...... This image was originally a feudal superstition that originated in medieval Europe.

Regardless of their relationship, the witch and the cat are both images of Satan, the embodiment of evil spirits and must be judged and killed!

As a result, the vigorous national cat slaughter movement was staged in medieval European countries with a strong religious atmosphere.

At first, this was just a spontaneous act of the people, but a letter from Pope Gregory IX, "Voice of Rome", directly and openly declared that the cat is a "non-Christian evil animal" and a companion to those terrible witches, and asked all Christians to work together to exterminate the cat from the soil of Europe with the strength of the future Chinese to eliminate the four evils!

At this point, the cat slaughter campaign was officially encouraged and turned into a de facto legal obligation.

According to God's teachings conveyed by the priests, cats are evil, and anyone – especially a woman – who shows affection for cats will be suspected of being a heretic or a sorcerer by everyone and is in danger of being burned alive!

In those cat-mad horror times, if a devout Christian went out at night and met a kitten, he had to kill the cat in all kinds of cruel ways, and if he left a living mouth or killed the cat in a cruel way that was not cruel enough, it was considered disrespectful and disrespectful to Christ Jesus!

Many people believed at the time that all feral cats had evil spirits and that the best way to protect themselves from evil spirits was to cripple the cat, such as breaking the cat's legs or blinding it.

In particular, the eyes of cats seem to have human nature and the ability to peek into people's hearts.

Cats were often a bad omen throughout France in the early modern period: fishermen encountering cats on the road would interfere with today's harvest, cats would not leaven bread in bakeries, some even believed that eating fresh cat brains while they were hot would give them the ability to become invisible, and if a black cat jumped on a human corpse, it would turn the corpse into a zombie.

The European Church felt that the only way to reverse this process was to kill the cat on the spot, and drench the cat's blood on the corpse, and then burn the human and cat corpses.