Extra: 'Bear Infested' in Real History

Recently, in the text, I happened to write about a 'squirt' who seems to be a little naïve, so we can take the opportunity to sprinkle the water for a chapter.

The first thing to popularize science is the Chinese character 罴...... 罴, pronounced the same as 'skin', is a kind of super-large bear with a large body and a certain amount of intelligence, also known as horse bear, human bear.

It is recorded that an adult can reach a body size of more than 3 meters and weigh more than 800-900 kilograms, making him an out-and-out king of the forest.

Yes, in the minds of most people, the tiger that is intimidated by the beasts of Wuthering Mountains is the king of the forest, but in the mouth of hunters who often walk the mountains: "one bear, two pigs (wild boar) and three wild wolves".

This brother is the ancestor who must not be provoked when hunting in the forest; Although the tiger is fierce, it is a frequent visitor to the hunter's hunting list, which is nothing more than more difficult to hunt.

A behemoth that weighs up to a ton at every turn, as well as the protection of five centimeters of bear skin and a layer of more than ten centimeters of fat under the skin, this is the material guarantee that can run rampant in the mountains and forests.

Even the tiger's razor-sharp claws could not cut through such a thick armor defense, but they had to be careful not to be sat on by the big bear and squeezed out of the intestines in the stomach.

That's the horror of pure power points...... The so-called Tiger is nothing more than the scum with most of the attribute points added to agility.

However, there are no wonders in the world, just like the ignorant ogres, and occasionally there will be mages with two heads in length, who have always been pure strength and a little bit of power, and sometimes there will be a freak with relatively high intelligence.

In "Zi Bu Si. Volume V. In the chapter "Man and Bear", it records the terrifying experience of a group of Zhejiang merchants who went to Nanyang to return goods and encountered a bear on the island.

Wu, a Zhejiang businessman, a native of Shanyin (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), made a living selling foreign goods.

One year, Wu and more than 20 companions went to the South Seas, and the captain of the ship he was traveling on the way stopped the ship on an unnamed island to replenish fresh water.

Taking advantage of this gap, Wu and a few companions went to the island to move their legs and feet. As soon as they left the beach, they were attacked by a giant bear that was a foot long.

Frightened, Wu and the others ran into the woods in a panic, and were finally chased by a giant bear under a big tree.

Just when Wu and the others thought that they were going to die under the kiss of the bear, the giant bear bit off a tree vine, pierced a hole in Wu's ears, and then used the tree vine to pierce the hole, trapping several people on the big tree, and then jumped away.

After discovering that the giant bear had gone away, Wu and the others hurriedly cut off the tree vines with the self-defense knife hidden in their arms, covered the wound on their ears with their hands, and fled back to the boat to hide.

When he heard that there was a giant bear on the island, the captain was also taken aback, and hurriedly beckoned the sailors to lift anchor and start the ship.

As soon as the boat sailed to the shore, Wu and the others found several giant bears on the shore, four of which were humming and carrying a large stone slab, on which sat a giant bear that was much larger than the previous giant bear, and the bear who had pierced his ears with a tree vine before was happily leading the way in front of the team.

When they found out that Wu and the others had escaped, the giant bear sitting on the stone slab beat the leading bear with four bears, and finally beat him to death before leaving.

Although Wu and the others narrowly escaped with their lives, there was a wound in the ear that could never heal.

(Zhejiang businessman Wu, a native of Shanyin, sells foreign goods for a living.) More than 20 companions, blown to an island by the wind, because they went to the island to walk leisurely. Walking in Xu, I met a bear, Changzhang Yu, surrounded his companion with both hands, and the more he was encircled, the more he was forced.

When he went to the foot of a big tree, the bear took a long vine and pierced the ears of the people one by one, tied them to the tree, and jumped away. As soon as they were far away, they cut off their vines with the knives they were wearing, and rushed back to the ship. The four bears carried a large stone slab, and another bear sat on the board, which was bigger than the previous bear. The former bear still jumped like a happy one. To the side of the tree, I saw the empty vine and the ground, as if I had lost something. The bear on the slate was furious, and the four bears beat him up and went away immediately. Everyone looked at it in the boat, and they were all surprised, thinking that they would be reborn. There is a hole in the ear hole of Wu in Shanyin, ask the reason, and the history says so. )

Well, I can think of using a rattan to pierce my ears to restrain the prey, but I didn't think that the prey would also cut off the tree vines and escape.

However, I don't think that the trick of piercing the ears with rattan is not like a dexterous move that can be done by the huge bear's paw, and it may be a trick deliberately concocted by the maritime merchant Wu in order to create a sensational effect.

Perhaps the bear that attacked Wu and his party had just driven them all to a big tree, and then the desperate prey would happily return to the den and call for helpers to hunt him.

In Zhen's opinion, these prey can't run far even if they don't stay in the trees, after all, outside the forest is the boundless sea, and if you want to stay in the trees, stay there...... Anyway, Grandpa Bear will climb trees, and when I call for help, sooner or later you will all end up in the bear's belly.

Just as humans still can't understand the principles of interstellar space jumps, so too can the jungle that grows up make sense of such things as sea ships......

At the end of the story, the group of bears who rushed to hear the news found that Wu and the others had escaped from the trees, so they swarmed and chased to the beach with the smell, looking at the distant sea ships and roaring angrily.

The so-called incident of the big bear leading four bears to beat one bear is probably just an internal strife that broke out on the beach because the bears lost their prey...... The big hole left on Wu's auricle is actually just a relic of the wound after inflammation and festering, and it has nothing to do with the vine piercing the ear, it is purely an artificial interpretation.

Gossip and live.

When it comes to the giant bear injury incident, the closest one to modern times should be the 'Hokkaido Sanmaobetsu Wounding Incident' that occurred in 1915 in Sanmobetsu Village, Hokkaido, Japan.

This reader, you should be familiar with the three Chinese characters 'bear infested', right? In recent years, I have made a number of animated movies.

However, in real history, in Japan, where the three-word warning phrase 'bear infested' was born, it is a bloody and heavy memory.

In November 1915, a Hokkaido brown bear, later known as the "scarf" (a bear with a large piece of light-colored fur that resembles a robe), was too hungry to hibernate, so it broke into a nearby mountain village, was shot and wounded by the village's hunters and fled.

However, the inflamed and festering wound eventually provoked the brown bear's revenge...... On the morning of December 9, the brown bear infiltrated the home of the first victim, Ota, and ate Ota's young son and wife.

The whole thing has been out of control ever since.

On the night of December 10, the brown bear came to the village again, this time targeting a villager named Mingjing, and attacked not only people and animals, but also frantically destroyed houses, and finally five women and children were killed by the bear, and only three adults escaped with serious injuries.

On December 11, the villagers, whose eyes were red after the tragedy, moved all the women, children and the elderly to the bottom of the mountain, and then the men of the village spontaneously formed a bear hunting team to go up the mountain to seek revenge on the bear.

Beginning on December 12, the Hokkaido Police Agency dispatched a 600-strong raid team, 60 guns, and 10 hounds.

However, this "cassock hanging" had a time lag with the expedition team into the mountain, and once again took advantage of the opportunity that there was no one in the village to enter Sanmaobie Village and wreak havoc, not only eating up the villagers' food for the winter, but also destroying 8 houses one after another.

The police department couldn't sit still, and the police chief tried his best to finally hire a veteran with unusually rich hunting experience, Yamamoto Hyoyoshi, to serve as the guide of the raiding team.

On December 14, Yamamoto Hyoyoshi led a bear hunting team, and after a long and painstaking search, he finally found the "cassock" who was napping next to a white oak tree.

Yamamoto managed to sneak closer to less than 20 meters away from the "cassock", and with the most advanced rifle in his hand, he aimed the bear at the heart and head and pulled the trigger one after another, and he was killed.

Because the damage caused by the "robe hanging" was too serious, the villagers who had successfully taken revenge burned down the village of Sanmaobe, and left a warning of 'bear infested' on the charred ruins, and left here with their families.

As a result, everything disappeared into the long river of history.

However, the whole thing is far from over.

Zoologists have measured that the body of the "cassock" falling to the ground is 2.7 meters long and weighs 340-380 kilograms, but she is not the mangrove spirit who has lived for hundreds of years as people previously thought.

Judging by her bone age, the she-bear was only seventeen years old, at best just past puberty, and was malnourished due to severe lack of food (muscle atrophy on the right hind leg of the robe)!

It's hard to imagine what a really grown bear should be!

But then again, Sanmao's other tragedy was actually avoidable...... At the beginning, the hungry "cassock" only entered the village to look for food for the winter, and did not take the initiative to attack humans, but the arrogant and unreasonable villagers did not say a word, and directly resorted to force, shooting and injuring the "cassock".

And so the whole thing got out of hand......

With the rapid development of Japan's economy after the Meiji Restoration, more and more forest territories were constantly eroded by the locals, and even individual villages extended to the traditional forest hinterland (Sangebetsu Village).

It is the insatiable greed of human beings that exacerbates the conflict between animals and humans, and eventually becomes the fuse of the tragedy...... Compared with the man-eating bear, what should be crusaded more is precisely the vicious and evil greedy heart of the world!