"Why can't weasels be eaten? Not just because of superstition, Li Shizhen has long been given an explanation

Chinese culture has a long history, in addition to those who shine brightly with the image of literature and historical images, there are many more full of strange imagination and mysterious folk culture.

They have also enriched the cultural treasures of the Chinese people and shaped our national character. They are even closer to our daily lives, and in addition to being more pyrotechnic, they are also more capable of reflecting the outlook and wisdom of ordinary people's lives.

They have long been in the development of thousands of years, affecting our festival culture, affecting our religious culture, and even a strong influence on our food culture.

And following a line in our folk culture, we can often find many interesting aspects of Chinese culture.

In addition to "Nvwa", "****workers touching the mountain", "Chang'e running to the moon", "Pangu opening the sky", and so on, we can find many wonderful and interesting places in Chinese culture. "The four major myths and legends are full of magnificent and grandiose imagery.

There are also many living colorful folklore, also contains a lot of interesting knowledge in which it is worthwhile for us to figure out. The most typical, is to "weasel to the chicken to pay tribute to the New Year - not good intentions" such as the epigraph as a representative.

The weasel mentioned here, in addition to the habit of "stealing chickens and touching dogs", in the traditional Chinese culture, there is also the color of gods and ghosts in it.

As a result, people often think that weasels, because of their spirituality, are not served on the Chinese table as a delicacy. But is this true? Is it true that weasels can "escape" because of their mysterious cultural colors?

Weasel in Chinese folk culture, there is also a loud name. It is the "Yellow Fairy", since it can be called Fairy, is because in ancient times, especially in rural areas of the people, this animal is the enlightenment of the spirit of wisdom.

In their description, the weasel is always day and night, and if he meets him on the narrow road, it may be "possessed", it is manipulated by the mind, so that people's mental disorders, behavioral anomalies.

And some of the "Wong Tai Sin" possessed or look on the person, may become its spokesman, to help people seeking help to solve problems, divination of the future, to resolve the bad luck. It's a great way to get the most out of your life, and it's a great way to get the most out of your life.

But in fact, with the current scientific vision and knowledge to analyze the know, the reason why the weasel will leave such an impression on the people at that time, is also justifiable.

First of all, weasels come out by day and by night, with long limbs, short bodies, fast movements, and sometimes they can lift their front feet to walk upright.

All of this makes it impossible for people to have a deep and clear understanding of it, and naturally it is attached to a lot of mysterious and primitive imagination.

Secondly, the weasel's means of self-defense is to attack its enemies by emitting foul-smelling farts.

And its stinky farts contain a kind of toxin, if inhaled will make human poisoning, light dizziness, vomiting, may also produce a variety of hallucinations, serious and even fainted directly to the ground.

At a time when scientific knowledge was underdeveloped, such encounters could have led to a lot of psychic coloring being added to the weasel's abilities through the strange behavior of the poisoned person.

But today's scientific research has proven that weasels are able to emit this foul-smelling, toxic gas because of a pair of anal glands on either side of their anus.

The yellow liquid secreted by these glands evaporates quickly in the air, creating an extremely unpleasant smell similar to rotten eggs.

The weasel is a carnivorous animal.

The weasel is a carnivore, so its diet will inevitably conflict with that of humans. Chickens, ducks and geese raised by humans, and even mice in the house, may be the target of his hunting.

So when the weasel goes out to feed at night, it often meets humans in a narrow path, and there is a "frontal conflict", in which it defends itself in ways that deepen people's imaginations of what it can do.

This led to the birth of Wong Tai Sin. But is it only because of the unknown and awe that people do not let the "Wong Tai Sin" has not been reduced to people's gourmet?

The truth is that it is not that simple.

In the Chinese culinary culture, there is no shortage of superstitious food. Snakes, for example, are revered, but that doesn't stop some people from coveting them.

So the fact that weasels can't eat the truth is just because they're not good.

Li Shizhen once wrote in his "Compendium of Materia Medica": "(Weasel) meat sweet, smelly, warm, with a small poison; heart, liver odor, slightly toxic."

From this, we can see that the weasel's meat is not only stinky, but also poisonous. Therefore, people naturally do not choose to eat its meat.

In addition to this, there is another reason why no one eats weasel meat now. It is because weasels belong to the category of "three animals", protected by law.

Although it is not as endangered as the national key protected animals, it is still prohibited to catch and sell. Otherwise, although the meat of the weasel is not delicious, but its fur is really popular in the market, often can buy a good price.

And under the protection of the law, weasels are even more unlikely to show up on today's dinner tables and fur markets.

In addition to the fear of weasels, there is undeniably a certain aversion to them, due to a series of misunderstandings.

For example, the existence of the proverbial "weasel to the chicken to pay homage to the New Year's Eve" is the best proof.

But the truth is, people not only fear the weasel because of misunderstanding, they also hate it because of misunderstanding.

The stereotype that weasels often sneak into people's homes to steal chickens and eat them seems to have taken hold long ago. But that's not the case.

Although weasels are carnivores, their staple food is not poultry like chickens, ducks, and geese. Instead, weasel's staple food is rats, which people have always hated.

After a series of research studies, people also discovered that the weasel's ability to catch rats is also very impressive. Also in Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", there was a record that the weasel is good at catching rats and livestock, and can control snakes and vipers.

That is, in addition to catching mice, weasels can even catch snakes.


This means that weasels are actually the little helpers of mankind, able to help expel the animals that threaten people's lives.

And it eats poultry, intrudes into people's lives to disturb them, but also human activity areas and natural areas of the intersection of the phenomenon of helplessness.

In any case, with the development of modern society, we should use a scientific attitude to correctly understand each creature, so that human society and nature more harmonious development.

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