My Deep-sea Fishery

Steller sea eagles generally live in sea areas.

The ocean is known as the cradle of life, there are plenty of things, and the entire sea area is full of sea fish. Why does it have to be so hungry?

Twenty days hungry?

Let alone twenty days, if a tiger-headed sea eagle cannot catch a single fish for three consecutive days in a sea full of sea fish, it deserves to die of starvation and stupidity.

And what kind of environment does Costin live in?

In the cold northern region, there are either endless prairie, desert with no grass, or snow-capped mountains.

Spring, summer and autumn are good, there are many small and medium-sized animals such as hares and rats, and there is no ice on the water surface, so you can catch two fish to eat.

What about winter?

In winter, there is nothing in the desert, and the water is frozen. Animals on the grassland have stored food for the winter. In addition to preying on kittens, puppies and chickens in the village, and eating some carrion meat, Haidongqing has nothing to do with it. Where is the food source?

Not to mention being able to endure starvation for 20 days, if according to Darwin's theory of evolution, it can only be considered that its evolution is not thorough enough if it cannot hibernate.

In any case, even today, people in the southern coastal areas can occasionally see tiger-headed sea eagles, but costin is not seen by many people who have lived on the grasslands all their lives.

Of course, Xiang Yang knew that the sharp decrease in the number of costin had nothing to do with its ability to adapt to nature. Costin was not eliminated by the laws of nature. The main reason for the sharp decrease in the number of costin was human capture.

Xiang Yang doesn't know how much a live Costin can be sold for, because he has never heard of a live Costin transaction.

Don't say you saw it, you never heard it.

But Xiang Yang had heard about how much the dead Hai Dongqing was worth.

In 2017, in West Siberia, a group of thieves killed a Costin, and that Costin was sold on the black market for 19 million rubles, converted into domestic currency, about 1.8 million Yuan.

Later, the poachers were caught, and the police in West Siberia naturally followed the clues to track down the whereabouts of the sea dongqing. They found that the sea dongqing had already changed hands several times and sold it to North America. The last transaction price traced was 4.4 million U.S. dollars, which is about 30 million yuan in domestic currency.

This price is against the sky, right?

In fact, it is not against the sky at all. Compared with the historical value of Costin, this price is not even a drop in the bucket.

In modern times, Haidongqing was also called Jaildi Zuochuanqing.

In the Qing Dynasty, Haidongqing was also called Miansiqing.

What does that mean? It means that a Costin is a gold medal for avoiding death.

The pure white "jade claw" is the top grade in Costin, and there are other names such as autumn yellow, wave yellow, and three-year dragon.

In the Qing Dynasty, if a prisoner caught a sea dongqing and presented it to the imperial court, he could be exempted from all capital crimes except treason.

In the Liao, Jin, Yuan, and Ming dynasties before the Qing Dynasty, institutions similar to Yingfang were set up in each generation to catch and raise sea dongqing.

Costin has a profound history and culture in my country, and it was even raised to the height of a totem.

Costin is not only a brave falcon, but also melted into the ancient Chinese culture.

A poet in the Jin Dynasty described the scene of Haidongqing pounced on the swan as "fighting the wind and jade claws Ling Xiaohan, glancing at the sun and the wind and falling into the snow and frost", expressing his praise for Haidongqing's perseverance and bravery.

Modern archaeologists once unearthed bone-carved Haidongqing heads at Xingkai Lake, about 6,000 years ago.

In the tombs of Dongjurchen in the ancient city of Shangjing, a gilt copper belt with the pattern of Hai Dongqing catching a flying swan was found.

In addition, among the existing ancient music scores in our country, there is the pipa score of "Haidong Qingna Swan".

Among the folk children's games, there is an activity of "the old kite holding the chicken".

In the Dunhua area of ​​Jilin, the nursery rhyme "Ama has a little Jiahun" is still circulating.

Xiang Yang has never heard of that song, but he once saw its lyrics when he read Haidongqing's knowledge, "Ama has a little horned eagle. It has white wings and flies fast. It has red eyes and can see clearly. The rabbit sees it. It can run, but the swan is dazed when it sees it. Zuo Ling opened his eyes wide when he saw it, and called it Haidongqing. He tied it with silk and tied a bell, and sent it to Beijing. The emperor rewarded him with a yellow jacket, and Ama asked for a big iron bow. An iron bow and an iron arrow go far, and you don't need an eagle to catch a swan."

This ballad vividly shows how precious Costin was in ancient times.

If anyone catches Hai Dongqing, he will have to lock it all the way and blow it, beat the gongs and drums, and send it to Bauhinia City like a bride. Not to mention the manpower and material resources spent during the period, just look at the emperor. What is the reward.

Yellow jacket! ! !

In ancient times, from October to December every year, the imperial court sent people to Fuyuan County on both sides of the Yazi River to catch Haidongqing.

When catching Haidongqing, first build a "∏"-shaped bracket with three stones on the sunny side of the hillside, which symbolizes the Golden Tower Temple in the Nine Heavens of the Eagle God, and put a mountain stone inside, representing the sacred mountain where the Eagle God lives.

Then weeds were planted for incense, and after offering sacrifices with wine, they set up nets to catch eagles.

The nets used to catch sea dongqing are generally 3 meters long and 1 meter wide. A pigeon or a dead chicken is tied to the net as bait, and the falconers themselves hide in a "shack" disguised with tree branches, waiting for the eagles to come.

Sometimes, the falconers have to squat for several months before they can catch a sea dongqing, which is called "squatting grass", which is also the original origin of the word squatting grass.

If there is Haidongqing circling down from a high altitude, grabbing the bait, and being caught.

The eagle catcher must first thank the eagle god Gege very solemnly, and then he can catch the eagle.

If the captured eagle is Hai Dongqing, it must be sent to the Forbidden City immediately for the emperor to enjoy, otherwise it will be a felony for the Yi tribe.

Emperor Kangxi once praised: "There are sixty out of three hundred feather insects, and Haidongqing is the most handsome."

After sending Hai Dongqing to the Forbidden City, there are special eagle trainers in the Forbidden City who put Hai Dongqing on a special scaffold and don’t let it sleep for a few days to wear down the wildness of Hai Dongqing. This is called "boil the eagle". .

After the eagle is boiled, there are also links such as "crossing the fist" and "running the rope", so that Costin can listen to people's shouts and let it go wherever it goes.

In order to control the fat, the falcon trainer will make Hai Dongqing swallow the twine ball wrapped in lean meat slices. It cannot digest it, so it spits out the thread ball, which is called "belt shaft", also known as "stretching the waist".

After a few times of "shafting", Costin was able to scrape its stomach hungry and strengthen its muscles, so that it could "go into battle lightly" and fly to the sky.

There are records that Haidongqing who is over three years old can fight a fox, and Haidongqing who is five years old can take cats and dogs away as real things.

Of course, what kind of dog the dog that was taken away by Costin that was recorded in the literature is yet to be discussed, and the literature does not record what kind of dog Costin was carrying.

Teddy is also a dog, and the Tibetan mastiff is also a dog. Xiang Yang feels that the combat effectiveness of these two breeds of dogs is still a little different.