Yunnan Nu River: the Gaoligongshan last Hunter

After 2000, the Nu River Grand Canyon river was incorporated into the national reserve, which means the hunter this ancient occupation gradually disappeared from Nu River, from China.

A good hunter has a lot of energy, strong will and absolutely excellent skills to survive in the wild, with less than 5 kilograms of equipment, you can live in the jungle for half a month.

The dog must have the following characteristics: dog, chest, thin waist, body short. This dog physically, flexible body, can run a few mountain, once they find prey can hardly escape.

The Nu River Valley

Hunts alone, poison is an essential tool, no matter how big the animal only shoot an arrow, the prey before death is not close, but its toxicity attack......

AlongYunnanIn the northwest of the Gaoligong Mountain Road north of the Grand Canyon, Nu River -- the world's most mysterious, the most beautiful and most dangerous odd ancient Oriental Grand Canyon unfolds in front of me. The canyon in life with all kinds of birds and animals, which is listed as a rare animal protected by the state of Bengal tiger, Tragopan, thermal current, red sheep, golden monkey, leaf monkey, lesser panda (the dog), tooth toad. The dense jungles raised Dulong, Nu, Lisu and other ethnic minorities. 10 years ago, every man here is a hunter, they get the most basic survival resource with the most primitive way.

Once the hunter

But with the development of human society, the hunter as one of the oldest occupation, has quit the stage of history. After 2000, the Nu River Grand Canyon river was incorporated into the national reserve, which means the hunter this ancient occupation gradually disappeared from Nu River, disappear from China, the well-preserved occupation system in Nu River basin will also become a legend, which is one reason we the deep canyon interview.

Folk tales in the Nu River area, such as "white tiger", and "the bear", "eyes", "Crow and frog crossbow legend", almost all related to wild animal, some minority nationalities is that their origin there have all kinds of connections with contact with the animal, so hunting is local production activities.

Spoils

According to the local county records: "hunting is one of the indispensable Nu River minority primitive economic activities in life, every family Commune have fixed hunting grounds. They see the beast and land, is the public property, boundary is very strict, hunting is not out of bounds. The hunting season, mainly is the snow winter, spring season two." Hunting is one of the main production mode of the minority of Nu River, dependent on agriculture, but few occupation hunter.

In the Fugong County Nu Cun zhiziluo, following the former river county's main street, he lived a nearly seventy years occupation Hunter gold bucket. Since the "lay down the butcher's knife", "gave up the old business" later, he started planting Coptis, but after mountain 1000 acres of Rhizoma Coptidis have to wait a few years to harvest, it is not a simple work, meanwhile to fertilization, weeding, seeding...... Less of a link.

The golden bucket belonging to the Lisu settlements Bai, before liberation, together with her parents to zhiziluo. He is the youngest child in the family, although never asked parents, why they come to this remote place, but he remembered, zhiziluo land can produce the best "exposing" (Yunnan opium), and in that time, their parents are almost smoking, home of a large tracts of opium.

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