About the caves in Shennongjia

Discovery Journey is the only documentary program of scientific exploration on CCTV, and it is known as "Discovery of China". Shanghai Science and Technology Literature Publishing House cooperated with CCTV's Journey to Discovery to launch nine series of CCTV's Journey to Discovery, which concentrated the academic awards of China TV documentaries and included all the highlights of Journey to Discovery in the past four years. The mysteries and mysterious zones explored in this series are basically unique to China, such as The Mystery of the Savage, which we selected. What kind of animal is the so-called "savage"? Is it related to humans? Perhaps this mysterious "savage" has something to do with the primitive ancestors of mankind? Or is the so-called "savage" just an illusory legend?

Mysterious shadow

In China, as early as 1950s, Zhou Guoxing, a paleoanthropologist and former deputy director of the Natural History Museum, began to take a keen interest in the savage phenomenon. In the process of previous savage investigations, Zhou Guoxing led a team to personally visit a large number of savage witnesses and collected a large number of relevant physical evidence and clues. However, after a large number of investigations, it is found that most barbaric sightings are ultimately proved to be misjudged by known animals, and there are very few truly valuable discoveries.

Isn't the savage talk about human catching shadows?

In the voluminous ancient books in China, there have been many records about a mysterious humanoid animal. For example, there is a description in Shan Hai Jing: Xiao Yang, as a human being, has a face, long lips, black body and hair. He turns his back on everyone and smiles at everyone. These anthropoid apes and anthropoid animals recorded in ancient books are very similar to the savages handed down by ordinary people today. Are they the same animal? Does this legendary animal really exist?

As we know, there are many legends about savages around the world: the savage in China, the "snowman" in the Himalayas, Almas in Mongolia, Chuna in Siberia, Chemost in Africa, Hebagon in Japan, Jovi in Australia, the "savage" in America (that is, bigfoot) and so on. Almost all the continents where human beings live have found traces of "savage". Perhaps, as ancient anthropologists said, the ancestors of savages may be a branch of primitive humans. After tens of thousands of years of vicissitudes, they have survived and multiplied with human beings to this day. In this way, the evolution and reproduction of modern people are not alone, and savages are probably close relatives of human beings. If this conjecture is correct, is there a real mystery of human origin in Savage?

1967 10 year 10 On the afternoon of 20th, American biologists Patterson and Jim were riding horses in the Blue Bay Mountain area in northern California when they suddenly saw a scene that they would never forget. Patterson started the camera while running-this is the world's first savage film, with a duration of 17 seconds.

When we look back at the short 17 second in history again, we find that the "savage" captured in the camera is very similar to modern people in both the posture of walking upright and the proportion of various parts of the body. If this savage is really a branch of primitive human ancestors, it should have evolved quite well. Although the lens of the film is very shaky, it gives people a feeling of being too perfect after watching it. As short as 17 seconds, the clear walking posture and vivid retrospect make people seem to have missed everything they want to see. This short film has caused great controversy in academic circles, and most people are skeptical about it. Is the so-called "bigfoot" just an artificial farce?

1980101On October 23rd, Yang Feng, director of the Science and Technology Commission Office of Lishui District, Zhejiang Province, found a specimen of hands and feet soaked in medicinal liquid in the storage room of a middle school. It is said that these hands and feet came from a savage who was killed and eaten by the local people. It was the afternoon of April 24, lunar calendar 1956, and it was raining. /kloc-Wang Congmei, a 0/2-year-old cowherd girl, suddenly met a humanoid animal on her way home and screamed with fear. His mother Xu Fudi heard the news and knocked the monster down with a dung hook. Everyone killed the monster together and sent it to the government to report it. Zhou Shousong, the former biology teacher of Songyang Middle School, got his hands and feet and made a collection of soaked specimens.

Is the monster killed by Xu Fudi the savage we are looking for? Zhou Guoxing said: "The investigation results at that time confirmed that it was a macaque in the mountains, with an average height of 1.2 meters. The so-called savage killed by Xu Fudi is such a monkey. "

Many years have passed, and the savage is still just a mysterious shadow. This shadow, like apes and humans, walks upright but is covered with hair. Who can uncover this fantastic legend?