In China, toads were sacred to the ancients. Judging from the development of worship, stories, pictures and texts, China has a toad culture.

Toads belong to frogs and can have many children at once. We can see many frogs' patterns in the archaeological excavations, which is the belief of the ancient people in China when they were reproducing.

Toads have the habit of hibernating. But the ancients saw that the toad was alive with boils and then died, and was admired and admired after death.

Toad was ugly and ugly, but it has strong vitality, can withstand the "divine power" equivalent to ten or twenty times the weight of its body, and is also spiritual. The ancients associated toad's "divine power" with the moon that turned from surplus to deficit and surplus in the sky.

There is a toad in the portrait of the moon in Han Dynasty. They think that the toad in the moon is closely related to the chaos of the world. Justin's manuscript "Five Elements of Meaning" recorded at the back of four papers "River Map" said: "The toad went to the moon, and the world was in chaos."

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Environmental characteristics of toads:

1. Live in soil or under rocks or grass, and go out for food at night.

2. Inhabit on wet grass, usually at night or after rain. Prey on all kinds of harmful insects and other small animals.

Distribution of toad resources;

1. Distributed in Northeast China, North China, East China, Central China, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places. ?

2. Distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.

Life habits of toads:

1. I like to hide in mud pits, under wet stones, in the grass and beside ditches. Skin loses moisture easily, so it is often hidden during the day and becomes active at night and dusk. Most adult toads live in underwater sediments or wet soil on land for winter.

2. Stop eating, store glycogen in the body to maintain the lowest metabolism, and end hibernation when the temperature rises to 10 ~ 20℃ in the following year. They hunt and move at night, feeding on beetles, moths, snails and fly maggots. Artificial reproduction is easier than other frogs.

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