Shi Ling, also known as stone Lin, stone scales, stone chicken, spiny breasted frog, stone frog spiny frog, etc., is Jiangxi and the southern hilly mountainous growth of a valuable mountain treasures, generally only the more remote villages only, Jinggangshan, Ninggang, Anfu mountainous areas around the number of more. Because of its delicate meat and rich in mineral elements so called by gourmet "king of frogs". However, due to the large number of people catching, the number of existing wild stone frogs plummeted.

Amphibian frog family, is China's endemic large wild frog. Echinoderms are covered with gray-black, rough skin, and are a rare delicacy for people. And has a nourishing and strong body, clear the heart and lungs, healthy liver and stomach, make up for the deficiency, as well as antipyretic, chancre disease and other efficacy, so there is a "mountain treasures," the name. However, because the frog lives in mountain streams or shady rock crevices during the day, only after dusk to come out of the cave activities, pouncing on small fish, shrimp and a variety of insects to feed on, its activities and growth environment is similar to that of poisonous snakes, so it is more dangerous to catch. It's all about risking a lot to catch them, because there are a lot of snakes in places with rocky caves.

The stone frog is a beneficial insect, the food is mainly mosquitoes, small insects and insect larvae. Such as: insects, centipedes, bee spiders, Malu, snails, snails, snails and clams, shrimps, crabs, miscellaneous fish, sand loaches, and earthworms, young snakes, small birds and so on. Looks like a frog, more like a field hen, but bigger than a frog, and naturally screams louder than it