Tip: Pyramids are distributed in Egypt and America. Because these huge tombs are shaped like the word "gold" in Chinese characters, we call them "pyramids".
Snakes are bigger, more dangerous and also the most beautiful animals (personal opinion only). When I was a child, I watched The Legend of the White Snake. I remember a scene in which Xu was tricked into bringing back realgar wine, which led to the real white snake. To tell the truth, not only Xu was scared to death, but I was also scared to death. Snakes are really the enemy of my life! However, after watching this drama, I learned something from it. I can use realgar to kill snakes. Since then, realgar has become a must for the Double Ninth Festival.
Tip: The habitat of snakes varies from species to species. Some live underground, some live in trees and some live in water.
But recently, some researchers said that realgar powder is not what snakes fear most, so what do snakes fear most? Why is it most afraid of this kind of thing? Come and have a look with me!
Why are people afraid of snakes?
If you want to make a list of cute animals, different people will give different answers, but the range of cute animals is mostly from kittens, puppies and rabbits to pandas, penguins and even tiger cubs. In short, as long as their eyes are round, their bodies are fat and their appearance is furry, they are likely to become lovely pets. When it comes to animals that people are afraid of, the scope is basically limited to spiders and snakes. This combination is one of the animals that people are most afraid of. Most people have never been bitten by these two animals, but deep down they are still afraid. People's fear of these animals seems to be innate. Of these two animals, the fear of snakes is higher.
Tips: Spiders are the most abundant predatory natural enemies in terrestrial ecosystems, and their role in maintaining the stability of agricultural and forestry ecosystems cannot be ignored. Body length 1 ~ 90 mm, the body is divided into two parts (front body) and abdomen (back body), and the head is covered with carapace and chest plate.
Snake is one of the most frightening animals among all animals. Its fear runs through the whole history of human beings and is not unique to modern people. From ancient times to the present, in many fairy tales or some literary works, human beings have clearly expressed their fears and disgust. There is a plot of "Snakes and Eve stealing food" in Genesis myth. In China, there are many literary works such as The Farmer and the Snake, The Shadow of a Cup Bow and Snake, Once bitten by a snake, twice shy, Cut the White Snake, The Snake Catcher's Theory, and modern pythons, all of which show human's fear and aversion to snakes. When this fear goes to extremes, it will turn into extreme worship, just like suffering from Stockholm disease.
Tips: Stockholm syndrome, Stockholm effect, also known as Stockholm syndrome or complex or syndrome, refers to a kind of complex that the victim has feelings for the victim and even helps the helper in turn.
In a few areas of Yunnan and Guangxi, people have been under the threat of snakes for a long time because of miasma, snakes, insects, rats and ants, which has led to the totem worship of snakes. The image of snake is mysterious and mysterious in the cognition of Yunnan and other ethnic minorities. They believe in snakes and all mysterious supernatural imaginations, and death, disaster and destruction exist. In the long-term life practice, a set of snakes and taboo customs are gradually derived. But from this point of view, it seems that this fear should be produced in the long-term evolution process, not innate. So is people's fear of snakes innate or acquired?
Tips: In ancient times, people's understanding of miasma was very limited, and the actual miasma was mostly caused by swarms of flying mosquitoes. A large number of mosquitoes with plasmodium falciparum fly together, which looks like a mass of black gas from a distance.
In order to verify this problem, the experimental team of Rutgers University in NSW designed an experiment to verify it. They play the sounds of different animals, and at the same time randomly play the sounds of happiness or fear of people, and then give an unexpected electric shock when they see a snake to observe the reaction. Scientists published the results of this experiment in Experimental Child Psychology. The results show that when watching snakes, there is no overreaction to snakes because of unexpected shock or human fear, and the heart rate is relatively normal. So the experimental results prove that they are not afraid of snakes.
Tips: refers to 1 children under the age of. This stage of growth and development is particularly rapid, and it is the most vigorous stage in a person's life, weighing about 9 kg ~ 10 kg.
In addition, a research paper published in the American journal of Biopsychology also experimented with human fear of snakes, but the object of this experiment was. It should be said that the natural reaction of human brain to snakes is fear, even if it is not realized. The paper claims that this is because in the early evolution of mammals, reptiles such as snakes dominated the biological world. In order to survive, mammals have to temporarily avoid the teeth of these creatures. Therefore, in the long evolution, the mammalian brain has become afraid of snakes, and it is easier to notice the existence of snakes among many creatures and pay close attention to them. In order to prove that human beings have formed a fear of snakes in the process of evolution, the researchers selected 24 Norwegian women aged 18-3 1. They have no phobia and are in good health. Let them watch the colorful snake photos of snakes, birds and spiders, and record their brain waves with EEG.
Tip: When a snake bites a person or an animal, the liquid is transferred from the teeth to the bitten person or animal. Teeth refer to the long, hollow or grooved teeth of snakes.
A set of experiments will detect this animal because people are fast but unconscious. In this experiment, 600 pictures of snakes, spiders and birds will be displayed on the computer at the rate of 3 pictures per second. In the second experiment, 30 animal pictures were displayed at a slow speed to measure the continuous neural response of the human brain to the pictures. During the experiment, the subjects will score the pictures of snakes, spiders, birds and so on according to the range of 0 (not afraid at all) to 45 (extremely afraid), and get the fear score. Finally, the average fear scores of snakes, spiders and birds are 16, 12 and 4 respectively. This score shows that compared with the pictures of spiders and birds, the rapid display of snake pictures is more likely to cause the reaction of human brain, which is most obvious in the visual processing area of the brain.
Tips: Reflex refers to the regular response of animals or human bodies to changes in internal and external environment with the participation of the central nervous system, and refers to the regular response of the body to receptors with the participation of the central nervous system.
The above two experiments prove that human fear of snakes stems from evolution. In order to survive, people give snakes a high degree, which makes individuals remember snakes more deeply and forms a mental module in the brain, so that we can react quickly and escape in time when encountering snakes. So genetically, people who are afraid of snakes are more likely to survive and reproduce, and it is easier to inherit genes.
Tips: Inheritance, also known as heredity or biological inheritance, refers to the phenomenon that the genes whose parents have reached the corresponding traits are passed on to their offspring through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, so that their parents can inherit the information.
Human beings are the product of blood and fire. I never flinch in the face of difficulties, so after discovering that snakes pose a threat to our lives, I began to look for something to restrain them. After thousands of years of practice, the ancients discovered a medicine that can restrain snakes. It is realgar. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a saying that realgar drove snakes, so every Dragon Boat Festival, people would drink realgar wine and sprinkle realgar to drive snakes. However, a recent study said that what snakes fear most is not realgar, but this raises a question. Since you say that snakes are not afraid of realgar, why can realgar wine drive away snakes? What are snakes afraid of?
Can realgar drive snakes?
Realgar, also known as stone yellow, stone stone and cockscomb stone, is soft and brittle, often in granular, massive or powdery form, and its color is orange snake or light orange snake. The main component of realgar is arsenic tetrasulfide (As4S4, accounting for more than 90%), which usually occurs in low-temperature hydrothermal deposits and often coexists with orpiment (As2S3), stibnite and cinnabar. In addition, realgar produced in hot spring sediments and sulfur volcanic vents is only available in orpiment. When the sun shines to a certain extent, realgar will be chemically transformed into orpiment.
Tips: Realgar wine, that is, white wine or yellow wine brewed from ground realgar, is a drink of Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival in China. Realgar needs to be dried, some from the first day of May to the fifth day of May.
Therefore, when realgar is preserved, it cannot be exposed to the sun and eventually weathered. The nature of realgar determines that it is insoluble in water or alcohol, but soluble in nitric acid solution or ethanol solution, and transformed into realgar wine and other solutions.
In addition, realgar is a traditional Chinese medicine that blindly possesses, kills insects and cures diseases. Realgar tastes pungent, bitter and flat, and enters the heart, liver, spleen, stomach and intestine, and can treat snake bites, tetanus and malaria. In addition, there are many Chinese patent medicines containing realgar, such as Qizhen Pill, Xiaoer Jingfeng Powder, Xiaoer Qingre Tablet, Niuhuang Xiaoyan Tablet, Niuhuang Qingxin Pill, Niujing Pill, Liu Ying Pill and Chunyang Zhengqi Pill.
Tips: Tetanus Tetanus is a muscle-specific infection caused by Clostridium tetanus invading human body through skin or wound and growing and reproducing in anoxic environment.
Realgar is not only used as a traditional Chinese medicine, but also used as a natural insecticide to kill insects because of its insect repellent characteristics. Since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it has been a common practice in China to drive snakes with realgar, and to drink realgar wine at the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The ancients thought that "when you wake up, the Dragon Boat Festival is coming". Snakes, insects, rats and ants appear one after another during the Dragon Boat Festival, and you need to wear realgar that can repel insects. Realgar is a good medicine in the ancient people's mind that "goodness can kill a hundred, discover a hundred, control methods, upset people, tigers and wolves crouch in the mountains, and rivers avoid it". It is really a standing medicine for home travel. Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people often drink realgar wine and pray for various changes.
Tips: Rats are mammals, rodents and rodents, commonly known as "rats". Their reproduction mode is viviparous, which is the fastest reproduction and high survival rate among mammals.
However, because realgar itself contains sex, long-term use will lead to chronic arsenic poisoning. Moreover, arsenic disulfide in realgar can react with oxygen in the air (although this process is slow and not obvious at room temperature), so realgar in the market generally contains trace amounts. Therefore, in China's pharmaceutical market, Chinese patent medicines containing realgar, such as Niuhuang Jiedu tablets, will be clearly marked on the packaging and taken for a long time according to drug management, as well as pregnant women, lactating women and infants. There have been accidents caused by improper use of realgar before, so the control of realgar is stricter.
Tips: Chronic systemic diseases are mainly skin lesions caused by long-term excessive arsenic. Chronic arsenic poisoning Chronic arsenic poisoning is a local term published by the 2022 national conference on the examination and approval of scientific and technological terms.
Recently, some researchers claimed that realgar is not the most feared thing for snakes. The snake is afraid of realgar only because of its sexual taste. The experimenter sprinkled realgar around the snakes. Some snakes stayed away from the area, but a few people turned a blind eye. In addition, people also tested the snake's fear of realgar wine and found that some snakes are afraid of alcohol (ethanol) instead of realgar wine. Ethanol is a volatile substance, which inhibits snakes, so the custom of sprinkling realgar wine to drive away snakes has been handed down.
Tips: Ethanol ethanol, organic, molecular formula C2H6O, simple structure CH3CH2OH or C2H5OH, commonly known as alcohol.
From the experimental results, it is true that what snakes fear most is not realgar, so what does snakes fear most? What can restrain snakes?
What can restrain snakes?
As a member of the animal kingdom, snakes are no exception. People say that there must be an antidote within three steps of the birth of things, and snakes are very afraid of some plants, especially those called Ophiopogon. The door of snake slough is millet, which is very common in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places where snakes and insects are frequent. Its body has a special fragrance, which makes people feel refreshed and very refreshing, and the snake runs away when it smells the fragrance. Therefore, residents in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places will plant several clusters of snakes before and after the courtyard to prevent snakes from invading. In addition to its great strength in repelling snakes and beautiful appearance, Shediaomen can also be planted as an ornamental plant in the green belt, which is both beautiful and snake-proof, killing two birds with one stone.
Tips: Duchesnea indica, also known as Wangjiangnan, is an annual leguminous herb. Dipyridamole is a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine for treating snake wounds, nameless swelling and pain, stomach diseases and hypertension, especially for treating various snake bites, and has unique medicinal functions.
Wild geese, one of the "three tyrants" in rural areas, can kill snakes as well as doors. "Qiu Chi Notes" records: "Its dung kills snakes, Shu people raise geese in the garden pool, and the snakes go." A snake meets a goose just as a mouse meets a cat. Only a strategic retreat, not a frontal attack. Because goose contains a kind of cryptosporidium, which is a spherical parasite that can parasitize people and animals and cause cryptosporidiosis. Cryptosporidiosis is equally important in the animal kingdom. Although small, it is very powerful. It is good at destroying the animal's defense system from the inside and making it fast. When the snake is parasitized by Cryptosporidium in the goose nest, the worm will first infect and corrode the immune system inside, then the abdomen will swell, and finally the intestine will rot and die. The whole process took less than an hour, which was very painful and deadly.
Tip: Goose is a herbivorous bird, covered with treasures and richly feathered clothes, and foie gras is delicious at the top table. Goose meat is rich in nutrients and amino acids, and its fat is monounsaturated fatty acid, which is comparable to mutton in value. It is a must for high-end restaurants.
In addition, the tough character, fighting enthusiasm and strong body of geese can also put great pressure on snakes and drive them away. The above two kinds have been proved to be very restrained against snakes in many ways, among which geese can be called the strongest nemesis of snakes. Therefore, students who are afraid of snakes can keep a big goose at home, which can not only drive away snakes, but also guard the house. It is perfect.
The above is about what zodiac snakes stay away from, and it is about sharing animals. See what zodiac is the most insidious, I hope this will help everyone!