Why is the sparrow called the heavenly ginseng
4hw.org: China's food can kill a species. It may have been a joke before, but in reality, it's just a horror story. The grass sparrow, which was formerly known as the heavenly ginseng among the people, was recently rated as a critically endangered species by the World Conservation Union. Let's see the details below!
On December 5, the World Conservation Union upgraded the rating of yellow breasted bunting (commonly known as Sparrow) from "endangered" to "extremely dangerous". 13 years ago, yellow breasted bunting was still in a "non dangerous" state. According to the World Conservation Union, excessive hunting of yellow breasted bunting for food in some parts of China is the main reason for its rapid decline. A person who once participated in the hunting of yellow breasted babbler told Beiqing news that the Yellow breasted babbler can catch more than 50 animals a day 10 years ago, but now it can only catch one or two in two or three days. Behind the catch is the profiteering. In order to sell the product, the bird vendor will suffocate the captured yellow breasted babbler alive. According to the data, there are many cases involving thousands or even tens of thousands of yellow breasted buns in the past few years.
13 years from 'no danger' to 'extreme danger'
This is a bird only ten centimeters long. If it's not a bunch of yellow feathers on the chest, it doesn't seem to be different from the ordinary sparrow. Because of the yellow hair, it's named yellow breasted bunting by experts. From August every year, it and its compatriots will take off from Siberia to Northeast China, and migrate southward to the south of China and even Southeast Asia, with a journey of more than 4000 kilometers.
The long migration is not smooth. Many people who pursue profits will set up bird nets in the mountains and fields, some of which are several kilometers long. Once the Yellow breasted bunting is caught by the nets, it is difficult to escape. The caught yellow breasted bunches often arrive at their intended destination in another way: after being fattened and suffocated, they are boxed and transported to the south, where they will appear on the dinner table and become the "heavenly ginseng" in people's mouth.
On December 5, 2017, the World Conservation Union updated the red list of endangered species, and the rating of yellow breasted bunting was upgraded from "endangered" to "extremely endangered", only a step away from the next level of "wild extinction". In 2004, 13 years ago, the Yellow breasted bunting was rated "safe.".
The red list of endangered species compiled by the World Conservation Union is a list that classifies the threatened degree of species into six levels, namely, no danger, near danger, vulnerable, endangered, extremely dangerous and wild extinction. In the past 13 years, the rating of yellow breasted bunting has experienced "five leaps". In 2004, the Yellow breasted bunting changed from "no danger" to "near danger". In 2008, it was "vulnerable", in 2013, it was "endangered", and on this 5th, it became "extremely dangerous". In contrast, the number of giant pandas has now returned to the 'vulnerable' level.
Why is the sparrow called the heavenly ginseng
Wrong theoretical guidance: in South China, this species enters the market as a food. Because the traditional Chinese medicine theory believes that this species has the role of nourishing and strengthening, so people in Guangdong folk will derive the traditional Chinese medicine theory, and mistakenly propagandize that eating soup made of sparrow as the main raw material can nourish the kidney and strengthen the Yang, greatly improving the sexual ability of men.
Although this theory has not been supported by modern pharmacology experiments, this tradition is still widely spread with the spread of Cantonese food and Guangdong food culture. Due to the failure of artificial reproduction, all the individuals needed are captured in the field. This diet culture has brought a disaster to the Yellow breasted bunting, and caused the population number of wild yellow breasted bunting to drop significantly.
It is said that the sparrow has the function of Tonifying the kidney and invigorating the Yang. It is a great tonic, similar to the effect of ginseng. In the past, there were a large number of sparrows, with tender meat, crispy bones, delicious taste and high nutritional value, so there were more people to eat. Now the wetland is shrinking, and the number of sparrows is decreasing year by year, so the government has issued a series of measures to protect sparrows. In addition to fines, there are also detentions for hunting sparrows.
This bird is a Houniao, wild, nestled in the north, Jilin, Heilongjiang province known as, gonghuang or huangdouban, singing bright and beautiful, the end of the bird people to raise and watch. There is no difference between eating and sparrow!