Throughout history, strange animals known as "savages" have grown and multiplied in Shennongjia and passed on their families for thousands of years.
Under the leadership of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the largest "savage" expedition team since the founding of the People's Republic of China was organized in 1977. The inspection team members are professionals from scientific research institutions, colleges and universities, museums, and zoos in Beijing, Shanghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei and other provinces and cities. The Wuhan Army 33700 Unit sent a reconnaissance detachment, and Fangxian County and Shennongjia Forest District sent people familiar with the situation. Officers and guides. The office is located in the Shennongjia Forest District Cultural Center. The inspection lasted 140 days. With the enthusiastic support of the local people, the expedition team climbed dangerous peaks, climbed cliffs, lived in caves, and slept with wild animals. Their footprints were all over Shennongjia and its surrounding deep mountain canyons of more than 1,500 square kilometers. They exchanged a lot of hard work for their efforts. information.
On the evening of June 19, 1977, Li Jian (former deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Yunyang Prefectural Committee of Hubei Province) of the "Field Test" team received an emergency call reporting the Qiaoshang Commune Group in Fang County. Gong Yulan, a female member of the force brigade, and her 4-year-old son Yang Mingan met a "savage" on Chishiya Road. The exhausted "wild test" team member Huang Shibo and others rushed to the scene immediately and found Gong Yulan to learn about the situation. Under the leadership of Gong Yulan, they found the big pine tree where the "savage" was scratching and removed dozens of brown hairs from the tree. The hairs were found on tree trunks at a height of 1.3 to 1.8 meters. Judging from the shape and thickness, it is very similar to human hair. Later, scientific research departments in Wuhan, Beijing and other places used hair from gibbons, gorillas, chimpanzees and modern humans for comparison. The results show that the main morphological and structural characteristics of "savage" hair are obviously different from those of the above-mentioned primates. Later, 7 more pieces of "savage" hair were found from 7 places, all of which were the same.
In 1980, the "field expedition" team discovered nearly a thousand "savage" footprints. The largest footprint was 48 centimeters in length and the maximum stride was 2.2 meters. Liu Minzhuang, executive chairman of the China "Savage" Research Society and associate professor of the Department of Biology at East China Normal University, asserted that the footprints are indirect evidence of "savages". The large number of footprints proves that Shennongjia is the home of "savages" and that there are groups of "savages".
As another strong evidence, it is to test the feces of "savages". Before November 1976, on the east side of Caiziwa, Fang County, near Shennongjia, many people had discovered "savages" in this place many times. The expedition team conducted an on-site search here and found on the top of a steep cliff halfway up the mountain ridge. Found 6 piles of "savage" feces, all dried. After observation, there were a lot of undigested fruit peels, wild chestnut bark and other residues. In the feces found where Xiao Xingyang found the "savage", a large number of insect pupa skins were also found. The diameter of the feces was 2.5 cm. These feces were similar to those of bears, monkeys and orangutans. are different from each other, and are different from human feces. People will not eat insects and wild fruit peels. In 1980, the expedition team repeatedly found the feces of "savages". After analysis, the feces contained undigested bamboo shoots, acorns and small animal bones. The feces was in the shape of a plate, between two eight-shaped footprints. The way of defecation is obviously different from that of other animals, but similar to that of humans.