Giant pandas eat all bamboo, but why are they called iron eaters?

Our national treasure, the giant panda, has a lovely name called Gungun, and our daily work is to revolve around it and sell it. But few people know that this national treasure of MengMeng is a generation of war beasts that everyone feared in ancient times, and it can cure children's night cries! Giant pandas are called living fossils by the scientific community. From this name, we can easily see that the giant panda has a very long history. What were the giant pandas like in ancient times? Giant pandas were called "iron eaters" in ancient times. There is a saying in Dong Fangshuo's "Nerve" in the Han Dynasty: "There is a beast in the south called tooth iron." The beast here refers to the giant panda.

Legend has it that the giant panda is also the prototype of the god beast, because it is said that the god beast can eat all kinds of metals. According to ancient records, it is like a bear, with a small head and a black-and-white retort. It can eat copper, iron and bamboo bones. Legend has it that the giant panda was also the mount of the ancient god of war, Chiyou, who rode it to fight the Yellow Emperor. However, how lovely it is for the Yellow Emperor to ride Ying Long and Chiyou. Naturally, it is "a heavy loss." However, it is said that the giant panda had unparalleled fighting power in ancient times and was once sent by Chiyou to attack the enemy. However, in this picture, unlike fierce tigers, black bears and leopards, the giant panda seems to surrender with his mouth open and a smile.

In some ancient books in Sichuan, pandas were once considered as "iron eaters". Literally, they are animals that feed on iron, but we know that such animals do not exist in nature. Giant pandas are called iron eaters because they mainly eat bamboo and it is difficult to supplement salt. So when pandas can't find salt, they occasionally break into villagers' homes to lick the salt in the iron pot and occasionally bite the iron pot. Therefore, the ancients thought that giant pandas were interested in iron pots and called them "iron eaters". In ancient times, although iron eaters seldom hurt people, they were still formidable beasts. Imagine how sharp the teeth should be, a beast that can take down an iron pot.

In fact, the fighting capacity of the panda is very good, and its biting power ranks second in Xiong Ke, no less than that of liger, the leader of cats. Some wolves just took a bite. Who is the boy in front of the panda? Such a beast can obviously dominate the animal kingdom by strength, but it depends on selling Meng for a living. Two or three million years ago, pandas lived on meat. Later, due to the change of environment, food shortage made it difficult for those carnivorous pandas to survive, and the number of ethnic groups decreased sharply. Later, pandas could not turn food into plants to survive. In fact, we haven't paid attention to the protection of giant pandas for a long time. It was not until the forties and fifties of the 20th century that we realized the rarity and preciousness of pandas. China began to vigorously protect giant panda species. Later, as a diplomatic mascot, Baby Panda built a friendly bridge between China and other countries.