Poets like to exaggerate, and exaggeration is close to boasting. Besides, Lu You's poems did not say that he shot and killed the tiger himself or assassinated the tiger, but the poet was bragging and could not blame Lu You.
Art comes from life and is higher than life. Many stories written by Mr. Shi Naian in Water Margin are changed according to himself or his living environment.
The story of Song Wu killing a tiger The story of Song Wu killing a tiger originated from Water Margin, which is a novel, and most of the characters and storylines are fictional. According to the Water Margin, Song Wu killed a tiger in Jingyanggang, Yanggu. He drank 18 bowls of wine, and his brain was drunk by a tiger. He took courage by drinking, was fearless, and was driven by his survival instinct, struggling with the tiger and killing it.
The story of fighting tigers in Song Dynasty took place in Jingyanggang, Yanggu, which is located in yanggu county, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province today. Now there is this tourist attraction in yanggu county.
However, as a Liaocheng person, the author is skeptical about the existence of Jingyanggang in reality, because it is more like the local government's artificial creation for tourism GDP and water margin stories. No one can prove that Jingyanggang, a tourist attraction in yanggu county now, is the Jingyanggang where Song Wuda fights tigers.
There are also many heroes who beat tigers in modern history. Zhao Dengyu, a famous anti-Japanese fighter, not only fought against Japanese invaders, but also killed tigers. Young martial arts, brawn, superb martial arts. When he was playing for Feng Yuxiang, he found a tiger on the mountain. Fearless, Zhao took the lead and fired several shots, injuring the tiger. The tiger had nowhere to run, so it had to run to the river and was finally caught by soldiers. General Zhao was named "General Fighting Tiger".
There is also the legendary "longevity old man" He Guangwei. When he was young, he met a tiger in the wild because his family was poor and didn't have enough to eat. He killed the tiger out of survival instinct and ate tiger meat to satisfy his hunger. As a result, he became uncontrollable. He especially likes to choose tigers, leopards and other beasts, and he doesn't eat the meat of tigers, leopards and wolves, and he lives to be nearly one hundred years old!