The Eye of the Secret Realm Friends of Humanity Calendar | Green Snake: Don’t be afraid!I am non-toxic and timid – Xinhua English.news.cn

　Editor’s note

The boar is down! “Monkey Paper” has arrived on my balcony! News of wild animals coming to the city is popping up on social media. In fact, we are surrounded by so many native wild animals that we know very little about. Understanding, friendship, and companionship, all things can live in harmony with each other, and cultivate in their own way. Xinhua Daily·Meeting Point, together with Jiangsu Wildlife Conservation Station, Jiangsu Forestry Research Institute, Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo, etc., launched the “Eye of Mystery · Friends of Humanity” calendar column, which will take you through infrared cameras, animal observers, etc. From the perspective of etc., to pay attention to the familiar and mysterious “animal neighbors”. Biodiversity is the basis of survival and vitality of the human homeland. Every solar term, we will also invite the solar term official to make a special recommendation and broadcast on that day. Let’s meet Cui Qing Snake today.

Whole body smooth “green elf”

Cuiqing Snake, also known as Green Snake and Green Bamboo Diao, belongs to the Snake family. It has a total length of about 1000 mm, the back of the body is grass green, the mandible, throat and abdomen are yellow-green, and there are green spots on the edge of the mandible and the chin groove. The green snake’s snout is narrow and round, the nostrils are oval, the pupils are round, and the back is smooth and without edges. The eggs of the emerald snake are oval in shape. Young snakes have black spots on their bodies.

The green snake is a frequent visitor in the farmland, and it can sometimes be seen in the fields of Jiangsu. In addition, emerald snakes also inhabit trees in montane broadleaf and secondary forests, or under rocks.

In the midsummer season, due to the high temperature or sweltering weather on the ground, the green snake often climbs the trees, rests quietly and enjoys the cool, and only goes down to the ground around the farmland at night to hunt for earthworms, insects and their larvae for food.

I am non-toxic and timid

Many people are very frightened when they see the blue snake, thinking that it is highly poisonous. In fact, the green snake is a typical non-venomous snake. However, there is a green snake similar in appearance to the green snake, Zhu Yeqing, which is different. This is a highly venomous snake whose venom contains hemorrhagic venom, various enzymes and a small amount of neurotoxin. The character of the green snake is also different from people’s traditional impression of “fierce” and “insidious” of snakes. Its temper is gentle and introverted, and it hardly attacks on its own initiative. In the event of a dangerous situation, the green snake will squirm forcefully or use defecation to defend itself.

“Xiaoqing” in “The Legend of the White Snake”

There is a character “Xiaoqing” in “The Legend of the White Snake”, one of the four major Chinese folk love legends, who is the maid and sister of the protagonist Bai Suzhen, whose identity is set as a green snake who has practiced for thousands of years. In the story, she is smart and has clear love and hatred, and helps Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian to combine. When Bai Suzhen was trapped under the Leifeng Pagoda by Fahai, she reluctantly cried and vowed revenge. After years of hard practice, she finally destroyed the Leifeng Pagoda and rescued her. Bai Suzhen. It can be seen that the image of the green snake in the folk narrative is more positive.

Written by: Jin Yiwei

Editor: Zheng Cheng

Image source: Visual China