Home of Yeren or Chinese 'Wild Man' Now A National 5A-Class Scenic Spot, Means Public Restrooms Should Be A Lot More Cleaner
Good news for Yeren-hunting-tourists in China. The Shennongjia Nature Reserve in China has just been upgraded to a national 5A-Class Scenic Spot. This means the park has become a comprehensive tourist area with charming scenery and high-quality service. For a park attraction to achieve 5A class in China, it must meet certain standards and requirements such as: Transportation, Tour Guide, Sanitary facilities (Public toilets in 5A class area are required to marked eye-catching with elegant design of architecture), and Tourists reception amount.
According to Chinatours.us.com, the "tourists reception amount" standard requires that any 5A class tourist area should receive 600,000 tourists at least, including 50,000 from overseas. At the same time, spot check for customers' satisfaction should be in high rate.
Read below from news.xinhuanet.com:
WUHAN, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Central China's Shennongjia Nature Reserve, the rumored hometown of a Bigfoot-like ape-man, was named one of the nation's 5A-Class Scenic Spots by the country's National Tourism Administration on Monday, local authorities said Tuesday.
Located in the northwestern mountains of Hubei Province, the Shennongjia Forestry District, which administers the nature reserve, was established in 1970.
As the only well-preserved sub-tropical forest ecosystem in the world's mid-latitudes, Shennongjia boasts rich natural forest resources with more than 5,000 species of animals and plants.
Being dubbed a national 5A-Class Scenic Spot means Shennongjia Nature Reserve has become a comprehensive tourist area with charming scenery and high-quality service, said Liao Mingyao, an official with the Shennongjia Forestry District.
The Shennongjia area has long been rumored to be the home of the "Yeren," literally "Wild man." The creature is also referred to as "Bigfoot," like the legendary North American ape-man. In the past 100 years, more than 400 people have claimed to have seen the creature, but no hard evidence of the creature's existence has been found.
It kind of makes you wonder if that will be the prototype for the US parks where BF lives. Next thing you know, food trucks pull up to feed the hungry tourists. The tourists leave their food wrappers on the ground. BF learns a new source of food. Sounds like North American bears....
ReplyDeleteAny place that crams through that many people will sooner or later cease to be "wild".
ReplyDeleteLake Lousie and Banff are prime examples.I once saw a large bull Elk laying down on someone's front porch.
Sure,if you go deeper in the forest you may come across truly wild animals,but since it's a tourist destination,Sustainable Resources comes in and either relocates or kills any offending animals that "bother" the public.
I may sound cynical,but it is the way a money making society works.
Now these once pristine places are full of picture snapping yahoos, herding off buses like cattle.All for the sake of seeing wild life which is really no longer wild.Oh,and they can buy over priced shiny trinkets to take home.
I'm not dissing the article at all,I just wish money grubbing hands would stay out of natural areas.Most natural places should be left for the truly adventerous to savour.
Spend a summer in Yellowstone. After years of living up there my first grizzly experience was watching one Chase tourist around a local dairy queen. If you have seen John Candys the Great Outdoors the scene where they are feeding bears in a landfill really happened near Yellowstone till a few years ago. Eventually if Bigfoot is real we will build on his land because we can't control the human population. It's pretty sad actually.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad to think what humans will do to the new species of homonid if and when they are disccovered. Humans always seem to do more damage than good when dealing with stuff like this. Although, preservation and conservation have done great things for many species, its kinda us fixing our own mistakes, at a time when unlawful hunts were allowed to happen.
ReplyDeleteBut dealing with wild species is what its always been about, not like what the future might hold, a smart, elusive, maybe emotional creature that wants to remain undetected. Right now they seem to have no aggression towards humans, but whats going to happen when science gets involved and they tranq their first bigfoot. Are they going to gain an aggression towards us, and then we have to kill them?
Like what AF was saying, are we gonna create a hostile creature that might have an easier food source, that will learn to see humans more often, that will have more confrontations over food or our need to invade their territroy. Are we gonna have to kill them to fulfill our needs? Pretty sad to think that this might happen. We are such a contolling species that has to know everything about anyting. I hope science can study them much like Jane Goodall did, observe, film and respect. We dont need to tranq them to fulfill our greedy need for knowalge, while creating a hostile creature.
Sorry kinda jump around a bit there, hope you get the picture.
I agree with everyone and just hope with all my heart that Bigfoot will be smarter and wiser than us!
ReplyDeleteGreat comments by everyone above, I could not agree more. To SasquaiNation, that must have been pretty cool to see a bull elk on a porch. Hell- were I live one is lucky to catch a glimpse of a deer, every now and then. There is an Elk Farmer that raises a herd of at least 100 Elk about 10 mile from here. It is need when they come out to the fence line on a state highway. I will stop and go up to the fence line, and they are not bothered. They are a magnificent beast. Sorry for getting off subject.
ReplyDeleteChuck in Ohio