Because there was nothing after the locusts, and the disaster was terrible, now everyone is afraid of locusts and hates fear. The ancients also tried to deal with locusts, and the easiest way was to catch them. The captured locusts can be taken home as feed for domestic chickens, ducks and geese, so they are tied up. This habit has continued until now, and rural people still catch grasshoppers for chickens, ducks and geese to eat.
This binding method is relatively simple, and it is more convenient to use local materials. For example, finding a kind of Mao Mao grass can tie a grasshopper.
In fact, tying grasshoppers is not only done by ancient people, but also by rural people now. Every autumn harvest season, there will be many grasshoppers jumping around in the farmland, and adults and children like to catch grasshoppers.
Modern people catch grasshoppers no longer because of fear or disgust, but because of other reasons.
People are smarter now. When they see a creature, their first thought is whether they can eat it or not. How to eat?
Of course, grasshoppers are rich in nutrition, and human beings will certainly not let them go, so now there are roasted grasshoppers and fried grasshoppers. After cooking and frying, grasshoppers become delicious food. Before you fry the grasshopper, you have to catch it first.
In order to eat fresh and let the grasshopper survive before frying, we must tie it up, no matter how it jumps, it can't escape. Tying the grasshopper can not only prevent the grasshopper from escaping, but also ensure that the grasshopper is alive. This is a good method.
Children also prick grasshoppers, mainly for fun. Catching grasshoppers in the fields is a great hobby of rural children. It's not exciting to catch many grasshoppers tied together with ropes and watch them jump around with ropes.
So there are three main reasons for tying grasshoppers:
1, in order to deal with grasshoppers, catch them back as feed for catching poultry.
2. In order to eat grasshoppers, make sure that they are alive and fresh before eating.
In order to get it, catch grasshoppers and tie them up to play.