International Social Science Journal (Chinese Edition)

No.4, 2023

 

The Beneficial and Harmful Animals: The Construction of Modern Hunting Order

(Abstract)

 

Li Ronghua

 

In modern society wild animals were regarded as a resource, and people thought that uncontrolled hunting would lead to the depletion of wild animal resources. In order to establish a controlled hunting order and achieve the sustainable use of wild animals resources, the state had established a system of classified management of beneficial and harmful animals, and disseminated knowledge about beneficial and harmful animals through school and social education. In the practice of hunting, hunters and traders engaged in the trade of wild animal fur pursued the economic value of wild animals, the leisure class in cities focused on the spiritual value of hunting, they did not fully comply with the wild animals management system, hunting activities showed the characteristics of disorder in general. Although the controlled hunting order has not been established completely in modern times, the thought of protecting beneficial animals and treating harmful animals differently has important value in the history of the relationship between human and wild animals.