In February 1959, the Ministry of Forestry issued an instruction classifying the South China tiger as a harmful animal in the same category as bears, leopards, and wolves, and called on hunters to "go all out to hunt." In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were still more than 4,000 wild South China tigers. After continued large-scale hunting in the 1950s and 1960s, the South China tiger population suffered heavy losses and was unable to recover. In 1989, the "Wildlife Protection Law of the People's Republic of my country" promulgated by our country finally included the South China tiger in the list of national first-level protected animals. But for this endangered species, a belated legal right to exist means little.
In the 1970s, the "tiger eradication campaign" was coming to an end, and the government also began to protect South China tigers. Lao Ma heard that a tiger was found in the woods, and his cousin Liu Wu's child was seriously ill. After much hesitation, the two went to the woods to hunt tigers together, and Yin Hong followed quietly. After shooting a cub, they continued chasing the injured tigress. In order to get back her dead cub, the tigress fought several hunters in the forest, but was eventually seriously injured and fell off a cliff. Under the cliff is the "Fantasy Forest", where the tigress was miraculously cured and met a little tiger at the same time. After a few days, it regarded the little tiger as its own child. When the little tiger was caught again, it rushed to the hunter heartbroken... Seeing such maternal love, Yin Hong remembered her late mother and let it go without authorization. This pure fantasy forest could not tolerate the actions of hunters and began to deteriorate rapidly. The hunters had no choice but to leave quickly. The tigress was lucky enough to escape. After everything, the Phantom Forest gradually recovered.