Even today raising scorpions is an important local industry in Honan and Shantung, as are white flower snakes in Kuangtung and toads in Liaoning; and the deer, almost no part of which is left unused, is practically a domesticated species.
直到今天，河南、山東省的蠍子，廣東省的白花蛇、遼寧的蛤蟆……，仍為當地的重要產業；全身幾乎無一不可利用的鹿幾已成為「家畜」。