Abstract: This article focuses on the causes, negative impact, distribution and rise and fall of tiger-related disasters in Ming-Qing era Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi. This article discusses how environmental destruction was caused by population pressures which led to heavy migration into mountain areas, the introduction of new plants, and the opening of new lands. This then resulted in more frequent conflicts between tigers and humans. When humans first began to invade mountain areas, tigers often attacked and killed them. Later, when the opening of new lands in mountain areas reached its peak, tigers were constantly killed by humans. By the end of the process, tigers in south China had become extinct; thus tiger disasters also ceased.