"The biggest dream in this life is to become a giant panda", this cute creature that eats and sleeps and chews on bamboo, and now relies on selling cute circles of fans all over the world, which makes us humans envious.
However, giant pandas are not only available now, and they are present in the history books that record the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors in China! Don't underestimate them, as legend has it that they have been on the battlefield.
At that time, the name of the giant panda was also called Cat, and it was regarded as a beast like a tiger, leopard and bear. According to the Chronicle of the Five Emperors, more than 4,000 years ago, the Yellow Emperor led his clan to a great victory over Emperor Yan and his clan at Hanquan (present-day Chaolu County, Henan), and the key point was that they domesticated tigers, leopards, bears, and cats (giant pandas) and other fierce beasts, which were invincible on the battlefield.
Scared, the Lun family had been on the battlefield.
At the same time, the Book of Shang and the Book of Poetry more than 3,000 years ago also clearly recorded that the skin of the giant panda was a treasure to pay tribute to the emperor. At that time, people hoped that the army could be as mighty and good at war as the panda (panda Mengbao), and when the army fought, they would use the banner of "qi" and "cat" to shock the army.
By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, people still believed in their combat effectiveness. Emperor Wu of Han captured a giant panda during a court hunt, which surprised the ministers to worship it.
At the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, the giant panda that only knew how to sell cute bamboo was deeply questioned every day, and the people of the Western Jin Dynasty believed that the giant panda only ate bamboo and would not harm other animals, so it was regarded as a symbol of good neighborliness and friendship. Even the right to use such a popular name as 貔貅 was ruthlessly stripped away, and the giant panda was renamed "驺虞".
The image of the god of war, which was once invincible on the battlefield, was completely subverted, and at that time, in the middle of the war between the two armies, if one side held high a banner with the words "Yu Yu" written on it, it was a representative of peace and an armistice. Overnight, the god of war was reduced to the scum of war.
In the Tang Dynasty, people called the giant panda again. But just changed the name, but the image is gone.
Of course, the giant pandas who were looked down upon like this were very unhappy, and in the following years, countless giant panda sages continued to try to restore the glory of their ancestors. In the end, they decided to "charge" at the humans who looked down on them and prove themselves.
According to the "Fangxian Chronicle" of the fourth year of Qing Tongzhi, there was a kind of tapir beast that "did not hurt people" ran to the edge of the county town, held the gate and began to nibble. Not only that, but they also gnawed away at the people's plows, knives, hoes, axes, and all other copper and iron objects. Among them, they love iron pots the most, and nibbling on iron pots is like foodies nibbling on cakes. Through their unremitting efforts, they exchanged the elegant name of "Iron Eating Beast".
In the Republic of China, the national government at that time appeared in an exhibition in Chongqing. At that time, the giant panda was called "cat bear", due to the adoption of international general guidelines, the exhibitor used Chinese and English to list the name of each exhibit from left to right, because the domestic reading order was still from right to left, and the foreign media did not know this situation very well, the title of "panda" has not gone away and has been used to this day.