Do you like cats, do you have nostalgia for the soft touch when the cat's tail sweeps over you?
Or, when you're sleepy, the cat comes into your arms?
"The Little Shadow of the Cat Slave" Song LiDi
You may be abandoned by your parents and abandoned by your lovers,
And the cat is proud, but it is always the one who is around,
It's the perfect candidate for you to complain about late at night.
Humans were eventually captured by them and became cats
"Slaves".
"Cat Butterfly Diagram" Ming Xuwei
Raising cats has a long history in China,
According to the literature, it can be traced back
Western Zhou
：
There are bears and pís, cats and tigers.
(From the Book of Verses? Daya? Han Yi)"
The cats here seem to be still in the wildlife stage;
To the Western Han Dynasty:
Welcome the cat, for its field mouse also; meet the tiger, for its eating field to be also, meet and sacrifice also.
(From the Book of Rites)
It can be seen that the cat has laid an important position;
"Cat and Bird Diagram" Qing Yuan Jiang
Further to the Northern Wei Dynasty:
Its house, a few days before the cat, stuffed rat cave, mud wall, so that the net sweep.
(From "Qi Min Zhi Shu")
At this time, the "cat slave" has been created, and the industry around cats is also rising.
In Chinese history, there was an emperor
Used to love cats very much
，
This person was Wu Zetian, empress of the Tang Dynasty.
Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian's love for cats ended with Concubine Xiao's curse on her:
"Awu Demon Fox, such a ferocious death to us." May I be reincarnated as a cat and Awu as a rat, and I will bite her throat for generations to come. ”
From then on, Wu Zetian moved to Luoyang, the Eastern Palace,
Ordered Luoyang to ban cats
。
Until the Ming Dynasty, one person set off an unprecedented wave of cat ownership in Chinese history.
That person is
Jiajing.
Jiajing Emperor
Speaking of the Jiajing Emperor, everyone must be familiar with it, and he was obsessed with Taoism and alchemy in the second half of his life.
Created a "brilliant" feat of not going to the dynasty for twenty-five years, which can be described as unprecedented (after the comers, his grandson Wanli Emperor, forty years did not pay attention to the government)
In a situation of political desolation, he devoted himself exclusively to a central institution,
Its name is:
Cat room
"Five Tanuki Nu Scrolls" Ming Zhu Zhanji
Here, the cats not only receive the most meticulous care, but also have the official to do - the male cat is sealed
Cat
, the female cat is sealed
Cat
Emperor Jiajing's beloved cat was named Frost Eyebrow.
After the change of the Palace of Nongyin, although the Jiajing Emperor was not strangled to death by the palace maid, his body was not as good as before.
Hence the poop
Suck the cat to practice Dan to survive
This cat, named Frost Eyebrow, accompanied the emperor almost all the time.
The emperor walked, did things, and even slept, and he could not leave himself.
Frost eyebrow this cat born winner, not a pet concubine, but better than a pet concubine.
After Fengmei's death, the Jiajing Emperor ordered his ministers to write sacrifices for the cat.
A sentence from Yuan Wei, a waiter in the ceremonial department
"Turning a lion into a dragon"
Let Jiajing praise it,
Yuan Wei was thus promoted to the rank of Yipin official:
Green Word Prime Minister
The place where frost eyebrows are buried
"Foothills of the Longevity Mountain for The Burial of Gold Coffins"
It was also personally selected by the Jiajing Emperor,
A monument was even erected for it.
The tomb of frost eyebrows, sealed name
"Dragon Tomb"
The towering tree next to it is named
"Dragon Cypress"
Dragon Cypress
So why did the emperor love cats?
According to historical records, the cat harmonic pronunciation is 耄, and the ancient life is called 耄, and the ninety are called 耋,
It means longevity
Ming Dynasty Zhu Zhanji's "Rich and Noble Figure in the Kettle" (
It is stored in the National Palace Museum in Taipei
In the painting, the cat naughtily looks up at the hanging copper pot with peony flowers, which is vivid and interesting.
"The Rich figure in the pot" Ming Zhu Zhanji
The painting is based on the harmonic sound of a cat, wishing for longevity and using peonies to convey wealth.
In addition, the scene of the cat and butterfly appears at the same time in the painting, which is a harmonic sound of màodié and also symbolizes longevity.
Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty
It is not difficult to understand why Jiajing Liandan is also addicted to cats.
The emperor's cats are noble, and there are not a few people who are willing to be cat slaves.
The famous politician Sima Guang is one of them.
Sima Guang
The 66-year-old Sima Guang died in commemoration of his love cat.
Specially wrote a biography for the cat called "The Biography of the Cat".
The cat's name is shù ( ) , which originally meant " black tiger " .
Without further ado, we might as well take a look at his offering to the cat.
The article is not long, and the following excerpt is taken from the end:
There are people who do not know benevolence, who are greedy and contentious, and who are sick to benefit themselves, and who hear what they have done, and who are not ashamed!
[Translation: Aren't those who do not know benevolence, who are greedy and contentious, who are harming others and themselves, ashamed to hear what [cats] do? 】
If Sima Guang's "cat sacrifice text" is also mixed with indoctrination intentions, then the famous lyricist Lu You is purely famous for loving cats.
Cats? Modern and contemporary Zhang Daqian
Here are two poems he wrote to cats:
"The Cat in the Near Village with the Play of Cher's Name as a Poem"
Like a tiger can edge wood, like a colt does not bow down.
But knowing the empty rat's nest, there is no intention to eat for the fish.
Mint is always drunk and the night is warm (qúshū).
The old boy who lived before I was born accompanied by my old mountain village.
"Give the Cat Two"
Wrapped in salt to welcome the little tanuki slave,
Protect the mountain house with 10,000 books.
Shame on the poor family,
Cold feltless sitting eat no fish.
(Tanuki is a cat.) In ancient customs, when the owner asked the neighbor or vendor for a kitten, it was often used to be relatively valuable
Salt and small fish to exchange
。 ）
"Tanuki Dragonfly Diagram"? Song Li Di
It can be seen that the emperor pleases the cat with the magnate, and the literati are talented, and I really don't know if the cat can feel it.
Do you know which emperors or literati loved cats? Leave a comment below!