Who is the king of the beasts, the tiger and the lion? In the era of He Shengliang, no one recorded the lion and tiger fight, and today, human beings have no chance to find this answer. However, the painters never gave up on their imagination.
This 1809 painting by the painter John Peter clearly depicts the triumph of the lion.
This work depicts tigers and lions fighting in the wilderness, with it clearly the tigers having the upper hand.
This nineteenth-century 1873 etching depicts a trainer teaching lions and tigers simultaneously in an enclosed cage. Yes, it turns out that humans are the veritable "king of the beasts", and it is also the excessive hunting of humans that lions and tigers finally lose the opportunity to meet.
The painters also describe the historical facts of human persecution of their kind with lions and tigers, and this exquisite and magnificent oil painting by William Thompson depicts the Romans using lions and tigers to persecute infidels in the Colosseum during the Roman Empire.
In the 1857 painting, a lion attacks a Bengal tiger for food, under the tiger's claws is a dead mother and son, and at that time humans were still at a disadvantage in nature.
In a world where the weak eat the strong, people worship lions and tigers, and carve the king of the hundred beasts on various medals to praise the brave.
No matter what cultural background in the world, there is no shortage of heroes who fight tigers.
Both the mountain hunters and the royal palace nobles are proud to hunt the king of the hundred beasts.
The Maasai classic hunting of lions
Hunting trips from Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
In 1940, Mrs. Helen Lerner shot a lion herself while in Africa. Celebrities who arrived in Africa in that era would be embarrassed to say they had been to Africa without shooting a few lions.
The painter Heinrich depicts a European cave lion hunting deer, and the European cave lion has long disappeared with the advent of industrial civilization. In Africa, the good Mong Kok lion, the North African lion, and the maneless lion in East Africa have disappeared.
Lion and tiger fighting has happened several times in recent years, basically zoo management is poor, the lion and tiger fight in nature has not been recorded before, and it is no longer possible since then, perhaps humans are the veritable "king of beasts". In January 2016, in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, Tanzania, Engroglo Crater, tourists watched lions in the reserve. Photograph: Wang Wu