Tibetan beast, native to Tibet in the Himalayas, is one of the ancient dog breeds in China and an excellent dog breed with mysterious colors.
As early as the seventh century AD, Tibetan lamas at that time began to raise Tibetan beasts. Because of their active nature, alertness, and excellent eyesight and high intelligence, they were used as hounds by monks in lama temples to visit the home. Although called a hound, this dog has never hunted. Because of its sharp eyes and long distances, it often sat on the wall of the monastery and looked down on the whole courtyard, and was an excellent guard dog.
Legend has it that later Tibetans were trained to help monks turn prayer buckets, followed by prayer carts covered with parchment by monks, and were placed in prayer bowls by monks along with Buddhist scriptures, so they were also called prayer dogs at that time.
Later, it was introduced to the capital from Tibet and was raised as a precious gift from the tribute emperor or the ministers and monks of the dprk to each other in the strictly gated royal court, and was called a court dog because it was little known at that time. It was not until 1860, when it was first exhibited in Britain in 1905, that its popularity has continued to grow ever since.
The first time I learned the name of this dog was when I read the novel Notes from the Tomb Robber. The grandfather of the protagonist wu xie in the book, the old dog of Wu in the old nine doors, once raised a Tibetan beast. The book says: "His favorite dog is called three-inch nail, a very small Tibetan deer, born small, only a few hundred grams, always carried by him in his sleeve and brought with him." Grandpa said that this kind of dog is also the most vigilant kind of dog, very distrustful of strangers, it is difficult to get its trust. If you feel that someone has ill intentions, you can warn the owner in the sleeve. "Tibetans have rich striated muscles on the walls of their esophagus, and the vomiting center is well developed. When eating poison, it can cause a strong vomiting reflex and excrete the poison swallowed into the stomach, which is a relatively unique defense skill. It can be seen that it is not unreasonable for Old Dog Wu to use it as a personal guard.
The Tibetan beast is also known as the sleeve dog, and it is not difficult to see the size of this dog from the description in the "Notes on the Tomb Robber". As a small dog, when it was first introduced to the mainland, it was loved by court ladies. Later, it entered the folk, and the Tibetan beast with a body shape like a "three-inch nail" was very rare, but the temperament of the Tibetan beast did not change because of its body shape. Alert, self-confident and independent, sleeve dogs that like to get along with humans are universally loved.
The Tibetan beast is very similar to Jingba, and the easiest way to distinguish the two is to look at its feet. Jingjing is a cat's claw, round; Tibetan deer is a rabbit's claw, oblong oval, don't confuse oh.