On December 15, 2018, the Imperial Palace's Imperial Guard Cub with claws fell asleep quietly and forever, perhaps dreaming of a warmer cat star... Maybe you haven't seen it, but it has silently guarded the Forbidden City for ten years.
Tanuki cat cub has a gentle personality and likes to be touched, and has won the love of many tourists, and it is affectionately called "Imperial Front One Pin with Claw Guard" by many netizens
Maybe the cub knows that his life is not long, before leaving it has no usual spirit, after the warm sunshine of Beijing in winter, it left everyone's sight on December 11, until December 15th, the body was found, and the cub who had guarded the Forbidden City for ten years wanted to rest...
It lay quietly in a place we could not see, and the winter sun still met the tired cat as usual, and then it quietly closed its eyes, and there were no familiar, or strange, or idle, or busy, or smiling, or crying people around.
The little cub just walked away silently... We are separated from each other in two worlds...
This is the final story of an ordinary and extraordinary tanuki cat.
The breed of Tanuki cat seems to be familiar and strange to everyone, so let's talk about the past and present lives of Tanuki cats!
<h1>Tanuki cats leapt into people's field of vision, from the oldest breed of cats in the Shang Dynasty to the cat breeds included in the CFA:</h1>
Tanuki cat is a kind of cat unique to China, which has been preserved by the natural elimination of many breeds for thousands of years, is one of the few "strong men" in the cat industry who can catch rats, and is the earliest known cat breed in the world, and there are some records of them in texts and books of different provenances.
The name of the tanuki cat comes from the story of the Qing Dynasty best-selling novel "Tanuki Cat for Prince", and it is said that Bao Gong's greatest merit was to try the biggest unjust case in the palace- the Tanuki Cat for Prince Case, so that Song Renzong Zhao Zhen knew his own mother.
Although the novel "Tanuki Cat for Prince" was best-selling in the Qing Dynasty, the actual time occurred in the Song Dynasty, and before that, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a record of Wu Zetian's "fear of cats", and the history of the Tanuki cat can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty in 1300, which makes it one of the oldest breeds of cats in China.
Tanuki cats are direct descendants of Chinese bobcats, which means that they are rarely subject to human intervention in the process of evolution, so raising a tanuki cat means that you will have a fairly healthy cat that has evolved naturally for thousands of years.
Tanuki cats have different characteristics than other cats - the wild brown tabby coat, coupled with the special diamond-shaped head of the Tanuki cat, giving people a "no neck" illusion, this cute side with beautiful almond-shaped eyes, in one fell swoop won the title of "the only Chinese cat breed in China to be included in the CFA (The Cat Fanciers' Association, the American Cat Lovers Association)"!!
This means that the Chinese Tanuki, like the Russian Blue Cat, the Norwegian Forest Cat and the British Shorthair, is a certified breed that has been rigorously screened by the world's largest purebred cat non-profit registration organization.
Influenced by the story of "Tanuki For Prince", Tanuki had a domineering English name "Dragon Li" in the early days, after being included in the CFA, the English name was changed to Chinese Li Hua (Chinese Tanuki, speaking of Li Hua, compared to everyone remembered the Li Hua in the English composition of the college entrance examination national volume, is there a connection between the two of them? This is impossible to verify), compared to Dragon Li, the name Chinese Li Hua is more in line with the cute temperament of tanuki cats.
In the eyes of Crooked Nuts, the status of the Tanuki cat is like the status of the doll cat in the eyes of the Chinese people, and the overseas price reaches 2,000-6,000 yuan, and even more 16,000 yuan is purchased.
<h1>The status of tanuki cats in China is not as high as its international status, why? </h1>
In China, the tanuki cat breed is not so popular and popular.
The Chinese Tanuki cat has a docile personality and strong social skills, and is an active cat that is curious about new things and active things.
The reason why the tanuki cat breed has been passed down for thousands of years in history is that it relies on the ability to catch mice, and perhaps for everyone, the tanuki cat is just a kitten that "the mother cat who leads the family gives birth to a kitten, and we go to hold a cat to catch a mouse".
There are a lot of people who go to have a tanuki cat for one reason or another, and the cat disappears and dies, which doesn't seem so sad for them.
Some people may just want to find a cute little pet to accompany them without considering the domestication of tanuki cats; others, perhaps because they need to move, or because of some problems such as marriage, release tanuki cats, and then these cats become poor animal orphans.
In fact, not only tanuki cats, but also china's native cats in addition to tanuki cats in China are also facing this situation of random release, in fact, behind the beauty of every photograph of the Imperial Cats in the Forbidden City that we lament, there are many cats displaced. Shan Jixiang, former president of the Forbidden City, mentioned that there are nearly 200 cats in the Forbidden City.
When we look at the Forbidden City Royal Cat from a "really cute" perspective, we should also look at the Forbidden City Royal Cat from a different perspective.
The cats of the Forbidden City are also stray cats strictly speaking, but living in a closed area is much safer than the cats outside.
Perhaps in the eyes of many cat lovers, in recent years, the Forbidden City cat has become popular, coupled with the birth of various Forbidden City cat derivatives, the famous cats in the palace have attracted a large number of people to watch, but this is actually a disturbance to the palace cat itself.
We like cats, but no matter what, we can't adopt all the cute cats in the Forbidden City, and all we can do is to treat our domesticated cats carefully and let them stay away from the pain of wandering, farther away.
The Forbidden City Imperial Guard with claws- the Tanuki Cat Cub is asleep forever. Sleeping is not only the cub, sleeping is the Love of the Chinese people for the Tanuki cat and even the native cats in China, the cubs are indeed asleep, but I believe that our love for the native cat will slowly wake up.
The cat's life is short,
It may just be a small passer-by that will accompany you throughout your long life,
And for them, you are the only companion in their lifetime,
Behind the cat's independent personality, what is hidden is its unique dependence and love for you.
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1. "Sanlian Life Weekly", No. 28, 2019, the original title of the original article is "Cats in the Forbidden City"
2. Cats and Parrots: I rent animals, religion and politics in the days of heaven
3.【Cat 101】 Chinese Li Hua
4. The picture part uses Weibo: pet photographer - Kecha took the reason