He was once a divine oriental dog worth 40 million, enjoying national treasure status, but now he is reduced to a stray dog ??that is given away to a dog meat restaurant and is even disliked. What happened to the Tibetan Mastiff? How was his myth shattered? In 1969, American expedition member Barry Bishop brought back a pure black Tibetan Mastiff from Tibet. As a result, Tibetan Mastiffs became very popular in the United States, and they even named him “The Divine Dog from the Roof of the World.”
In the 1980s, many people worked hard to obtain sacred dogs from Tibet. Due to their scarcity, the prices quickly skyrocketed. Originally, this matter had nothing to do with mainland China, but the bad thing happened to a Taiwanese actor. Zhang Peihua became famous with Last Night's Stars. In 1983, he bought a Tibetan Mastiff named Joke from the United States for NT$1.2 million. This price could buy a house in Taiwan. At that time, no one had seen this breed. The star effect coupled with Due to the high prices, Tibetan Mastiffs quickly became popular in Taiwan. A Tibetan Mastiff puppy can be sold for NT$300,000, which is equivalent to a high. The annual income of a white-collar worker. Some people think that the cost of getting a Tibetan mastiff from the United States is too high, so they think of the mainland, which is close to the water. In 1985, a Fujian businessman approached Wang Zhankui, the owner of a dog farm in Henan, with several photos of Tibetan mastiffs. At this time, he did not know that he would become the father of the Chinese Tibetan Mastiff many years later. In 1998, he promoted his story through the media, but this story was carefully designed and packaged. It said that Tibetan Mastiff is a unique dog breed in China and is extremely loyal to its owner. One Tibetan Mastiff is worth two leopards and is now on the verge of extinction. , and he packages himself as the patron saint who saves Tibetan mastiffs.
Due to the inconvenience of traveling in and out of Tibet at that time, and the nationalistic overtones of these stories, the price of Tibetan Mastiffs increased significantly. In 1999, an adult Tibetan Mastiff could be sold for 200,000 yuan, which was enough to buy a 200-square-meter house in Beijing. However, Tibetan Mastiff speculators felt that Wang Zhankui’s story alone was not enough, so they invited Ma Junren, the former head coach of the Chinese track and field team, to once again push the popularity of Tibetan Mastiffs to a new level. He said that he raised Tibetan Mastiffs for In the future, he will go out to participate in world competitions, win the world championship, and bring glory to the country. He also said that all the Tibetan mastiffs he raises are purebreds. He will use his celebrity effect to directly raise the price of Tibetan mastiffs to the top. Bubbles will eventually burst. In 2013, the myth of the Tibetan Mastiff was shattered, and the sacred dog began to step down from the altar. What followed was the revelation of various inside stories, which was simply shocking.
After being played around by capital, Tibetan Mastiffs fell from the altar. In fact, they did nothing from beginning to end, but no one took over the thousands of Tibetan Mastiffs. In 2015, a piece of news that a million-dollar Tibetan Mastiff was reduced to a hot pot ingredient burst the last bubble of the Tibetan Mastiff myth. There are more than 17,000 stray dogs, most of them Tibetan mastiffs. They have no home and wander around without food. They often attack passers-by and even stage tragedies of cannibalism. This can't help but make people sigh. It is really sad that the once proud Eastern Divine Dog is now living in such a miserable life.