Cats are not the privilege of contemporary people. In the Song Dynasty, people really started to suck cats at that time. Because in the Song Dynasty, literature was valued over martial arts, many literati began to keep cats. At this time, the cat's main task is not to catch mice, and it is regarded as a pet as it is today.

this point was also confirmed in many articles in the song dynasty, and it appeared at that time? Beaver slave? 、? Cat essence? This statement is just like our shovel officer today. Scholars in the Song Dynasty especially liked to keep cats, and they took them wherever they went. Moreover, many poems have been written to describe cats.

besides the poems, there are cats in the paintings. In the Ming Dynasty, there was another emperor who was very fond of cats. He was an out-and-out shovel officer, and that was Emperor Jiajing. Therefore, if you want to trace the history of cat sucking, it can really be traced back to a long time ago.

in the Han dynasty, merchants specializing in selling cats began to appear. It is recorded in some books that if you spend 1 yuan to buy a cat, you can go home and catch mice. It shows that in the Han Dynasty, the cat trade had already appeared.

in the Tang dynasty, because the country was relatively strong, the people's lives were relatively rich. As the saying goes, wine is full of lust, so people at that time had other spiritual needs. Just like us people now, there are always some other things to satisfy ourselves when life is good, otherwise, isn't life boring?

Keeping cats has become a very popular thing. At that time, people have observed many characteristics of cats, such as different eyes at night and during the day. In the Tang Dynasty, even in the harem, many people kept cats. Cats were also given to foreign countries as national treasures, which shows how noble cats were at that time.