Cats in Song Dynasty of China

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Song Dynasty is a very splendid one in Chinese history, known as its numerous artists and scholars. The great culture was formed due to rulers' preference to man of letters. The first emperor in Song Dynasty once told his offspring that the government cannot kill scholars forever. Poets like "all high officials are scholars", also describe such a phenomenon. Eight Prose Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties, six of which are in Song Dynasty. In regard to art, landscape paintings have achieved great development. Shenzhou was famous for his landscape paintings and calligraphy. He is good at painting cats. The cats in his painting were so lively and vivid that people even took it for true cats in darkness.

Shenzhou

His most well-known work was called "Cat". In this painting, you can see a simple structure: a cat huddled up in its ease, possibly thinking something or just taking a sunbath. It also seems like that it was looking at something interesting in the sky, bring us much reverie. We can infer that the cat had a good life from its figure. Actually, his paintings mostly belong to palace painting, and the cats in palace live better than people.
We can learn that cats gain much popularity in ancient times from literature and art work. Of course, only the rich can raise cats and give them a good life. It is difficult for poor families to support themselves' life, let alone keeping cats. On the contrary, there also are vocabulary containing "mao", which means something bad, like yemaozi and limaohuantaizi. Furthermore,  cat isn't  a fixed signs of the Zodiac. Why? Someone holds that the ancestors of cats in China were from India after the use of formation of Zodiac. It is also the reason that why some Chinese people dislike cats.

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