I remember when I was young, the old man in my family told me many interesting things about Tianjin Wei.
Some people played with crickets, birds, and grasshoppers.
These things are the same in the eyes of us ordinary people, but they are very different in the eyes of players.
For example, there is a kind of cricket in the Ming Tombs called the crab shell green, which was specially presented as tribute to the emperor.
The price of a crab shell green is equivalent to the same volume of gold.
I heard that there were people who lost their fortune in cricket matches with the children of the Le family from Tongrentang.
At that time, I thought, how can these animals be distinguished?
Is it really that magical?
This memory affected me when I wrote Thief Cat.
When I started writing, I didn’t know what to write in the second chapter when I wrote the first chapter.
At first I wanted to write about solving a crime, but then I ended up writing a book that I didn’t even know what kind of book it was.
Everyone knows that in ancient China, there was a Bole who knew a thousand-mile horse.
In recent years, the trend of pets has been booming, but it is the kind of purebred brand that is popular among Westerners.
Cats include Persian Siamese short tail, folded ears and three flowers, and dogs include VIP Bichon Frize.
Pekingese Chihuahua, but the traditional Chinese art of identifying cats and dogs is rarely heard of.
There aren't many books about looking at dogs now, but judging from the classics about looking at dogs and songs about looking at dogs among the people, it can be seen that Chinese people have also gone deep into playing with dogs.
It is no better than the Western lineage that has a shorter history and less culture.
Just talking about cats, during the Qing Dynasty, someone compiled the book "Cat Garden", which is divided into seven categories: species, appearance, coat color, supernatural beings, famous things, stories, and algae.
It is a very interesting encyclopedia of cats.
This book can be regarded as a compilation.
Among them, the most frequently quoted content items are none other than the Chinese Cat Book that was circulated among the people at that time.
The Cat Appearance Sutra starts from the cat's head, face, ears, eyes, nose, whiskers and other facial features, and goes to the neck, waist, feet, claws, tail, and even the coat color and breed, without missing a single detail.
For example, a cat's head and face should be round, and a cat with a long face can eat chickens, so it is said that "a cat with a long face will breed like a chicken."
The eyes should be the color of money, and tears and dark marks in the eyes are the most taboo, so it is called "golden eyes and night lights".
People with black marks on their eyes are lazy.
There are too many to mention, and among them there are famous stories about cats, such as reaching out to pick up the cat by the back of the neck, the one that curls up is a good cat, the one with its limbs spread out and barking is a lazy cat; the good cat throws it against the wall, It will be posted on the wall for a few seconds; a good cat can protect six yards without a mouse entering, etc.
I have written all these sayings in the book Thieving Cats to let people know about the gadgets of ancient China You can also play big tricks
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