But when China entered the agricultural age, farming made people more and more dependent on nature with all its vagaries, and the tiger's status was gradually usurped by the more abstract dragon.
只是，當中國進入農業社會，農耕生產方式造成人們對不可知的自然日愈依賴，虎的地位遂漸漸由抽象的龍替代，出現了龍虎分離的情形。