In an outspoken article, Cao Zhenfeng has written: "In China's history, there has been a contradictory conception of the tiger. It has been both feared and venerated, both hunted and worshipped. The tiger was both a portent of disaster and an omen of good fortune .... No other animal in Chinese culture is such a blatantly contradictory amalgamation."
曹振峰在一篇文章裡開宗明義的就說：「在我國歷史上，對虎有種矛盾的觀念，既懼怕它，又崇拜它，既捕殺它，又信賴它；虎是不祥之物，又是吉祥之物，… … 在中國沒有任何一種生物像虎一樣，是如此突出的矛盾綜合體。」