Chuang Shen, a research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology, writes in an article entitled "Chinese Lion Sculptures" that in the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period (220-280), stone lions generally appeared singly; it was not until the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (420-589) that sculptors began to take notice of the animals 'family affections.
中央研究院史語所研究員莊申在〈中國的獅子雕刻〉文中指出，漢代、三國的石獅往往以單獨個體表現；表現動物親情，則是南北朝時代才開始受到注。