In its appraisal of the color of cats 'fur, China's classic reference on cats, Xiang Mao Jing, offers no such indication. On the contrary, cats whose backs are black (or brown) and whose abdomens, legs, feet and claws are all white it considers the quintessential form of multicolored cat, giving them the sobriquet "ebony clouds covering the snow."
中國的貓譜《相貓經》關於毛色形相的品評中，並沒有類似的說法，反而把背黑而肚腿蹄爪皆白的黑白貓（或黃白貓），列為花貓的上品，雅號「烏雲蓋雪」。