Lin Po-ting points out that in the hunting scenes which decorate artifacts from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, one often sees mounted swordsmen fighting tigers, with the tigers in the role of the pursued. It would appear that people's fear of tigers had already lessened considerably since the Shang dynasty, when tigers were often represented eating humans.
林柏亭指出，春秋戰國時期器物上的狩獵紋飾，常是騎士揮劍鬥虎，老虎扮演被追逐的角色，看起來，人對虎的畏懼程度，比起商代常出現老虎食人的造型，已減低許多。