Writers love to use others as the channel for their own ideas, and in Chinese literature there is the hair-raising Encounter With a Tiger, but also the tiger-praising Story of a Grateful Tiger. One can admire the tiger's might and vigor, or use it to satirize many aspects of human life.
文人又喜借他人手中酒杯，澆自己心中塊壘，文學中遂有驚甫未定的《遭虎篇》、也有歌頌老虎的《義虎傳》；可以讚其威猛、也可以借其來諷刺人生百像。