Furthermore, compared with the mythical dragon and phoenix, in the past when tigers were common in China, incidents of tigers eating people or people killing tigers occurred frequently, so that humans 'conflicting emotions of both hating and worshipping tigers were very much a reality.
而且比起無形的龍、鳳，過去多虎的中國民間，虎吃人、人殺虎的敵對狀態不時發生，人對虎亦恨、亦崇的情感極為真實。