Bronze tiger, from the website of Liaoning Provincial Museum. When I visit museums all over the country, I often see a pot-shaped object that looks like a tiger. At first, unknown so, after reading the text introduction of the museum and consulting relevant historical materials, realized that this was a drowning instrument used by ancient men, namely "chamber pot", but it had an elegant name-nothing. The celadon tiger in the Three Kingdoms period collected by Hubei Provincial Museum. Nothing has been recorded as early as the Zhou Dynasty, and it is often found in the funerary objects of ancient tombs in the Han, Wei, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which shows that it was very popular at that time. In the early years of the Han Dynasty, the position of "Shi Zhong" in the imperial court was designed to facilitate the emperor at any time without taking anything. The celadon tiger in Maanshan Museum. Nothing is mostly long, square, round, oval and so on. The mouth and abdomen are deep. It is made of wood, pottery, porcelain or copper. Archaeologically, it is also found to be a jade from the Han tomb, which belongs to the luxury of similar items. None in Southern Dynasties, collected by Anhui Ancient Porcelain Museum. Why did people make drowning people in the shape of tigers in Qin and Han dynasties, instead of imitating the shapes of wolves and cows? Making the drowning man into the shape of a tiger and naming him a tiger may have two meanings: first, the tiger is a beast, but it has to serve its master obediently, which reflects the male's desire to conquer; Second, let the tiger be on duty at night, with the expectation of exorcism. The picture on the left shows the glazed pottery tiger of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the picture on the right shows the glazed pottery tiger of the Western Jin Dynasty, which is collected by Nanjing Museum. There are many tigers unearthed all over the country, and many museums have collections, including the Nanjing Museum, where there are hundreds. None of the tiger images in these cultural relics are sad, but strong, stocky and confident. The museum in Anji County, Zhejiang Province houses the lacquer-wood tiger that lifted the beam in the early Western Han Dynasty. This thing is 32.5cm long,13.5cm wide and 16. 1 cm high. The big tiger and the little tiger are connected by tenons. The body is a big tiger, fat body, lying on the side of his head; Lift the beam for the tiger. The sculpture image is vivid and magnificent. Lacquer Tiger in Anji Museum, Zhejiang Province, pictured above. West Jin celadon tiger in Wuhan Museum. The tiger's head is whistled, the tiger's mouth is big and round, its legs are bent, and the tiger's tail is tilted up to the neck to form a hanging beam. Glaze the whole body, the color is bright and moist, the body is strong and the tiger shape is realistic. Tao, in the Museum of Anthropology, Xiamen University. When the tiger was first discovered in archaeology, scholars once thought it was a wine vessel, and only after consulting relevant documents did they really realize its use. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Wu gradually faded out of people's sight.