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What's the difference between a cloth tiger and a real tiger?

The use of cloth tigers can be divided into two categories: practical and sacrificial. A real tiger is an animal.

Cloth dolls with tiger images made by cloth tigers are traditional handicrafts widely circulated among the people in China since ancient times. From the modeling point of view, there are many kinds of cloth tigers, mostly short and fat, showing the simple and strong modeling of tigers; In terms of patterns, the patterns of cloth tigers are often matched with auspicious patterns, plant patterns, five poison patterns and other elements.