What is the origin and history of the cat?

Cat (Japanese: zaoqi cat), one said to have originated in China more than 1,000 years ago, the other said to have originated in Japan, is a common cat idol in traditional Japanese culture, is regarded as a kind of good luck to attract wealth and good fortune, and its history can be traced back to Edo more than four hundred years ago.

In China's Tang Dynasty: On the origin of the cat's wealth-attracting function, the Tang Dynasty's Duan Chengshi wrote in "Youyang Miscellany Chopping Block", "the cat washes its face over its ears, then the guest arrives", and the image of the cat's wealth-attracting function leaps out; it can be ascertained that at least a thousand years ago, in the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese people had this custom.

In 2014, in Shaanxi Qishan North and South Dynasties period cave niche group found more than 1,600 years ago, "fortune cat" statue, the origin of the fortune cat further forward. The cat-like stone sculpture in the shape of a "fortune-hunting cat" - a cat that not only has dimpled eyes, a chubby body and a long cocked tail, but also appears to be squatting, with one front paw resting on the ground and the other appearing to be waving at people - "suggests that it was a part of daily life at that time," he said. "It suggests that cats were already present in everyday life at that time.

In Japan: In Japan there are many folklore about fortune cats, basically and "kitten revenge" related to the origin of the legend can be traced back to more than four hundred years ago in Edo, about the origin of fortune cats, allusions, history of the many different opinions, the different sayings of the achievements of today's Japanese fortune cats of different schools, such as the Yoshiwara The Japanese fortune teller cat of Yoshiwara, the fortune teller cat of Hokkaido, the fortune teller cat of Aichi Prefecture, and the fortune teller cat of Echigoya, and so on.