In ancient times, how did people treat cats to prevent them from escaping?

If you keep a cat for a day, you will miss it for life. Modern people say they are cat slaves, that is, they like cats very much and are willing to be cat slaves. Countless people are addicted to cats, and cats and humans are interdependent. Some people may think that they attach too much importance to cats, but we should know that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, China had the custom of offering sacrifices to cats. The master-servant relationship between man and cat didn't happen today. In the long river of human history, there has never been a shortage of cats.

First of all, Lu You, a patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, is a standard cat slave, and there are more than ten poems describing cats alone. One of them is "the firewood in the stream is soft and warm, so it can't be shared with the slaves." I surrounded the fire with a blanket, and my "raccoon slave" was in a warm home and didn't want to go out. "Slave" is an ancient name for cats.

The ancients brought cats home, which was very ceremonial. They had to turn over the books to choose a good day, carefully draw a cat receipt, bring poetry, salt and dried fish to the cat. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, docile, lovely and clean cats began to be welcomed by women. Cats are widely kept in the court and become ladies' pets. Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty was also an out-and-out "cat slave". He built a special management organization for cats-the cat room, and also gave cats the opportunity to be promoted and knighted. By the time of the Republic of China, cats had been integrated into people's lives. Especially in the Republic of China, gentlemen prefer to keep cats.

It can be seen that many heroes have been conquered by the cuteness and pride of cats throughout the ages. Today, the team of cat slaves is still growing. We keep cats now for our own happiness and companionship, as long as we take good care of them. If you go too far, it will be counterproductive.