What are some examples of the use of animals in ancient China?

The more famous thing in China is the fire bull formation during the Warring States period, and the war between Qi and Yan is a thing. It was invented by Tian Dan, and later occasionally used by people in the history of the world.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Meng was asked to help the beast soldiers by the King of Mulu (riding an elephant): "There are often tigers, leopards, jackals, poisonous snakes and beasts to follow", a painting horn sounded, tigers, leopards, jackals, poisonous snakes and beasts, rode out of the wind, opened their teeth and danced their claws, rushed over, how did the Shu soldiers resist, and retreated. Kong Ming smiled and said

It is not the sin of the two of you. When I was not in my fledgling house, the prophet Nanban had a way to drive away tigers and leopards. ”

The Anshi Rebellion caused Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, to fall into the hands of the rebels. After succeeding to the throne, Tang Suzong sent Fangguan to attack the rebels in an attempt to recover Kyoto, but was defeated by Chen Tao in Xianyang County. So Fangguan imitated the fire bull array in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to turn the tide of the war.

Unexpectedly, the rebel army had already prepared, "After the battle, the thieves will blow up the dust with the wind", and shouted loudly, so that "the cattle are terrified, and the people and animals are defeated because of the arson of the binding." In this battle, the Tang army suffered more than 40,000 casualties and suffered heavy losses.

In the fifth year of Zhenghe of the Northern Song Dynasty (1115), the Song army attacked the Bu Leak rebellion in the Yanzhou area of Lunan (now Xingwen, Sichuan Province). "When Zhao Shu was a solicitor, he pressed the side of it, there were cliffs and cliffs, thieves were not equipped with danger, and there were many mountains; He sent strong men to catch thousands of heads, bundled linen into torches, poured wax with anointing wax, and bound them to their backs. So he led the army to attack in front of it, fought day and night, and restrained it.

And the Yin Dispatch Soldier, from the danger of the negative ladder title, lead the Monkey, both and the thief fence, out of the fire torch, the fever jumps, the thief house is thatched bamboo, the thief is on it, the thief is angry, the thief is screaming, the thief is frightened, the thief is on the thief, the thief is on the fire, the thief is jumping, the thief is all thatched bamboo, the thief is on it, the thief is angry, the thief is screaming, the thief is frightened. In the battle of attacking and breaking the enemy, the Song army skillfully used ape arson to win.

Elephants, dogs, horses (most common), eagles, etc. The confrontation between the two armies is nothing more than this.

Cows, elephants, rhinos, all kinds of beasts.

For example, the pigeon incident a few days ago, two pigeons pushed a pigeon under the high-speed rail track, the most painful thing was a second before the high-speed rail came, and then the two flew, and I don't know if the pigeon under the track is dead.

The Lion King wolf pack and the monkey pack are more social class, so there are often things like the wolf king or the monkey king being overthrown, and the defeated wolf king and the monkey king often leave alone and starve to death in another country. Tadpoles will eat their own kind of people, caterpillars will eat their own eggs when they are hungry, and groundhogs will eat their companions when they are frightened or hungry, and some experts believe that it is the animal's intranatal depression, while the intelligent house mouse will not do the same.

The earliest animal wars, which were carried out during the period of Emperor Yan and Emperor Huangdi, used a large number of wolves, bears and other fierce beasts. There was also the Spring and Autumn Period, when Wu Chu was fighting for hegemony, he used elephants to fight.

Chiyou uses pandas when fighting, and although pandas look cute, they are also extremely aggressive. Qi Jiguang, a general of the Ming Dynasty, trained monkey soldiers to deal with the Japanese invaders. In the late Warring States period, Tian Dan of Qi used cattle to create a fire ox array to defeat Yan and save Qi.

The earliest beast warfare, elephant warfare, and fire bull warfare. The lion beats the elephant. Painted beast battles, monkey battles. Pigeon battles, camel battles, etc.

There are no birds, but Genghis Khan seems to have an army of 20,000 Tibetan mastiffs, and he has made a lot of contributions to the west.

I like the Persians the most to take advantage of the Egyptians' belief in cats.

It may not be exhaustive, but that's basically it.