In ancient times, why did people call the tiger, the king of beasts, the big worm?

The tiger is a natural **, agile animal, and the tiger that really grows up in the wild is definitely not the listless appearance we see in the zoo. Therefore, people also call the tiger the king of beasts, or the king of the forest. When it comes to insects, people think of those small animals that can only crawl slowly and kill several with a single slap, even if they are large insects, they are no more than the thickness of a human finger.

However, in ancient times, why did people call the tiger, known as the king of beasts, the great worm?

But the earliest age of the tiger called the big insect has been unexaminable, the earliest appearance in the book was in the Jin Dynasty, "Sou Shen Ji" recorded that "Funan Wang Fan Xun raised a tiger in the mountain, there are criminals, cast into the tiger, do not eat, but you; Therefore, the tiger is called a big insect. "But the name "big insect" was not popular at that time, and it was still called a tiger more often.

In fact, in ancient times, not only tigers were called insects, but all animals in ancient times could be called insects, for example, birds were called feather insects, beasts were called caterpillars, and snakes were called long insects. Since the tiger is the king of beasts, it is called the Great Worm. Before the Tang Dynasty, the ancients still called tigers more.

The name "big insect" was really popularized in the Tang Dynasty, which started with the establishment of the Tang Dynasty. We all know that Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, so after becoming emperor, he posthumously sealed all his ancestors, including his grandfather Li Hu. Li Hu became the emperor, and people couldn't say the word tiger anymore, so they had to change the name of the tiger and call it "Big Worm".

Gradually, therefore, people became accustomed to calling tigers big worms. After the Song Dynasty, there is no need to shy away from it, but people are used to calling it a big insect, so many people still call the tiger a big insect, for example, the Tiger is often called a big insect in the Water Margin.

But now many people don't know that the big insect is actually a tiger, so many people often think that the big insect is a snake or a real insect when they read the ancient **, and this tiger is really aggrieved.

Brave. The tiger has a short-tempered personality and can beat several people, so it is called a big worm.

Because in ancient times, people would have called many animals worms. And after the Tang Dynasty, because Tang Gaozu's grandfather had a tiger in his name. In order to avoid the word, people began to call it a big bug.

Because in ancient times, the people who could see these creatures were generally some farmers who did not have a low level of knowledge and education. They just think that tigers are much bigger than other animals. And the lethality is relatively high, so it is called so.