【Historical Live Broadcast】Watching videos and being seen by our ancestors

【Tell me how your kitten came to your home】

[Netizens who own cats are showing off their first encounters with cats online one by one]

[This is true. I bought a stuffed doll. When I first saw it, it kept staring at me. It even let me hug it and looked at me lovingly. Later I found out that all this was just a disguise. What a scheming little cat! ]

[There was a young lady who waited until the cat cafe closed down, and bought the cat she liked at a low price, hahahahahaha]

[It was my first time to go to a pet store. All the other kittens were very well behaved, but he kicked the cat litter into my mouth. He was the farthest away from me, but he managed to attract my attention with his shameful little trick. [Evil smile]]

[My cat held my hand and played with me when we first met. I didn’t even get to see what it looked like before I paid for it and took it home. As soon as we got home, it treated me like it was home. It hid nothing and slept with me in bed on the first night.]

"I know all the stray cats on the street. It suddenly appeared two days ago, a skinny little orange-white cat. I was in a hurry to get a meal, so I told it: If you are still here when I come back, I will be your mother. Then I got a little cat who looks very kind now, loves to be petted, rubbed, and cuddled, warms the bed, and steps on my milk, but is stingy and holds grudges [grin]"

"When I found my cat, it was dirty and had a big belly, looking pitiful. I thought it was a pregnant cat with nowhere to go, and since it was cold, I took it in. But... it didn't give birth for a long time, and then I found out that it was just fat [laughing and crying]"

"For some reason it ran to someone else's yard, and the owner was afraid that children might touch it, so he carried it on an electric bike, and it kept meowing.

I happened to see him, and he asked me if I wanted to keep it. Before I could make up my mind, he rode away on his bike, probably thinking it was a joke. But after walking for a while, I suddenly had the urge to catch up and take a look. I met him again, and he said he was next to the trash can.

When I got there, I saw it next to the trash can. It was still barking at the top of its lungs and it was not standing very steadily. Its little paws were kicking around randomly. Behind the trash can was the river bank, and I was really afraid it would fall in, so I endured the stench of the trash can and the buzzing of flies and pulled it over.

Holding it with one hand, it let me grab it obediently, without any resistance, just humming twice as if acting coquettishly.

The mother cat was nowhere to be found, and it was too risky for it to be alone here, so I took it home. Soon after I got home, it started to rain outside. It was too small and had sparse fur. If it had been left outside and caught in the rain, even if the mother cat found it, it would not have survived. I was glad that I brought it home. "

"My best friend and I found it together with our families. We had our eyes on the tabby cat, but my best friend said she wanted the calico cat. Then I said I would name the tabby cat Graystripe (my best friend's favorite cat in the book Warrior Cats), and then we lost the tabby cat [laughing and crying]

But, Sanhua is good, Sanhua is wonderful, Sanhua steps on milk and gurgles [doge]"

"My little orange cat was in a haystack beside the road. I saw it was still a clean kitten so I put it in the pocket of my electric bike and took it home. Now I have a cute little purring motor [laughing and crying]"

In ancient times, cat owners who loved cats would feel warmed when they saw people in later generations encountering kittens for the first time.

The raccoons on the sky are all so cute. I want to kiss and hug them!

The Song Dynasty was an era ruled by an army of cats, and there were countless cat owners.

During the Song Dynasty, people not only liked and cared for cats, but also had many particularities when it came to raising cats.

If you want to adopt one, you definitely can't just bring it home directly. Instead, just like marrying a wife or taking a concubine, you need to prepare a "dowry" specifically for it.

Of course, the betrothal gift for the cat was not something expensive, but an essential condiment in the home - salt.

For the people of the Song Dynasty, cats were not considered as rare commodities, nor were they considered as tools to make money. Cats were like family members.

As long as they love cats, they will happily give the cats away, and the so-called betrothal gift is just a symbolic ceremony.

They are brought back with "dowry" and go through the formal procedures, so their new owners will surely not look down on them. If the person who "bridesmaids" them back does not treat them well, their "family members" will be the first to seek justice for them.

Lu You, a cat-raising expert, still remembers that winter when he brought his first cat from a friend's home in exchange for a "salt package" as a betrothal gift.

The kitten was very soft and cute, not only had a smart and agile body, but also was very lively and naughty, and looked like a modern puppet. Lu You gave it a very vivid name "Xiao Yu Tu", which means little tiger, implying that it was as domineering as a tiger in front of mice.

When Lu You first bought it, he was hoping that Xiao Yutu would catch more mice in the study. However, he did not expect that it would do its job at all. Instead of catching mice, it always liked to occupy Lu You's favorite carpet. It would either make a fuss beside him or act coquettishly and pester Lu You to play with it. It made Lu You's study and bedroom a mess all day long, leaving him no time to write poetry or deal with official documents.

Lu You was forced to pull a long face and say to it: "If you can catch a few more mice, I will let you eat your favorite fish every day."

Little Yu Tu probably understood what Lu You said, and quickly demonstrated his amazing talent in his ancestral craft, easily solving Lu You's troubles.

When Lu You saw how capable his little cat was, he not only prepared rich fish food for it every day, but also wrote a poem for it, praising its cuteness and ability to the best of his ability.

Nowadays, when I see cats from later generations, I only feel that the images are warm and healing. However, when I see a few particularly fat cats, I feel disgusted at how people from later generations spoiled cats so much that they made them so fat. It is rare for me to criticize them.

These young men must not raise cats like this. They raise their cats so fat. What if they die of obesity? If the cats eat too much, their bodies will not be able to bear it!

How is it the same as my little Yutu? It has absolutely no grace or charm.