Tiger is the king, the king of beasts, and of mountains, people love and fear tiger tiger.So people will also be looked for fierce, cruel animal, the legend of folk there are quite a few dozen tiger, appeared a lot of tiger hunting, dozen tiger, tiger, Blackpool and strong men, from the han dynasty shoot tigers into stone li while jettisoning to black turning wind li kui to save the mother killed in jingyang hill, wu3 song dozen tiger tiger...And so on.Today these stories, to protect the ecological environment of human rescue and protection of endangered species is nowThe tigerReality, is inverse instead of, and even illegal.But from the story of the historical background and social psychological perspective, has reflected the human to protect themselves, from the tiger's psychology, the psychological also have reflected in folklore or a proverb.So tiger though terrible ferocity, but there are also a hero strong man not afraid of the tiger fierce from, have the courage to have the courage to play the "tiger", will be "tiger" and a powerful evil potential associated with the fearless spirit to "study", "fight" tiger, tiger "destroy", the "tiger" has not the nature of the tiger, but the symbol of the power of evil.Embodies the people to the psychological or ideas, wishes saying not a few.Such as: "longyou shallow shrimp, tiger fall pingyang deceives by dogs", power and prestige "tiger tail hanging a broom, sweeping the floor", "tiger into the trap, desperate"...This shows that "tiger" are conquered, is not to fear, also shows that fierce and brutal, "tiger", as a symbol of power or authority, it will also have a "tiger" death was wei, the fate of the die.The moral of these proverbs or theme, for tiger, is enough to training.

Although western regards as the "lion" the king of beasts, but in ancient China, is the king of beasts "tiger"!Chinese people since ancient times, the tiger as a visual secret and animals, for the tiger is afraid to three points.People at the mention of a tiger would face a change, at the sight of a tiger, may frighten even the soul fly.The tiger really saying is the embodiment of the brave, brave, danger and conflict.

Xiehouyu also is a kind of colloquial, more for people to create and xi, conventional, has the characteristics of humorous, popular image and special structure of the statement.Xiehouyu generally by the before and after effect on into two parts: the first part of metaphor is lingo;After the part is original intention, is the former part of the explanation or stretch.When using is usually only said the first part and part, after to deliberately pause, let the listener to ponder ponder, so it is also called "rest" or lingo.Xiehouyu can be divided into two kinds, one is harmonics, is a kind of metaphor.In the language of all ethnic groups of xiehouyu is also related to the tiger is very rich and wonderful, if from the nature of content related to give the tiger xiehouyu classification, can be divided into every class as follows:

Has a special symbol of righteousness, than the inter-cultural, stretching righteousness: tiger mountain lies: lie bottoms dead, the tiger caught cats on the tree: thanks to the left hand, tiger's den, civet cats: generation than a generation, tigers into based: old corruption (tiger), tiger's mouthTooth extraction: adventure;Run.

Performance of tiger character intrepid, power, strength, boldness, energy such as: tiger stumble: back pretty hard, tiger dance: cat, the tiger yawn: tone is really large, tigers took to the streets: everyone is afraid of, the tiger long wings: god.

Showing the ecological habit of the tiger are: tiger walking: don't companion, solitary, tiger is not a vegetarian: chew to crack, the tiger bones: good threaded into the cave, tiger: splended disregard, tiger after catching crickets: all thumbs.

Has fierce, fierce tiger, the tiger heads lambs: don't spit bones, the tiger's son: don't look at him (it) is small, the tigerA fight: I can't, have no advise put green onion, tiger's nose: company (like) (Chinese zodiac /shengxiao/)

Tiger face beast all performance, pretend people are: the tiger when the monk: beast, the tiger back cross: pretend to Jesus, the tiger with a leather: sample loading (sheep), tiger Dai Ma bead: pretend to living Buddha (Tibetan).