ˇˇOpens historical the long volume, may trace many about panda's legendary record. As a result in the ancient times panda's distribution range many which was broader than the present, its place had several ten many unexpectedly, like brave, mo, mo, zou Yu, polar bear, flowered bear, panda, food iron beast and so on.
Sima Qian in "the Shihchi ˇ¤ Five emperors Records" records, before 4000, some tribe's leaders is called Yellow Emperor far, he uses the tiger which, the leopard, the bear tames, brave (panda) and so on beast of prey to help in the fighting, (now Henan compete county) has defeated another tribe leader Yan Di in Banquan.
more than 3000 year ago Western Zhou Dynasty first year assembles "Shangshu" and "Poetry", has recorded the brave skin (Big bear cat skin) is the valuable thing which emperor presents tribute. The mythical wild animal tiger leopard same military might, analogied likely ancient times's brave warrior for the mythical wild animal same military might is heroic, down to the army was flaunting ˇ°the mythical wild animalˇ±, ˇ°xiuˇ± the banner, was symbolizing invincible.
Before Spring and Autumn Period Warring States period (2700), "Shan Hai Jing" records narrates, it looks like the bear very much, the coat color black and white, produces in Mt. Qionglai strict Dao County (now Sichuan Rong Jingxian), and said that it eats the copper steel, thus is called the food iron beast.
Before the Han Dynasty (2000), writer Sima like recorded in "the Shanglin Tax" narrates, when Martial emperor of Han dynasty the Shanglin park (west now Xi'an Zhouzhi County, Hu County) the surrounding area 200 miles, breed many animals, hunted for emperor, but mo (panda) listed as the vanguard.
ˇˇSince has had the writing to record in the ancient book and the local chronicle may see that since the ancient times, the panda is the mystical legend-style unusual animals, very treasures. May also confirm that the panda once widely distributed in China northern region Henan, middle and lower reaches the Northwestern Region Shanxi, Yangtze River's Hubei, Hunan, South China area Fujian, as well as southwest Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan basin places such as peripheral mountainous area.