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The book has sold over four million copies,and has been the basis of both fictional and documentary films. The story was adapted in Ang Lee's 2012 feature film of the same name. Jim Corbett's 1944 Man-Eaters of Kumaon tells ten true stories of his tiger-hunting exploits in what is now the northern Uttarakhand region of India. In Yann Martel's 2001 Man Booker Prize winning novel Life of Pi, the protagonist, surviving shipwreck for months in a small boat, somehow avoids being eaten by the other survivor, a large Bengal tiger. In William Blake's poem in the Songs of Experience, titled "The Tyger," the tiger is a menacing and fearful animal. William Blake's first printing of The Tyger, c. The weretiger replaces the werewolf in shapeshifting folklore in Asia in India they were evil sorcerers, while in Indonesia and Malaysia they were somewhat more benign. In southern India the god Ayyappan was associated with a tiger. The Manchu considered the Siberian tiger as Hu Lin, the king. In Hinduism, the god Shiva wears and sits on tiger skin. The ten-armed warrior goddess Durga rides the tigress (or lioness) Damon into battle. In Buddhism, the tiger is one of the Three Senseless Creatures, symbolising anger, with the monkey representing greed and the deer lovesickness.The Tungusic people considered the Siberian tiger a near-deity and often referred to it as "Grandfather" or "Old man". The tiger's tail appears in stories from countries including China and Korea, it being generally inadvisable to grasp a tiger by the tail. It is sometimes called the White Tiger of the West (西方白虎), and it represents the west and the autumn season. The White Tiger (Chinese: 白虎 pinyin: Bái Hǔ) is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. In Imperial China, a tiger was the personification of war and often represented the highest army general (or present day defense secretary),while the emperor and empress were represented by a dragon and phoenix, respectively.
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The Southern Chinese martial art Hung Ga is based on the movements of the tiger and the crane. In Chinese art, the tiger is depicted as an earth symbol and equal rival of the Chinese dragon – the two representing matter and spirit respectively. In Chinese myth and culture, the tiger is one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. 19th-century painting of a tiger by Kuniyoshi Utagawa