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Be it the history of Taiwan, the story of its economy or the various folk traditions found throughout the island, the Formosan Tiger is everywhere in the culture of the Taiwanese!
Fair—you might point out that no indigenous species of the largest feline in the world actually exists in Taiwan! But then, no lion exists anywhere in the British Isles, either. Yet, somehow, the British Lion is a national symbol of the UK, which inherited the symbol from its constituent England.
Though not quite the national symbol like the lion is to the English—at least not anymore (more on that later)—the tiger has remarkable connections to the Ilha Formosa, Taiwan. Keep reading to explore four remarkable pieces of Taiwan’s heritage referencing the tiger!
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