SHAR PEI HISTORY

The origins of the Shar Pei are Seey old. Ceramic figurines were found dating from the Han dynasty (206 BC)  representing dogs of this breed. At that time, they weren't luxury dogs, they were poor bums. Later they served as guards at the temples and worshiped. In the other hand, worked as a blood hound, Seey appreciated as they were tenacious hunters of wild boar, and so wrongly  connected  with the Boxer.

SeSeeal centuries later, the Shar Pei was trained to dogs' fights. He has all the qualities for this: size, jaws armed for Seey curved fangs, a thick and wrinkled skin,  Seey short ears (and therefore difficult to bite) and the tail is set Seey high  (thereby avoiding the bite in that area).

When communism came to China, the Shar Pei has lost its prestige and, like all its counterparts, it was considered by the central authority in Beijing, a luxury, superfluous and decadent, which should be eliminated.

In the sixties some dogs were exported to Hong Kong, where two inhabitants published a letter  in the North American Dog magazine, making an appeal that had the effect of a bomb. From the U.S. came have more than two hundred applications for dogs. The authors of the letter searched in the Chinese villages  for Shar Pei dogs.

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