"The creature movement mimicker is like the person who was just performing the fish dance, the prawn dance, and the lion dance," says Meng Kang's commentary on the book of ritual and music in the series of Historical Records of the Han Dynasty.
『漢書』禮樂志の孟康注に「象人若今戯魚蝦師子者也」（象人は、今の魚、蝦、獅子を戯するがごとき者なり）と記述される。