Talk:Monkeys in Chinese culture

Cuisine
I am very skeptical of the claim that Chinese (or any people) traditionally ate monkey brains, especially the notion of eating live monkey's brains. I've noticed both here and in the Wikipedia article about "Monkey brains" someone cites as evidence for this practice in Han Dynasty China an article by religious professor Holly Gayley. That article relies on writings of a contemporary Tibetan monk, Tsultrim Lodrö, published in his book Timely Advice (2004). I can't access that book, but one would have to know the author's sources to evaluate that assertion. Anti-Chinese propaganda is not unknown among Tibetans (for obvious reasons).11 Arlington (talk) 22:43, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Article name
If this article is going to be about macaques and gibbons, the article should be titled "Primates in Chinese culture". Also, I'm surprised there's no mention of the slow loris. – Maky  « talk » 16:49, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * In regard macaques and gibbons, it's true that the word "monkey" is vague in English, in terms of primate taxonomy. Life science sources tend to prefer specialized nomenclature, for good reason. One of the problems with "Primates in Chinese culture" is that this would then extend the topic area to include the well-known primate Homo sapiens. What a mess! Anyway, "Primates in Chinese culture" good idea for redirect page. Dcattell (talk) 18:01, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * In that case, "Non-human primates in Chinese culture" would be a better name. "Non-human primates" is a commonly used term in anthropology. –  Maky  « talk » 03:57, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * PS. Slow loris range does extend into China, per article. A poisonous primate! Very interesting.... Reference suggestions? Dcattell (talk) 18:09, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Maky and Dcattell for the suggestions and redirect. Yes, you are correct that we should include the lanhou 懶猴 ("lazy/sluggish monkey") "slow loris", and I'll check some Chinese references. Keahapana (talk) 23:08, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

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