The designs on lacquer objects from the Han tombs at Mawangdui include one unique category of Felis images. This paper attempts to discuss these images from four aspects: 1) the denominations of these images. According to materials of silk and slips unearthed from Mawangdui, as well as pre-Qin and Han historical documents, there may exist different definition and names of this kind of animals such as “Li” (Felis silvestris) and “Mao” (Felis domestica), which should belong to the same genus, but people seemed to use the two names in a confusing way. 2) the appearance of the images. These image