First off, you will have to forget everything you have learned about the Shar Pei and history. I hate to break the news to you, but the Shar Pei was living in China 1,000 years before people showed up and messed everything up. They didn't breed us to become guard, herding or fighting dogs, we choose the positions to maintain the peace. A few years ago the Chinese broke the 6,000 year old peace treaty and almost killed us off.
My great great grandmother told me this story when I was just a pup.
Along time ago when the humans took over our great land there was one human name Zen Wa Lee who had befriended the King of the Shar Pei, Lu Ti. The two of them together had built a country of great peace and beauty. The days past into years until one day a greedy man by the name of Chin Wa killed Lu Ti and blamed it on Zen Wa Lee. The Shar Pei became very angry with the humans and that is when the so called "Pei Wars" broke out. It lasted one thousand years and the Shar Pei and humans alike lost their lives because of one greedy human.
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