Was there a cat in China at the earliest?

The earliest record and document about cats in the world is the Book of Songs Daya Hanyi written by China in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which reads: "There are bears, cats and tigers." However, the juxtaposition of cats with bears and brown bears in the poem does not seem to refer to domestic cats. Zhuangzi Qiushui in the Warring States Period mentioned that "it is better to catch a mouse a thousand miles away than to catch a mouse a thousand miles away". In ancient China, raccoons mostly referred to wild cats, but if cats were compared to good horses, they probably referred to domestic cats. It was not until the early years of the Western Han Dynasty that it was clearly pointed out in the Book of Rites: "An ancient gentleman must repay him, welcome him with a cat, and eat him with a mouse." It has been proved that cats are domestic animals and domesticated (the argument remains to be verified, because the same article also mentions welcoming tigers, feeding tigers and offering sacrifices to tigers. So there is a suspicion that it is taken out of context).