What did you learn from the text of South China Tiger?

The South China Tiger in the cage maintains dignity, yearns for freedom, despises the common customs, is indomitable and dares to fight. The poet takes the South China Tiger as a symbol, which shows his unyielding personality and his desire for freedom in the predicament. This poem compares human beings with tigers, and the truth we get from it is that human beings should transcend suffering, reject vulgarity, resist degeneration and move forward bravely.