When ancient people named cats, they were not as casual as we modern people. For example, people nowadays are naming their cats. People who are more playful give their cats a particularly foreign name, such as Harry Potter and Zydrovsky.
Those who are thicker will give their cats names in the form of aabb like Niuniu or Mimi. But when we saw these cats in ancient times, the names they gave were all poetic and picturesque. For example, if you see a cat, it is all white and has no hair, but only its tail is a little black. They might call it a needle hidden in the snow. The white part of its body is likened to snow, and the black part on its tail is likened to a needle. Doesn’t it sound particularly literary and artistic, with a special image?
But this is just a name given by those great men of letters.
But simple farmers would be much more casual in naming their cats, which is similar to our modern lazy people. Even Lu You of the Song Dynasty wrote a poem called "Giving Cats", and even wrote the name of the cat in the poem.