SHIH-TZU HISTORY
In the seventeenth century begins the story of Shih Tzu. The Dalai Lama, trying to fill with gifts to the Chinese emperor gave him some copies of this race. Completing the nineteenth century, Ts'eu-hi, empress who was the grandmother of the last emperor, was a big fan of the Shih Tzu and therefore had more than one hundred and specialized caregivers. 

 When the Empress died in 1908, the Shih Tzu was hit hard. 

In the early thirties, began to enter homes of Chinese notables, leaving their ivory towers. And at that time was a few names, lion dog Lhasa, Tibetan poodle, etc. And in 1934 he founded the Peking Kennel Club. 
In 1937, the invasion of China by the Japanese was the reason for the disappearance of the Shih Tzu in China, their country of origin. But thankfully, the Europeans were fond of this race, which in 1955 began to spread by the United States. 
After his appearance, the Shih-Tzu Lhasa Apso replaced the favorite dogs as nobles and emperors.

Travelers during this time visiting the country brought oriental fashion of these small, furry dogs to Europe and then to America, where a huge impression. In the modern era, the fashion of the Shih-Tzu gradually disappeared, and after the communist revolution dog race was considered extinct in China, although it had already penetrated deep into the West. 
All the genetic heritage of the Shih-Tzu comes from seven pairs of dogs, one Pekingese, thanks to the efforts of several historians have been identified.