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The spread of tapir culture among China, Japan and Korea went through two stages. The first stage is the ancient stage, in which Chinese tapir culture was spread to Japan and Korea. Japan and Korea combined tapir culture with various elements and constructed the Pulgasari and Baku culture with their own characteristics. In the second stage, Pulgasari and Baku culture refluxed to China. In Korea, the image of tapir was integrated with the story of “evil mother” to construct Pulgasari culture. Pulgasari was developed in the course of Korean social history, forming the cultural image of “iron eating and revenge-taking in the shape of tapir”. In the meantime, the cultural image of tapir in Japan was altered because it was confused with another two mythical animals, namely Birch and Baize, and the Baku culture of “eating dreams” was formed in the writings of Japanese men of letters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In modern times, Japan and Korea exported their Pulgasari and Baku culture to China through such media as film and television. In the process of such cultural reflux, the “dream-eating” culture of Baku, has been accepted and re-created in China, forming the title of “dream-eating tapir”, and has been applied in various Cultural and artistic creations in China. Pulgasari has also refluxed to China, but has not been associated with Chinese tapir culture as Baku culture in Japan has been. The Cultural Reflux phenomenon provides a reference for the inheritance of Chinese traditional culture, and also provides perspectives for the study of controversial origin of the homogenous culture in China, Japan and Korea. The tapir culture in China has remained static for a long time. Without the innovation and development of tapir culture in Japan and Korea, the ancient image would have disappeared in China. Therefore, when a culture is absorbed by another culture and innovated into a new culture on this basis, it is more appropriate to regard it as another way of inheriting culture, than to overemphasize where this culture originated.