The things you don't know about the zodiac rat

As a long-standing folk cultural symbol, the zodiac has left a large number of poetry, spring couplets, paintings, calligraphy and folk crafts depicting the image and symbolic meaning of the zodiac throughout the ages. In addition to China, many countries in the world issue zodiac stamps during the Spring Festival to express their blessings for the Chinese New Year. Regarding the zodiac, although you have a certain understanding, there must be many things you don't know. Let us take a look at the things you don't know about the zodiac rat.

Zodiac Rat

The rat steals food, which proves that "the hamster has surplus food." It shows that the family is rich, and the rats in the house symbolize wealth.

Fang Ruiyi's "Meng Yuan Cong Shuo" in the Qing Dynasty records a kind of "money rat" toy in eastern Guangdong, which sounds like counting money. Rats can make sounds like counting money. In the old days, Hubei and other places used this sound as an auspicious sign. The Zhejiang area believes that "the Lord will get wealth in the first half of the night, and the Lord will disperse the wealth in the second half of the night", while the Chongming area believes that this sound indicates disaster.

Rats have very strong reproductive ability, and they are often used as a symbol of reproduction worship in the folk. The mother of the child population is jokingly called "rat fetus" or "rat belly". In the late Qing Dynasty painter Ren Yu's " Twelve Zodiac Atlas", the five rats in the "Zu Shu Tu" are rushing to eat melon seeds in the jar. Rats and multi-seed plants such as gourds, grapes and pomegranates form auspicious patterns, which intensify the desire to reproduce offspring.

Northeast coal miner statue mouse "mouse immortal" taboo rat, underground eat divide the food to feed the mice. There is also a Mouse Temple in an old mining area in Yunnan. The miners are grateful for the mice's sensitivity to disasters and pass on worship and taboos from generation to generation.

The things you don't know about the zodiac rat

The rat man does everything in an orderly manner and has a leadership style, so he always gives everyone a sense of maturity and stability. In fact, the rat man is often impetuous and uncomfortable, but he never shows it in front of outsiders.

Maybe it’s because they don’t want others to see their fragile side, they always show themselves in front of people with a strong side, but in fact, they can really be like that in their hearts. Whenever they encounter something, don’t just look at the superficiality. Calm, and their hearts have long been flustered, their least-known secret is to pretend to be mature and stable.