Talking about Mouse's Culture

In "Xunzi Encouraging Learning", it says: "Flying snakes fly without feet, and wushu is poor with five skills." Literally, flying snakes have no feet but they can run like flying. Although wushu has many abilities, it is difficult. Exercising, the implication is that you are proficient in a skill enough to show it. If you are too greedy but not good, you will only learn how to get started. Even if you know more, it will not be of much use.

The first symbolic meaning of the rat is exquisite, small and subtle. Shusheng has a small and exquisite posture, he likes to jump up and down, and he cannot be combined with the word "big". China’s first collection of poems, "The Book of Songs," has an article called "Shuoshu" which compares corrupt officials to a huge mouse . It does not mean that there are really such a large mouse. There is a "Sheshu" in the ancient book "Han Shiwai Biography". , Is also a metaphor for the big mouse: Qi Jinggong asked Yanzi: "What is the most afraid of being a man?" Yanzi smiled and said solemnly: "The social rat hid in the earth temple and ran out just to steal food. People want to catch it. I am also afraid of ruining the artifacts in the Temple of the Earth, offending the Lord of the Earth and getting retribution." This is Yanzi's words using a mouse to tell Qi Jinggong the way of governing the country. Like a rat stealing a dog thief, it refers to the general "little hair thief". When describing the social chaos in the end of the Sui Dynasty in the "Old Tang Book · Xiao Milling Biography", it said: The whale swallows the tiger." Since the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world has been in chaos, and the heroes have stood side by side. The thieves and robbers fell second.

The second symbolic meaning of the rat is strong vitality. One is its strong fertility and high survival rate. For example, a female mouse can produce 5-10 pups per litter under natural conditions, and the maximum can reach 24. The gestation period is only 21 days. It can be conceived again on the day of delivery, and the pups will mature in 30-40 days. In this way, the mother rat can give birth to about 5,000 children a year. As for the grandchildren, granddaughters, great-grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, there are too many to count. According to research, the rat mother contains a unique chemical substance, which can stimulate the male rat to fall under its "pomegranate skirt", which is also one of the reasons why the rat world can grow and grow. Rats have a high survival rate and a long life span. If they are not attacked by natural enemies, cats or large-scale eradication operations by humans, most of them can enjoy their old age, end their lives, and have a lot of offspring. This is beyond the reach of other animals.

The third symbolic meaning of the rat is spirituality, which also includes its cleverness and psychic performance. The rat has a sensitive sense of smell, is timid, suspicious, and highly vigilant. In addition, its body is very dexterous. It can walk through walls and move like flying. It also has two other sudden abilities: from tens of meters or even hundreds of meters. At the height of meters, the roof of the building fell to the ground, turned around, and took a breath to do whatever you should do. There is absolutely no worries about life and death; although it is not an aquatic animal, it does not have super swimming skills, but Narrow ditch shallow ponds can't stop it. In order to survive, it can drill a few meters (more than 10 times its own length) under the water and stay unscathed. People often use "smarter than a mouse" to describe someone's shrewdness. The rat's cleverness has become a standard of analogy, which shows that its agility has reached a considerable level. Also, describe a person move quickly along the strain, we often say that he was "like a mouse as fickle." ( Zodiac http: /// shengxiao /)

People also believe that rats are psychic and can predict good and bad disasters. In fact, rats are born in nature and grow longer than nature. It is normal for rats to react to certain events that will occur in nature, such as earthquakes , floods , droughts, and locust plagues. This is a special instinct possessed by earth creatures, but it is somewhat limited. Human knowledge has not yet revealed its mystery and laws. On the eve of the Tangshan earthquake, people were surprised to find that the rats were running out of the suburbs, or huddled in groups of roads, streets and other relatively empty places. It is not clear what this sign implies. Similar things must have been repeated many times in ancient times, so the mouse has become a psychic fetish in the minds of human beings.