The things you don't know about the zodiac snake

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 snake.

Zodiac snake

Snakes mostly appear in negative images. "The heart is not enough for the snake to swallow the elephant" describes the greed of the snake; "The Farmer and the Snake" describes the cunning and cold blood of the snake; the vicious person is described as "snake-hearted."

Snakes are mostly witchcraft ghosts. The Ba snake in the "Shan Hai Jing" "eats elephants, born out of bones at the age of three", Chaisang Fei Snake. The hook snake in "Continued Natural History" "the wood is broken, the middle man is harmed"; in "Gezhijingyuan", the human snake "man stands and walks, smiles when he meets others, and laughs at the same time"; "Youyang Zao" "Chu" contains Sun Shuao cutting the double-headed snake; Chen Ding of the Qing Dynasty calls human snakes in the "Snake Book", and the answer is "Although the snake will come after dozens of miles away"; Liang Shaoren's snake measuring the human; the snake in the "Shen Yi Jing"...

Nuwa and Fuxi in ancient Chinese mythology are both human head and snake body. "Lu Lingguang Palace Fu" depicts "Fuxian scale body, Nuwa snake body", "Emperor Century", "History of Road", "Supplementary Notes", "Historical Records. Supplement". There are also records in "Three Emperors and Five Emperors". The stone portraits of the early Eastern Han Dynasty tombs in the army camp in Nanyang, Henan, are obsessive and obedient, and Nuwa obeys the rules. The upper body is dressed with a snake's tail underneath, and stands opposite each other. Fuxi and Nuwa intercourse statues in the Tang Dynasty tombs in Xinjiang, their bodies are intermingled snake bodies below their waists.

The things you don't know about the zodiac snake

Snake people are very picky, always pursuing perfection in everything, and have high requirements for everything, and snake people always give people a very strong feeling. It seemed that he would not be defeated anyway, and he would not be discouraged even if he did not succeed. In fact, whenever things fail to succeed, the blow to him is very heavy, but the snakes never show it.

Therefore, the biggest secret of snakes is that they like to pretend to be strong. Many times when encountering things, their hearts are already on the verge of collapse. Out of the love of face and self-requirements, they will not easily reveal them. Show that you have failed, or are exhausted physically and mentally, and still show a strong look.