The things you don't know about the zodiac sheep

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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 sheep.

Zodiac Sheep

The ancients regarded sheep as a "virtuous animal", kind, kind, benevolent, righteous, and courteous. Good flock, sheep like to flock. Good benevolence means that a sheep is kind, has horns but is hard to fight. The meaning of death means that the sheep are quiet when they are slaughtered, and they regard death as home. Therefore, there is the story of King Xuan "changing sheep to cattle". Zhili refers to the knowledge of the sheep, and the kneeling of the lamb symbolizes filial piety.

"Shuowen Jiezi" says: "beautiful, sweet, from the sheep, from the big", "the big sheep is beautiful". Li Xiaoding, a philologist, interpreted "beauty" as "the shape of the head of a sheep decorated by a suspected figure" in "Annotations on Oracle Bone Inscriptions". Regardless of the interpretation, there is no doubt that the sheep is a symbol of beauty.

"Zhou Yi? Tai Gua" takes October-month as the compound hexagram, one yang is born in the next; December is the Lin hexagram, the two yang are born in the next, the first month is the Tai hexagram, and the three yang are born in the next. In the spring of winter, the yin and the yang are long. At the beginning of the year, "Three Yang Kaitai" was used to imply auspiciousness and peace, and the folks changed it to "Three Sheep Kaitai", and New Year pictures and paper-cuts were used to depict three big sheep to pray for the country and the people.

In ancient mythology, the one-horned sheep named "Haechi" is the assistant of Gao Tao, the god of judicial trial. Wang Chong's "Lunheng·Shiying": "Gao Tao governs the prison, and the guilty suspect will cause the sheep to touch it. If you are guilty, you will touch it, and if you are not guilty, you will not touch it." On the door, get rid of the thieves."

Hachi is also one of the six beasts in front of the tomb of the Ming Xiaoling Shinto.

The things you don't know about the zodiac sheep

Sheep people are gentle, kind, and family-friendly, so there will be an affinity for them that makes people willing to be close to him. In fact, people of the sheep family will use violence under certain circumstances and will not be as docile as the surface. For example, if a matter has been told to you many times and still remains unchanged, then he will use force to solve it.

Therefore, the secret of the sheep is to use violence. However, under normal circumstances, people who belong to the sheep will not lose their temper easily. After all, they are relatively mild. They will lose their temper or use violence. It is only when they encounter a situation that makes him intolerable, or always like this, they will feel that Very weak, will use violence.