Sheep, the meaning and symbol of sheep, are often written as "auspicious sheep" in China folk customs. Sheep, docile, gentle and affectionate, have been the partners of Chinese ancestors since ancient times and are deeply loved by people. So what is the meaning and symbol of sheep?
The meaning and symbol of sheep 1 The first symbolic meaning of sheep: virtue.
Sheep are born beautiful, symbolizing purity and preciousness. In China, both the original meaning of beauty and aesthetic consciousness originated from eating. The original aesthetic consciousness contained in the word "beauty", that is, the aesthetic consciousness of interest, is the precedent of other human aesthetics. Aesthetic worship is the source of human aesthetic activities. Another story about the origin of the word "beauty" comes from people who wore horns and sang and danced during labor or celebration in ancient times.
Kindness: In the ancient concept, sheep is a symbol of goodness and kindness. There is a poem named "Lamb" in The Book of Songs, which uses a lamb as a metaphor for a noble doctor. There is a saying in Shuowen that "beauty and goodness are synonymous".
Group: gregarious is an important feature of sheep. There is a saying in the Book of Songs, "Who says you have no sheep, and there are three hundred dimensional groups?" "Shuo Wen" Xu Xuan notes: "Sheep are good." The resulting "mass" reflects the Chinese nation's emphasis on groups.
Filial piety: lambs seem to understand their mother's hardships and difficulties, so they kneel when they are nursing. Lambs kneeling on their chests are endowed with the meanings of "filial piety" and "knowing courtesy". "The Story of the Spring and Autumn Period" said: "When a lamb eats its mother's food, it must kneel down and collect it, like a polite person."
Dharma: In ancient times, the word "Dharma" was "cloud". According to Shuowen, it is as flat as water. If you can't touch it straight, go and go. " This means that Buddhism should be as flat as a bowl of water, so it should come from "water"; "Kun" is a one-horned god sheep in ancient legends, that is, loyal and honest. When people fight, they touch the wrong side with their horns, so the words "Kun" and "Qu" are used in the right half. Fable is a symbol of fairness, notarization and avoiding evil.
Righteousness: A just and just truth or action, or an action that conforms to justice or public welfare, is righteousness. Sheep give people a good and kind feeling. Sheep sacrifice their lives or sacrifices for the people, and their words are righteous and law enforcement is like a mountain. So sheep have "righteousness".
Le: Jiegu is made of sheepskin and is known as the "head of eight tones". Primitive people like to sing and dance with a trumpet in their spare time. "Five Tones and Twelve Laws" is China's early musical system theory. Five tones represent five tones according to the sounds of cows, sheep, chickens, pigs and horses, among which the sound of sheep barking is "business".
And: sheep are docile by nature; Gregarious and harmonious; Music is "the sum of heaven and earth". The meaning of sheep: kind and easy-going, good luck. Harmony means impartiality, but nothing can be done. The ancients called it great virtue.
The second symbolic meaning of sheep: good luck.
"Sheep" was connected with "Xiang" in ancient times, and "Xiang" can also be written as "auspicious sheep", which means auspiciousness, and sheep is a symbol of "auspiciousness". At the beginning of the year, it was auspicious for the ancients to hang a sheep's head on the door, send the sheep in communication and use the sheep as a dowry. Legend has it that when an antelope sleeps at night, it is different from ordinary animals and wild animals. It will find a tree, seize the position and jump hard, hanging its horns on the branches, so as to ensure that its whole body is suspended and other wild animals can't reach it.
About the origin of antelope hanging horns, it was first seen in Yaya Stone Beast: the antelope sleeps at night and hangs its horns on the tree without leaving any trace to prevent the enemy from coming. Song's Cang Bian said: "Poets praise love. In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, people were interested in nothing but interest. Therefore, its beauty is thorough and exquisite, and it cannot be pooled. " He also used "the voice in the air, the color in the phase, the moon in the water and the image in the mirror" to describe this ethereal and mysterious poetic realm.
The third symbolic meaning of sheep: tenacity and unyielding.
If you see white clouds like sheep floating in the blue sky in the morning, it is a sign of life and happiness. The ancient Romans also thought that the first animal they saw that day was a sheep, which symbolized love and happiness. "Christ calls himself a good shepherd" because sheep have the characteristics of gentleness and peace. In the wilderness without aquatic plants, sheep still follow people smoothly. Strong endurance and continuous progress are the characteristics of people born in the Year of the Sheep. They are gentle in appearance, but full of energy.
The meaning and symbol of sheep 2 For a long time, sheep has become people's favorite livestock, so people often use sheep to form different words, which can be said to have different interests.
Asking for trouble or death is called "turning sheep into wolves";
Metaphorically, those cruel ruling classes and corrupt officials are called "like wolves herding sheep";
Losing too little is described as "the cow is only after the sheep dies", but in fact every dark cloud has a silver lining.
There are many officials and few people in a certain place. It can be said that it is exaggerated without losing its truth to describe it as "ten sheep and nine sheep".
It is difficult for a person who has no perseverance in learning or doing things to make progress or succeed. People often say that "diversity is a dead sheep".
Taoists use "Huang Liang Meng" or "Conan Yi Meng" to describe a short life. Ouyang Xiu, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, described the brevity of time as "the shoulder of a sheep is ripe". He said in a poem: "It took you thirty years to know that time is like a ripe sheep's shoulder." Because in ancient times there was a place called "Guli cadre", which was located in the north of the vast sea, with long days and short nights. Just put the sheep's shoulder into the pot in the evening, and the east dawned. This place is about near the North Pole.
There is a passage in the ninety-ninth chapter of "Water Margin", which is about the monk Hua: "Ma Ling flew in front of him, but ran into a fat monk, snatched it from him, knocked over Ma Ling's mord, stole it, and caught Ma Ling early." Later, it was called "stealing" when people took advantage of their owners' things.
It's never too late to mend. This is "mending after losing a sheep", that is to say, in daily life, try to remedy as soon as possible.
Once the meek and cowardly sheep fall into the tigers, the consequences can be imagined, so people often call the weak falling into the hands of the strong or the good falling into the hands of the bad guys "sheep entering the tiger's mouth."
The condensation of sheep fat gives people a very soft, delicate and white feeling, so people often use "white as sheep fat" to describe white and tender skin color.
Some people are usually fierce, bossy and commanding, but they dare not bow their heads immediately when they encounter dangerous situations. For example, in the late Qing Dynasty, the government was tyrannical and cruel in front of the domestic people, and bowed to the invading foreigners, which made China lose a large territory. Therefore, later generations often refer to this phenomenon as "like a wolf at ordinary times, like a sheep at times of danger."
In addition, words such as "turn sheep into wolves", "ask sheep to know horses" and "shepherd reading" are also used frequently in life.
In addition, there are some nouns with the word "sheep", such as "goatee", "amniotic fluid", "sheep fat jade" and "morel".
The world is full of miracles. Since the Chinese zodiac entered the life of China people, it will never erase its cultural imprint.
Sheep are fire animals, so when it is cold, people like to eat mutton to keep out the cold. The sheep are slaughtered and eaten, and the goods are not that expensive. Occasionally, in order to make huge profits, criminals often hang sheep's heads and sell them as dog meat to deceive customers. Commonly known as "hanging sheep's head to buy dog meat."
Sheep are most afraid of rain, so they run away when it rains. However, if their home is too humid, they often get sick and faint. Therefore, the place where sheep are raised must be built of bamboo and wood, which is more than one foot above the ground for sheep to live in. Therefore, people in Taiwan Province Province describe people who are anxious and flustered when they encounter small things, but in traditional Chinese medicine, they are called "epilepsy" or "epilepsy" because of spasm, foaming at the mouth and barking of sheep.
A sheep's head is like a trident, so anyone who unites three sickles with an arrow is called a "sheep's head". In ancient times, there was a kind of unicycle. One person pulls in front and the other pushes behind, which is called "sheep-headed car". The angle bends like a whirlwind, so the whirlwind is called "angle". There is "three Wan Li in the corner" in Zhuangzi, which is exactly what it means. Yang Jiao is another name of "jujube tree" and people's "compound surname". The brush made of wool is called "sheep hair", which has the characteristics of softness and elasticity and is the best pen for calligraphy and Chinese painting. We often use "sheep are raised for shearing wool" and "the wool is on the sheep" to compare that our labor has not been in vain. Narrow and tortuous, so we use "narrow path" or "narrow bird path" to compare roads, dangerous environment and so on. People also like to use "a sheep's tail can't cover its ass" to describe incompetence, and "a sheep touches a fan" to describe the dilemma. In myths and legends, sheep are afraid of being eaten by tigers, so they put on tiger skins to deceive tigers and think they are of the same kind, so they satirize those who only have appearance as "sheep tiger skins". As the saying goes, "meat buns hit dogs" means that there is no return.
Sheep in western religions describe sheep as human nature and are easy to get lost. We must rely on the influence of faith to turn the lost lamb back into a rock, so Jesus called himself a shepherd. In the history of China, "Red Sheep" was called a catastrophe. Every time the country encounters a major disaster, for example, in a book by Li Zong in the Song Dynasty, it is said: "A person who does not die at noon will reach the year of famine and war in China." Later generations regarded C as fire, red in color and unworthy of sheep, hence the name "Red Sheep Robbery".
During the Warring States Period, Zuo He met. They went to Chu to apply for a job together. It snowed heavily on the way. The two of them wore thin clothes and brought enough food for two people. Zuo gave all his clothes and food to make friends, and hid himself in an empty tree and committed suicide. Later generations called this closest and deepest friendship "Zuo Yang".
There is "Jade Sheep" in the left artifacts, which is "Ricky". The ancient book says, "Minister Ai Lu went through a well and got a jade sheep." Confucius said, "The essence of water is jade, the essence of earth is sheep, and this sheep liver is earth ear." Jade sheep is another name for the moon. There is "goat wine" in the wine, which is the product of Fenzhou, Shanxi. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "sheep's surface" is produced in the stomach of goats, which is round, elastic and of different sizes. It is formed because sheep eat a hundred herbs, so it is commonly known as "Bai Cao Dan". There are sheep head fish, sheep gizzard, claw stone, sheep clam, sheep fly, fern stone, alpaca and so on. The plants are imported wine, Yang Zong, Leymus chinensis, Festuca arundinacea, Ma Yang, Su Yang, Yangxi, Sheep's hoof, Carambola, Yangbi and Yangpo Milk.
The meaning and symbol of sheep 3 Can sheep ornaments be kept at home?
Sheep ornaments can be placed at home as ornaments to play the role of feng shui. Its location is a problem that owners need to pay attention to. You need to know the location of the sheep ornaments in advance, so that you can have good feng shui at home. "Sheep" and "Yang" are homophonic. As the saying goes, "Three sheep open Thailand" and "sheep" are similar to "Xiang", so sheep is also a kind of feng shui mascot with feng shui significance in feng shui ornaments.
The placement of feng shui sheep is very particular.
Regarding the placement of Feng Shui sheep, it is best to put them in pairs or in groups of three, and it is forbidden to put them alone, otherwise the due effect will not be achieved. In addition, setting up feng shui sheep in the corresponding room will have a certain impact on the corresponding fortune. If you want to make money, you can put it on the bed in the bedroom. If you want to eliminate disasters, it is most suitable in the living room.
Placement function of Feng Shui sheep
The nature of feng shui sheep ornaments is to eliminate diseases and reduce disasters, and increase the partial wealth, because sheep take the "win" sound, which is conducive to gambling. In addition, if there are chronic patients or people who have been suffering from chronic diseases at home, you can put this thing on the bedside, one on the left and one on the right, which will definitely help your health. If you put the zodiac sheep at home, you can actually ward off evil spirits and diseases at home, remove evil spirits at home, make the atmosphere at home pure, avoid the pain at home as much as possible, and reduce the pain at home, then your family will be healthy and painless, so this thing can also resolve the dissatisfaction at work, or reduce the smell of villains. Because sheep are peaceful things, they are also very powerful on the workbench.