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, some nouns come from the word "sheep", such as "goatee", "amniotic fluid", "sheep fat jade" and "Morchella".
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, Christianity describes sheep as human nature, which is easy to get lost. We must rely on the power of faith to turn the lost lamb back to the 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.