Little puss-head, folk saying.
Coward tortoise is a derogatory term, which is often used to satirize timid people. The words derived from this are "turtle head and turtle brain", "timid" and "timid".
In Tao's Record of Dropping Out of Farming in the South Village (Volume 28), a story is recorded about a family with rich family, whose fields are connected with buildings, but their descendants are not good, followed by a poem "Poem of the Prodigal Son", which says: "Prosperity and wealth are never born, but our family is really short of people to support. When the grave is dug, the bones in the grave are turned into white ground, the family members are rabbits, and others are always shrinking. "
After the poem, Tao added: "If a husband and a rabbit are pregnant with a full moon, then a woman is pregnant with no husband, and her wife is having an affair. The rabbit is like a husband." Therefore, the story of driving a man "shrinking turtle", "turtle" and "rabbit" came from here.
Introduction to common sayings
Before Yuan Dynasty, turtles were star-rated animals in people's eyes. At that time, it was found that turtles lived for a long time, and their life span could reach 100 years. And it doesn't matter if you don't eat or drink for a long time, and it has great vitality. As a result, people became "fans" of the tortoise, and the tortoise shell was made into money, and the tortoise became a symbol of wealth.
"History of Eating Goods" divides turtles into four categories: yuan gui, male turtle, queen turtle and son turtle. Some people also used turtle shells as a tool for divination, and recorded words with turtle shells, which became an indispensable necessity in people's lives at that time.
Because the turtle was a star in the eyes of the ancients and had a good reputation, the ancients were happy to use the word "turtle". In ancient times, there was an official named "Turtle Man", who was responsible for divining bad luck for the country. Moreover, the ancients also named a star in the sky "turtle star" for divination.
The ancients also liked to use the word "turtle" as their names, such as the poet Lu Guimeng and the singer Li Guinian in the Tang Dynasty.
The ancients regarded turtles as a symbol of nobility and good fortune. The gold seals and buttons used by prime ministers, princes and generals in the Han Dynasty were turtle-shaped. It was stipulated in the Han Dynasty that the seals of "small civil servants" at the grass-roots level could not be turtle-shaped, because these people were not qualified. According to the records of the Tang Dynasty, the stone tablets in front of the tombs of senior officials with more than five products can be made into turtle-shaped, that is, turtle-bearing stone tablets; Officials in the Tang Dynasty used to wear fish bags. Wu Zetian was awarded two years, and the state issued a notice to change the fish bags worn by officials into turtle bags.