The symbolic meaning of sheep is that sheep is an auspicious pet worshipped by totem of ancient ancestors in China. In China culture, sheep has many auspicious cultural meanings. Sheep, as one of the zodiac animals, are relatively docile. Let me look at the information about the symbolic meaning of sheep with you.
The symbolic meaning of sheep 1 The first symbolic meaning of sheep: Germany
Sheep are born beautiful, symbolizing purity and preciousness. In the concept of the ancients, sheep was a symbol of beauty and kindness. There is a poem named "Lamb" in The Book of Songs, which uses a lamb as a metaphor for a noble doctor. Sheep are docile by nature, and the moral of sheep is kindness, easygoing and good luck. There is a saying in Shuowen that "beauty and goodness are synonymous". Sheep have the idea of kneeling to feed, and lambs seem to understand the hardships and difficulties of their mothers, so they will kneel to feed. Therefore, the lamb kneeling on the chest is endowed with the meaning of "filial piety" and "ceremony". It is recorded in The Story of the Spring and Autumn Period: "When a lamb eats its mother's food, it must kneel down and collect it, as if it were a polite person."
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 good luck. Sheep are also a symbol of good luck. In ancient times, it was auspicious for someone to hang a sheep's head on the door at the beginning of the year, send the sheep in communication, or use the sheep as a dowry. Legend has it that the antelope will find a tree to find a suitable place to jump down at night and hang it on the branch with its horns to ensure that its whole body is suspended and out of reach of other wild animals. 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.
The third symbolic meaning of sheep: tenacity and unyielding.
If you see white clouds floating in the blue sky in the morning, it is a symbol of life and happiness. The ancient Romans also believed that if the first animal they saw that day was a sheep, it would be a symbol of 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 will obediently follow people. Sheep's strong endurance and continuous progress are the characteristics of people born in the Year of the Sheep. Gentle appearance, but strong vitality.
A famous sheep breed
Boer goat
Heng yuan bo er goat lamb
Boer goat: It is an excellent meat goat breed. This variety originated in South Africa and was introduced as a seed by many African countries as well as New Zealand, Australia, Germany, the United States, Canada and other countries. Since China introduced the first batch of Boer goats from Germany in 1995, some Boer goats have been introduced in Jiangsu, Shandong, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Henan, Beijing and other areas, and have been gradually extended to surrounding areas and all parts of the country through pure breeding and group propagation, showing good meat properties, wide adaptability, high economic value and remarkable hybridization advantages.
Boer goat has white fur, reddish-brown head and neck, and a red hair band around its neck. Boer goats have wide drooping ears and short and thin fur. Short legs, strong limbs, plump hindquarters and many muscles. Sexual maturity-precocity, estrus in four seasons. Strong fertility, generally two years can give birth to three children. Lambs have fast growth and development, good growth speed, high meat yield and strong feed intake. It is the most popular meat goat breed in the world at present.
Symbolic significance of sheep II. The virtue of sheep
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."
Good luck for sheep
"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 its position, jump hard and hang it on the branch with its horns, 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. So its beauty is thorough and exquisite, and it is impossible to pool. " 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 tenacity and unyielding of sheep
If you see sheep-like white clouds floating in the blue sky in the morning, it is a sign of life and happiness. The ancient Romans also believed that if the first animal they saw that day was a sheep, it would symbolize 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.
Symbolic significance of sheep 3 characteristics of goats
Goats are characterized by being active, foraging, gregarious, prolific and clean.
1, active: goat is brave and lively, quick and witty, likes climbing, is good at swimming, belongs to lively little ruminant and loves fighting.
2. Foraging: Goats have strong foraging ability and miscellaneous eating habits, and can eat hundreds of grasses, including various grasses, shrub branches and leaves, crop straws, vegetable leaves, peels, vines, agricultural and sideline products, etc. They eat a wider variety of plants than other livestock.
3. gregarious: goats have a strong gregarious nature. Regardless of grazing or house feeding, goats always like to walk together, among which the older, more offspring and strong sheep play the role of "head sheep". Under the leadership of the first sheep, other sheep can only obediently eat grass, get in and out, get up, cross the bridge and cross the narrow place. Sociality provides convenience for large-scale grazing of goats.
4. Fertility: Goats have the characteristics of early sexual maturity, strong reproductive ability and fertility. Most kinds of goats can produce 2 ~ 3 lambs per fetus, and the average lamb yield is above 200%, which is much higher than that of sheep. The prolificacy of goat makes its reproductive efficiency much higher than that of sheep, which creates conditions for the development of self-propagation and self-support and large-scale breeding of mutton sheep.
5. Cleanliness: Goats like being clean and dry, and hate being dirty and wet. Their sense of smell is highly developed. They always sniff before eating. Goats would rather be hungry than eat any feed with odor, feces or corruption, polluted drinking water or trampled forage.
Extended data
China is the country with the richest goat variety resources in the world. For thousands of years, through hard work and careful selection, the working people have cultivated nearly 40 goat breeds with excellent quality and unique characteristics, such as black goats.
There are more than 2000 One Happy and Fifty goat breeds in the world, which can be divided into the following categories: milk goat, cashmere goat, cashmere goat, fur goat, meat black goat and ordinary local goat.
According to the incomplete statistics of authoritative departments, there are 654.38+74 million goats in the world. Most of them are distributed in Asian and African countries. Due to the low level of productivity, the development and utilization of variety resources were not fully exerted in the 1990 s. With the continuous growth of national population and the progress of production science, the demand for high-quality meat food is increasing.