The names of rabbits: "Yue Jing", "Yue De", "Clear Vision", "Tou Lai", "Leaping Cat", "She She Jia", "Mao Animal", "Quanbi" ", "Three-petal mouth" (the ancients once called gay men, especially those who tend to be feminine, "rabbits")
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The differences between rabbits Nickname
Editor's note: Rabbit belongs to the class Mammalia in animal taxonomy; it is also a common domestic animal, and among the people, it is the embodiment of wit, kindness and auspiciousness. Rabbit culture has a long history. Extensive and profound, it is a very meaningful thing to discover and organize rabbit culture, and then promote rabbit culture. Starting from this issue, this newspaper launches the column "Rabbit Culture Talk" for the enjoyment of readers.
The word "" appeared as early as in the pre-Qin classics. The "Book of Songs", my country's first poetry collection, describes: "There are rabbits in love, and pheasants are away from Luo." "It can be seen that at least 2,500 years ago, our ancestors had a preliminary understanding of rabbits and created the word "rabbit". There is also the word "rabbit" in a book describing Hou Yi's daily life: "Hou Yi Hunting in Bashan, I caught a rabbit as big as a donkey. I put it in a trap, but lost it on the way, and the trap remained intact. "This description is full of mythology. It says that the hare was as big as a donkey. After being caught, it was put in a wooden cage and lost inexplicably.
Regardless of the ancient people's view of the shape of the rabbit. , how the size is described, no matter how strong the mythology is, let us now consider a question: Why is the rabbit called "rabbit"? Lu Dian of the Song Dynasty answered in "Piya·Shi Beast": " A rabbit has a gap in its mouth and will vomit and give birth to a child, so it is called a rabbit. Rabbit, vomit. "In ancient times, when science was underdeveloped, it was obviously a big fallacy to think that rabbit babies were spit out from the rabbit's cleft lip. However, Lu Dian was the first person to explain the reason why rabbits are called "rabbits", which can be regarded as a great contribution to philology and philology. A small contribution to zoology.
In ancient mythology, it is said that a jade rabbit makes medicine in the middle of the moon, so the rabbit is called "Yue Jing" and "Yue De". "Yang Huo White Rabbit Watch": "This auspicious beast is called the Moon Spirit. Come to Yingchang period, the snow is bright and colorful. "Yuxin of the Northern Zhou Dynasty" "The King of Qi Enters the White Rabbit Biao": "The moon is a sign of virtue, and the gold essence shows auspiciousness." "
In ancient times, the rabbit was also known as "Mingshi". It was first seen in the "Book of Rites: Qu Li Xia": "Every ritual performed to worship the ancestral temple...the rabbit is called Mingshi." "Kong Yingda explained: "If the rabbit is fat, the eyes will be opened and the vision will be clear. "
In some areas and in the languages ??of some ethnic groups, there are some special names for rabbits. For example, Zhao Mengfu of the Yuan Dynasty wrote a poem "Rabbit": "There is wind behind the ears and fire coming from the nose, and I cry out for help. Come Feiming. "The word "Taulai" here is Mongolian and refers to rabbit. In some areas of the Northeast, rabbits are called "leaping cats." There is such a sentence in Zhou Libo's "Storm": "A gray jumping cat. Son, panicked and looked away. "In Sanskrit, a language in ancient India, the rabbit is called "Shesheka".
According to the order of the twelve zodiac animals, Mao belongs to the rabbit, so some people call the rabbit "Mao animal". As for the nicknames of rabbits such as "missing nose" and "three-flap mouth", it is easy to understand. It is because there is a crack in the center of the rabbit's upper lip, like a hole in the nose.
Chen Jianzhi
(The ancients once called gay men, especially those who prefer femininity, "rabbits")
"Erya Wings" has a more detailed explanation of this:
If you look at the moon and you have a child, your eyes will be bright, so the animal number is called Mingshi. "Tianwen" says: What is the virtue of night light, death will bring fertility; The moon only looks full on one day, and the rest is often missing, and the chest is also missing, so it is similar. The speaker believes that all chickens in the world are male, so they all look at the sun, black moon, and chest. According to legend, they all look at the sun and the moon. It has been a long time. It is said that if there is no light in the sun, the crows will not appear, and if the crows do not appear, the crows will disappear. Looking at it, it is deep in the mountains and forests at night, and there are hundreds of people in rows. In the shadow of the extended moon, when the moon is bright, there are more children, and when the moon is dark, there are fewer children. If you don't just look at the moon, the ancient Yuefu also said: The male's legs are fluttering, the female's eyes are blurred, and the two are walking on the ground. How can you tell whether I am male or female? Because it is difficult to distinguish between male and female, "Lunheng" says: Licking the hair of a male leads to pregnancy, and the child is spit out from the mouth...
This shows the relationship between the rabbit and the moon. There is another sentence in "Spring and Autumn Yuan Ming Bao": If you lose your virtue, the ground will spit out fish. It is called "兎". Song Jun noted that "兎 Yin essence" means "yang" (Yang). (Note ④) From the above materials, we can understand that in the ancient people's concept, rabbit existed as a "yin essence". . And gay men who represent the passive side happen to have feminine characteristics, so the rabbit was gradually used by the ancients to describe homosexuals, especially male prostitutes, or the passive role in homosexuals.