Zodiac rat, what you don't know

As a symbol of folk culture with a long history, the zodiac has left a large number of poems, Spring Festival couplets, paintings, calligraphy and paintings and folk arts and crafts depicting the image and symbolic significance of the zodiac throughout the ages. Apart from China, many countries in the world issue stamps of the zodiac during the Spring Festival to express their wishes for the New Year in China. Although you know something about the zodiac, there must be a lot you don't know. Let's take a look at the zodiac mouse you don't know.

Zodiac rat

Rats steal food, which proves that "hamsters have surplus food", indicating that this family is rich, and mice at home symbolize wealth.

In the Qing Dynasty, Fang Xuyi recorded a kind of "suncus murinus" toy in eastern Guangdong, which sounded like counting money. Rats can make sounds like counting money. In the old days, Hubei and other places took this sound as an auspicious sign. Zhejiang area thinks that "in the first half of the night, the main wealth is scattered in the second half of the night", while Chongming area thinks that this sound indicates disaster.

Rats have strong reproductive ability and are often regarded as a symbol of reproductive worship by the people. Mothers whose children live in groups jokingly call them "rat fetuses" or "rat bellies". Yu Ren, a painter in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote an Atlas of the Twelve Zodiacs. In the picture, five mice were grabbing melon seeds in a jar, and the word "seed" was homophonic with the word "zi", indicating multiple meanings. Mice and gourd, grapes, pomegranates and other multi-seed plants form auspicious patterns to strengthen the desire to reproduce.

Coal miners in Northeast China respect rats as "rat immortals" and avoid catching rats. They eat underground and distribute food to mice. There is also a mouse temple in an old mining area in Yunnan. Miners are grateful to mice for their sensitivity to disasters, and will pass on their worship and taboos from generation to generation.

Zodiac rat, what you don't know

Rats do everything in an orderly way and have a leadership style, so they always give everyone a sense of maturity and stability. In fact, rat people are often impetuous, but he never shows it in front of outsiders.

Maybe it's because I don't want others to see my weak side, so I always show my strong side in front of others, but in fact, I can really do that inside. Whenever they encounter something, don't just look at the surface calmly, in fact, they have already panicked. Their least known secret is to pretend to be mature and steady.