It's a dragon The shrub named after the word "Dragon Boat Flower" belongs to the genus "Dragon Boat Flower" of Rubiaceae. This kind of plant is beautiful and has a long flowering period, which can be found almost all year round. It is an ideal ornamental flower in the garden and is often planted in the garden.
What does the zodiac mean?
Rat: It is regarded as a symbol of alertness, strong adaptability, good at adversity, reproduction and prosperity of family business. There is an auspicious meaning of endless life and prosperity.
Cow: It is regarded as a symbol of diligence, simplicity, sincerity, integrity, humiliation, courage and stubbornness. There are auspicious meanings of hard work and good weather.
Tiger: It is regarded as a symbol of fearlessness, boldness, justice, gorgeous style and momentum. It has the auspicious meaning of exorcising evil spirits, reducing charm and being healthy in all directions.
Rabbit: It is considered as a symbol of gentleness, tenderness, purity, elegance, wit, loyalty and kindness. There are auspicious meanings of natural detachment and immortality.
Dragon: It is considered as a symbol of dignity, great ambition, flexibility and openness. There is an auspicious meaning of punishing evil and putting the country and the people at peace.
Snake: It is considered as a symbol of beauty, infatuation, generosity and flexibility. There is an auspicious meaning of combining rigidity with softness.
Ma: It symbolizes vigor, majesty, loyalty, arrogance, courage and firmness. There is an auspicious meaning of going forward bravely and endless life.
Sheep: It is regarded as a symbol of tenderness, kindness, kindness, harmony, obedience and purity. It means good luck in a good year.
Monkey: It is regarded as a symbol of freedom, agility, intelligence, wisdom and courage, as well as love and kindness. There are auspicious meanings of exorcising evil spirits and reducing evil spirits and happy New Year.
Chicken: It is regarded as a symbol of courage, determination, resolving all kinds of poisons, peace and good luck. There are auspicious meanings of family stability and harmony between husband and wife.
Dog: It is regarded as a symbol of wit and intelligence, sincerity and courage, due diligence and trustworthiness, and sacrifice one's life for righteousness. There are auspicious meanings of four seasons, peace and tranquility.
Pig: It is considered as a symbol of courage and modesty, simplicity and honesty, being happy with everything, and striving for success. There are auspicious meanings of living and working in peace.
What animal does the "dog" in the zodiac represent?
Monkeys, dogs and pigs
Do you know what is behind the dog in the zodiac? !
In the zodiac, the dog is followed by the pig.
1, the Zodiac, also known as the Zodiac, is a zodiac that matches China and the Zodiac with the year of birth, including rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs.
2. The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship. According to Qin bamboo slips unearthed in Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land in Hubei Province and Fangmatan in Tianshui, Gansu Province, a relatively complete zodiac system existed as early as the pre-Qin period. The earliest handed down document that recorded the same Chinese zodiac as today was Lun Heng written by Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
3. The zodiac is an intuitive representation of the twelve earthly branches, namely, Zi (mouse), Ugly (ox), Yin (tiger), Mao (rabbit), Chen (dragon), Si (snake), Wu (horse), Wei (sheep), Shen (monkey), You (chicken) and Xu. In modern times, more people regard the zodiac as the mascot of the Spring Festival and become an entertainment and cultural activity.
4. As a long-standing folk cultural symbol, the Zodiac has left a lot of poems, Spring Festival couplets, paintings, calligraphy and paintings and folk arts and crafts depicting the image and symbolic meaning 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.
What does the zodiac stand for?
China's zodiac animals are made up of eleven kinds of animals from nature, namely rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs and legendary dragons. Used to record the year, the order is mouse, ugly cow, silver tiger, hairy rabbit, dragon, snake, afternoon horse, sheep, monkey, You You chicken and dragon.
For a long time, many people regard Lun Heng, a great work by Wang Chong, a materialist thinker in the Eastern Han Dynasty, as the earliest document to record the zodiac. "On the Balance of Things" contains: "Yin, wood, birds and tigers. Soil, its birds and dogs are also. ..... At noon, the horse also arrived. Son, mouse also. Unitary, chicken also. Hair, rabbits, too. ..... hey, tapir. No, so are sheep. Ugly, cattle also. ..... Third, snakes are also. Shen, Qitian also. " There are only eleven zodiac signs in the above quotation, but the dragon is missing. The book "Poisonous Words" also said: "Chen Weilong, Si is a snake, and Chen and Si are in the southeast. In this way, the zodiac is completed.
"Zhou Li Chun Guan von Shi Xiang" contains: "Ten palms are two years old, ten palms are February, ten palms are two days old, ten palms are two days old, ten palms are two days old, and ten palms are twenty-eight stars. Their narrative is distinguished to meet the heaven." The division of time is progressive, with twelve years, twelve months a year and twelve o'clock a day.
"Mandarin Yu Jin Si" contains: "The Yellow Emperor has twenty-five sons, and fourteen sons have surnames, which are twelve surnames." Even the wives and concubines of the son of heaven are called "twelve women".
"The Biography of Xun Shuang in the Later Han Dynasty": "Therefore, the son of heaven married twelve women, and the number of days was also; There is an equal difference below the princes, and things have fallen. "
In recent years, the creation epic Dark Biography of the Han nationality has been discovered in Shennongjia area, in which there is a story about the origin of the main branch: "At the beginning of creation, Huang Xuan rode chaos beast and met Nuwa. There are two meat buns beside Nu Wa. There are ten men in the big one and twelve women in the small one. Huang Xuan said: "This is a heavenly revolution to support God to govern Gankun." So, they were named respectively, and the husband and wife were matched, which became yin and yang. Men are collectively called heavenly stems and women are earthly branches. "This creation myth story tells the story of Ganzhi, the mysterious god, the god of Nuwa, and the story of Ganzhi Yin and Yang Kun, dating back to the" life experience "of Ganzhi a long time ago.
In ancient times, the sky has always been the master and the earth has always been the subordinate. Ten heavenly stems are also called ten mothers, and the corresponding twelve branches are called twelve sons. Cai Yong's "Moon Order" in Han Dynasty: "The love of the five elements is brilliant, which accounts for the construction of the battle program, so A and B are famous for the first time, and they are called dry; Making a child ugly in the name of the moon is a branch. Branches match branches to make sixty years old. " Da Rao was a minister in the era of the Yellow Emperor, and the match here is sixty years, that is, sixty jiazi, taking the least common multiple of ten days' work and twelve earthly branches. The trunk and branches are matched in order, from Jiazi to Ugly ... until Guihai is the 60th pair, which happens to be the last pair of trunk and branches, and then defecation starts from Jiazi. This cycle is called Jiazi. Among them, each aerial stem appeared 6 times and each aerial branch appeared 5 times.
The birth of the zodiac has an astronomical background. In primitive times, our ancestors experienced a cycle of alternating cold and summer.
Hong Hao's Biography at the End of Song Dynasty in Song Dynasty said: "Jurchen is very small, just after the new moon, and the person doesn't know the date. When asked, they will say, "How many times have I seen grass?" "
In the Song Dynasty, Meng Gong's Record of Monks and Tartars also recorded: "Every grass is one year old. When someone asks its age, they say how many grasses it is."
Later, some astronomical observers found that the length of a year can be measured by the moon's profit and loss cycle, and found that all twelve full moons are one year old. This discovery is one of the most accurate achievements of the early calendar, and "Twelve" is regarded as "days" to convey God's will. Heavenly stems and earthly branches, the sun and the moon are opposite, and heaven and earth are opposite. This is the "Twelve". A mouse and an ugly cow ... a dog and a pig. There are many animals in the world. Why did the ancients choose these twelve animals as their zodiac signs?
Liu Xian in Qing Dynasty was quoted from Li Changqing in Miscellaneous Notes of Yang Guang Matsushita Pavilion.
"Why is the child a mouse? Yue: Born in the child, it will not open until it dies. Rats eat insects. Therefore, in night is still young, positive mice have to wait, so children belong to mice.
The ground is ugly, and the cow opens the ground, so ugliness belongs to the cow.
If born in yin, if born, kill. Murderer, tiger, Yin people, fear. If you are awesome, you are a tiger, then Yin is a tiger.
Offender, sunrise. In vitro, it contains the essence of Taiyin Jade Rabbit, so it is a rabbit.
The morning of divination in March is when the dragon rains, so the morning belongs to the dragon.
The last person, divination in April, was lush and the snake was in its place. Also, when a snake is not on the road, it is a snake.
At noon, the sun is born, and the sun is born. Horses are healthy, never leave the ground, and belong to the shade, so they belong to horses in the afternoon.
Sheep are not sheep, because they grow by biting untimely grass.
When applying, the ape crowed in the sunset, and his arms were stretched out. By analogy, chaos runs rampant, so the application belongs to monkeys.
The moon rises to be a chicken, because it contains the essence of the golden rooster.
Hay (name) ......
Who knows what the China Zodiac stands for?
A short story about the concept of honor and disgrace
12 Chinese zodiac signs
Once, I had the opportunity to have dinner with European nobles. Maybe he drank too much wine, and a German nobleman stood up and said sarcastically, "Look."
What kind of pigs are you China people? Dog! Rats! Unlike us, they are all Taurus, Leo and Andromeda.
..... I really don't know what your ancestors thought? "
At that time, these nobles were laughing and clinking glasses with each other, and the previous elegance was completely gone.
It is natural for people to call your ancestors names. Even if there is nothing to say, at least you can lift the table! But everyone sat in silence, or maybe they didn't react, so I had to tell all the foreign guests present peacefully:
"The ancestors of China people are very real. Our zodiac signs are opposite, and the six divisions in the wheel of destiny reflect all the expectations and demands of our ancestors for the people of China. "
At this time, although the atmosphere changed from frolic to quiet, their faces still looked disdainful. I said, "Oh, yeah."
The first group is rats and cows. Rats represent wisdom and cows represent diligence. Wisdom and diligence must be closely combined. If wisdom is not diligent, it becomes smart; And just being diligent without thinking becomes stupid. So the two must be combined. This is the first set of expectations and requirements of our ancestors for China people, and it is also the most important set. "
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The second group are tigers and rabbits. Tigers represent courage, rabbits represent caution. Courage and prudence must be closely combined to achieve the so-called boldness and prudence. Courage leaves caution, and it becomes recklessness. If you are not brave, blind caution becomes timidity. This group is also very important, so it is placed in the second place.
I looked at these nobles and added: "
So when we show caution, don't think that we China people have no courage. ""
In fact, our ancestors pursued a kind of harmonious wisdom and harmony, and never gave a single request or task. "Looking at everyone lost in thought, I continued.
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The third group is the dragon snake. The dragon represents tenacity, and the snake represents flexibility. The so-called rigidity is easy to break, too rigid is easy to break, but if there is only a soft side, it is easy to lose your mind, so combining rigidity with softness is our ancestral motto.
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Next are horses and sheep. Horses represent indomitable spirit and go straight to the goal, while sheep represent harmony. If a person only cares about himself and goes straight to the goal, regardless of the surrounding environment, he will inevitably bump into the surrounding environment and may not be able to achieve his goal in the end. But if a person is condescending and integrated with his surroundings, he will lose his direction and goal. Therefore, the indomitable spirit must be closely combined with harmony, which is the fourth group of expectations of our ancestors for China people.
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Then there are monkeys and chickens. Monkeys represent flexibility. As for chickens, there was no clock in the past, and the beginning of the day was decided by listening to the crowing of chickens, so the crowing of chickens was regular, indicating that it remained unchanged. Flexibility and constancy must be closely combined. If you are flexible and not static, no matter how good the policy is, you will not get anything in the end. But if you just stay the same, stagnate and be monolithic, there will be no reform and opening up today. There is only a very harmonious combination between them. On the one hand, it has stability and maintains the overall harmony and order, on the other hand, it can move forward flexibly. This is the most fundamental key.
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Finally, dogs and pigs. Dogs represent loyalty and pigs represent easygoing. If a person is too loyal and doesn't know how to be easy-going, he will exclude others. On the other hand, if a person is too easy-going and has no loyalty, he will lose his principles. Therefore, whether it is loyalty to a nation-state, loyalty to a team, or loyalty to one's own ideals, it must be closely combined with easygoing, so that it is easy to truly maintain deep loyalty. This is what we in China have always insisted, that a gentleman is harmonious but different.
"Everyone in China has his own zodiac sign. Some people are pigs, others are dogs. What's the point? In fact, our ancestors expected us to be harmonious and impartial, and asked us to know how to cut into the corresponding surface. For example, pigs can pursue loyalty in an easy-going nature; On the other hand, the loyal nature of dogs is easy-going. "
After explaining the zodiac, I said:
"I don't know which of your Aquarius, Sagittarius and Aries embodies your ancestors. ......
What does Zodiac mean?
China's zodiac animals are made up of eleven kinds of animals from nature, namely rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs and legendary dragons. Used to record the year, the order is mouse, ugly cow, silver tiger, hairy rabbit, dragon, snake, afternoon horse, sheep, monkey, You You chicken and dragon.
For a long time, many people regard Lun Heng, a great work by Wang Chong, a materialist thinker in the Eastern Han Dynasty, as the earliest document to record the zodiac. "On the Balance of Things" contains: "Yin, wood, birds and tigers. Soil, its birds and dogs are also. ..... At noon, the horse also arrived. Son, mouse also. Unitary, chicken also. Hair, rabbits, too. ..... hey, tapir. No, so are sheep. Ugly, cattle also. ..... Third, snakes are also. Shen, Qitian also. " There are only eleven zodiac signs in the above quotation, but the dragon is missing. The book "Poisonous Words" also said: "Chen Weilong, Si is a snake, and Chen and Si are in the southeast. In this way, the zodiac is completed.
"Zhou Li Chun Guan von Shi Xiang" contains: "Ten palms are two years old, ten palms are February, ten palms are two days old, ten palms are two days old, ten palms are two days old, and ten palms are twenty-eight stars. Their narrative is distinguished to meet the heaven." The division of time is progressive, with twelve years, twelve months a year and twelve o'clock a day.
"Mandarin Yu Jin Si" contains: "The Yellow Emperor has twenty-five sons, and fourteen sons have surnames, which are twelve surnames." Even the wives and concubines of the son of heaven are called "twelve women".
"The Biography of Xun Shuang in the Later Han Dynasty": "Therefore, the son of heaven married twelve women, and the number of days was also; There is an equal difference below the princes, and things have fallen. "
In recent years, the creation epic Dark Biography of the Han nationality has been discovered in Shennongjia area, in which there is a story about the origin of the main branch: "At the beginning of creation, Huang Xuan rode chaos beast and met Nuwa. There are two meat buns beside Nu Wa. There are ten men in the big one and twelve women in the small one. Huang Xuan said: "This is a heavenly revolution to support God to govern Gankun." So, they were named respectively, and the husband and wife were matched, which became yin and yang. Men are collectively called heavenly stems and women are earthly branches. "This creation myth story tells the story of Ganzhi, the mysterious god, the god of Nuwa, and the story of Ganzhi Yin and Yang Kun, dating back to the" life experience "of Ganzhi a long time ago.
In ancient times, the sky has always been the master and the earth has always been the subordinate. Ten heavenly stems are also called ten mothers, and the corresponding twelve branches are called twelve sons. Cai Yong's "Moon Order" in Han Dynasty: "The love of the five elements is great, occupying the program of fighting, so A and B became famous at the beginning, which is called dry; Making a child ugly in the name of the moon is a branch. Branches match branches to make sixty years old. " Da Rao was a minister in the era of the Yellow Emperor, and the match here is sixty years, that is, sixty jiazi, taking the least common multiple of ten days' work and twelve earthly branches. The trunk and branches are matched in order, from Jiazi to Ugly ... until Guihai is the 60th pair, which happens to be the last pair of trunk and branches, and then defecation starts from Jiazi. This cycle is called Jiazi. Among them, each aerial stem appeared 6 times and each aerial branch appeared 5 times.
The birth of the zodiac has an astronomical background. In primitive times, our ancestors experienced a cycle of alternating cold and summer.
Hong Hao's Biography at the End of Song Dynasty in Song Dynasty said: "Jurchen is very small, just after the new moon, and the person doesn't know the date. When asked, they will say, "How many times have I seen grass?" "
In the Song Dynasty, Meng Gong's Record of Monks and Tartars also recorded: "Every grass is one year old. When someone asks its age, they say how many grasses it is."
Later, some astronomical observers found that the length of a year can be measured by the moon's profit and loss cycle, and found that all twelve full moons are one year old. This discovery is one of the most accurate achievements of the early calendar, and "Twelve" is regarded as "days" to convey God's will. Heavenly stems and earthly branches, the sun and the moon are opposite, and heaven and earth are opposite. This is the "Twelve". A mouse and an ugly cow ... a dog and a pig. There are many animals in the world. Why did the ancients choose these twelve animals as their zodiac signs?
Liu Xian in Qing Dynasty was quoted from Li Changqing in Miscellaneous Notes of Yang Guang Matsushita Pavilion.
"Why is the child a mouse? Yue: Born in the child, it will not open until it dies. Rats eat insects. Therefore, in night is still young, positive mice have to wait, so children belong to mice.
The ground is ugly, and the cow opens the ground, so ugliness belongs to the cow.
If born in yin, if born, kill. Murderer, tiger, Yin people, fear. If you are awesome, you are a tiger, then Yin is a tiger.
Offender, sunrise. In vitro, it contains the essence of Taiyin Jade Rabbit, so it is a rabbit.
The morning of divination in March is when the dragon rains, so the morning belongs to the dragon.
The last person, divination in April, was lush and the snake was in its place. Also, when a snake is not on the road, it is a snake.
At noon, the sun is born, and the sun is born. Horses are healthy, never leave the ground, and belong to the shade, so they belong to horses in the afternoon.
Sheep are not sheep, because they grow by biting untimely grass.
When applying, the ape crowed in the sunset, and his arms were stretched out. By analogy, chaos runs rampant, so the application belongs to monkeys.
The moon rises to be a chicken, because it contains the essence of the golden rooster.
Hay (name) ......