What do steel forks and valves mean?

This is Yan's scientific name: Badger.

"Yan" was created by Mr. Lu Xun: it appeared in the article written by Mr. Lu Xun in his novel "Hometown": "There is a golden full moon hanging in the deep blue sky, and endless green watermelons are planted on the sand by the sea. In the meantime, a boy of eleven or twelve years old, with a silver ring and a steel fork in his hand, tried his best to stab a horse.

Judging from the description in the article, "Yan" is an animal similar to badger pig. Mr. Wang wrote that "Yan" stole melons from the watermelon field at home.

Yan and Lu Xun "looked up" the changed words according to the reading method of rural people. Beasts and mammals have sharp claws and are good at digging holes and moving at night. Hair can be used to make pens, fur can be used to make clothes and leather mats, and meat can be eaten. Also called badger; Mr. Lu Xun once said in a letter to Shu Xincheng on May 4, 1929: "I invented the word' Yan' based on the voice of a countryman ... now I think it may be a badger."

("Young Runtu" has been selected as the primary school textbook of People's Education Edition and Chinese S Edition; For the first paragraph, the tenth paragraph, the eleventh paragraph and the thirteenth paragraph of Lu Xun, please see lesson 17 in the first volume of the sixth grade of People's Education Publishing House. For the first, tenth, eleventh and thirteenth paragraphs, see Lesson 22, Grade 6, Hubei Education Press)

Extended data:

The badger that may be mentioned below looks like a fox, with a fat body, short tail, brown-gray body color, black limbs and brain (only refers to the chest, the author's note), making holes in sand, mountains or fields, and eating fruits and vegetables exclusively. ……"

Badger (scientific name: Linnaeus, 1758) belongs to the genus Badger, belonging to the family Mustelidae. Badgers in the weasel family are big and fat, with a thick and short neck, short limbs and short tail, brown back mixed with white or milky yellow, and dark brown or light brown inside limbs.

Badgers are generally active in spring and autumn, fierce in temperament, hibernating, burrowing, living, omnivorous, breeding once a year, each breeding 2-5 offspring, with a wide range of habitats, such as forests, shrubs, fields, lakes, etc., distributed in most parts of Eurasia. Badger, weighing about10-12kg, is 45-55cm long.

The head is flat, the tip of the nose and ears are short, the neck is short and thick, the tail is short, the limbs are short and thick, and the claws are strong and suitable for digging. They often live in caves. The back hair is hard and dense, the base is white, the proximal end is dark brown, the hair tip is white, and there are more white hairs on the side. There are three white longitudinal hairs on the head.

One on each side of the cheek, one from the tip of the nose to the middle of the head. The mandible, throat, abdomen and limbs are all brown and black. Badgers live in dense forests, graves, barren hills, streams and lakes, and bushes on slopes and hills. Likes to live in groups and is good at digging holes. Eating habits are very diverse, and I like to eat small mammals and reptiles such as plant roots, corn, peanuts, vegetables, melons, beans, insects, earthworms, frogs and mice.

Extended source: Baidu Encyclopedia -Badger

Extended source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yan