What does bat mean?

Bats are hard to see in our southern region. They are shaped like mice and fly at night, preying on small insects such as mosquitoes and ants. The reason why people include it among the beautiful meanings is because "bat" has the same pronunciation as "福", which means blessing and blessing.

"When the curtain is broken, fireflies enter, and when the window is bright, bats fly." Yuan Zhen uniquely explains the beautiful meaning of bats in the poem "Scenery of Mid-Autumn Festival". When the curtain falls, the fluorescence of fireflies flashes; if there is a window, When the light came on, the bats flew away. The word "bat" here is a homophone for "福". People use bats to express blessings, such as fortune, wealth, longevity and joy. Five bats are often painted in folk paintings to represent the five blessings coming to the door.

In ancient times, people would also embroider bat graphics on their clothes. In addition, at weddings, birthdays and other festive banquets, women usually wear some bat-shaped flowers on their heads or embroider a bat on their clothing to symbolize blessings. Even the utensils used for birthday banquets often have bat shapes. . There is such a joke. Feng Menglong, a writer and dramatist of the Ming Dynasty, once wrote in "The Laughing Mansion. Bats Riding on the Wall": "The phoenix has a long life, and hundreds of birds come to congratulate it, but the bat does not come." Here, Feng Gong used a self-deprecating technique. The sentence means Phoenix wishes her birthday. All the white birds came to congratulate her, but the bats did not come. From here we can see how cunning and ignorant bats are. Feng Gong laughs at himself here that he is a phoenix, and a bat does not come when he celebrates his birthday. "Bat" has the same pronunciation as "福", which means good fortune and good fortune. It means that one's good fortune has not yet arrived, which is really a rare humor.

Bats have been considered as a symbol of sleekness and insidiousness since ancient times. We can learn a little bit about it from the above story. According to legend, in ancient times, the temperature of the sun was so high that everything in the world could not bear the scorching heat of the sun, so they complained and cursed the sun. The sun was very angry after hearing this and ran to the sky. At this time, everything in the world lost its light as if it was missing something necessary. So everyone gathered together to discuss countermeasures, hoping to find ways to bring the sun back. So the beasts agreed that each species of animal must pay a price. When everyone asked the bat for money, the bat said it was a rat, not a bird. But when they asked the rat for money, the bat said it had wings and could fly, and was a bird, not a rat, and refused to pay. In this way, the bat escaped the disaster without giving any money. Therefore, some people also compare this kind of insidious, cunning and duplicitous person to "Bat Man".

The Chinese nation has thousands of years of history and culture, but bats have occupied a lot of place in it. Just from the bat patterns remaining under some ancient buildings, we can also know that bats are definitely a symbol of "blessing". So people like to use bats in various festive places where they can use them. Carving jade with bats is also popular among people. In jade carvings, we can often see bats paired with other objects to show their beautiful meaning. For example: a longevity peach is held on top of five blessings, as if going to pay a birthday, which means five blessings and longevity; there is also a blessing carved with a copper coin, which is a homophony of "bat" and "money", which means blessings are in front of you; and there are also If it is carved with the sunrise or the waves, it means blessings such as the East Sea; if it is carved with the heavenly official, it means the blessing of the heavenly official. In short, with "bat", all the homophonic objects linked to it are given beautiful meanings.