Which zodiac animals are mice vulnerable to, and which men are women afraid of?

Before that, we took the Chinese zodiac as a whole and made a deep excavation of its cultural connotation. However, it is so rich that it is a big mistake to see only the forest and not the trees. As the twelve animals of the zodiac, they are not just ordinary animals and cultural figures. In the long time and space, they have precipitated too many cultural elements and have already evolved into real "beasts". Unfortunately, China has a vast culture. Too many of us have long been obviously attracted, such as Shan Hai Jing and Bai Ze Tu. It's like just noticing the waves rolling by the sea, but knowing nothing about the real world in the deep sea.

We usually think that the zodiac is twelve kinds of animals. But from the notes of past dynasties, they are more like twelve races, and the complexity of their structure is far from being understood by modern people.

First of all, let's talk about the big brother of the zodiac-"mouse". In ancient times, the traditional biological classification represented by Compendium of Materia Medica even gave it a special category. In this classification, all living things are divided into ten parts, among which the animals are called "five insects". There are four kinds of so-called "caterpillars" corresponding to mammals. The fact that mice can be classified as one group shows its importance.

The most familiar mouse belongs to the house mouse, but in fact, there is no only house mouse.

But it must be said that you can't measure it with modern biological knowledge. Just like Chinese medicine and western medicine, they belong to different systems. Insist on one end without charm.

Traditional "rodents" include too many species, far exceeding modern rodents. Therefore, it is called class, mainly because of the intuitive feeling that such animals give people, most of them are small, smart and flexible. Or the face is similar to that of mice. But it is not without exception. For example, there is a kind of "fire rat" in the Flame Mountain (not the kind in Journey to the West), which weighs several thousand kilograms and often appears in the Flame Mountain. If it accidentally runs out of the mountain, it may fall into human hands. Although this kind of mouse is big, it is easy to be killed by a pot of cold water. People cut off a few feet of fine hair on it and woven it into cloth, which is the famous "fire ring cloth" And it's hard to get hurt by fire.

The Fire Rat in Three Stories of the River Han

After talking about the big and the small, in Three Records of Han Dynasty, the shrew is a kind of mouse. Some people may feel strange about this animal, so you can see Mr. Big in Zootopia. A little rabbit is a giant in front of it. This is also the smallest mammal in the world. Some species are only five centimeters long, almost half as big as your fingers, and half are separated by tails.

"Mr. Big" in Zootopia

Of course, according to modern biology, shrews have nothing to do with mice. But what does it matter? If it is completely in line with science, what is the value of mythical thinking? And not a mole. The ancient books also recorded a kind of mouse called Fu.

Zokor is considered to be the smallest member of mice. In other words, it's not as big as a bitch. This may be an extinct creature. Although small, it should not be underestimated. It is said that flying squirrels are too small to bite cows or horses. But cows will get sores, which may even be fatal. So there is an idiom called "Rats harm cows". It is also recorded in Zuo Zhuan that sometimes flying rats bite their horns. It can be seen that although he is small, his fighting capacity is leverage.

Rodents in Compendium of Materia Medica 1

It may not be interesting to look at the size alone, but many mice have special functions. Since childhood, we all know that squirrels with parachutes and hedgehogs wear the same clothes as Huang Rong (according to ancient classification, hedgehogs are also rats). But this is just a routine operation. The fire mouse has just been launched. In fact, there are ice rats living under the 0/00-foot ice layer in the Arctic/Kloc. They weigh more than 1000 kilograms and have eight feet of hair, which can be used to make bedding. Whether it is meat or wool, it has a miraculous effect of dispelling cold. In Mysterious Animals in China, I suspect that this is actually a mammoth found in frozen soil, but who stipulates that only one animal can be frozen there? Ancient behemoths like the earth otter are obviously more like mice than mammoths.

In my childhood idea, mice only live on land, and although they can swim, they are basically just passing by. So when I learned that there was a kind of "water rat", I was shocked. In fact, the so-called "water rats" can be divided into four types, one is the famous "nutria". Its breeding was once popular in China. However, although it looks like a mouse, it is far from being a real mouse, but closer to a porcupine. One is the "capybara" in South America. It is a large rodent in the world and one of jaguar's favorite foods, with a body length of more than one meter. The third is the mouse in the true sense of modern science. Its scientific name is "Water Rat", which lives on both sides of the river, but only distributed in China.

South American capybara

Many times, the so-called "water rat" refers to a kind of near-water rat, which is widely distributed and common in Shanghai. But it gets less. Because this kind of mouse does not have the real ability to live in water. They just live by the water, stealing fish and eating good water.

Rats can not only run and swim, but also lie on the ice and fly. Sichuanese still call bats "salt rats", which means that rats change when they eat salt. This is of course impossible in reality. However, in the Compendium of Materia Medica, it is also mentioned that "rats are weak with salt". It is also pointed out in the book that bats are nicknamed "mouse", "mouse" and "flying mouse". Although Li Shizhen didn't explicitly say "salt rat" in the scientific spirit, it was only separated by a sufficient layer of paper.

In the traditional culture of China, bats are also auspicious animals. Some people even say that a white bat that eats "milk stone juice" can make people live for thousands of years. Therefore, it appears in many traditional decorative patterns. But in the Han Dynasty, flying squirrels with their limbs spread out were often seen, which was different from bats. This may be the "flying mouse" mentioned in Shan Hai Jing, which looks like a rabbit, with a mouse head and flying on its back. Now it is generally said to be flying squirrels. This small animal is a close relative of the squirrel and flies by the skin membrane between its limbs. However, it is pointed out that flying squirrels and flying squirrels are two kinds of animals in the animal spectrum of the Qing Dynasty, and it is vowed that flying squirrels live in Tianchi Mountain, Yunnan. But the flying squirrel mentioned in the same book is a small beast with wings on its back, which is obviously the imagination of the painter.

Zombies in the Animal Spectrum of Qing Palace

In any case, this mouse can really go to the ground. According to the general thinking of China people, it would be completely out of shape if we don't have a "monarch and minister to assist" with such a great ability and such a huge mass base. So there is the saying of "mouse king". The king of mice. Think about it, there are tens of thousands of mice. If you are together, it will inevitably not make people numb. The mouse king in China is just bigger and fiercer, and doesn't seem to have many characteristics. In contrast, the mouse king is special. It is made up of dozens of rat tails. The movement of mice in groups, like a big wheel, can frighten cold mushrooms into losing their voices. Europeans believe that the mouse king will bring war and disaster.

The terrible mouse king

This kind of thing is scientifically explained as a "self-entanglement" phenomenon. But it is also largely because of the fear of mice buried in human hearts. Coincidentally, it is mentioned in Youyang Za that the necessary condition for an ordinary mouse to become a mouse king is to eat the eyes of the dead. I thought that all the flowers in a person's body were in his eyes, and the mouse swallowed his eyes and opened his mind. The same book also mentions a more "mouse mother", which is as big as an otter and has a mouse-like head and feet. And its offspring is: "drown a drop on the mouse." Wherever the mother mouse goes, it turns into a million mice. " This is scary.

Although the mouse king and the mouse mother are the pyramids of the mouse family. However, in recent years, there has not been much breakthrough in the study of mice. People only know that it is complicated. Just like catching mice, it is often the old, the weak and the sick, not the mature mice. It is generally believed that they are testers of upper rats. If these weak mice eat the bait, but miss or fall into the trap. Other adult rats will come to eat in droves. Otherwise it will be dispersed in a hubbub. Now that there are even "death squads", there may be a smarter way to live. In Muye Zhang's Thief Cat, there is a "mouse city" built by a stranger with chopsticks. The mouse in it has a human-like structure. In fact, the "rat play" in Shuo Zhi Yi also expressed a similar guess. The human "born clean and ugly" also exists in mice, and what is lacking is only human discovery.

Because humans and mice are so similar in a sense. Many people are eager to have the intelligence of mice, but they hate their sloppiness and darkness. But not all mice are annoying or scary. For example, mice doing experiments are very popular. The ancients also knew it for a long time, and even thought that white mice were formed by the essence of gold and jade. In other words, there is treasure where the mouse is found.

mouse

There is also a kind of "flying squirrel" mentioned in "Different Records of the Ridge", saying that it comes from the south and acts in pairs, often among banana flowers. One was caught, and the other never left, willing to fall, really a model couple. However, human rewards for them are "made" and used by local women to seduce men. So it seems to be a symbol of love.

There is also a kind of "righteous mouse" mentioned in Yilu. They look like ordinary mice, in groups of three or five, biting their tails and moving forward. Seeing it is also a symbol of good luck.

Some mice have a high face value. For example, it is recorded in Story that there is a kind of mouse that looks like a mouse, but it has a leopard print on its body. It seems that it only appeared once in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and then it disappeared. If it can be cultivated, it may not be a precious pet like muskrat, or a fur animal like mink and ferret. However, according to the traditional classification, these two goods are also members of the rat family.

The expenses in Three Stories of He Han.

But these are not people's favorite mice. In fact, it also has one in the East, and now it is the famous "Mickey Mouse". This animated image created by a famous American artist a hundred years ago created the greatest empire in human history. Although it hasn't been released for a long time. But it is almost synonymous with animation.

The most famous mouse in the East is the treasure-spitting mouse, also known as "the mouse gets the treasure". Huang Fengguai in the Journey to the West and the golden nose and white hair mousetrap trapped in an empty mountain are its incarnations. Recently, it has also played a role in beasts. So it is no wonder that there is a mouse god. Obviously, people want to get wealth from it.

Treasure-spitting rats in the Forbidden City

Coincidentally, China once had the behavior of protecting mice. This sometimes rises to. For example, Zong Shen, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, couldn't help keeping cats, which was a well-known story for some time. It turned out that Zongshen was originally a mouse. No, the Chinese zodiac has actually become a virtue.

But the mouse seems to know how to repay. According to records, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a large family named Li. One day, at a meeting in the ancestral hall, hundreds of mice suddenly stood up and clapped their hands in the yard like people. People surnamed Li were surprised when they came out, but as soon as they went out, the house collapsed. It is thought that his family hasn't had a cat for generations. Another invigilator is correcting papers. He sees a mouse always coming to his bed with a examinee named Li's papers. Later, I learned that it was because this family didn't have cats for three generations. I wonder if these two stories are about a family.

The most famous mouse story happened in the Tang Dynasty, on the Silk Road in the Western Regions. It's about Khotan's national pilgrimage. As a result, when attacked by a foreign enemy, Vishamun lowered the treasure-spitting mouse and bit off all the bowstrings of the enemy overnight, forcing the strong enemy to retreat. This incident was recorded by the westbound Xuanzang, so there was a bottomless pit.

In fact, the mouse is an animal, but it depends on people to identify it. Because of people's opinions, there are good rats and bad rats. The above story is nothing more than transplanting human morality to animals.

But even from a scientific point of view, rats are closely related to human beings and our China.

Many people have said that "mice stole rice seeds", saying that there were no food seeds in the ancient world, and it was mice that bit open the door of the treasure house and brought the profound food seeds there to the world. Therefore, human beings should thank mice from generation to generation. In fact, archaeology has proved that the Oriental Rat, which lived in Anhui 50 million years ago, is the source of standard rodents. If it is not standard, it will be older. When dinosaurs ruled the earth, primitive mammals, such as the three-pointed beast, lived by stealing food such as dinosaur eggs, just like mice. Both man and mouse are its descendants. Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis, who is considered to be the common ancestor of human beings, only appeared on the earth more than 3 million years ago. So maybe from then on, the life of man and mouse has already begun.

Oriental mouse fossil

But by the Zhou Dynasty, people had said in the Book of Songs that "if you can eat a lot of mice, you can eat my millet." Appeal. Because there is only so much food. It is inevitable that the struggle between rats and people will eventually come down to food. Humans use various methods to kill mice: traps, organs, cats and dogs. Do almost everything. But at least so far, the mouse family is still thriving. And sometimes they will launch a counterattack against human beings, the most famous of which is the Black Death. In this catastrophe brought by rats, 25 million Europeans died. Compared with it, it is a younger brother now. But it also brought an unexpected consequence, that is, it caused the collapse, contributed to the end of the Middle Ages, and the dawn of modern civilization appeared, which was quite a bit of a "rat bite".

Rats have been with people for thousands of years, and their mutual influence is beyond imagination. Because of the existence of human beings, mice have changed from voles to house mice. Develop one's own race based on human homeland. Even in modern times, mice have not stopped setting. It is said that the windward side of the air conditioner is a good comfort zone for them. It is said that a mutant mouse as big as a yellow wolf appeared near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the former Soviet Union due to radiation influence.

At the same time, the human history promoted by rats is far more than the Black Death. For example, Li Si, a famous figure, realized when he saw a mouse in the barn. Zhang Tang, a cruel official, trained mice since he was a child. On the scientific level, not to mention the benefits that modern medicine has gained from mice. In fact, many human diseases can actually be found in mice, and the process of fighting these diseases has also promoted the progress of human medicine, which in turn has made progress for human beings themselves.

We can't help but say that the combination of "mouse" and "son", two seemingly unrelated things, is simply a stroke of genius. The word "zi" has been explained before. And from the time point of view, "Zi" belongs to November of the lunar calendar. But extremes meet, Yang. At this time, the sun has sprouted and produced seeds for new life.

Rodents in Compendium of Materia Medica 2

And the mouse is actually like this. Lying during the day and going out at night indicate that it belongs to yin. But its vitality is extremely strong, its front teeth are immortal, and it is also a "yang", which conforms to the original intention of the first palace of the Twelve Immortals. Even though humans have killed mice for thousands of years, they have never been killed, which shows their strong vitality. Some science fiction writers believe that human beings will eventually perish in the future, but mice will survive and evolve into advanced intelligent creatures like human beings. Is the world really moving in this direction? Maybe rats evolved a relatively high civilization, but they secretly dominated human history? Whether these can be proved can only be proved by time.

The above is about which zodiac rats are easy to be bullied, and it is about sharing the zodiac. I hope this will help you finish watching what men rat girls are afraid of!