Information about mice

Animal profile

Species introduction

Living habits

Demographic situation

Growth and reproduction

Rat hazard

Prevention and cure method

relevant knowledge

Cultural status

The History of Rat

Mouse stamp

The symbolic meaning of mice

Mouse custom

Mouse game

Mouse proverb

Mouse poem

Mouse fable

Mouse riddle

Mouse painting

The origin of the first mouse in the zodiac

The relationship between mice and humans

Year of the Rat Blessing SMS

The origin of the word "mouse"

The contribution of mice to mankind

Cartoons and movies about mice

Poetry about mice: a brief introduction to animals

Species introduction

Living habits

Demographic situation

Growth and reproduction

Rat hazard

Prevention and cure method

relevant knowledge

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[Edit this paragraph] Introduction to animals

Mouse (English: rat pinyin: laó shǔ incarnation) is a kind of rodent, with large and small bodies. There are more than 450 kinds. Large number, fast reproduction, strong vitality, eat almost anything, can survive anywhere. It can dig holes, climb trees, climb mountains and wade, spoil food and spread diseases, which is extremely harmful to human beings. In addition to catching rats by natural enemies, people also use instruments (mousetraps, mouse cages, electronic mousetraps, etc.). ) and drugs to kill mice.

In ancient times, people were very afraid of mice. Rats bite everything and spread the plague. The proverb "Rats cross the street and everyone cries" shows that people hate rats. The ancients generally adopted the attitude of "avoiding what they were afraid of". Therefore, the ancients added the word "old" in front of these things to show awe and not dare to offend. In some places, because of superstition, when it comes to mice, they often dare not call them by their first names, but call them "mice". Some people think that the "old" of mice means old age. Mice have the longest life span among mice, but this statement may not be credible, because mice don't live long. However, rats are also very adaptable to the environment. 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which caused serious damage to the local ecology due to excessive nuclear radiation. However, it was later found that the mice there were almost unaffected by nuclear radiation, and they were all normal and had no deformity.

[Edit this paragraph] Category introduction

There are about 1700 species of rodents in the world ... There are about 170 species of rodents in China and 32 species in the south, including domestic and wild rodents. There are three kinds of common house mice in Guangdong: Rattus norvegicus, Rattus flavipectus and Mus musculus. The wild rats are mainly yellow-haired rats, also known as Rossi rats and voles.

1, Rattus norvegicus: Its coat color is gray, and it likes to make holes in the walls and corners. Generally, it weighs about 300g, and the big one is 900 g. ..

2. Housefly (white mouse): The coat is gray, the individual is small, and it often associates with people except the wall roots, weighing about 20-30g.

3. There are also roof rats, hamsters and yellow-haired rats.

4. Rattus flavipectus: smaller than Rattus norvegicus, with a general weight of 100-250g, long tail and big ears, and the tail length exceeds the body length.

In addition, there is a small insect-eating animal called smelly shrew, commonly known as smelly mouse. It is not a mouse, and it does little harm to human beings, so it needs to be distinguished from mice. There is also a kind called gopher.

[Edit this paragraph] Living habits

Characteristics of mice

1. You can tell what food is in the kitchen by your sense of smell at night. When you are full, you will chase after it in twos and threes. If you are hungry or find something delicious, have dinner together.

2, very flexible and cunning, afraid of people, when sneaking out of the hole, two front paws climb on the edge of the hole, look around and feel safe before coming out of the hole. It likes to build a fixed route between its nest, food and water to avoid danger.

3. Most mice with keen vision are active and feed at night. Mice active at night can detect moving objects in very dark light, and mice active during the day have better vision.

4. High drilling ability. Rat holes are obvious, often in walls, animal pens and warehouse kitchens.

5, strong memory, aversion to food in a familiar environment for a part, will immediately arouse its vigilance, dare not move forward. After repeated familiarity, it dared to move forward. If attacked, it will avoid this place for a long time.

Food for mice

Rats have various eating habits. They like to eat a lot. They eat almost everything that humans eat. They are not afraid of acid, sweet, bitter and spicy. Their favorite foods are whole grains, melon seeds, peanuts and oil-pressed foods. A mouse can eat about 9 kilograms of grain a year.

living environment

Besides humans, mice are the fastest and most successful mammals. Take the moon mouse as an example. The moon mouse is a domestic mouse that often lives in human areas. It can get pregnant eight times a year and give birth to four to seven young mice at a time. In addition to consuming or polluting food, rats also like to grind their teeth, so quite a lot of packaging materials or construction equipment are bitten by rats. According to statistics, a quarter of unexplained fires in the United States may be caused by rats biting wires.

Rats are easy to adapt to human living environment, so they become the main pests. Rats often haunt sewers, toilets, kitchens, etc. And move back and forth between the bacteria-carrying place and the clean place, and spread pathogens through the feet, body hair and stomach of rats.

[Edit this paragraph] Population situation

Theoretically speaking, the population growth should increase by geometric series, but in fact, due to various factors, the growth rate is limited. When the density reaches the capacity limit of the environment, the growth rate fluctuates around 0. One of the most important ways to control rodent damage is to reduce the capacity limit. Without human intervention, the number of rats will change with the seasons and years. The fluctuation range of different rat species is quite different, and the height difference of individual rat species can reach more than 50 times.

[Edit this paragraph] Growth and reproduction

1, female house mouse: it can be conceived after 40 days of growth.

2. Female rats: mature in three months, and pregnant in 2 1 day. First-born babies have 5-6, then add one to each baby until one baby reaches 15- 16, then reduce one baby until one baby gives birth to 5-6 babies, and then stop breeding. A mouse is pregnant eight times a year, as the saying goes: one male and one female, 350 a year.

3. Mouse: The mouse matures early and has strong reproductive ability, and its life span is 1~3 years. The newborn mouse has no hair, red skin, closed eyes and ears stuck to the skin. Crawl for a week and open your eyes in 12 days.

[Edit this paragraph] Rat hazards

1, stealing seeds, destroying saplings and endangering forestry.

2. Digging fields, stealing grain and endangering agriculture.

3. Bite clothes and food and spread diseases.

4. Make a hole in the dam and cause a flood.

5, destruction of property: because rats often grind their teeth, they will bite various objects.

6, polluting the environment: for example, voles will destroy crops, mouse bacteria and so on.

7. Infectious diseases: 57 kinds of plague, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, leptospira, typhus and tick-borne relapsing fever.

8. Disturb people.

[Edit this paragraph] Prevention and control methods

1. Ecological rodent control.

Take various measures to destroy the adaptive environment of rodents, inhibit their reproduction and growth, and increase their mortality. Deep ploughing, irrigation and afforestation can be combined with production, which will worsen their living conditions. This method must be combined with other methods to be effective.

2. Biological deratization.

Protect the natural enemies of rats, such as owls, weasels, badgers, cats and most snakes that feed on rats, so as to control the number of rats.

3. Control rodents with instruments.

Catch mice with mousetraps and cages. This method is not suitable for large area or high density mice. 4. Drugs kill mice. This method has good effect, quick effect and wide application range, and it needs to kill rats in a large area. However, attention should be paid to the selection of rodenticide with high efficiency, low toxicity, low residue, no pollution and low risk of secondary poisoning, which will not cause physiological drug resistance in rats. (rodenticide, carbendazim, diphacinone sodium salt, toxic rat phosphorus, Dalong, if it doesn't work, please wait a little longer. )

Four, with 0.005% bromadiolone bait:

Bromadiolone is the second generation anticoagulant rodenticide, which has good effect on farmland rodents and domestic rodents.

1, preparation of poison bait:

First, mix 1 kg 0.5% bromadiolone aqueous solution with 4kg warm water, then fully stir, pour into100kg bait (wheat or rice can be selected) and mix evenly. After the liquid medicine is sucked up, cover it with plastic film, seal it for 30 minutes, and then spread it out to dry.

2, making bamboo tube bait station:

Made of bamboo tubes with a diameter of 5-6 cm. The poisonous bait station in the building area is 30cm long, and the farmland area is 45cm long (excluding the protruding part for shelter from rain). Poison bait stations usually put 25-30 grams of poison bait. Check once every 15 days to make up for the decrease of poison bait.

3. Placement of poison bait station:

The farmhouse is placed directly on the wall and fixed with pebbles, two for each household, one outside the pigsty and one under the back eaves. When used in the field, the bait station should be fixed and inserted into the ground with iron wire, and 3-5 cm should be left between the ground and the bamboo tube to prevent rainwater from pouring in. 1 poison bait station is placed per mu and along the ridge. The deratization time shall not be less than 20 days, preferably 30 days.

4. Precautions:

When preparing poison bait, it should be carried out in accordance with the prescribed operating procedures. The place where poison bait is prepared should be far away from water sources and livestock and poultry. Don't touch the bait with your bare hands. The remaining poison and bait should be recovered and kept in time, and the poison bait, toxic garbage and collected rat carcasses that are no longer used should be buried deeply.

5. The specific antidote is vitamin K 1.

Spread disease

Rats are the storage hosts or vectors of many diseases. There are 57 known diseases transmitted from mice to humans, such as plague, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, typhus and tick-borne relapsing fever.

After research, there are three ways for mice to spread diseases:

1. Rat ectoparasites are used as a medium to spread pathogens to people when they bite and suck blood;

2. Mice with pathogenic microorganisms in their bodies pollute food or water sources through mouse activities or feces, leading to diseases after human consumption;

3. Rats bite directly or pathogens invade through trauma to cause infection.

Disease symptoms

1, plague: The main clinical manifestations are high fever, swollen lymph nodes, bleeding tendency, special inflammation of the lungs, etc.

2. Symptoms of hemorrhagic fever: It usually occurs suddenly after the incubation period of 7 days to 265,438+0 days, with acute illness, rapid progress and severe symptoms. When you are sick, you have a fever, and your body temperature rises sharply to 39℃ or higher. At the same time, it is characterized by headache, eye socket pain and low back pain, which is called "three pains"; It is also manifested as flushing and congestion on the face, neck and upper chest, which is called "three reds". In addition, after the onset, bleeding spots can be seen in the upper jaw and pharynx of the mouth, and wired strip bleeding spots can be seen under the armpit.

3. Symptoms of typhus: Acute onset, persistent fever and headache are the main symptoms, with a body temperature of 39℃~ 40℃ (accounting for 72. 10%), accompanied by joint and muscle pain, cough and other symptoms. The main signs are facial congestion, rash, pharyngeal congestion and hepatosplenomegaly.

[Edit this paragraph] Related knowledge

The mouse has a pair of growing front teeth, so the little mouse always gnaws his teeth at the wardrobe and wooden box.

The mouse's long tail is well balanced, and it won't hurt even if it falls from the fifth floor.

Researchers from Cambridge University in England and SmithKline University in Beecham recently published an article in Nature, saying that a transgenic mouse they bred can always maintain a "slim and light posture" when eating much more than similar mice. This research has opened up a broad prospect for finding a new diet drug that can not limit food intake. This diet drug will be different from all kinds of contemporary diet drugs with appetite suppression mechanism.

Through research, scientists found that mice especially like watching TV advertisements. At this time, the mouse was very excited, its mouth was very happy, and its beard kept swinging.

John, who is in charge of this research? Dr. Clapham said that the mice they cultivated can produce a large amount of substances called "unconjugated lotus root protein -3" in the mitochondria of their muscle cells, which can accelerate metabolism and at the same time convert the energy absorbed from food into heat and emit it, instead of converting it into fat to accumulate in the body. Therefore, these mice can eat as much as they want, but their weight is much lighter than other normal mice. Experiments show that transgenic mice eat more 15%-54% than normal mice, but their adipose tissue is 44%-57% less than normal mice.

Dr Clapham said that the research results in mice made it possible to develop human weight-loss drugs, which can promote the consumption of a large number of calories, rather than simply suppressing appetite. However, Dr Clapham also pointed out that no matter what new diet pills are developed, diet adjustment and physical exercise will always be the first choice for dieters.

[Edit this paragraph] Cultural status

Although the mouse has a bad reputation and an unpleasant appearance, it has long been condemned as "a mouse crossing the street, everyone cries out for it", but from the perspective of society, folklore and culturology, it has already been thoroughly remoulded, and has evolved from an unscrupulous pest into a small creature with great spirituality, intelligence and mystery. As early as thousands of years ago, the so-called primitive animal worship of "four lords" and "five gates" spread among the people in our country, which reflected the awe of foxes, weasels, thorns, mice and snakes. It is generally believed that these animals have extraordinary spirituality and represent the will of heavenly ghosts. Rats are on the list again, which shows that rats are inextricably linked with human life. Mouse culture naturally appears in every aspect of human daily life, which makes mice more and more lovely and mysterious.

[Edit this paragraph] The history of "rat"

The word "mouse" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is like a little mouse biting with its mouth open; In the process of evolution and development from Shang Dynasty to Qin Dynasty 1000 years, the pictographic mouse character has undergone great changes and has become linear in Xiao Zhuan in Qin Dynasty. The mouse character in official script evolved on the basis of official script. The mouse's head became square, and the mouse's feet and tail were still pictographic, but the image of the mouse was not obvious. The mouse character in regular script absorbs the characteristics of the mouse character in official script, which is the word "mouse" used today, and cursive script is more common in artistic calligraphy and painting works.

In recent years, archaeological discoveries near Anhui Province show that rats have lived on the earth for more than 47 million years before human beings appeared, so they can be said to be living fossils.

[Edit this paragraph] Rat stamp

In China, there are many folk stories about mice, the most famous of which are "Mice Marry Women" and "Mice Marry Women", which have become the theme of artists' New Year pictures and are deeply loved by the masses. And spread to neighboring countries such as Vietnam. Therefore, 1996, a set of 2 stamps and a sheetlet issued by Vietnam, adopts the story of "a mouse marries a woman" (Figure 2 shows a sedan chair).

The mini-pane of Zodiac stamps issued by Ghana 1996 (Figure 3) adopts the story of "the mouse marries", which consists of four stamps, respectively depicting the lively scene of the mouse marrying the bride: in the first picture, the groom is riding a horse, and the mouse gongs and screams to clear the way; In the second picture, the mouse carrying the wedding ceremony is "a hundred years".

Rats are annoying, harmful and intelligent animals, and their images often appear in literary works, with love and hate. The earliest is Feng Wei in The Book of Songs. The eighth1~ 83 of Journey to the West wrote that the bottomless rat essence forced Tang Priest to get married, which was the development of the rat marriage story. "A Xian" in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is about of mice and men's love, which is vivid and vivid! Lou Rat in Fifteen Levels is a rat thief and a murderer. Bai Sheng, a day mouse in Water Margin, is a character in 108. The "five rats" who made a scene in Tokyo in "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" are chivalrous men and are welcomed by readers. Wait, wait.

China has a long-standing folk song: "Little mouse, on the lampstand, stealing oil and drinking, can't get off the stage." It is said that the mouse smells the fragrance in the oil pan and wants to eat it, but it can't get in. What should I do? After repeated several times, I finally dipped my long tail into the pot mouth and ate the oil. This story is very interesting, so the stamp designer put it on the Zodiac stamp, which is a bit like the first picture of the Zodiac stamp (1960- 1) issued by China in 1996: the mouse is holding the lampstand, with an oil gourd stamp on the left and its tail almost in the oil gourd. The composition of the zodiac rat stamps is relatively straightforward, such as those issued by Grenada, the Grenadines and Gambia in Africa (Figure 4 ~ 5).

Legend has it that the mouse rode on the back of a cow to register and won the first place in the ranking competition of the zodiac. It can be seen that the mouse is a flexible animal with a high IQ. Therefore, in ancient times, there was a folk legend that rats were rats (god rats):

In China, the second picture of the Zodiac stamp (1996-1) issued in1996 and the first picture of the New Year postcard in 2007 (with prizes) adopt the folklore of "rats biting the sky": when the ancient world was not open, the universe was in chaos, and rats bit the sealed world, making Yin and Yang leak out. In the creation myths of some ethnic minorities in China, there are also legends similar to "mice bite the sky", such as Mupa Papa, a creation epic of Lahu nationality, which describes that Ersa God cultivated a gourd for educating people, but people grew up in the gourd but could not get out. Only the mouse bit a hole in the gourd and welcomed Zadi and Nadi, who became the ancestors of the Lahu people.

Some Asian countries are influenced by China culture, and there are also legends about rats, which can be seen on stamps issued by Korean, Mongolian, Thai, Bhutan and other countries.

The main picture (Figure 6) of the Jiazi Zodiac stamp issued in Korea 1984 is a stone sculpture of a mouse standing with a weapon in his hand. The prototype is taken from the stone statue of the zodiac in the cemetery of General Jin Yuxin, the founding hero of Silla Dynasty.

Mongolia 1972 issued the Zodiac stamp for the Year of Renzi (Figure 7), which consists of a dragon mouse and a spaceship. On the left of the stamp is a fat mouse running forward, and on the right is Apollo 15, which is driven by two American astronauts, chasing it. Vivid image, humorous and romantic composition. On June 1 99665438+1October1day, the stamps of the Zodiac Mouse (both of them) are based on the design concept of the mythical mouse, depicting flying squirrels with rich colors.

1996 The Zodiac Rat Stamp issued in Thailand is based on the Thai mythical Buddha wheel X "Jipeng Nana", depicting the grace of the gods riding mice (as shown in Figure 8). The mice controlled by immortals should be "heavenly mice" (divine mice).

The Kingdom of Bhutan is adjacent to China, influenced by Tibetan culture, and adopts Tibetan calendar. 1996 is the year of "Fire Rat", so the "Year of Bingzi" Zodiac stamp issued by Bhutan is designed with the legendary "Fire Rat" (Figure 9). There is also a record of "fire mouse" in the Chinese canon: there is a volcano in the south, which is forty miles long and has inexhaustible wood. It burns day and night, and there is a mouse in the fire, weighing 100 kg and its hair is more than two feet long. ...

In the mini stamp issued by Bhutan in 1997, there is a main picture of a mouse running between the moon and the earth (figure 10). Obviously, this mouse is also a vole (god mouse).

[Edit this paragraph] The symbolic meaning of the mouse

The first symbolic meaning of the mouse is spirituality, including its intelligence and performance channeling. Rats have a keen sense of smell, are timid and suspicious, and are highly vigilant. In addition, their bodies are very dexterous and they run like flies. Moreover, they have two other sudden abilities: from a height of tens of meters or even hundreds of meters, they fall from the roof to the ground, turn around and breathe as if nothing had happened, and they have no worries about life at all; Although it is not an aquatic animal and has no super swimming ability, a narrow ditch and shallow pond can't stop it. In order to survive, it can drill several meters at the bottom of the water in one breath, but it is unscathed. So it's useless to fall to death or drown a mouse. People often use "smarter than the mouse" to describe someone's cleverness, and the cleverness of the mouse has become a standard for category comparison, which shows that its cleverness has reached a considerable level, just as people will say "better than Mercedes-Benz" instead of "better than Volga" when describing the excellent quality of cars. Similarly, to describe a person who is quick and responsive, we often say that he is "as fickle as a mouse." People also believe that mice have special functions and can predict good luck or bad luck. In fact, rats are born in nature and grow longer than nature. It is normal for them to respond to unexpected events that will happen in nature, such as earthquakes, floods, droughts and locust plagues. This is a special instinct of life on earth, but there is also some knowledge limited to human beings, which does not reveal its mystery and law. On the eve of the Tangshan earthquake, people were surprised to find that rats were running around in the suburbs, or curled up in relatively empty places such as roads and streets, and did not understand what this sign meant. Similar things must have been repeated many times in ancient times, so the mouse became a psychic in human mind. We can get a glimpse of the mouse through the explanation of Duke Zhou.

The second symbolic meaning of the mouse is its powerful vitality. One is strong reproductive ability and high survival rate. For example, a female rat can give birth to 5 ~ 10 rats per fetus in natural state, with a maximum of 24 rats, and the gestation period is only 2 1 day. The female rats can be pregnant again on the day of delivery, and the young rats will mature after 30-40 days, and the female rats among them will join the breeding ranks. In this way, mother mouse can give birth to about 5,000 children a year, but there are too many grandchildren, Ceng Zi and great-grandchildren. According to research, the female mouse contains a unique chemical substance, which can stimulate the male mouse to worship its pomegranate skirt forever, which is probably one of the reasons why the mouse community can have children. Therefore, the folk call the good mother of the children group "mouse fetus" or "mouse belly", which means that her fertility is particularly strong. Rats have high survival rate and long life. Most of them can enjoy their old age, die of old age, and have a large number of children, which is beyond the reach of other animals unless they are attacked by natural enemy cats or put out on a large scale by human beings.

[Edit this paragraph] Rat custom

Some folk customs related to mice are quite interesting. For example, the custom of "beating mice's eyes" was popular in southern Zhejiang in ancient times, that is, during the Lantern Festival, people cooked black beans and scattered them indoors. The bean scatterer stood under the beam and threw the black beans on the beam, chanting: "On the west beam, under the east beam, all the mice were killed." A common belief can destroy mice. Another example is that the Maonan people in Guizhou regard the first day of the twelfth lunar month as the "rat-sending Festival". These folk customs reflect people's hatred of rats.

[Edit this paragraph] Rat painting

Ancient and modern painters seldom like to draw mice, but the mice written by Qi Baishi, a master of Chinese painting, are lifelike and have both form and spirit. His Mouse and the Oil Lamp is simple in composition and vivid in image. The oil lamp is painted on the left, and the flame on the oil core seems to be blown by the breeze. At the bottom right of the picture is a mouse, which is concise and full of agility.

[Edit this paragraph] The origin of the first mouse in the zodiac.

1, it is said that one day the Jade Emperor will arrange the zodiac, and set down cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs and cats. The next day, the Jade Emperor ranked them. At that time, cats and mice were good friends. The cat said to the mouse, "You should wake me up early tomorrow. I am one of the 12 Zodiacs, and I will be ranked second in heaven tomorrow. " The mouse readily agreed.

The next day, the mouse woke up early. He didn't wake the cat, but went to heaven by himself. At that time, it happened to be the second time. The Jade Emperor arranged the twelve zodiac animals in the order of ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog, pig and cat. The jade emperor asked the animals if they had any opinions. The mouse objected: "I don't think cats should be chosen. He has no respect for you at all. " You see, he is still sleeping, and he doesn't care about your arrangement of the zodiac at all. "The jade emperor saw the cat really asleep! He broke out in a rage. In a rage, he decided never to allow cats to go to heaven again. At the same time, he replaced the cat with a mouse. The mouse spoke again: "I must be the first!" """why? Is your contribution greater than that of an ox? ""People think I'm much bigger than an ox. " The Jade Emperor had no choice but to let people judge him. So the mouse came to the street and ran away from the street. Everyone who saw the mouse shouted, "Big (hit) mouse, big (hit) mouse …" God listened and put the mouse first.

Some people think that the zodiac first appeared when writing. A day and night is twenty-four hours. Ancient astronomers divided a day and night into twelve hours. At the same time, when they watch the celestial phenomena, they determine the zodiac according to the living habits and activities of twelve animals.

From 11: 00 pm to 1: 00 am the next day, it is the time for mice to move in the dead of night, and they are called "mice".

From/kloc-0 to 3 am, it's ugly. Cattle are used to eating grass at night, and farmers often get up late at night to feed them, so they are called "ugly cows".

From three to five in the morning, it belongs to Yin Shi. At this time, tigers lying during the day and walking at night are the fiercest. The ancients often heard tigers roaring at this time, so they were called "silver tigers".

From five to seven in the morning, it's Shi Mao. At dawn, rabbits leave their nests and like to eat grass with morning dew, so they are called "hairy rabbits".

Seven to nine in the morning is the time of day. It's usually foggy at this time. It is said that Longxi is flying in the clouds, which is worth the rising sun, so it is called "Chen Long".

It's the fourth time from 9 am to 1 1. The fog cleared, the sun was shining, and the snake came out of the hole to feed and pretended to be a "snake".

From eleven o'clock to one o'clock at noon, it is noon. In ancient times, wild horses were not tamed by humans. At noon, they run around screaming, so they are called "afternoon horses".

1: 00 to 3: 00 in the afternoon is inappropriate. Some places call it "sheep out of the slope", which means it is a good time to herd sheep, so it is called "Weiyang".

From 3 pm to 5 pm, it is the application time. When the sun goes down in the west, the monkey likes to crow, so it is called "Shen Monkey".

From five o'clock to seven o'clock in the afternoon, it is unitary time. When the sun goes down, the chicken spins in front of the nest, so it is called "unitary chicken".

From 7 pm to 9 pm, it is a time of sadness. After a hard day's work, I bolted the door and got ready to have a rest. The dog crouched in front of the door to guard. As soon as there is movement, it barks and screams, so it is called "dog".

From 9: 00 pm to 1 1, it is Shihai. You can hear the sound of the pig arch in the dead of night, so it is called "sea pig".

In this way, the time of day is arranged by animals: mice, ugly cows, silver tigers, rabbits, Chen Long, uncles, afternoon horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and porcupines.

Later, people used this method to determine the year, and the zodiac appeared.

[Edit this paragraph] The relationship between rats and humans

The study found that 99% of the bones of mice and humans are the same.