Belong toCultural symbol of rat

Clever little, think first - shawThe mouseThe myths and legends

In the long long ago, animal sign it to return four major Kings in charge, what's the deacon of pop, what belongs to the people born in the year.Back then, four major Kings temple is the worse, the jade emperor decided to choose twelve animals representing the human animal sign, and given the seal of god.To reflect fair principle, the jade emperor ordered the, in the days of rules the animals can all persons to be elected to the heavenly palace of the world, and in order to get the tiangong animals successively as a ranking order, just take the first arrived before twelve.

Mouse and the cat is a pair of good friends, and they agreed to the heavenly palace together go for when the animal sign, and agreed when mice to call the cat set off together.Clever little mouse thought, however, many animals are more beautiful than his world, and also useful for humans, for example, keep cats to chant buddhist scripture, rabbit moon worship, dog house, controlling water snake, tiger, monkey mountain town, horses and cattle farming, pigs, sheep for human consumption, we should find a way to get to mutually.Then, on the day of the regulation to the heavenly palace early in the morning, the little mouse crept up, also didn't call cat, himself secretly jumped on to the old cow horn forests, let toughness is best, the most hard-working cattle show oneself go up to heaven.

The old cow had first arrived at the temple gate.At dawn, the big four days wang gang, that opens the door to tiangong cow haven't had time to lift the hoof, little mouse jumped down from the horn, straight to heaven temple.Although the jade emperor is not willing to seal the small mice as the animal sign, no joke, but the king mouth's rules can not be changed, also had to announced the mouse to the top of the animal sign.

Don't rat though word of mouth, looks attractive, but from the point of view of society, the folk custom and culture, it has already been thoroughly remould oneself, by an aversion to animals, as they are evolved with a very spiritual, intelligent and mysterious creature.

Rat first symbolism is spiritual, and includes two aspects of the clever and properties of psychic.People often use "than mice also fine" to describe someone's smart and clever, mouse clever to be one species than the standard, the cleverness of it has been a considerable scale.Folk also think rat channeling, can predict good and evil.

The second mouse symbolism is strong vitality.Its fertility strong, high survival rate, long life, most can be abetted, demise, and grandchildren.

The third symbolism is delicate small rat, the lowly.The posture of rats born with a pair of small and exquisite, like jumping up and down, cannot be together with the "big" word.