"Xunzi, learning, said:" flying snakes have no feet and fly, the five skills and poor, "literally flying snakes have no feet but can run lines such as fly, the rat is a variety of skills but it is hard to put to good use, the implication is mastering a skill you cast enough, if you don't, have to learn to point introduction to kung fu, even if will also not much more useful.

Rat first symbolism is delicate and small, 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.The first anthology of poetry in the book of songs in the article, called "fat" is the corruption and collectors to largeThe mouse, is not to say that really have so big of mice;Ancient book "han yu's poetry gaiden" in a club of mouse, is also a big mouse's metaphor: duke jing of qi asked this: "to be the most afraid of?"This smile, seriously said: "clubs hiding in land temple, ran out just to steal to eat.People want to catch, again afraid the implements of the destroyed land temple, offend the earth god of retribution."It is this rat is inhibited, told duke jing of qi of statecraft.Like ShuQieGouDao refers to "street", "old tang book · biographies of Xiao Xi described in the sui dynasty social chaos, said:" d never since the sui dynasty, yu county, small ShuQieGouDao, which is from tiger."Sui end since there are many, thieves fall in second, cede territory said king most harm.

The second mouse symbolism is strong vitality.Are its fertility strong, high survival rate, such as a female rat litters under natural state can be output 5-10 Wolf pups, the most up to 24, only 21 days, during pregnancy mothers in childbirth can be pregnant again that day, baby mice after 30 to 40 days maturity.So, mothers can give birth a year around 5000 children, as for the grandchildren, zengzi, great-grandchildren has too much to calculate.According to research, rat matrix contains a unique chemical substances, can stimulate the male mice fell under its "feet", it is also one of the reasons of mice industry produce will keep.Rat survival rate is high, long life, such as not encountered natural enemy attack or human large put out of action, most can be abetted, demise, and grandchildren, this is other animal can only dream of.

Rat third symbolism is spiritual, including two aspects of the clever and properties of psychic.Rat smell sensitive, timid paranoid, vigilance is high, and its body is very smart, the wall the wall, running lines such as fly, and it also has both the other two emergent skills: from tens of meters or hundreds of meters of altitude, the roof attached to the ground, rolled over, a break is like nothing the what to do, never abandon sorrow of life;Although it is not aquatic animals, nor strongswimmingAbility, narrow groove shallow pond is, however, stop it, in order to survive, it can breath underwater drill several metres distance (up to 10 times more than their body length) on their unscathed.People often use "than mice also fine" to describe someone's clever clever, mouse clever to be one species than the standard, the cleverness of it has been a considerable scale.Also, describe a person acted quickly and chronological strain, we also often said he was "as fickle as a mouse."(Chinese zodiac /shengxiao/)

Folk also think rat channeling, can predict good and evil.Rat is actually born in nature, is longer than the nature, what will happen in nature you likeThe earthquake、The floodLine, drought and locust plague to make certain the reaction is very normal, this is life on earth has a special instinct, only some limited to human knowledge, has yet to reveal its mystery and regularity.On the eve of the tangshan earthquake, people jing was amazed to find mice to jiao flee about the outside, or three or five banded curled up on the road, the street such as relatively empty place, and there are signs that this unknown imply that what.Similar things, in ancient times must be repeated many times, so the mouse into the psychic guardian in human mind.