Chinese zodiacAnecdotal stories of rat

Mice carrying the banner of "child", stood at the top of the Chinese zodiac.Why why child rat, rat tops?To this, the ancients often called the "house for midnight" minds.Qing dynasty "guang Yang descriptions of recorded material, the rat, mao-tu simultaneously, respectively as a epoch-making role:" heaven open to sub, consumption is out of breath.Rat, insect consumption also.So night not ended yet, is the symptom that childBelong to the rat."The next "monarch in ugly", mao-tu monarch before coming to the existing rat in heaven.More one theory, on the ancient, the sky and the earth, is the mouse biting the chaos, makes the separated heaven and earth.Mouse built this outstanding creation, ranked 12 zodiac, nature is well-deserved.

“The mouseCrossing the street, everyone Shouting dozen."This sentence to let a person be clear at a glance, modern people are really hate mice.Why on earth, because it is one of the notorious pests, steal to eat food, carry diseases.In ancient time, however, there are many ethnic groups, tribes are treated mice as their ancestors, and are quite proud, they at that time there are special sacrifice festival in mice, the mice ancestors for protection and blessing.Mouse in all aspects of their daily lives, painted, carved out of the rat is everywhere.Now also circulated at some folk anecdotes of rats, created many lovely image of rats, such as stealing the oil to eat mouse, then dating back many customs associated with mouse.

The mouse to steal oil drink interesting stories with a variety of claims, the ancient yi fang cite a few examples for you below:

one

There are three mouse go to steal oil.But oil cylinder is very deep, they don't drink oil.They come up with a fantastic way to, it is a bit the tail of the other, hanging down to the bottom of the cylinder oil.The first mouse down first drink oil, it thought, from the bottom of the cylinder oil is only a little, so is good to drink a full.Caught in the middle of the second mouse also thinking: there's not much the oil below one thousand for the first mouse drank, then I wouldn't want to drink northwest breeze?The third mouse is in the above thinking: so little oil, such as these two, satiated with food and where is my share?So, the second mouse cruel to put the first mouse tail, the third mouse quickly put the second mouse tail.They scrambled to jump in the cylinder, but they can't escape out of the cylinder.

The second

Three rats drink together to steal oil.Found a clear, three rats are discussed, and a stepped on a shoulder, take turns up for oil.And three rats began glare, when the last mouse just climbed up the other two shoulders, not just the reason why, oil bottle down, finally, shocked the people, the three miceescape.Back to the mouse house, we meet to discuss why will fail.The top said the mouse, I don't have to drink oil, and tear down the oil bottle, because the second mouse under the jitter, and so I knocked down the oil bottle, said the second mouse, I shake, but I feel the third mouse also convulsions, I was shaking a bit.The third mouse said: yeah, yeah I heard a cat cries out, so a shake.So all three mice didn't drink to the oil.

The third

To make most in zodiac list, before the mouse is defy spirit ah, the in the mind think mouth speaks: since the review, I'd like to compare to see who is big, big smile and not straight waist.Mice than big, and the cow and said: everyone is allowed to speak, listen to people who say, mouse stood back up people, cattle is one of the big, and the rats but riding on the cow.Listen to everyone screamed: mama ah, this mouse is so big, very fierce.Then the rest of the zodiac are admitted than cattle, mice than cattle.He has entered the list of the top Chinese zodiac.

Its 4

Mice, on the lampstand, stealing the oil to drink, come down, mouse mouse you don't worry, hold a civet cats to coax you.

five

Mice, on the lampstand, stealing the oil to eat, come down.Jabber rolling down.

These little stories, ballads about mice, is the folk tradition and some modern short story.

Still have a lot of folk custom on rat, let's look at the below, what is the custom of the place is associated with the mouse.

In the jianghan plain area of hubei province in China will marry a small first night as a mouse, commonly known as "rat TianXiang".That day, every family will put plant flowers bread in the dark, bigThe childNo Shouting, if shocked the mice, trouble would have to go home the next year.

The old Shanghai with customs from the rats failed.Mouse slip fall to the ground, scavenging for food, known as the "mouse failed", see the for more bad luck, it is said that the disease is, must be RangXie.Period RangXie method is begging for rice, go home to cook and eat after can be resolved.

In the Indian state of rajasthan, people put the mice as the "guardian", and has set up a famous temple in rats.Rajasthan people adore mouse, if an engagement or out of town with people, must first to mice in the temple to worship three days and three nights.In the Chambers of rats, strewn with many more than one meter in diameter disc, the inside is filled with milk.Water or grain, coconut, have a smaller plate surface is full of sugar, and the surrounding around to enjoy the rats are fuzzy.

Taiwan residents think grade for the off-year, legend is grade night in mouseTo get marriedDay, so you don't light at night, rice, noodles and salt on the ground, people go to bed early to rest, so as not to affect the wedding of rats.(Chinese zodiac /shengxiao/ )

In some areas of the qinghai has a custom of "evaporate blind mice".Every year in the fourteenth day of the first lunar month every surface knead into twelve rat, (no eyes) and then use bamboo steamer steamed, untilThe Lantern FestivalIs placed on sweets, and burn incense, lamps, beg for mice herbivorous root only, do not damage crops, to break even in a good harvest.