Chinese zodiacAnecdotal stories of the snake

The thirdA snake, have been born in the year of the snake.Ask the animal sign, there may be three answer, or a snake, or a long worm, whereas more people answer of little dragon son.

People don't say a snake and said little dragon, presumably because dislike of snake, the so-called "predators", the snake is not a good thing, so that the snake, and it has a special liking to the dragons, because of the dragon is a guardian, a Soviet, as a "benevolent".Among the most important of all, the snake and the similarity of the dragon.There is a snake in the nature and no dragon, the dragon image tone to the snake.Civilization, a researcher at the Chinese history in the Long Kao said: "the dragon is a virtual animals does not exist...Its tone is the serpent, especially close to the long noded pit viper, with its highly toxic make people panic and were regarded as sacred."With little dragon son generation snake, however, whether admit or not, how many dragons and snakes with some relationship.Little dragon, snake said more than Chinese zodiac animal sign, the old custom and there are many superstitions.Let the ancient yi fang take you see anecdotal stories about snakes and customs, customs.

The 1:

Snake slough skin is also called "shell", is one of the old han folk belief in the omen of dispersed duyun anshun part, guiyang and other places.Many peeling is an omen, saw the snake is the proverb that cloud "see snake desquamate, deathless also desquamate," every spring.

The snake tree which is also called "the snake god".Old deang sacrifice custom, the popular brand in yunnan baoshan firm Jiang Ba region.The national think snake god can bless farm animals, is held once a year ritual activities, on December 20, a summer.People usually choose one around the villages of the big tree as the offerings of god, called the "tree"."Around the tree "build by laying bricks or stones to walls, l must go may not be close to, and it is forbidden to cut down.Legend has it ancient times there was a good day, cut down the snake a branch in the tree to take homeThe fireCome your way, to the night, the snake god, distorted her neck.From then on, who also dare not go near "tree", dare not to cut down, and formed the snake tree to customs.Sacrifice, QuanZhai do farm work, people after bath, collective held a meal offering.Attend the ritualist-and to net the clothes clean, each with a bean, bean curd, green vegetables and so on, and bring cattle bridle, a long knife, hanging in a tree snake, the Buddha to chant buddhist scripture, and they bowed down, praying for safety, animals snake god bless QuanZhai qing ji.The snake dish which is also called "mother", the han nationality folk traditional food, a kind of pasta, popular in shanxi, shaanxi and other places.With fermented wheat flour into the snake, the head with two grain sorghum when the eyes, mouth with a copper wire.Money for the goods, the snake for rope, from the meaning of wealth.

The 2:

The lunar March 5th for insects awaken section, guizhou area folk avoid is typically, or when will the snake insect infestation.Proverb: "insects there is thunder, worm snake many groups."

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The festival held across India's way and the time is not the same.Relatively shanda is in a series of events in the Indian state of maharashtra, mulberry ogre fortune sheila lae festival held by India, hold time is 15 days between July and August.It is said that the town is the place where the most snakes.Of celebration of legend: a farmer plowing, accidentally killed a small snake, snake in retaliation, mother came to the farmer's home, I saw the farmer's daughter was pious worship snake god Naga, snakes moved by the sincerity, decided to pass a farmer, and promised to bless the family.Each year the festival in August, sheila's citizens regardless of men and women, old and young, all will happen to coincide to the outskirts to catch a snake, they will catch to a concentration of snake placed in an ancient temple "hoarding".After dinner, they came to the temple, scrambling to catch up with his hands a snake or serpent, bender stepped out outside the temple began to dance with the snake.Although many people will beBitten by the snakeWounded, tangle, but they are proud of the fact.These people believe that bite by a snake, wrap the omen to share the rest of my life no disease no disaster.People, each in mud and cow dung after bath on the wood and painting on the wall of snake images, toThe HinduThe mythical python, and beside the snake hole pour in milk, offer the dessert of metric.Just married daughter will also be held in celebration, back to home with their family

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Fujian peaceful county wenfeng town village of three flat growth with a black snake, small a foot long.Local people as the serpent of peace bless household sacred and snakes are "waiter".They believe that family have the snake is the symbol of auspicious, the more... the snake geely, therefore, the people here is prohibitedBeat the snake.In one thousand to the snake and human co-existence, the snake is not afraid of people, people are not afraid of snakes.Lie on the bed, the snake crawled under the bed, is commonplace, people without the trouble back at home, so safe to sleep.Sometimes the snake got into bed, curled up in his master's feet.Some people carelessly trample a mouse at night by the snake bite, is also a laugh it off, will not retaliate.From more than one thousand one hundred years ago, the mountain forests, often have the snake demon, harm to people.The making-friends five years (AD 845), tang dynasty monk Yang Yizhong use mana uniform a snake, snake right from now on, be Yang Yizhong monk after the waiter.Another argument is that fujian fujian YueZu ancient live, is the snake worship "totem", three worship snakes ping village is also a kind of legacy.

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Fujian minnan area due to moderate and moist climate suitable for all kinds of snakes.If found a snake in the home, can't be killed, people think that snakes are ancestors sent to patrol of peace, into the who, who is home safe.If several snake dish together, found on the side of the road to catch snapped off on a button to express regret, and then walk away, as did not see.It is said that this is the snakes mating, the viewer for tampering.At the southernmost tip of China's northern fujian ZhangHu guzhen town, is one thousand, and spiritual aristocracy, and generous plain folkway, community culture deep, still left many monuments and unique local folk culture, such as snake king temple, Wan Shouda, pond, pale gorge moya carved stone, ancient temples stages chow sites and other sites.Yuanxiao meet snake lamp, July the snake god, folk activities such as Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat racing.ZhangHu worship snakes folk activities from Ming dynasty, the inheritance and carry forward in one thousand, has formed the unique characteristics of the local folk culture system, is a unique folk custom "living fossil".ZhangHu snake lamp having a unique style, the color paper by giant triangle of flat head of the snake alive, intense eyes, flashing green light, spit in the jawsThe fireThe snakes like flame, red zone.More distinctive is the snake body, that is with pieces of 2 meters long wood and different styles, elaborate the lights of lanterns, light diesel has a red candle, lamp each representing a family, there are various paper-cut is stuck on the lanterns, auspicious patterns showed that every family prayer and wishes.Parade hands one light board, cohesion into several hundred people, four miles long snake.The evening, "the tailback in the etiquette team lead and drum firecrackers, like a long salamanders; cavort in the night sky, very spectacular.

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Guangdong people eat snakes, inherited from the ancient ancestors of YueZu a diet habit.But even so, the guangzhou people eating snake is the late qing and early republic to popular, it about the king of the city's first snake meal shop - snake full open.Though because a lot of people love to eat snakes, but dare notKill the snake, more don't know how to boil the snake.King snake snake full shop in guangzhou in 1855 opened the first shop specializes in snake industry between, acquisition and outside the province around the snake, snake gall is made at the end of the dried tangerine or orange peel, three snake wine, but the snake meat is hard to find a way out, so we have to get into a big pot of soup.Due to eat drab, less people.Then tear snake boneless meat, add chicken, ham, pork meat, mushrooms, black fungus, water chestnut and other ingredients, boil into a snake soup, place on a few Zhang Mu table store, for customers to try.Because the configuration is proper, delicious, diners."King snake" three snake soup ChiYu soon in guangzhou.Since then, the famous guangzhou restaurant triple double, south, north park, etc., are emulated.Qiu dong season every year, the three snake soup as dishes, recruiting diners.

The 7:(/ shengxiao/Chinese zodiac)

Guangzhou people now eat snakes, compared with before, there have been great development, in addition to the three snake soup, Fried snake, snake soup, wine and snake preserved, Fried snake skin, etc., there are more than one hundred varieties.If combined with a variety of cat fish, chicken, abalone, ginseng, water, mountain delicacies such as, can make a protean snake rich feast.The brave can propel the snake meat, that is, can see the snake in intraday complete prototype;Contact way, finished also don't know is the snake.Wine scene killed three snake gall, more impressive in the wine shop restaurant in guangzhou.Dinner, a teacher carrying a cage, it contained three live snake, one is cobra, which is a krait, one is "banyan tree", which teacher grabbed a, left hand holding the head of the snake, one foot apart, in the snake belly, use a knife to cut a small mouth, gently squeeze out the grain of the size of bodhi son snake gall, put in the little white, then the three green and glittering and translucent, with warm snake gall broken, cut into a stir within the rice wine bottle, and then to table each half a cup to taste.Snake gall wine gansu cool, not bitter.Snake gall if made from dry bile, can save a year.Before eating use scissors to cut open, soak in hot water or steam for a few minutes in the wine, flooding wind with adjustable, invigorate the circulation of qi, antitussive check out.