I remember when I was a child in kindergarten, I would sing the nursery rhyme "Little mouse, get on the lampstand, steal oil to eat, but can't get down …". Folk wedding customs include "the mouse on the lampstand" and "the mouse stealing oil", which contain the ancient concept of reproductive worship and convey the feeling of praying for more happiness, because the first wish of the newlyweds after marriage is to have children, and the desire to pray for children will naturally be pinned on the mouse with strong fertility. The well-known story "A mouse marries a woman" shows the helplessness and humor of the relationship between people and mice. Even in Jianghan Plain, there is a "Mouse Marries Women Festival", which is held on the 25th day of the first month. That night, every household sat by the bed without lighting the lamp, and ate a kind of pasta called Mouse Guagua in the dark, which provided convenience for the mouse to marry a woman, so as not to offend the mouse family for a year. Ironically, people married an old cat when sending a rat girl to get married, which showed a certain degree of rat aversion, but by giving a gift of "plague god", it showed the good wishes of China people to turn harm into benefit.
In some ethnic areas, some people even regarded mice as heroes. Because rats are good at biting people, and they have been biting all their lives. How wonderful it would be if we could bite open a chaotic world and a dark world and open a bright world! In ancient times, it was between midnight 1 1 and morning 1. At the beginning of chaos, mice were the most active, and the creation of nature was given to mice. I believe that mice can bring prosperity, so there is a saying that "mice bite the sky."
We often call people who should be respected old people, such as Laozi, boss, teacher, doyen, old man … Is that mouse worthy of respect? Why do you want to crown the word "old"? Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica, "People say that rats have the longest life span, so they are commonly called rats. They are suspicious and fruitless ..." Besides, rats are born with beards and look "old". What is even more undeniable is that mice have evolved on the earth for tens of millions of years, which is indeed much older than humans with a history of only a few million years. No one respects mice more than India. 1998, I was studying in India and found a mouse in my hotel room. So I designed a button bowl mousetrap. Soon, I put the mouse at the bottom of the bowl. When I called the waiter with dark skin to handle it, he just opened the bowl like a fool. Of course, the mouse ran away, which made me laugh and cry. Later I seemed to understand that he was not stupid, but let the mouse get away.
In India, rats are regarded as gods. Among the guardians of the temple, there is a great god with a mouse in his hand, named Duowen Tianwang. There is a mouse temple in India, and believers firmly believe in the reincarnation of "people die and become mice, and mice die and become people". Therefore, the waiter certainly won't kill the mouse. Admirably, India is more of a snake temple, a shrine dedicated to cobras. The belief in animism makes its creatures diverse. I also had the experience of living in a room with mice in the warehouse of Elk Garden. No matter day or night, when you are sitting quietly reading, mice pass by, and gentlemen talk but don't start work. I tried to scare them away with loud exclamations, but it didn't help at all. What's more, they even took a shit in my bed while I was away. So, you're welcome. I installed a mousetrap and used red dates as bait. This move really worked. Soon, an unknown mouse died in the iron clip. However, since then, no matter what sweet and delicious temptations I used, I have never succeeded. Is it true that the mice in this house "learn from their mistakes"? Are they going to tell each other: "Don't be fooled by that guy who belongs to the mouse!" "
In China, it has long been known that mice are suspicious, so whenever they are given medicine, the old man will say, "Don't mention giving medicine. Say mouse, you won't eat it. They are very good. " Is that really the case? I don't think they can understand people, but it turns out that mice do have the ability to "fail".
Mice are inseparable companion animals with human beings, so it is inevitable that scholars will write articles, poems and poems for them. The famous Wei mouse in the Book of Songs in the Spring and Autumn Period; In Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan's "Three Commandments, Yong House Mouse"; Su Dongpo's Ode to the Rat in Song Dynasty ... My favorite art is The Hungry Mouse written by Xugong in Ming Dynasty;
"At first glance, the light shot into more, and the hungry mouse chirped from the hole. Biting a book and turning over pots and urns surprised me frequently, and I couldn't dream of it. Raccoons boast of cicadas, but they know that they sleep all night after eating. Stupidity and clumsiness are ridiculous. Cloth was blinded and meowed like a cat. "
It is said that rats are outside in the middle of the night, which makes it difficult for the author to fall asleep. The pet cat that has been full all day sleeps soundly. Therefore, the child took a childish action in an attempt to scare the mouse: "The cloth is covered and meows like a cat", which is estimated to be futile.
Historically, as far as the overall pattern is concerned, people and mice have always been evenly matched, at least they have not defeated this weak but increasingly frustrated opponent. In the game history between humans and animals, rats are the animals that cause the highest mortality. The Black Death, which spread in Europe in the14th century, killed 25 million people, accounting for a quarter of the European population at that time.
Among mammals, the mouse family is the most prosperous. The capybara in South America is the biggest mouse, as big as a pig. There are many kinds of mice, including 1700 species of rodents. In other words, there are 1700 kinds of mice in the world, all of which have extraordinary skills and strong vitality. So, I'm at 1 999. There is no doubt that mice are older than people; In the future, we will continue to carry on the family line and grow old and strong.
I have heard the story that "a dog has the grace of wet grass and a horse has the meaning of hanging a rein", but the ancients also described it as a "righteous mouse". Yun: "Triben, there are mice in his house. More than a hundred of them stepped on his feet in court, and their mouths croaked. The whole family appeared and his house collapsed. Although incredible, I would rather believe that at least this is a generous compliment to our opponent.
People in China give rats the name of benevolence and righteousness, and so do foreigners. American film artist Walter Disney created the cartoon image of Mickey Mouse in 1928. For nearly a century, Mickey Mouse, with both wisdom and courage, has been known to almost all women and children and has become popular all over the world. It can be said that human beings give mice the most grand courtesy. In fact, the most rational, appropriate and scientific way for human beings to deal with rats is to keep natural enemies, which is the respect for their ecological rights, and this is precisely the weakness of what modern people do.
As an animal, human beings always love and hate our other animal companions, and so do mice. They are respectful and fearful, hateful and fearful, and helpless. They expected to die, and then soon, but they died more and more. Facts have proved that the stalemate in of mice and men is endless, and you can't win completely. You can only admit that people and mice are neck and neck, inseparable and co-evolved.
Bacon said: The only way to overcome nature is to obey it. When we treat mice, we must respect nature. As long as there are natural enemies of mice, such as weasels, owls, civets, snakes, eagles, foxes and wild cats, mice have to drag out an ignoble existence and keep a low profile, otherwise they will give you color and turn you upside down.
In fact, mice are not particularly bad, because mice are just an ordinary animal. People say it's bad because it "steals" people's food. In fact, as long as you have read The Origin of Wolverine written by Hong, you may have special sympathy for the weasel in the article, because it was framed. However, in practice, we should also reflect on ourselves. From bad to worse, people themselves can't bear to see the earth become so dirty, but what can they do? Not to mention rats. They eat people's food only out of their own habits. Cats want to catch mice, mice want to eat food, snakes want to eat mice and frogs want to eat insects. All this is out of animal habits. We shouldn't look at animals with a one-sided view of human beings, because the creatures living on the earth are interdependent and interrelated. It is sometimes a big mistake to look at animals only from a one-sided perspective. Just like American President Roosevelt in the18th century, in order to protect the deer in the Kebaber forest in Arizona, he couldn't bear to watch the deer being eaten by wolves, so he ordered to kill all the wolves in the forest. How cruel. Although Robinson was wandering, in the end, several of them went to the French forest, and countless wolves came at them. When I saw it, I didn't dare to watch it again, but after all, it is an animal, and there is always a "good or bad" distinction. Everyone will change their views on mice in the future. The origin of the rat zodiac is that the twelve zodiac signs belong to the first and twelve branches, so the "midnight" at twelve o'clock in the day-from ten o'clock in the evening to one o'clock in the morning, is also called "mouse hour". It is said that a long time ago, the zodiac was run by four heavenly kings, and people born in that year belonged to whoever their surname was. Later, after the four heavenly kings returned to the Heavenly Palace to guard the Nantianmen, the Jade Emperor decided to choose 12 animals to represent the human zodiac and make them gods. In order to embody the principle of fairness, the Jade Emperor ordered that all animals on the earth could be selected in the Heavenly Palace on a specified day, and only the top 12 animals who arrived in the Heavenly Palace were taken as the ranking order.
At that time, mice and cats were good friends. They agreed to go to the Heavenly Palace to play the zodiac, and agreed that the mouse would call the cat to set off together. However, the clever mouse thinks that many animals in the world are more beautiful than themselves, and they are also useful to human beings. For example, cats chanting scriptures, rabbits Yue Bai, dogs guarding the house, dragons and snakes controlling water, Monkey Town Mountain, cattle and horses plowing fields, pigs and sheep for human consumption, they should try their best to win the zodiac. So, on the morning of the appointment to go to the Heavenly Palace, the little mouse got up quietly and didn't call the cat. He sneaked into the corner of the old cow and hid. The most resilient and diligent cow took himself to the Tiangong, and the old cow was the first to arrive at the gate of the Tiangong. At dawn, the four heavenly kings just opened the door of the Grand Palace. Before the cow could lift its hoof, the little mouse jumped down from the horn and went straight to the heavenly palace. Although the jade emperor doesn't want to call this little mouse the zodiac. However, there is not a joke in the mouths of kings, and the rules they set themselves cannot be changed. The Jade Emperor had to declare the mouse the first of the 12 zodiac animals.
The cat waited at home for a long time, but there was no sign of the mouse, so it had to go to the heavenly palace by itself. Because we couldn't wait for the mouse, the cat arrived at the Heavenly Palace, and the quota of the 12 Zodiacs was full, and there was not a cat left. From then on, the cat hated the mouse, and when it saw the mouse, it rushed to bite it to vent its anger. As for mice, he also thinks that some friends who can't afford cats run away when they see them. Even today, cats and mice are almost rivals. People also think that the first animal of the Chinese zodiac is not aboveboard, and it has lost its affection for mice, and other animals have alienated it.
So he left people and other poultry and livestock to build his own home and live an independent life. To this day, their descendants still live underground. Now it avoids entanglement and struggle with other animals, so the mouse's family is always prosperous. In any case, the mouse, after all, took the first place in the zodiac by virtue of its alertness and cleverness.
From the afternoon 1 1 to the next afternoon 1 (that is, "midnight"). At this time, mice have the greatest courage and the most frequent activities, so they have been paired with mice since childhood.