There are two versions. First, take the meaning of auspiciousness: wealth and good luck. The second is a personification, just like a person kneeling on the ground, expressing unconditional worship and admiration for the emperor.

In the imperial garden of the Forbidden City, there is a kneeling bronze gilded statue. Many tourists are curious about why it is kneeling. Let me tell you why the bronze gilded statue of the imperial garden is kneeling.

Detail 0 1 The gilded bronze elephant touches the ground with its nose. You can tell it is well-trained by the rope on its head, the carpet on its back and its gentle eyes? Signs? Instead of an asshole who doesn't know manners. You can also find that its front legs are kneeling in the opposite direction. It is impossible for a real elephant to bend like this. This is actually? A rich elephant? , what is it? Kneel like an elephant? Homophonic, because elephants have squatted before, it can be seen that the emperor not only wants to eat and wear everything, but also wants to be justified and do not hesitate to be an elephant. Anti-union? To cater to it? I mean ... .

According to the textual research of Dou Guangnai and Zhu Jun on Old News under the Sun, the Elephant House in Central Beijing was built in the eighth year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty (1495). After the elephants are transported to Beijing, there are special personnel for training and exercises, so they are also called elephant houses? Theater? . Besides, what else does the Royal Guards have? Elephant training house? , professional management? Elephant slave? And then what? Training elephants? .

It is worth mentioning that tomorrow, on the sixth day of May (1626 June 12), a big explosion occurred in the Wanggong factory where the Ming army produced gunpowder (there are still media reports that UFOs crashed here). The explosion destroyed more than 10 thousand houses, causing thousands of deaths, and some of the clothes of the dead even flew dozens of miles away. The huge shock wave of the explosion also destroyed the elephant house. The frightened elephants ran wildly in the street, treating people as enemies, and attacked them with their tusks and noses, causing many citizens to be trampled to death or killed by elephants.

The guard of honor in the Qing Dynasty followed the system of the Royal Guards Elephant Theater and Elephant Training Institute in the Ming Dynasty. From the first year of Shunzhi (1644), the East-West Elephant Training Center was set up for domestication. Imperial halogen book? (etiquette) images used. The Qing dynasty followed the Ming dynasty? Wash elephants? Used to it. There are many animals performing in this activity. For example, Fu Chadunchong's article "Washing Elephants" in "Yanjing Years" in Qing Dynasty said: Take him to take a bath in Hanoi outside Xuanwu Gate on June 6th every year. If the viewer holds money like a slave, if he teaches skills, he will squint at the slave's full money, and then he will hold his head high, lower his head and cry loudly. ? What does the anonymous "Yantai 100 Slogans" in Qing Dynasty mean? Wash elephants? Time note:? Like a slave, the elephant leans on the ground with its nose, and its voice is like thunder, saying? Drumming? . ? Above? Hold your head high and bow down? 、? With a nose post? Wait, this is all like a show. Zhang Wentao, a poet in the Qing dynasty, wrote a detailed description of this in "Washing Elephants in Yuxi"? Wash elephants? In the vivid scene of the play, a slave drives an elephant like a pig? It can be speculated that the level of animal training at that time had reached a very high level.