The Year of the Rabbit is coming, and the first month is the Spring Festival. On this festive day, crowds are like tides, firecrackers are like flowers, and there is a happy atmosphere everywhere. Every household is decorated with lanterns, and "Daofu", couplets and red lanterns are hung in front of the door. The Year of the Rabbit is very lively!

You see, the streets are full of traffic, and everyone is smiling, helping the old and bringing the young, and coming out to watch the fun. The business of selling firecrackers stalls is booming! Just now, the shelves were covered with a string of firecrackers, which were quickly snapped up. Naughty children kept using the lucky money to choose toys and food for the Year of the Rabbit in the store and filled a bag.

Listen, there are powerful gongs and drums, warm shouts and greetings. So the dragon dance team is here. My father and I walked forward and saw a mighty long dragon dancing in the distance. Look at his big mouth and staring eyes like a sea bowl. He looks great. The dragon kept twisting its trunk, sometimes swinging its tail back and sometimes rolling up and down, just like a dragon going into the sea. Onlookers praised him. At this time, I was a little confused and asked my father, "Why does my father dance dragons in the Spring Festival?" Dad touched my head and said, "There is such a custom in Chinese New Year. Everyone should do something auspicious, eat some auspicious dishes and say something auspicious. " Dragons are auspicious, but there are no real dragons in the world, so people weave dragons and hold dragon dances to express their good wishes. "

The Spring Festival in the Year of Rabbit is really interesting! I not only spent a happy, peaceful and festive holiday, but also had a deeper understanding of the traditional culture of the motherland.

"Rabbit" is a beautiful word in China. It is not only one of the twelve zodiac signs of human beings, but also closely related to human life and people's good hopes.

"Rabbit" is an hieroglyphic for animal rabbits. Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Han Dynasty explained: "Rabbit is an animal name, and its tail shape is far away." Its Oracle Bone Inscriptions and seal script depict the image of a rabbit with long ears and short tail.

There are not many Chinese characters derived from the word "rabbit", but they are all very distinctive.

For example, "Yi" is a cognitive word. A fast rabbit is called "escape". Books such as Shuo Wen Jie Zi all think that the word "escape" means that rabbits are "good at escaping".

Thus, the rabbit deserves to be the champion of long-distance running.

So there are words such as escape, escape, escape, escape, seclusion, comfort, anecdote and transcendence.

Three rabbits are stacked together to form a Chinese character, indicating the appearance of running fast.

The word "injustice" is a sign that a kind rabbit "speaks frankly and complains".

Shuo Wen Jie Zi explains: "Unjust, unjust." The rabbit can't escape under the net fence, so it can only yield and can't stretch. Extended to injustice.

So there are a series of words such as "wronged", "unjust", "rehabilitated" and "rehabilitated". And the rabbit was the first to be wronged.

It can be seen that the lovely rabbit is the most worthy of people's sympathy.

"Rabbit" and "rabbit" are interlinked. Tu is the herb "rabbit silk", also known as "dodder", also known as "female radish" or "rabbit silk".

"Rabbit" adds "earth" beside "Yi", which refers to the parts near the flat ground at both ends of the bridge, that is, the place where the bridge goes up.

"Rabbit" corresponds to "Mao" in the twelve branches. In the Han Dynasty, Wang Chong said in Lun Heng, "Mao is also a rabbit." They make up our zodiac sign "Hairy Rabbit".

The word "Mao" depicts the image of the sprouting of unearthed vegetation. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" said: "Mao, Mao also. In February, everything came out. " At twelve o'clock, "Mao" means 5-7 am.

Therefore, "Mao" means spring, representing the dawn and full of infinite vitality.

"Liu" embodies the meaning of "hair belongs to wood", so it is called "Liu"

Mao is an aquatic plant. It also describes how grass sometimes grows and flourishes.

"Chang", the name of the stars, is one of the 28 places.

"Mao" refers to lakes and ponds with calm water surface.

"Riveting" refers to the close connection of various parts of an object.

These words are directly or indirectly related to "rabbit". Or from "Rabbit". Still with the "rabbit" temperament.

There are also many two-part allegorical sayings related to rabbits, such as:

Male prostitutes run all over the mountain-or go to the lair?

Rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests-be merciful (green), which means not to hurt villagers and neighbors. Generally speaking, the use of heaven is derogatory.

The rabbit climbed the hill-shuttled up.

Rabbit's legs-run fast.

Rabbit's ears-hear far.

Rabbit's mouth-three pieces

The rabbit plays the flute-his mouth is not tight.

Rabbit's tail-it won't grow.

Rabbits don't glow-they glow by themselves.

Rabbits run with the light that catches the moon.

Rabbits look at people-red eyes.

Rabbits pull plows-the heart is willing, but the strength is weak.

Rabbits depend on wolves and teeth-each has its own way of making a living.

The rabbit ran to the little sheep-small and good.

Rabbits drive away turtles-they can catch up.

The rabbit climbed over the hill-sooner or later, it had to return to its hometown.

Rabbits eat grass-light shivering

The rabbit ran into the hemp field-it lay everywhere.

The rabbit ran away without looking back.

Male prostitutes take a bath-a pool of mud.

Rabbit silk crawling seedlings-crawling around, scratching everywhere

The cold in Lu Jing soaked the shadow of the silver rabbit, and the west wind blew off the osmanthus branches.

(Yang Di's "Looking at Jiangnan")

Looking at the water in the west, the rabbit is low, and looking at the flat peach in the east.

(Yuan Zhen Tian Meng)

The master is clearly present, and the Jade Rabbit is at the bottom of the pool.

(Jia Dao's "Give the Zen Master Meiji")

The second dock crows at night, and the child screen is low.

("Gao Guo")

Birds fly and rabbits go, and in a blink of an eye, it takes less than seven years for the summer heat to go to the cold.

(Xu's Romance of the Gods for the Second Time)

Here, "rabbit, silver rabbit, rabbit king, rabbit spirit and rabbit wheel" all refer to the moon.

In ancient times, when the emperor was a guard of honor, he hung the flags of the sun and the moon. The moon flag is painted with a white rabbit. Sui, a writer of Sanqu in the Yuan Dynasty, wrote in his Sanqu: "Like a song involved. Whistle everywhere. Gao Zu returns home: "On the one hand, catching rabbits in the frost, on the other hand, playing red yeast, on the other hand, chickens learn to dance, on the other hand, dogs are born with wings, and on the other hand, snakes are wrapped around gourds." This is the honor guard of Emperor Gaozu in the eyes of rural farmers. Draw a moon flag to greet the frost rabbit, draw a sun flag on the finish, learn to dance with a chicken flag, draw a dragon flag on a snake, and draw a tiger flag on a dog's wing.

Second, auspicious rabbits

People in China worship rabbits and consider them as a symbol of good luck. "Ruiying Map" says: "A red rabbit is a red beast, and the king is prosperous." "Bao Puzi" said: "The rabbit lives long and withers, and it is 500 years old." Many people pay tribute to the emperor for the white rabbit. Huan Wen and Yu Xin both wrote White Rabbit Watch or White Rabbit Celebration Watch. Black rabbits are also auspicious things. "History of Song Dynasty" and "History of Liao Dynasty" also recorded that "local officials and people got black rabbits and offered them to the emperor to sacrifice to the gods." Song history. "Yue Ji" said: "Turtle, Mana, Zizhi, Le Jia and Jade Rabbit written by He Xian are five Rui songs, which must be played once every dynasty. "

Rabbits are considered auspicious things, probably because they are the makers of elixirs. "Shi Ming" said: "The moon is also lacking. Full is short. Dark gray. The moon dies to ashes, and the moonlight follows. New moon, Su Ye, the moon comes back from the dead. " The Five Classics Yi Tong said, "What are rabbits and toads on the moon? Moon, Yin also. Toad, poplar leaf. And the rabbit is bright and the yin is in the yang. " The moon disappeared and appeared again; It's gone. It's round again. The ancients believed that the moon came back from the dead and had the mysterious function of immortality. In the middle of the month, Jade Rabbit is making elixir of life. Who doesn't like to live forever and enjoy this life and yourself forever? How can you not like the white rabbit and make friends with it? Lu You wrote: "Ji E wishes me a smile, and Jade Rabbit is in hand". The poet must be very happy at this time, right?

People in China match rabbits with sockets in the zodiac, and call them "hairy rabbits". Matching the wood in Jin Mu's five elements of fire, water and soil, Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty put forward a question in Lun Heng:

"At noon, the horse is here. Son, mouse also. Unitary, chicken also. Wood, rabbits, too. Water is better than wood. Why don't mice chase horses? Jin Shengmao, why don't chickens chase rabbits? "

This is really a strange question that is difficult to answer.

Third, ordinary rabbits.

However, rabbits are very common in China culture.

This is because rabbits are small, powerful and valuable. Therefore, Huai Nan Zi said Xun Lin said, "deer hunter ignored rabbits". Proverbs and allegorical sayings say:

The rabbit ran into the mill-pretending to be a big-eared donkey.

If rabbits can drive-who will raise Ili horses?

The rabbit acted like a cow-it was a mess.

Hit the rabbit and get away-it's not worth the candle.

Rabbits pull plows and harrows-the heart is willing, but the strength is weak.

At this point, Europeans and Americans are just like us.

Another characteristic of rabbits is cowardice, which is the most common metaphor of "coward". There is a word in Chinese called "rabbit gall". In the novel Boiling Mountains, the author wrote: "Those bastards are rabbits, timid and long-legged. As soon as they heard that the PLA was coming, they all ran away with their tails between their legs. " "Rabbit" means timid and docile.

The great skill of an ordinary rabbit is to run fast, so there are words such as "rabbit off" and "rabbit off". The famous saying since ancient times is "there is a virgin first, then there is a rabbit".

Another characteristic of rabbits is cleverness and cunning. Two-part allegorical saying: "A rabbit ran away among the sheep-it's small, but it's good." Being too clever means being cunning, so the idiom "Three Caves of the Cunning Rabbit" can be seen. As early as the pre-Qin period, China people thought rabbits were clever and cunning.

Four, rabbits, foxes and dogs

In China's classical mathematics, there were exercises in which chickens and rabbits were locked together. In China culture, the most noteworthy thing is the relationship between rabbits, foxes and dogs. In idioms, rabbits and foxes are often juxtaposed. Rabbits and foxes were compared as early as in the Book of Changes: "Sparrows don't give birth to phoenixes, foxes and rabbits don't eat suckling horses." "The rabbit died of grief" and so on. It can be seen that in the eyes of China people, rabbits and foxes are similar images and share a common destiny. Both rabbits and foxes in China have mysterious colors, but rabbits have mystery of positive value and foxes have mystery of negative value. It is scary that foxes become women to harm people and suck human blood.

In China culture, rabbits and dogs are a group of images of unity of opposites. It's never too late to raise a dog, but it's never too late to mend it. The two are unified, but there are also opposites, that is, "birds do their best to hide." A sly rabbit dies, but a running dog cooks.

Strangely, my dog Frye likes rabbits very much. Because the people downstairs keep a rabbit and put it in the stairwell, every time the dog comes out or goes home, he always goes straight to the stairwell to see the rabbit. He wants to touch the rabbit. Bark at the rabbit in a friendly way.

Five, rabbit tail, rabbit lips and male prostitutes.

The rabbit's tail is also a good metaphor: "the rabbit's tail-it won't grow!" " "

"Rabbit lips" are three petals, like rabbits. Therefore, "Natural History" records: "Pregnant women should not spit rabbit meat, rabbits are invisible, so that their children lack lips. You can't spit ginger and let your child have more fingers. " This taboo is still popular and believed, especially in many rural areas.

A prostitute is neither a rabbit nor a grandfather. It is a rabbit head toy, and all the children like it. Ordinary rabbits are very likable in China. According to the custom in Beijing, on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 every year, people make rabbits out of mud, put on clothes and hats, and ride big tigers, or big lions and sika deer. This is the "male prostitute". Qing Ji Kun also wrote a poem about male prostitutes:

Melons and fruits make up for the old,

Just like Dong Guowei.

I've always heard about drugs,

This day is actually a god.

Difficult, pregnant with three holes,

Guangqing borrowed a bullet.

Korea raised eyebrows way:

People close to the moon.

"Qing barnyard notes" said: "On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Beijing made a rabbit god and a rabbit face out of clay. In the painting, the giant is three or four feet tall and worth nearly ten thousand dollars. If you buy more in The Rich House, support it with fragrant wood cakes and fruits, and it is forbidden. "

Six, other rabbits with public mothers.

The end of Mulan Ci:

Male rabbits have messy feet and female rabbits have blurred eyes;

When two rabbits walk side by side, can I tell if I am a male or a female?

Because the male rabbit is characterized by feet, while the female rabbit is characterized by blurred eyes, the difference between them is so great that it could have been distinguished at a glance. Not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of shopping around. Two rabbits-a female and a male-are juxtaposed in front of you, and their characteristics are so different. What's the difference? But the poet said, "Can Ann tell whether I am a man or a woman?" This is very difficult for China literati. So there are many explanations.

One of them-I used to play like this-is an intertextual point of view, that is, the male rabbit's feet are messy, his eyes are blurred, and the female rabbit's eyes are messy and his feet are messy. Two rabbits walk side by side. Can I tell if I am a male or a female? Since there is no difference between two rabbits, even if you walk beside the ground, how can you tell which is the male rabbit and which is the female rabbit?

It was not until the 1990s that I realized that this explanation was wrong and inappropriate. This is not mutual meaning. If they mean each other, there is no difference between a male rabbit and a female rabbit, and there is no difference between a male rabbit and a female rabbit. Then Mulan disguised as a woman and joined the army instead of her father. It is not worth writing such an article "Mulan Ci". But human common sense tells us: female rabbit ≠ male rabbit, female ≠ male.

It is an undeniable fact that male and female rabbits have their own characteristics-sexual characteristics, physiological inheritance, acquired customs, social culture and so on. These poems are written in Mulan's tone, and Mulan does not deny the differences between men and women. Then, since the characteristics of men and women are so obvious, why can't they be confused?

The key lies in the word "go". Modern people understand this kind of "walking" as one step, three shakes and four steps, gentle and slow motion. At this moment, the other two rabbits with sexual characteristics, a male and a female, are of course distinct. However, in the era of Mulan Ci, this kind of "walking" is a modern "running", "running" and "rushing", which is a fast and high-speed running, that is, "taking off your armor and dragging your troops" in Mencius-can you still be unhappy after losing the battle?

The female rabbit's eyes are blurred, and the male rabbit's feet are confused and in a static state. Their sexual characteristics are so obvious that a three-year-old child can tell them apart. But if you walk beside the ground-running around, that is, you are in a dynamic state, then, even if you are an adult, an old man and a wise man, how can you tell the male and female of a rabbit? Under static conditions, in ordinary days, men plow and women weave, men go shirtless and women wear heavy makeup. Three-year-olds can also distinguish between men and women. But once you get into the dynamic, when men and women fight together on the battlefield, how can you tell the difference between men and women at that time?

Mulan's companion didn't know that Mulan was a woman, because it was a special dynamic situation. Now she has returned to her hometown safely, and that is quiet. Mulan wore women's clothes, and her companions knew at once that she was a woman without any difficulty.

So these words are Mulan's words, which are a great declaration of women's self-confidence: at rest, the sexual characteristics of men and women are of course different, which is too easy to distinguish; But in the dynamic situation, men and women are the same, and women are not better than men.

Pity. As long as you have the same performance and achievements in your career, how can you distinguish between men and women? Men kill the enemy and women kill the enemy is the same. There is no difference, and there is no difference!

If someone writes the history of women's movement or women's career in China, I think these four sentences can be written as a preface.

Seven, Pang Tong and self-supporting.

Chapter sixty-three of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms wrote:

Pang Tong was very suspicious and stopped his horse and asked, "What is this place?" There was a new sergeant in the ship, pointing and saying, "The place here is called Luofengpo." Pang Tong said in surprise, "My name is Feng Chu, and the name here is Phoenix Slope, which is not good for me." As a result, the rear army retreated sharply, only to hear a cannon shot in front of the hillside, and the arrow was like a migratory locust, only looking at the rider on the white horse. However, Leng Pang Tong died under the disorderly arrows. At the age of 36.

This is a novelist's trick. Chen Shou's Biography of the Three Kingdoms, Shu Zhi and Pang Tong only records: "He entered Luowei County and led a crowd to attack the city. He was killed by Liu Ya at the age of 36. " I didn't say "falling phoenix slope."

The Biography of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Zhi and JASON ZHANG records: "(Zhang) Yang will kill (Yang) Ugly, make it public, and want to make a northern expedition with Yuan Shao. Taizu sent Shi Huan to attack, break it in the dog market, chop it and gather all the people. " Pei Songzhi note cited "Canon slightly" said:

The sincere white rabbit not only killed Yang Chou, but also was beaten by the army. Sometimes, wizards warn the sun: "General Rabbit's name is a famous dog in this city. When the rabbit sees the dog, it will be surprised and should be transferred urgently. " Stubborn, he's dead. "

This is the place name stage. In this way, we should avoid using the names of famous rabbits and rabbits, and there are many such names in China. If so, if the dog is a rabbit's, can it still be kept?

Then Luo Guanzhong wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and arranged for Mr. Pang Tong, a young man, to die at the foot of a phoenix slope, which was a transfer of a self-made white rabbit and a dog market. Rebellious An Lushan is smarter. As soon as he heard that it was a giant Lucheng, he quickly avoided it and consciously opposed him.

Eight, waiting for the rabbit

There is a story in "Everything goes wrong": "Song people have plowmen, there are plants in the field, and rabbits touch plants and break their necks and die. Because they were not released, they stood by their plants and got the rabbits back. The rabbit can't be recovered, but it is a small fruit as a song. " Han Fei's purpose in telling this story is: "If you want to govern the people of this world by Wang Zhizhi today, you must stick to your roots and so on." This leads to the idiom "waiting for a rabbit", which is used to mean not actively striving for it, but hoping for unexpected gains. Of course, this is impossible. Blind cats can't kill mice every day.

China Rabbit also has a great cultural feature: shrewdness and cunning. The poet said:

Why is life so ordinary?

(Chen Tao's "Regret for the Past")

If you have to avoid it for nine days, don't worry if the rabbit hides three points.

(Du Fu's "See Wang Jun's envoy saying that there are two poems written by white and black hawks near the mountain")

I have never been a rabbit in my life. Today I am a bird in a feather.

(one of Su Shi's two poems about crossing the ridge)

Political fear is the source of interest, and it has not blocked the rabbit's three holes.

(Huang Tingjian's Application for Sending Chen on February 2nd)

Looking for a cunning rabbit to turn over the three caves, I saw that the demon star had fallen for nine days.

(Bao Rong "Cai Pingxi welcomes the judge of Heyangma")

The sly rabbit had many holes in it, and the goshawk began to descend.

(Villa in Liu Jun)

Two-part allegorical saying: "A rabbit ran away among the sheep-it's small, but it's good." Being too clever means being cunning, hence the idiom "The Three Caves of a Cunning Rabbit". As early as the pre-Qin period, China people had the idea of rabbits.

You are clever and cunning, and there are three caves to hide in. If you can't catch them, how can you wait for them by the tree? A sentence in the fifth play of Xu Lin's "Embroidering Creeps and Clearing Records": "Fu Xuefei Huangchiyuan is willing to stay in the end." That makes sense.

Nine, GuanChengZi-writing brush

Pen is one of the Four Treasures of the Study that China people learn. In China culture, "Wen" and "Pen" are synonyms. Literati are called "penholders" and "penholders make a living". During the "Cultural Revolution", Lin Biao clamored that both pens and guns should be grasped, and both poles should be grasped.

In Chinese, the pen is also called "Guanchengzi", probably from the biography of Mao Ying written by Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty:

Mao Ying is also from Zhongshan. First, he saw clearly that Zuo Liangyu ruled the eastern soil and made contributions to raising all things. Because he was sealed underground, he died as the Twelve Gods. Taste said, "When my children and grandchildren become gods, they can't be the same thing, but they should vomit." It's already true. Sun Rong, the eighth Sun Rong of the Ming Dynasty, lived in Zhongshan during Yin Dynasty, and got the skill of immortals. He can hide things, steal Ji 'e, ride a toad to the moon, and then he hides himself from the clouds.

At the time of Qin Shihuang, Mongolian generals went south to attack Chu and went to Zhongshan for the second time, hunting for fear of Chu. Call around the general's military commanders and praise them with "Lianshan" in order to get a sign of humanity in heaven. The fortune teller congratulated him, "Today's income is neither angular nor toothless. Those who wear brown clothes have a gap in their beards. /B knows how to live. This is the only way. Buckets are capital, the world is the same book, and Chyi Chin is also a vassal. As he spoke, he chased after the family, pulled out his hair and brought it back. "。 Give the prisoner to Zhang Taiyan Palace, gather the family members and tie them up. Qin Shihuang built a field and sealed Guancheng, which was named "Guanchengzi" on the third day.

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Mei, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote in the poem "Yongshu White Rabbit": "If you want to pluck your hair for a white pen, learn from Zhu's poetry and break the public's face." In this way, Rabbit is a hero of China culture, a painter, a poet, a novelist, an essayist, and a good friend and partner of all pen players.

X. "tortoise and rabbit race"

Who in this world doesn't know the story of the race between the tortoise and the hare? In this way, this rabbit is a sleepy person who doesn't like Jiangshan beauty and loves to sleep.

But scientists tell us that rabbits seldom sleep. We humans sleep for eight hours in a row-there may be more characters like pigs, horses sleep for two hours, cows sleep for 30 minutes, our lovely rabbits, every

You only need to sleep 120 seconds, and this 120 seconds is enjoyed three times, so it is only 40 seconds at a time.

I can't believe it took this turtle only 40 seconds to climb to its destination. After 40 seconds, 120 seconds, didn't the rabbit surpass the tortoise to win the championship in an instant? Did this rabbit deliberately tear down its own platform, ruin its image and let people arrange stories? Really? But even shouting can't wash away the shame of these rabbits.

In my opinion, even if the rabbit is neglected for a while because of sleeping, it becomes the loser of the tortoise, but in the final analysis, the tortoise is a tortoise, the rabbit is a rabbit after all, and the rabbit is good at running and fast as the wind. The rabbit will never be a runner worse than the tortoise because of a temporary defeat, and the tortoise will never become a long-distance runner because of a temporary lucky victory.

An Indian scholar declared in his book that if an Indian tortoise can sing English minor, it will be better than a China rabbit who doesn't know English. In fact, India is not necessarily a tortoise, but it loves China as a rabbit. Therefore, in the era of competition, we must not be blind and confident, and we must not sleep.

Eleven, uncle rabbit hair

Uncle rabbit hair is a common word in Song and Yuan Dynasties. For example:

Enemy creditors turned out to be rich, my uncle rabbit hair.

The fourth discount of the original "Money Slave")

The red flag wraps the old, and the white practice wraps the autumn. Uncle rabbit hair is hard to see.

(Gao 'an Road "Whispers in Echo Hall")

This rabbit hair uncle means old man.

The "relatives" in the eighth volume of the sequel of Shilin Guangji, Talking about the City Language, are: "Bo: Liangshan; Rabbit hair. " This is the code word: Liangshan-Bo, rabbit hair-Bai (Bo). Uncle rabbit hair-uncle rabbit hair-old man-hair and beard are white!