The dragon is happy to celebrate spring

The Year of the Rabbit is here, and the first month is the Spring Festival. On this festive day, there are crowds of people, firecrackers are like flowers, and there is a happy atmosphere everywhere. Every house is decorated with lights and colorful decorations. There are "bad luck" and couplets posted in front of the door, and red lanterns are hung. The Year of the Rabbit is very lively!

Look, the streets are busy with traffic. Everyone is happy and smiling, and they come out to watch the fun, both young and old. The firecracker stall business is booming! Just now, the shelves were filled with strings of firecrackers, and they were all sold out in a short time. The naughty children used the New Year's money to constantly select toys and food for the Year of the Rabbit in the store, filling their pockets.

Listen, there are sonorous and powerful sounds of gongs and drums over there, and enthusiastic shouts and greetings here. It turns out that the dragon dance team is coming. My father and I walked forward and saw a mighty long dragon dancing over not far away. Look at him with his big mouth and eyes as wide as the bowl of the sea, he looks so majestic. This dragon kept twisting its body, sometimes looking back and wagging its tail, sometimes rolling up and down, like a dragon descending into the sea. The onlookers were full of praise for him. At this time, I was a little confused and asked my dad, "Dad, why do we have to dance the dragon during the Spring Festival?" Dad touched my head and said, "There is such a custom during the Spring Festival in our country. Everyone has to do something auspicious. To do things, eat some auspicious dishes and say some auspicious words. 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 the Rabbit is so interesting! Not only did I have a joyful, peaceful and festive festival, but I also gained a deeper understanding of the traditional culture of my motherland.

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

"Rabbit" is the pictogram of the animal rabbit. Xu Shen's "Shuowen Jiezi" of the Han Dynasty explained: "Rabbit, the name of the animal, resembles the shape of its tail from behind." The oracle bone inscriptions and seal scripts depict the image of "rabbit" with long ears and short tail.

There are not many Chinese characters derived from the character "Rabbit", but they all have their own characteristics.

For example, "yi" is a knowing word. A rabbit that runs fast is called "Yi". Books such as "Shuowen Jiezi" believe that the word "Yi" means that rabbits are "good at escaping".

This shows that the rabbit deserves to be the long-distance running champion.

So there are words such as "running away", "escape", "escaping", "wandering", "seclusion", "ease", "yiwen", "super escape" and so on.

Three rabbits stacked together form a Chinese character, which means running very fast.

The word "injustice" represents the symbol of the kind-hearted rabbit "crying out for injustice".

"Shuowen Jiezi" explains: "Injustice means subjugation." It means that the rabbit cannot escape under the fence of the net, but can only submit and cannot stretch. By extension, injustice.

So there are a series of words such as "injustice", "unjust injustice", "crying out grievances", "redressing grievances", etc. The rabbit is the most unjust.

It can be seen that the cute rabbit deserves people’s sympathy the most.

"Rabbit" and "Dodder" are connected. "Dodder" is the herbaceous plant "Dodder" that is parasitic on the vine. It is also called "Cuscutus", also known as "Nvluo", or written as "Rabbit Silk".

"Rabbit" is added to "Tu" and next to "卍", which refers to the parts of the bridge near the flat ground at both ends, that is, the place where the bridge is accessed.

"Rabbit" corresponds to "Mao" among the twelve earthly branches. Wang Chong of the Han Dynasty said in "Lunheng": "Mao is the rabbit." The two form our zodiac sign "Mao Rabbit".

The original character "卯" depicts the image of vegetation emerging from the ground. "Shuowen Jiezi" says: "Mao means risk. In February, everything emerges from the ground." Among the twelve hours, "Mao" refers to 5-7 o'clock in the morning.

Therefore, "Mao" means spring, represents dawn, and is full of infinite vitality.

"Willow" embodies the meaning of "Mao belongs to wood", so there is "spring breeze willow".

"Mao" is a kind of waterweed. It also describes the appearance of sometimes lush grass.

"Pleiades", the name of the constellations, is one of the twenty-eight constellations.

"斖" refers to a lake with calm water.

"Riveting" means tightly connecting the parts of an object together.

The above words are all directly or indirectly related to "rabbit". Or derived from "rabbit". Or compatible with the "rabbit" temperament.

-Be merciful (green), which means not harming fellow villagers and neighbors. Generally used in a derogatory sense.

The rabbit climbs the slope - shuttles upwards

The rabbit's legs - runs fast

The rabbit's ears - hears far

The rabbit's mouth - three pieces

The rabbit plays the flute - the mouth is not strict

The rabbit's tail - cannot grow

The rabbit does not light the lamp ——Self-illumination

The rabbit runs with the moon--gets the light

The rabbit looks at people--his eyes are red

The rabbit pulls the plow--he has more than enough heart but not enough strength

The rabbit relies on the wolf and relies on its teeth - each has its own way of making a living

The rabbit runs into the sheep - small but smart

The rabbit chases the tortoise - he can catch up

The rabbit turns around the hillside - sooner or later he has to go back to his hometown

The rabbit eats grass - the light trembles

The rabbit runs into the hemp field - he lies down horizontally and vertically

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The rabbit ran away - never looked back

The rabbit took a bath - a puddle of mud

The rabbit crawled on the seedlings - crawled and scratched

Jing dew soaks the silver rabbit shadow in the cold, and the west wind blows off the sweet-scented osmanthus branches.

(Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, "Looking to the South")

Looking to the west is as low as a water rabbit, and looking to the east is a sea of ??flat peaches.

(Yuan Zhen's "Dream of Heaven")

The master clearly appeared, and the bottom of the Jade Rabbit Pond was rippled.

(Jia Dao's "Gift to Zen Master Zhiming")

Ciwu cries to people every night, and the screen window is like a rabbit.

(Fan Cheng's "Gift to Judge Guo")

Birds fly and rabbits fly, time passes in an instant, summer turns to cold, and I don't notice it for seven years.

(Xu Zhonglin's "The Romance of the Gods" Chapter 2)

The words "Rabbit, Silver Rabbit, King Rabbit, Rabbit Soul, Rabbit Wheel" here all refer to the moon.

In ancient times, the emperor's guard of honor always carried the sun and moon flag. The white rabbit is painted on the moon flag. Sui Jingchen, a Sanqu writer of the Yuan Dynasty, wrote in the Sanqu "Banshe Diao. Shao Benn. Gaozu Returns Home": "A flag with a white beard encircles a frost-bearing rabbit, and a flag with red song embroidered with a Biyuewu. A flag chicken learns to dance, a flag dog has wings, and a flag snake wraps around a gourd. "This is the honor guard of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty in the eyes of rural farmers. The moon flag is the rabbit facing the frost, the sun flag is the moon, the phoenix flag is the chicken learning to dance, the dragon flag is the snake wrapped around the gourd, and the tiger flag is the dog with two wings.

2. The auspicious rabbit

Chinese people worship rabbits very much and think rabbits are a symbol of good luck. "Rui Ying Tu" said: "The red rabbit is an auspicious beast, and the king will come when it is prosperous." "Baopuzi" said: "The lifespan of a rabbit is three thousand years, and its color will be white when it is five hundred years old." Many people paid tribute to the emperor with white rabbits. , Huan Wen and Yu Xin both wrote on the White Rabbit Biao or Congratulations on the White Rabbit Biao. Black rabbits are also auspicious things. "History of the Song Dynasty" and "History of the Liao Dynasty" also record that "local officials and people in Maocun gave black rabbits to the emperor when they got them to worship the gods. "History of the Song Dynasty. Le Zhi" said: " He Xian composed the five auspicious songs of Divine Turtle, Manna, Purple Zhizhi, Jiale and Jade Rabbit, which would be played first in every dynasty. "

Rabbits are considered auspicious things. This is probably because rabbits are the makers of elixirs, right? "Shiming" says: "The moon is the palace. When it is full, it is lacking. Hui, gray also. When the moon dies, it becomes ashes, and the moonlight is gone. Shuo, Su Ye, means the resurrection of the dead moon.

"The Comprehensive Meaning of the Five Classics" says: "Why are there rabbits and toads in the moon? The moon is yin." Toad, Yang. And together with the rabbit, the yin is related to the yang. "The moon disappeared and reappeared; it was missing and then it was round again. The ancients believed that the moon came back from the dead and had the mysterious function of rebirth and immortality. The jade rabbit in the moon made the elixir of immortality. Who doesn't like immortality in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad? Enjoy this life and yourself forever, so how can you not like the white rabbit and be friends with it? Lu You wrote: "Ji E wants me to laugh, holding the jade rabbit in her hand." At this time, the poet must be very happy. Right?

The Chinese match the rabbit with the Mao of the twelve earthly branches, and call it "Mao Rabbit" to match the wood of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty proposed it in "Lunheng". Asked a question:

“Wu, horse. Son, rat. You, chicken. Wood, rabbit. Water beats wood, so why doesn’t the rat chase the horse? Metal beats the mao, so why doesn’t the rooster chase the rabbit?"

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

3. Ordinary Rabbit

However, in Chinese culture, rabbits are very ordinary.

This is first of all because rabbits are small in size, weak in power and of low value. Therefore, "Huainanzi·Shuo Lin Xun" said: "The hunter ignores the rabbit." As the saying goes:

A rabbit runs into a mill road and pretends to be a big-eared donkey.

If a rabbit can drive a horse, who will keep an Ili horse? .

The rabbit is acting like a bull - chaos

The rabbit is chasing the horse - the gain is not worth the loss.

The rabbit is pulling the rake - there is more than enough. And lack of strength.

In this regard, Europeans and Americans are also the same as us.

Another characteristic of rabbits is their timidity, which is the most common metaphor for "coward". There is a word for "rabbit courage" in Chinese. In the novel "Boiling Mountains", the author writes: "Those bastards are all rabbits and have long legs. When they heard that the People's Liberation Army was coming, they were all scared." He was so scared that he ran away with his tail between his legs. "Rabbit" means timid.

The ordinary rabbit's great ability is to run fast, so there are words such as "Rabbit off" and "Rabbit off". It has been around since ancient times. His famous saying is "He starts out like a virgin and ends up like a rabbit."

Another characteristic of a rabbit is that he is shrewd and cunning. He later said: "There is a rabbit among the sheep - count it as small as possible." It's fine. "If you are too shrewd, you are cunning, so there is an idiom "A cunning rabbit has three holes". It can be seen that as early as the pre-Qin Dynasty, the Chinese believed that rabbits were shrewd and cunning.

4. Rabbits, foxes and dogs

In classical Chinese mathematics, there is an exercise about chicken and rabbit in the same cage. In Chinese culture, the most noteworthy thing is the relationship between rabbit, fox and dog. In idioms, rabbit and fox have been together for a long time. There is a parallel in "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Qi": "A sparrow cannot give birth to a phoenix, and a fox and a rabbit cannot breed a horse. "The fox is sad when the rabbit dies" etc. It can be seen that in the minds of the Chinese people, rabbits and foxes are similar images and have the same fate. Both rabbits and foxes in China are mysterious, but the rabbit has a positive value of mystery, and the fox has a positive value. Mysterious with negative values, vixens turn into women to harm people, suck people's blood, etc. It's scary.

In Chinese culture, rabbits and dogs are a set of opposites. See the rabbit and the dog. It is not too late to make up for the lost situation. They are unified, but there are also times when they are in opposition, and that is when "the birds are gone, but the good bow is hidden." The cunning rabbit dies and the running dog cooks it.

The strange thing is that my little dog Laifu likes rabbits very much. Because the person downstairs raised a rabbit and put it in the stairwell. Every time Fu goes out or comes home, he always runs directly to the stairwell to see the rabbit. He wants to pet the rabbit and calls to it in a friendly way.

5. Rabbit tail and lip. And Lord Rabbit

The rabbit’s tail is also a good metaphor: “The rabbit’s tail—can’t grow! "

"Hare lips" are three-petaled, like rabbits. So "Natural History" records: "Pregnant women cannot eat rabbit meat, and the rabbit cannot be seen, which will cause the child to have missing lips." And don't eat ginger, it will cause your child to have many fingers. "This taboo is still popular and believed to this day, especially in many rural areas.

Master Rabbit is neither a rabbit nor a father. It is a toy with a rabbit head and a human body. Children all like it. Ordinary rabbits are very lovable in China. It is a custom in Beijing that during the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th every year, people make rabbits out of mud, put on clothes and hats, and ride on a big tiger, a big lion, or a sika deer. This is the "Rabbit Lord." Ji Kun of the Qing Dynasty also wrote a poem about Lord Rabbit:

The mat is covered with melons and fruits,

It is like the Eastern Guo Wei.

I have always heard of making medicine, but today I became a god.

Try to embrace the three caves,

Borrow the light.

Han Luxiu looked sideways,

He looks like a man in the middle of the month.

"Qing Bailei Chao" said: "On the Mid-Autumn Festival, the capital made a clay sculpture of a rabbit god with a rabbit face and a human body. The body was painted with paint. The giant was three or four feet high, worth nearly ten thousand yuan, and his family was extremely wealthy. Buy a lot of them and feed them with fragrant wood cakes and fruits, even if they are forbidden."

6. Male and female rabbits

The end of "Mulan Ci":

The male rabbit’s feet are twitching, and the female rabbit’s eyes are blurry;

Two rabbits are walking next to each other, how can they tell whether I am a male or a female?

Since male rabbits are characterized by twitching feet , and female rabbits are characterized by blurred eyes. The difference between the two is so big that they can be distinguished at a glance. Don't be afraid of not knowing the goods, just be afraid of comparing goods. Two rabbits - one female and one male - are placed side by side in front of you. With such different characteristics, what is so difficult to identify? But the poet said: "Can you tell whether I am male or female?" This is difficult. Chinese literati. So there are many ways to explain it.

One of them - I used to play it this way, that is, this is intertextual meaning, that is: the male rabbit's feet are confused and his eyes are blurred, the female rabbit's eyes are blurred and her feet are confused, and the two rabbits are close to each other. How can you tell whether I am a male or a female if I walk on the ground? Since there is no difference between the two rabbits, how can you tell which is a male rabbit and which is a female rabbit even if you are walking on the ground?

It was only in the 1990s that I realized that this explanation was wrong and inappropriate. This is not mutuality. If there is mutual meaning, then there will be no difference between male rabbits and female rabbits, and there will be no difference between men and women. Then it is nothing for Mulan to disguise herself as a man and join the army in place of her father. It is not worth writing such an article "Mulan Ci" 》. But common sense tells us: female rabbit ≠ male rabbit, woman ≠ man.

Male rabbits and female rabbits, men and women, have their own characteristics - sexual characteristics, physiological inheritance, acquired customs, social culture, etc. This is an undeniable fact. These lines of poetry were written in Mulan's tone, and Mulan does not deny the difference between men and women. So since the characteristics of male and female, male and female, and male and female are so obvious, why can't they be distinguished?

The key is On the word "go". Modern people understand "walking" as taking one step at a time, pacing in all directions, being polite and slow-motion. At this moment, the sexual characteristics of the two rabbits, male and female, are of course clearly distinct. However, in the era of "Mulan Ci", this "walk" was the modern "run", "running" and "running wildly", running at a fast and high speed, that is, "abandoning armor and dragging soldiers away" in "Mencius" - —Can you still be unhappy when you lose a battle and run for your life?

The female rabbit’s eyes are blurred, and the male rabbit’s feet are tangled, they are in a static state. Their sexual characteristics are so clear that even a three-year-old child can distinguish them. of male and female. But if you are walking on the ground - running wildly, you are in a dynamic state. Then, even if you are an adult, an old person, or a smart person, how can you distinguish between male and female rabbits? In a static state , on a normal day, men farm and women weave, men are shirtless, women wear heavy makeup, and even a three-year-old child can tell the difference between men and women. But once you enter the dynamic, on the battlefield, men and women kill enemies together, how can you tell the difference between men and women at that time?

Mulan’s companions did not know that Mulan was a woman, because of that It is dynamic, a special situation; now that she has returned to her hometown in peace and tranquility, it is static. Mulan is dressed in women's clothing, and her companions immediately know that she is a woman, without any difficulty.

So these are Mulan’s words, a great declaration of women’s self-confidence: In stillness, the sexual characteristics of men and women are of course different, which is too easy to distinguish; but in motion, killing for the country Men and women are the same when it comes to making meritorious deeds. Women are no worse than men.

As long as they have the same performance and achievements in their careers, how can you tell the difference between men and women? When a man kills an enemy, it is the same as when a woman kills an enemy. There is no difference and there is no way to tell the difference!

If anyone writes the history of the Chinese women’s movement or women’s cause, I think these four sentences can be included as the preface.

7. Pang Tong and Sui Gu

In Chapter 63 of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is written:

Pang Tong was very suspicious, so he stopped his horse and asked. "Where is this place?" A few days later, a newly-reigned sergeant pointed out: "The name of this place is Luofengpo." Pang Tong was shocked and said: "My road is called Fengchu, and the name of this place is Luofengpo. It is not good for me. ." So he ordered the rear army to retreat quickly. They only heard the sound of cannons in front of the hillside, and arrows were like locusts. They only expected the men on white horses to shoot. However, Leng Pangtong died from random arrows. He was only thirty-six years old.

This is a novelist’s trick. Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms·Shu Zhi·Pang Tongzhuan" only records: "Entered Luoxian County and led the troops to attack the city. He was hit by a stray arrow and died at the age of thirty-six." It did not say "Luofengpo".

"Three Kingdoms·Wei Zhi·Zhang Yang Biography" records: "(Zhang) Yang General Sui Gu killed (Yang) Chou and led his troops to join Yuan Shao in the north. Taizu sent Shi Huan to attack and defeat him. In the dog city, behead them and collect them all." Pei Songzhi quoted from "Dianlue" and said:

The word "white rabbit" was used to kill Yang Chou and the army gathered to shoot the dogs. At that time, a shaman warned Gu: "The general's name is rabbit and this town is famous for dogs. If a rabbit sees a dog, it will be frightened and should be moved away quickly." Gu refused and died in battle. ”

This is the conflict between personal names and place names. In this way, those named rabbit and those born in the year of rabbit should avoid place names with the word dog or dog. There are many such place names in China. If this is true, can people who were born in the year of rabbit still keep dogs?

Then Luo Guanzhong wrote "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and arranged for Mr. Feng Chu Pang Tong to die at the foot of Luofeng Slope. The rebellious An Lushan was smarter and immediately avoided it when he heard it was Julu City.

8. Waiting for the rabbit.

There is a story in "Han Feizi·Five Beetles": "There were people in the Song Dynasty who were plowing the fields. There was a plant in the field. A rabbit ran into it and hit the plant. It broke its neck and died. Because it was free, it guarded the plant in the hope of getting a rabbit again. The rabbit cannot be recovered, but it is the song of Song Dynasty that laughs. " Han Fei's purpose in telling this story is: "Today, if we want to use the governance of the previous kings to govern the people of the current world, they will all stick to their posts. "The idiom "waiting for the rabbit" formed from this is used to describe not taking the initiative to strive for it, but hoping for unexpected gains. This is of course impossible, and the good and coincidence of "a blind cat hitting a dead mouse" will never happen every day. Yes.

Another great cultural characteristic of Chinese rabbits is that they are shrewd and cunning. The poet said:

A cunning rabbit has three holes, so life is not normal.

(Chen Tao's "Sorrowful Journey")

The Peng is in the way of the nine heavens, but avoid it, and the rabbit hides in the three holes, so don't worry

(Du Fu's "Seeing the King Supervising the Soldiers and Horses". "One of two poems about two white and black eagles near the mountain")

If you don't make three burrows for rabbits in your life, how can you be so different now and in the past?

(One of two poems written by Su Shi "Guo Ling" 》Part 1)

Political fear and profit come from one source, but there are no three rabbit holes.

(Huang Tingjian's "Send to Chen Yi on February 2nd")

See. Looking for a cunning rabbit, he went through three caves and saw the evil star falling in the sky.

(Bao Rong's "Cai Ping's happy encounter with Judge Ma Kuan of Heyang")

The cunning rabbit has many holes, and the goshawk begins. Xia Kun.

(Liu Jun's "Villa")

The saying goes: "There is a rabbit among the sheep - count it small, count it wise."

"If you are too shrewd, you are cunning, so there is an idiom "A cunning rabbit has three burrows." It can be seen that as early as the pre-Qin Dynasty, the Chinese people thought of rabbits.

A rabbit that can fly quickly, is shrewd and cunning, and has three burrows to hide in. , you can't catch it, and you are just waiting beside the big tree, how can you wait for it? A sentence from the fifth chapter of Xu Lin's "Xiu Ku Ji Jing": "A husband learns to fly far away, and is willing to wait until the end of the rabbit." Chao Shou Zhu Du. "That makes sense.

9. Guan Chengzi - Writing Brush

The brush is one of the four treasures of the Chinese study. In Chinese culture, "wen" and "brush" are called together. . Literati are called "those who play with the pen" and "those who make a living by the pen." During the Cultural Revolution, Lin Biao shouted that both the pen and the gun should be grasped.

In Chinese, the pen is also called "Guan Chengzi". ", probably from the "Biography of Mao Ying" written by Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty:

Mao Ying was a native of Zhongshan. He was the first to see clearly, and Zuo Yu governed the eastern soil and had meritorious service in raising all things, so he was granted the title of Mao. Earth, died as twelve gods. Taste the day: "After my descendants become gods, they must not be like other things. They should be vomited and reborn." "It's true. It is said that Sun Rong, the eighth generation of Mingshi, lived in Zhongshan during the Yin Dynasty and acquired the magic of gods. He could hide the light and make objects, steal Ji'e, ride a toad into the moon, and then hid in the clouds for generations.

At the time of the First Emperor of Qin, the Mongolian general Tiannan attacked Chu and went to Zhongshan. He hunted heavily to fear Chu. He summoned the generals and military officers on the left and right to use the "Lianshan" zodiac sign to obtain signs of heaven and humanity. The messenger congratulated him and said: "Today's harvest is a man with no horns or teeth, a man in brown clothes, with a gap and a long beard, and he lives in a squatting position with an orifice." If you choose the style alone, the tubes and tablets are the capital. The world has the same script, and the Qin Dynasty has become the princes. "Then they hunted, surrounded the Mao family, plucked out their hair, and returned with Ying Ying. They presented the prisoners to Zhangtai Palace, gathered their clansmen, and bound them. Qin Shihuang sent Tian to give him Tang Mu, and granted him the title of "Ri". "Guan Chengzi"

Song Dynasty poet Mei Yaochen wrote in the poem "Yongshu White Rabbit": "I want to pluck my hair into a white pen and grind the red to write poetry. Broken public face. "In this way, the rabbit is a hero of Chinese culture, a good friend of painters, poets, novelists, essayists, and all those who write.

10. "The Tortoise and the Hare"

Who in the world does not know the story of the tortoise and the hare? In this way, the rabbit is a sleepy fool who loves to sleep, but does not love beautiful women.

But. Scientists tell us that rabbits rarely sleep. We humans sleep for 8 hours at a time - Zhu Bajie-like characters may sleep more, horses sleep for 2 hours, cows sleep for 30 minutes, and our cute rabbits sleep for 30 minutes. Well, you only need to sleep for 120 seconds every day, and these 120 seconds have to be divided into three times to enjoy, so each time is only 40 seconds.

I really don’t. I believe that in only 40 seconds, the tortoise has climbed to its destination. After 40 seconds, 120 seconds later, wouldn’t the rabbit still surpass the tortoise and win the championship in an instant? Could it be that the rabbit deliberately undermined himself? , to ruin one's own image and let people make up stories? No, right? But even shouting loudly can't wash away the shame and humiliation of these rabbits.

In my opinion, even if it is. It was the rabbit's negligence that caused the tortoise's defeat due to his excessive sleep. But in the final analysis, the tortoise is a tortoise after all, and the rabbit is a rabbit after all. The rabbit is still a rabbit who is good at running and is as fast as the wind. If he fails, he will become a runner worse than a tortoise, and a tortoise will never become a long-distance runner just because of a lucky victory.

An Indian scholar claimed in his book: Indian tortoises can sing. English minor tunes will definitely outperform the Chinese rabbits who don’t understand English. In fact, India may not be the tortoise, but love China is the rabbit. In the era of competition, we must not be blindly confident and sleepless.

11. Uncle Rabbit Hair

Uncle Rabbit Hair is a term commonly used by people in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. For example:

The enemy’s creditor turned out to be my uncle with rabbit hair.

The fourth fold of Yuanben's "Looking at Money Slaves")

The old man is wrapped in the red flag, and the shy autumn is wrapped in the white clothes, and the rabbit-haired uncle is hard to catch.

(Gao Andao's "Shaobian·Vodanxingyuan")

This rabbit-haired uncle means old man.

The "relative gate" in the "Qitan Shiyu" in Volume 8 of "The Continuation of Shilin Guangji" includes: "Bo: Liangshan; Rabbit Mao." This is a code word: Liangshan - Bo, Rabbit Mao - —Bai (uncle). Uncle Rabbit Hair—Uncle Rabbit Hair—the old man—all white beard and hair!