1, beautiful appearance. The ancients' explanation for sika deer is: "Deer are good at gathering and good at parting. They are all physically strong, but they are particularly timid and rush as soon as they drink water." It can be seen that the ancients paid attention to and observed sika deer. This is the basis of the emergence and development of deer culture. Beautiful traditional characters are beautiful, and beautiful characters come from deer, which shows that people think sika deer is beautiful since ancient times. Whether it is sika deer's unique horns, oily spotted fur, or slender and strong limbs, especially sika deer's kind, gentle and introverted temperament, it is worthy of praise.

2, meaning love. Oracle Bone Inscriptions deer stand out for their antlers. "Shuowen" mentioned: "Deer, line also. If the deer is hungry, it will travel. " It comes from the fact that the male deer and the female deer go out in pairs, which means getting married. "Li" is a hieroglyph related to deer, which looks like two deer skins. The ancients married the man and gave the woman two deerskin as a dowry. It means to marry a beautiful girl! The beautiful meaning of the word Li was later extended. As "Jing Hua Yuan Wai Ji" said: "There was no difference between men and women in ancient times, and Tai Hao began to set up a wedding ceremony, with the skin of the couple as the gift." Later people called husband and wife husband and wife. And the couple's skin is deerskin. Beauty is also used to describe women's modesty and introversion, kindness and femininity. There used to be two idioms. One is "the deer pulling the cart and hugging together", which was used to praise the unity and happiness of husband and wife in the old days. And the deer cart is our common unicycle in the past. There is also a name called "Hong's Deer Car", which also means that husband and wife respect each other, understand each other and share weal and woe.

3, on behalf of health. Since ancient times, the promotion of sika deer to human health has developed from eating its meat, sleeping its skin and using its bones to further understanding. It took a long time. Kunya said:' Lu Naixian is a beast and can enjoy himself, but when he walks, his mouth drools and he won't leave in a hurry. "It can be seen that the ancients thought that eating preserved deer had the effect of prolonging life, and called the long-lived deer' fairy deer'.

4. Metaphor refers to rights. The relationship between sika deer and war can be traced back to ancient times. Since sika deer was often chased and hunted by people in ancient times, when people witnessed the pursuit of power by the ruling class, they naturally associated it with the hunting of deer in daily life and used it as a metaphor to make the deer symbolic. Historian Sima Qian said in Historical Records. "Biography of Huaiyin Hou": "Qin lost a deer, and the world chased it." Wei Zhi, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, also mentioned in his poem Shu Huai: "At the beginning of the Central Plains, I fought for deer and threw my pen at Rong Xuan." The deer here is a metaphor for the throne and political power. Why are deer comparable to the throne and political power? This shows that deer played an important role in history.