What is the constellation of Little Yu Liang?

Which one of the zodiac animals has a sharp tongue?

Mice, mice have a sharp mouth and a long tail.

Rats steal food, which proves that "hamsters have surplus food", indicating that this family is rich, and most mice in the family symbolize wealth.

Rats have strong reproductive ability and are often regarded as a symbol of reproductive worship. Mothers whose children live in groups jokingly call them "rat fetuses" or "rat bellies". Yu Ren, a painter in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote an Atlas of the Twelve Zodiacs. In the picture, five mice were grabbing melon seeds in a jar, and the word "seed" was homophonic with the word "zi", indicating multiple meanings. Mice and gourd, grapes, pomegranates and other multi-seed plants form auspicious patterns to strengthen the desire to reproduce.

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The 25th day of the first lunar month is the "Cang Cang Festival", and grain merchants and rice vendors offer sacrifices to the "Cang Shen" rats. In the Qing Dynasty, Pan's "Ji Sheng at the Age of Emperor Jing" said: "This new festival is over, and it is appropriate to restore it." No lighting is allowed on the night of the filling festival, and the mouse marries a woman that night.

However, the day when a mouse marries a woman is not uniform everywhere. On that day, people fried soybeans mixed with brown sugar and retreated to a corner. In Shaanxi, salt and rice grains are scattered in the corner, which is called "mouse sharing money". In southern Jiangsu, take off your shoes as a bride's sedan chair and peel as a gift box.

Marrying a mouse is also an important theme in New Year pictures and paper cutting. The sedan chair, lanterns and drum bands in the picture are like the grand occasion of human marriage. Sedan chairs play with mice, but the appearance of the bride and groom varies from place to place, and there is even a reproductive god in the shape of mice. Lu Xun recalled in Dog, Cat and Mouse, "The night of the fourteenth day of the first month was the night when I refused to fall asleep easily and waited for their ceremony to come out from under the bed."

Qinghai's "steaming blind mice", on the 14th day of the first month, kneaded twelve mice with flour, steamed them in a steamer without pinching their eyes, put them on the table for the Lantern Festival, and burned incense to beg the mice not to hurt crops.