What is the zodiac in 1993?

A monkey before Chinese New Year, a chicken after Chinese New Year.

The first symbolic meaning of monkeys: intelligence and wit.

Monkeys are primates closest to human intelligence, and their obvious characteristics are intelligence and hyperactivity. Monkeys can do some human movements, understand human behavior, be good at climbing and be extremely dexterous. So in many cultures, monkeys are symbols of wisdom and evolution, so they are loved and respected by people. In the myths and legends of China and India, monkeys are mostly agile and clever heroes, and the Monkey King in The Journey to the West plays such a role. Ha Numan, the Monkey King in Hinduism, is both a god of medicine and a warrior. Among all kinds of legends about apes becoming human beings, a folklore of Barrow nationality has the most symbolic significance of its own creation.

The second symbolic meaning of the monkey: high official and generous.

Han people generally think that monkeys are mascots. Because the monkey is homophonic with Hou, in many pictures, the image of the monkey means to seal Hou. If a monkey climbs a maple tree and hangs a seal, take it? Seal and seal? Meaning; A monkey is riding a horse. Immediately seal Hou? Meaning; Two monkeys are sitting on a pine tree, or one monkey is riding on the back of another monkey. How many generations Meaning. The traditional auspicious patterns in China are composed of homophones, which show a big monkey carrying a little monkey. Generation after generation means that generation after generation can get high officials and rich salaries. This pattern is often used in folk architecture, including stone carving, brick carving and woodcut patterns. The titles of Marquis in past dynasties expressed people's pursuit of fame and fortune in feudal society.

The third symbolic meaning of monkeys: naughty and interesting.

Monkeys themselves are not easy to tame. Being hyperactive, playful and naughty is another sign. Moreover, monkeys are good at imitation, so they are often used to satirize human vanity and other vices. In Christian tradition, monkeys are extremely disgusting and arouse people's suspicion. They are synonymous with evil, greed, blind worship and heresy.

China paid special attention to chickens in ancient times, calling them? Bird of Five Virtues? "Korean Poetry Biography" says that it has a crown on its head and is a virtue; There is a distance behind the foot to play, which is martial arts; It is brave to dare to fight in front of the enemy; It is benevolence to have food to welcome the same kind; Vigilance and dawn are beliefs. People even regard the chicken as a mascot, saying that it can ward off evil spirits, eat all kinds of poisonous insects and kill pests for human beings. Therefore, on the first day of the new year, people cut chickens with red paper as window grilles, and set this day as? Chicken day? .

The first symbolic meaning of chicken: honesty and punctuality

The most obvious symbolic meaning of chicken is trustworthiness and punctuality. The cock crows at dawn, which means that the sky will be bright. Further extension symbolizes the liberation from darkness to light. Like what? The rooster crows, it's dawn, liberated? It is such a symbolic meaning of progress.

For the ancients, it was very important for chickens to watch the night to announce the dawn. The ancient timing tools were very simple, such as a leaky kettle. Although it could time, it was impossible to wake people up on time, and there was no later alarm clock. Sleepers don't know what time it is. At this time, the golden rooster announced the dawn and told people that it was almost dawn and they had to get up and get ready for work. People often say? Do it at sunrise and rest at sunset? But you can't wait until sunrise to get up. Besides, the sun doesn't come out every day, and rainy weather loses the basis for observing the sun to set the time. And chickens, whether it is hot or cold, whether it is sunny or snowy, keep their promises and never slack off. It can be said that it is precisely because of the difficulty of dawn crowing that fireworks and a vibrant new day began to appear on the earth.

The second symbolic meaning of chicken: brave and good at fighting.

This meaning comes from cockfighting. Chickens like fighting, especially cocks, which is also a common phenomenon in daily life. When two cocks meet, they often have a fight, and occasionally there will be a ground battle between hens.

In order to watch the wonderful cockfighting, people raise special cockfighting. Usually ordinary weak chickens, once they fight, are also nervous, brave and tenacious, and fight fiercely. People are also encouraged and encouraged to learn the courage of cockfighting. This is an example of ancient Greece. The ancient Greeks had cockfighting competitions very early. In one year BC, a Greek general led his troops to the front to fight the Persian army. On the March, he saw two cocks fighting, and his heart couldn't help moving. He believes that if the soldiers' fighting spirit is as tenacious as this rooster, they will surely win the coming battle. So he ordered the team to stop and let the soldiers watch the brave struggle between the two cocks. Sure enough, the soldiers were encouraged to fight bravely and defeated the country. Commemorate this glorious victory. The king of Greece decided to hold the annual cockfighting meeting in Athens from now on. Cockfighting activities soon spread throughout Greece, and soon spread to Mediterranean countries, ancient Rome and other countries. The victory of the Greek army confirmed. When the two armies meet, they all win? , but? Ever? But inspired by cockfighting, we can see that chickens are not always weak.

The third symbolic meaning of chicken: ordinary and weak

Chickens can be found almost everywhere in daily life. Strong reproductive ability, high survival rate, no special requirements for the environment, and can be raised anywhere. As the saying goes, things are rare. The same is true of animals, such as pandas, which are very rare and precious, and are regarded as national treasures because only China has them. Although some animals are not national treasures, they are too few to be extinct, so it is forbidden to kill and protect them as rare animals. It is impossible for chickens to enjoy such treatment. There are so many of them that they are despised. Moreover, as a kind of bird, the flying ability of chicken is greatly degraded. Compared with other birds, they can fly freely in the blue sky; Running on the ground is not as fast and agile as riding a dog, so chickens look ordinary. Therefore, it has the symbolic significance of being ordinary, popular and weak.

Chickens are common. They are busy all day, looking for food everywhere and pecking at the west. Hard as they are, they are far from comfortable. This common characteristic of chicken is also used to describe the similar fate of human beings. What is it called? Chicken steak? . It shows that this person is very busy, like a chicken pecking at the west. In the end, he can only talk about food and clothing, and it is impossible to enjoy precious prosperity. There is a story that once upon a time a rich man asked him to tell his fortune. As a result, the rich man had a hard time, just one? Chicken steak? . But the fortune teller said that the rich people live in a good place, because they live in Gucheng (Gucheng County, Hubei Province), where there are chicken harrows everywhere. Naturally, only when they have enough to eat and wear warm clothes can the rich enjoy the treasure. The rich man said, isn't he poor if he doesn't live in the ancient city? The fortune teller said it was true. I don't want the rich not to believe the fortune teller and think: Is it necessary to be poor when moving out of the ancient city? So his family moved to another county, gradually declined in a few years, and finally lived in poverty. This is just a folk story, which may not be true, but it contains the symbolic meaning of ordinary chickens.

The fourth symbolic meaning of chicken: exorcism, disaster elimination and deification.

Divination with chickens is found all over the world, and the henhouse means god. The ancients also used chickens to exorcise evil spirits and sacrifice. Killing chickens to drive away evil spirits is a kind of witchcraft and superstition. As early as the pre-Qin period, chicken and chicken blood were used to exorcise evil spirits. The ancients believed that chicken and chicken blood had the functions of exorcising ghosts and evil spirits and eliminating disasters.

The ancients attached great importance to sacrifice. Among many sacrifices, chicken is one of them. Sacrificing ancestors with chickens is still popular in some areas.

Divination with chicken means that chicken symbolizes God. In addition to chicken divination, there are different kinds of egg divination in different regions and nationalities. For example, in southern Yunnan, when people are sick, they think that ghosts are possessed. Rub an egg on the patient, thinking that ghosts can be attached to the egg. After the eggs are cooked in a pot, they are examined by a wizard to determine good luck or bad luck.

Yao people use eggs for divination in everything they do. If you choose a place to build a house, choose an egg before you break ground. After wearing a small hole, I wrote the words "people, wealth, livestock and ghosts" on the eggshell, and set it on fire until it exploded, relying on the outflow of protein. If the protein is stained with herringbone, it is thought that the basic education prisoners and their families in front of the house will get sick; If you cling to the word wealth, you think it will be difficult to make a living in the future; When you touch the word livestock, you think that if you commit livestock, the livestock will not flourish in the future; If you cling to the word ghost, you think that committing a ghost will make your ancestors and all kinds of blessed gods unhappy and lead to accidents. Encounter the above situation, as a bad omen, we should immediately stop choosing the foundation of the house.

About chickens can ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and crowing can also drive away ghosts. In folklore, ghosts are most afraid of hearing the crow of chickens, because ghosts can only move in the dark, and crow of chickens means that it is almost dawn. When it is dawn, all ghosts will be helpless. This superstition originated very early. Jiangnan people celebrate the New Year? Stick the picture on the chicken coop? Hang it on it with a peach symbol beside it. All ghosts are afraid of it. A picture of a chicken is posted on the door, and hundreds of ghosts are afraid to come to the door. It's just that ghosts are afraid of hearing chickens crow. This superstition was still held by the elderly until the early days of liberation. Adults often tell children that if they meet a ghost at night, they can scare it away by imitating crows.