What is the bane of sheep? Three guardian animals of sheep.

The argument that Cixi is not as good as a sheep because of taboo is purely speculation by later generations that the five elements of the zodiac "alongside" discredit the zodiac sheep.

Legal Evening News (Text/Intern reporter Chen Pin) People in China have a "complex" for the zodiac since ancient times. 12 in the Chinese zodiac, the sheep took the blame. I don't know when it began, and there were prejudices such as "ten sheep are incomplete" and "people who belong to sheep are doomed to fail in marriage and have a bad career, so they can only be followers". In fact, these are just "babies coming soon", which is totally much ado about nothing. Where does the prejudice against the zodiac sheep come from? Is there any basis for this statement? For this reason, the reporter interviewed Wu Yucheng, director of the Chinese Folklore Society, who specializes in the study of China Zodiac culture, to see what the experts said.

The origin of sheep is inferior, which was recorded in the Ming Dynasty.

According to Wu Yucheng, "sheep have a bad life, which is a historical saying." Li Ruzhen, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, borrowed the words of a sage in Scholar's Country in his twelfth poem "The Flowers in the Mirror" and published a grand theory about the zodiac, which was extremely thorough:

What is particularly ridiculous is that it is said that northern women are not as good as sheep and southern women are not as fierce as tigers. I don't know what this means, but it's inseparable so far. People are born before their age, so what is better than sheep? Born in a cloudy year, how can you become a tiger? And all the people who are afraid of their wives in the world are not necessarily the wives of tigers. Rats like to steal, snakes are the most yin. Are all rats and snakes thieves and prostitutes? The dragon is one of the four spirits, so it is naturally more expensive than this. You were born in old age. Is this your destiny? This is all ignorance. It is ridiculous to create this fallacy, and scholars often feel the same way.

Li Ruzhen (about 1763 to about 1830), a native of Daxing (now a city) in Zhili, was called Beipingzi, who read widely and came from a loyal and honest family. From this passage, we can know that in the era of the book "Mirror Flower Edge", there was a saying that "women's lives are not as good as sheep" in the north, including the region, and it was not only widely circulated among the "ignorant", but even some reading books were "infected with this trend". But obviously, Li Ruzhen dismissed this statement as "fallacy". At that time, someone had challenged this statement like Li Ruzhen, who thought it was unreasonable.

In the Ming Dynasty, Ximen Qing's concubine Li Pinger died of illness and wrote a fortune-telling trick: Mr. Xu opened his secretary to watch and said, "... he was a man in the Wangs' home in Binzhou in his last life and killed a pregnant ewe. Now he is a woman." Although expensive, there are often diseases. "

The secretary is also called the black book, which is used by fortune tellers to fool people. According to this book, the fortune teller spun a story: a man killed a pregnant ewe in a previous life, and a woman was a sheep in this life. It can be seen that in the Ming Dynasty, the so-called fortune teller had deceived the theory that women were bad sheep. When commenting on this sentence, Zhang Zhupo of A Qing Dynasty criticized: "Ridiculous, the zodiac animals will kill one in their last life and write a fool." Zodiac fortune-telling and zodiac fortune-telling are just lies from the heart, used to blind fools who believe in the fate of the zodiac and fool ignorant people.

It means "sheep" is a beautiful thing. There used to be a saying that "ten sheep are nine blessings".

Wu Yucheng told reporters that although people have discrimination against the zodiac sheep, the sheep itself actually represents a beautiful meaning. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" says: "Sheep are auspicious." The word "auspicious", which represents "auspiciousness" in later generations, comes from the word "sheep". Before the word "auspicious" came into being, the word "auspicious" was written as "auspicious sheep" This stems from people's attention to "sheep", an important food object, in the hunting years in ancient China. "Sheep" had a great influence on China's ancient ancestors, and it was also directly related to people's judgment on artistic emotion and the value orientation of life morality. What is "beauty"? "Sheep" is greatly "beautiful"; What is "goodness"? "Sheep" in the mouth is "good". Scholars have a "good luck" and a "sheep" as "good omen" Of course, it is best to have a "sheep" or an ancestor's sheep-"auspicious", that is, "auspicious".

In ancient times, cows were used as gifts to worship heaven, sheep as gifts to worship ancestors and sheep as auspicious gifts. The Thai hexagram in "",the upper hexagram is the earth, the lower hexagram is the sky, and the heaven and the earth are ventilated, so it is called "Tai", the sky is Sanyang, and Kun is Sanyin, which means Sanyang opens Tai. Because "sheep" and "yang" are homophonic, people often say the auspicious words of "three sheep open Thailand" in the Year of the Sheep. In ancient times, people regarded sheep as sacred animals and mascots. From the most primitive rock paintings of mankind, to the bronzes in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and then to the tiles in the Han Dynasty, we can find the images of sheep in different forms.

The ancients regarded sheep as a symbol of beauty, which was related to their meekness, cleverness and lack of aggression. It can be seen that sheep are beautiful, kind, auspicious and filial. Dong Zhongshu, a great scholar in the Han Dynasty, praised sheep in the Spring and Autumn Period, saying that "sheep have the grace to kneel and nurse", which means that children should know how to be filial to their parents, and sheep are animals who know manners.

In addition, the reporter learned from Gao Wei, president of the Folklore Society, that there is a saying among the sheep in the ancient Chinese zodiac in China-"Ten sheep and nine blessings", which means that sheep symbolize happiness. Why do you say that? Because in ancient times, what did people think was "happiness"? That is to have "clothing, food and land" for "happiness". Because the ancients regarded sheep as a symbol of good luck, people thought that having sheep meant adding blessings.

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Originated from Cixi's taboo of "sheep entering the tiger's mouth"?

Experts said that this statement has a long history.

The reporter mentioned to Wu Yucheng that the bad zodiac in Zhongyang originated from the sheep of Empress Dowager Cixi. He said that this statement has something to do with court singing. In the old days, artists should not only remember the "taboo words" in the palace that day, but also remember the taboo words of the emperor, the queen mother, the imperial concubine and others. Otherwise, you will be punished. Empress Dowager Cixi of Qing Dynasty was born in the last year of B, belonging to a sheep, so she dared not mention the word sheep when singing opera. Even scripts and lines should be changed, such as Muttering Sheep, Shepherd's Pen, Shepherd in Su Wu, etc. And the words "sheep in the tiger's mouth, don't return" in the woman's explanation should also be changed to "fish falls, don't return".

When the famous Dan Sun performed "The First Solution of Women", he didn't change his tune when he sang "The sheep went into the tiger's mouth and didn't return it", which angered the grandfather of the Queen Mother, ordered him to stop performing and ordered him to be immediately expelled from the palace, which shocked four places. Empress Dowager Cixi is a die-hard, especially for such an important event related to her own destiny, and naturally she will not tolerate such evil. The story of Empress Dowager Cixi's taboo against sheep entering the tiger's mouth is widely circulated, regardless of the merits and demerits of Empress Dowager Cixi herself. This story also involves an old custom, that the twelve zodiac animals belong to each other.

Wu Yucheng believes that although this is a widely circulated saying, "but this is not the root cause of the bad fate of sheep." Cixi lived in the late Qing dynasty, and this statement must have come into being many years earlier than the late Qing dynasty. "In the two books" Mirror Flower Edge "and" Mirror Flower Edge ",there is already a record that" sheep are not as good as sheep ",which shows that this statement has been circulating for a long time and must be earlier than Empress Dowager Cixi. Just because Cixi is a sheep doesn't mean it's bad to be a sheep. This explanation is definitely untenable. " In recent years, the culture of the zodiac is hot, especially when the controversial year of the zodiac is like the year of the sheep, or when the old and new years are converted, there will be many explanations of the year of the zodiac. Many of them are not in history, but are added by people today. Ten sheep and nine sheep are not all originated from Cixi sheep, and later generations speculate by themselves. "

Being a sheep is a nemesis? There is no scientific basis for the five elements of the zodiac.

Why did the concept of "inferior sheep" change from "ten sheep with nine blessings" to "ten sheep with nine imperfections"? Wu Yucheng told reporters: "There is a saying that' ten sheep are not complete', which means that people who belong to sheep will be rude. The ancients thought that the sheep's appearance was bad because its eyes were all white, while human eyes were rarely all white. " What is the relationship between people's hatred of sheep's eyes and the bad fate of sheep? "It goes back to what was said in jinghuayuan. The zodiac corresponds to the twelve earthly branches. People were born in the year of the sheep. Why compare people to sheep? It's just a number of a person's birth year. Corresponding the zodiac to the earthly branches is to visualize and animalize the very abstract earthly branches. " Wu Yucheng said.

Wu Yucheng also told reporters that "ten sheep and nine imperfections" are closely related to the ancient five elements. There is a saying in the Ming dynasty: "cows eat grass, such as watering;" Sheep eat grass, like burning. "It means that cows eat grass, grass can grow, and sheep eat grass, which destroys the grassroots. The ancients controlled the Chinese zodiac to correspond to the five elements, and later generations derived the theory that the Chinese zodiac also had the five elements. Explained by the theory of five elements, cattle belong to soil, and soil is for raising wood; Sheep is gold, and metal is gram wood. In fact, there is no corresponding relationship between the zodiac and the five elements. Later generations tied the two together, and there was a saying that the zodiac was mutually reinforcing. The most typical thing is that sheep's life is not good, which has no scientific basis.

Different interpretations of cattle herding and sheep herding in the Ming Dynasty included prejudice against the zodiac sheep. Later, prejudice gradually became a taboo in the zodiac. "In addition to the saying that the sheep is not good, the saying that the tiger is not good is also out of an imagination. In fact, the custom was passed down from mouth to mouth, and later people recognized it and became a negative thing in folk customs. " Wu Yucheng said.

One explanation for the saying that "ten sheep are incomplete" is that this is the fate of sheep being slaughtered in real life. In response to this statement, the reporter asked Wu Yucheng for verification. He said this statement was unreasonable. "I think this statement is untenable. If' ten sheep are not complete' is because sheep are used much, then pigs and cows can provide food for human beings and are closely related to people's lives. Why is there only prejudice against the zodiac sheep? This is the interpretation of contemporary people. "

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The above is about what is the nemesis of sheep, and it is about the sharing of the zodiac. After reading the three guardian animals of sheep, I hope this will help everyone!