Master Sheep Fortune Telling _ The sheep Zan said by the fortune teller

In some places, people who belong to sheep will be discriminated against. What sentence is it because of? In some places, people who belong to the sheep will be despised by many blind date objects, and superstitions such as "ten sheep are incomplete" and "Foucault family" are still quite popular.

In fact, sheep was originally an auspicious animal in the history of China, and the word "sheep" was interpreted as "Xiang Ye" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi. Dong Zhongshu also mentioned that sheep are used in auspicious ceremonies because it represents auspiciousness. Because lambs must kneel when they eat milk, sheep who know "the ritual of kneeling for milk" have always been highly praised by Confucian intellectuals in the Han Dynasty.

The loss of sheep's "negative animal" status in culture can be traced back to at least the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.

A man in the early Ming dynasty had a very negative evaluation of "sheep" in his works: the vegetation was chewed by cattle, and the rest would flourish again; If eaten by sheep, the rest will only wither. As the saying goes, "Cattle eat like water, sheep eat like fire", which is caused by the different qi of life and death of cattle and sheep.

Later, a bibliophile further interpreted the popular folk proverb "Cattle eat like water, sheep eat like burning": cattle and sheep have different temperaments, cattle belong to "native animals", and soil can support everything; Sheep belong to the "golden livestock", and the gold Lord kills. In their view, the nature of sheep is not a beast, but a negative cultural symbol.

Because of the unscientific animal husbandry policy of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty: at that time, the livestock of official pastures and aristocratic pastures were often driven to the agricultural areas of North China in late autumn and early winter. From winter to spring, there are no cowshed and sheepfold to restrain them. They all graze in the fields of the people and eat mulberry and jujube trees planted by the people. Therefore, many cultivated lands in the north are "less cultivated and more barren".

Therefore, the saying that "cows eat like water, sheep eat like fire" is actually a helpless summary of the destruction of farmland by cattle and sheep of powerful families in northern agricultural areas at that time: in winter, crops are eaten by cattle, and they can still benefit; Being eaten by sheep is like crossing the border with fire, with nothing left.

In fact, the earliest version of the folk saying "ten sheep and nine blessings" pointed out that people born in the year of the sheep are luckier. Later generations mistakenly wrote "ten sheep and nine blessings", and "blessing" was over "nothing". Over time, there is a myth that "ten sheep and nine blessings are not complete".

The earliest saying that being a sheep is not good dates back to the late Qing Dynasty, when Cixi was in power. At that time, people were dissatisfied with her being in power, so they regarded her as the Chinese zodiac-Empress Dowager Cixi (born in the fifteenth year of Daoguang, that is, 1835) was a sheep, and her main branch was the year of "B Wei". People say that the reason why the national luck of the Qing Dynasty was not prosperous was because Lafayette was a sheep, and the sheep's life was not good, and the national luck was not prosperous. Especially during the existence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the slogan of ten sheep and nine incompleteness was widely circulated. Once shaved his head and wiped out the Nian army, this statement reached its peak.

In addition, Li Hongzhang, who participated in signing many traitorous treaties, was also a sheep, and the people seemed to hate the Manchu aristocrats who were sheep even more. Later 1859 Yuan Shikai, born in August of the lunar calendar, was also a sheep, and the people who belonged to the sheep completely ruined the Qing Dynasty. But he wanted to wear a yellow robe, and the people were very dissatisfied, so "August sheep was killed by a knife" appeared in the streets.

During the Qianlong period, there was a famous fortune teller in Suzhou. A man used the word "Yi" to ask him about his future. The fortune teller actually claimed that he would never have a wife and children in his life, even if he didn't have a wife and children, on the grounds that his zodiac was a sheep. What kind of future will this person have?