The origin of year of the snake

Snakes in reptiles are both familiar and afraid. Because its appearance gives people the impression that it is ugly, ferocious and terrible, the snake has become synonymous with insidious, vicious and vicious. The idioms "snake heart", "ghost" and "snake heart", and the two-part allegorical saying "snakes make friends with scorpions-fight poison with poison" are all symbols of ugliness. However, in the ancient folk culture of China, the snake used to be a beautiful symbol and a worshiped image, because it was the earliest totem of the Chinese nation and a primitive religious god, and was later called the ancestor god.

what can I say? Because there are snakes in the zodiac, do you want information about the zodiac? The origin of the zodiac is very early. At the end of the Warring States period, twelve beasts with branches have appeared in Qin bamboo slips of Sleeping Tiger Land and Fangmatan. Their names and branching arrangements are generally similar to those of the later zodiac signs, and their usage methods [1] and divination logic are also similar to those of the later zodiac signs. Therefore, it can be inferred that there are branches in Qin bamboo slips of Shuihudi and Fangmatan. [2] The year of the zodiac began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. A letter written by Yuwen Hu's mother is recorded in the Biography of Northern History Yuwen Hu, which says: "Your brother was born in Wuchuan Town. The first one is a mouse, the second one is a rabbit, and you are a snake." Explain the folk usage of 12 zodiac at that time. According to our ancient records, in the ancient Central Plains, the "chronology of branches and branches" was originally used, that is, 10 heavenly stems symbols (A, B, C, D, E (wù), Ji, Geng (gēng), Xin, Ren (rén) and Gui (guǐ). At the same time, there are also twelve kinds of animals that simply determine the year. By the Sui Dynasty, the calendar of the Central Plains had spread to the nomadic people in the northwest of China, and they only absorbed twelve kinds of animal chronologies. Therefore, it is recorded in the Book of the Tang Dynasty: "The year of the tiger is called the year of the tiger." In addition, the History of the Song Dynasty, The Biography of Tubo, also records that when the Tubo leaders narrate, they take events as a chronology. As the saying goes, "Twelve old things belong to Japan, the Year of the Rabbit and the Year of the Horse". As Zhao pointed out in the Qing Dynasty's "Examination of Jade Cong", "At the beginning of the custom of covering the north, it doesn't matter if the ugly son is twelve years old, but when the rats, cows, tigers and rabbits are divided into years, they spread to China, so they don't waste their ears." This explanation about the origin of 12 zodiac has been recognized by many people.

Four-year-old people are snakes, most of them are dragons in the north, and some are worms. People say they belong to dragons instead of snakes, probably because they hate snakes, but they have a soft spot for dragons. Because the dragon is sacred, it is a bit like "climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix"