Is it bad luck or luck for the old snake to climb into the house?

Is it good or bad for the old snake to climb into the house?

In the ancient legends of China, snakes and cranes are considered to prolong life, so they symbolize good luck. According to the Records of Kings, Sun Shi, the grandmother of Zhang Zhao, the prime minister of Soochow in the Three Kingdoms, was swimming in Jiangpu in a canoe when suddenly a three-foot-long white snake jumped onto the boat. She cursed that you were lucky not to poison me, but you would return it and put it in your room, and you would never see the snake again. Neighbors saw a white crane fly away from Zhang Lingyun. Sun Shi divined, and the diviner told her that it was auspicious and children should be taken seriously. Later, his grandson Zhang Zhaoguo was added as Prime Minister by General Wu. At that time, people thought it was an auspicious place to inherit snakes and cranes.

In ancient China, snakes were also regarded as a symbol of bumper harvest or offspring reproduction. Especially in the bronze culture in the south or southwest, images with the theme of snakes are very common. For example, the bronze statue unearthed in Gongcheng, Guangxi in the Spring and Autumn Period has a vivid continuous pattern of double snake fighting frogs. Ethnic minorities living in the frontier often use snakes as a symbol of harvest or the earth. For example, snake-shaped cultural relics are often unearthed in ancient Dian tombs excavated in Shizhai Mountain in Jinning, Yunnan and Lijiashan in Jiangchuan. There are bronze shovels with snake heads as handles and bronze swords with snakes as handles. The head of the handle is a snake head with an open mouth, which is very vivid. As for a large number of unearthed bronze buckles with birds and beasts as the theme, they are all decorated with long snakes wound into coils. There are also long snakes in some three-dimensional group carvings on the lid of shellfish containers that show sacrificial ceremonies, praying for the New Year and other scenes. Especially in a tomb of the king of Yunnan, the golden seal awarded by the Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty was unearthed, with the inscription "Wang Yin, Yunnan", and the seal button was also cast into a flat-curved golden snake, which became a symbol of the noble status and authority of the king of Yunnan.

In the images of stone reliefs and brick reliefs in the Han Dynasty, the gods of Fuxi and Nu Wa are both depicted as snake-like, or holding the sun and the moon (some people think it is the sun god and the moon god), or holding the rules and moments, and sometimes the snake-like tail at the bottom is depicted as a dragon's tail. In the Tang Dynasty silk paintings unearthed from Astana Tomb in Turpan, Xinjiang, Fuxi and Nu Wa, surrounded by stars, are closely intertwined with the snake body and tail, showing magical artistic modeling and expectations of future generations.

Nuwa in Han paintings is either a snake or a dragon, which may indicate that in ancient China, dragons and snakes were often regarded as a whole, and sometimes snakes were regarded as sacred objects symbolizing the emperor. Legend has it that Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, passed through Fengxi osawa at the end of Qin Dynasty. Lu Yu's serpent stood in the way and drew his sword to kill it. Then passers-by saw an old woman crying at the snake. She said that the snake was Bai Di's son, who had just been killed by the passing son of Chi Di. After that, the old woman disappeared The above-mentioned legends, which were popular in the Western Han Dynasty, painted a magical color for Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang to seize power, and at the same time showed that people used to use snakes to symbolize emperors at that time.

In some ancient legends, snakes are also regarded as the embodiment of famous soldiers. For example, there is a miraculous rumor in the Book of Jin that Du Yu, a famous soldier who perished in the Western Jin Dynasty, became a snake in Jingzhou because of drunkenness. This story shows that he is superman. In later generations, people no longer used snakes as symbols of emperors, but only dragons as symbols of emperors, especially in Ming and Qing dynasties.

Among the ancient cultural relics with snakes as the main image, there are two common ones: one is Xuanwu, which represents the north, and its form is that turtles and snakes are intertwined, and later it became the god of Zhenwu Emperor in the north. Today, Wudang Mountain still has a bronze statue of Xuanwu cast in Ming Dynasty. The second point is 12 (12 Chen), which indicates that the animal in the past time is a snake, and it is often shaped into the shape of a snake head in the pottery figurines of Sui and Tang Dynasties.

In ancient legends, there are many stories about snake spirits turning people into men or women. The snake spirits in the wives stories of Taiyuan scholars described in "Searching for God" are all men, and the snake spirits in the Tang Dynasty stories described in "Bo" have all turned into beautiful women, but they all ended in horrible and tragic endings. Only the legend of the White Snake, which has spread among the people, left a touching story of faithful love, which has long been loved by the people of China, and has been compiled into plays, movies, dance performances and adult paintings, and still brings people beautiful enjoyment.