"Three Yang Kaitai" or "Three Yang Kaitai"? What is the origin of this word? What do you mean?

Three rams bring happiness.

Allusions of "Three Sheep Open Thailand"

"Ma Chi leads the wind, and sheep leads the peace." In the afternoon, the horse walks slowly and the sheep comes slowly. People use this sentence to meet the occasion. Another timely sentence is also used more frequently: three sheep (yang) open Thailand. Yang and sheep are homophonic. Three sheep in the sun, a traditional auspicious meaning pattern in China, is named "Three sheep open Thailand"

"Sanyo Qi Tai" and "Yang" take their sounds, and "Yang" becomes the "Yang" of "Yang Qi", while "Tai" is the blessing word in the Book of Changes.

The meaning of "Three Sheep Map" is that it can bring good luck.

The theory of "Three Yang Kai Tai" comes from the Book of Changes. Among the sixty-four hexagrams, the ancients used Kun as the October hexagram, Fu as the November hexagram, and Lin as the December hexagram. Divination is divided into yin and yang. All the six hexagrams of Kun regard Yin as the image of pure Yin; "Fu" hexagrams a Yang was born in the next; "Pro" hexagrams were born under Yang Er; As for "Tai", there are three Yang Yao talking about Kun, so "Three" became the auspicious language at the beginning of the year. In the Ming Dynasty drama "Noisy Zhong Kui", on the first day of New Year's Day, the true gentleman of Sanyang gave a banquet in Sanyang to celebrate the New Year-saying that "the true gentleman of Sanyang led the prince of Sanyang" and Sanyang symbolized Sanyang.

The twelve earthly branches belong to the same family, but they are not sheep. But not since ancient times. In 1970s, the Qin bamboo slips "Tianshu" unearthed in Yunmeng Crouching Tiger Land in Hubei Province recorded a set of different zodiac signs, including "At noon, the deer also. No, so is the horse ... hey, so is the old sheep. " The corresponding branch of the sheep is not empty. Moreover, in this zodiac table, only the sheep are labeled as "old", as if the "lamb" sheep are not qualified to be a zodiac. Why the Qin bamboo slips "Sleeping Tiger Land" respects the "old" sheep is worth discussing. About "Weiyang", Qin bamboo slips unearthed in Fangmatan, Tianshui, Gansu Province have been recorded. The Qin bamboo slips on Fangmatan are also considered as Han bamboo slips by some scholars.

There are different opinions about whether the origin of the zodiac is in China or Babylon. The Babylonian zodiac is nicknamed "exotic zodiac" by modern people, and it is especially kind to sheep. There are two zodiac signs related to sheep. They are Aries and Capricorn. Around 3000 BC, shepherds living in Babylon called the stars "sheep in the sky" and the planets "sheep of one year". This is probably why sheep occupy two seats in the zodiac. Aries is the first of the 12 zodiac signs in Babylon, which is related to the vernal equinox of that year. Its image in the map of Babylon is a farmer with ears of wheat.

Guo Moruo claims that the zodiac culture is foreign, and one of the bases of his argument is to take Aries Palace and wheat ears. He wrote the Zodiac in 1929, and proposed that the Zodiac was imported by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty when he went to the Western Ocean. He assumed the corresponding relationship between the twelve earthly branches and the twelve constellations of the ecliptic in Babylon, in which the earthly branches did not correspond to Aries. Guo Moruo believes that Oracle Bone Inscriptions's character "Wei" is "the pictograph of an ear", "If it is not an ear, it belongs to Aries", and Aries "astrology is the shape of a farmer's field". For many years, Guo Moruo's opinion has not been accepted by researchers, and the unearthed cultural relics such as Sleeping Tiger Land have also denied this inference.

"Not for the ears, for the sheep", this sentence is reminiscent of another topic.

"Three sheep open Thailand" is an auspicious language. What about Wuyang? There is a city in the south, which is the first of the five sheep. According to legend, sheep is the god of grains and will bring good luck to Guangzhou. Taiping Yu Lan quoted Pei Yuan's Guangzhou Ji in Jin Dynasty, which contained the legend of Wuyang. Until the early Qing Dynasty, the story of Wuyang was still talked about by local people. According to Qu Dajun's "Guangzhou Newspeak", there were five immortals in the ancient South China Sea, each wearing different colors of clothes and riding different colors of sheep. They came to Guangzhou and presented six ears of grain to people, hoping that there would never be a famine. Then, five immortals flew away and five sheep turned into stones. Five immortals and five sheep bring good harvest. Guangzhou, referred to as Yangcheng for short, or Guangzhou for short, all originated from the legend of Wuyang. Today, the Wuyang stone carving stands in Yuexiu Mountain Park, which is the symbol of Guangzhou.

The sheep who bless the bumper harvest of grain is also imagined as a rain prayer-a sacred object that spreads rain with the cloud of dragon cloth. This can be found in the legendary novel Liu Yichuan of the Tang Dynasty. The novel talks about rain workers in an interesting way: the dragon lady shepherds sheep. She herds extraordinary sheep, but she is an elf who follows the dragon to the water. According to the story, Liu Yi is a shepherdess in Lu Yu. This woman asked him to deliver letters for her, claiming that she is the daughter of the Dragon King of Dongting. Liu Yi sympathized with the misfortune of the dragon lady and asked curiously, "Since you are the dragon lady, what's the use of herding sheep?" Does God keep livestock for slaughter, just like people? "The dragon lady replied," This is not a sheep, but a rain worker. "Liu Yi asked," What is a rain worker? " Dragon lady replied, "thunder or something." "Dragon female shepherds, sheep are rain workers. This kind of imagination takes the dragon as the logical starting point, but it also seems logical.

Blue and white jade Sanyang Kaitai penholder, clear, 6.3cm high and 13.4cm long. Old collection of Qing palace. The pen holder is blue and white, and the three sheep are prone. The pen holder adopts the technique of "carving in the skin", and yellow is left at the corner.

Leather color. This three-sheep-shaped pen container means "Three Yang's opening Thailand" and is a traditional auspicious pattern in China. Three sheep, one big and two small, are close. The pen holder is full of warm and moist jade, which is very comfortable and beautiful.