What is the meaning and symbol of donkey?

Donkeys are generally lazy in China. As the saying goes, a lazy donkey grinds noodles, which is used to describe procrastination and slowness. Besides, it is often stupid in fairy tales or fables. In the idiom "the donkey is poor in skills", the donkey is the representative who has no skills.

Donkeys, mammals, Chiroptera, Equidae, Equus. Horses and donkeys belong to the genus Equus, also called Erdonkey, but they have the same origin in different species. They are smaller than horses and zebras, but they have many common characteristics with horses: the third toe is well-developed and hoofed, and the other toes are degraded.

Living habits

The floorboard of three kinds of animals, namely horse and donkey. There are only 1 species of African wild donkeys in Africa. People think it is the ancestor of the domestic donkey. Its coat color is similar to that of domestic donkey, which is bluish gray and brown, and its bark is the same as that of domestic donkey, and its ear shell is longer.

There are two kinds of Asian wild donkeys: Tibetan wild donkeys, mainly distributed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; Central Asian wild donkeys are distributed in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, Mongolian People's Republic, near Lake Baikal of the Soviet Union, Iran and Afghanistan, and are believed to be extinct in Syria and northern Arabia. Asian wild donkeys are not typical donkeys. Their ears are shorter than African wild donkeys, their hooves are bigger, and they sing like horses. Generally, the body length is 200 ~ 220 cm and the shoulder height is about 130 cm. Hair in summer is fresh brown and reddish brown, and hair in winter is light gray.