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Rats are super reproductive, and they are worshipped probably for the sake of prosper.

One place has one custom, and some areas will think that rats are the best sacrifices.

Ancient folk customs, rats themselves don't know what's going on.

Or rats have certain skills, or how can there be rats and no cats in the zodiac.

Folklore that rats marry girls is a kind of rat worship activity, which should be a legend and has no basis.

Rats are the strongest of the best when they reproduce, so there is such a saying.

The ability of rats is very big, and they can steal the day and the beam.

Although the rat is small, it has a very big ability, and it can do anything.

Folklore has it that rat marrying a girl is a rat worship activity, but this activity has never been heard of.

The custom of rats marrying is an ancient traditional folklore.

The ancient traditional folklore of rat marrying a woman, also known as rat marrying, rat marrying a woman, rat marrying a relative, etc., is very popular in China. As a Chinese folk belief, it is one of the most influential topics in traditional Chinese folk culture, and it is a rat worship event held in the first month of the year, and its plot "version" is different.

The specific date varies from place to place, some are on the seventh day of the first month, some are on the twenty-fifth day of the first month, many areas are on the tenth day of the first month, and some are in the middle of the night of the fourteenth day of the first month of the summer calendar. On the tenth day of the first month of Pingyao County, Shanxi, the dough cake was placed at the root of the wall, and the name was "He Mouse Marrying a Girl".

Legends and Stories Introduction:

The Origin of the Zodiac" said that the Jade Emperor sent cats to inform the bulls and tigers and other birds and beasts to rank in the sky. After the mouse overheard the cat's message, he took the lead, and the confused Jade Emperor named him the head of the zodiac. The cat was squeezed out of the zodiac and has since formed a deep enmity with the rat.

The mouse wanted to settle the grudge with the cat, so he asked the weasel to be a matchmaker and promised his most beautiful daughter to the cat, and the cat agreed. So the mouse chose an auspicious date, stole a child's tiger head shoes to fill the sedan chair, and sent the daughter to the cat's nest. As a result, the mouse married a girl and married into the belly of the cat.

The folklore of "rats marrying girls" is very popular in our country. However, the timing of "rat marrying a girl" varies from place to place.

In the folklore of the Jiangnan area, it is said that rats are harmful and unlucky, so they should be married off on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve to ensure peace and auspiciousness in the coming year. In some places in the suburbs of Shanghai, it is said that the marriage of a mouse is on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, and on this night, every household fried sesame candy, which is the wedding candy prepared for the rat to marry.

In the north, rats marry on the night of the 25th day of the first lunar month. On this night, every household did not light the lamp, and the whole family sat on the kang and did not make a sound, just eating the "rat claw claws", "scorpion tails" and fried soybeans made of flour in the dark. Not lighting the lamp and not making a sound means to provide convenience for the rat to marry a girl, for fear of disturbing the wedding event.

Eating the "old answer to the burning rat's paw and paw shout" indicates that people expect the rat's paw to itch and get up and act early; Eating the "scorpion tail" means that the rat will not be harmed by the scorpion when it marries a girl out of the hole. Eating fried soybeans makes a crunchy sound, as if it is setting off firecrackers for rats to marry.

On the night of the rat's marriage, there are places where candles are planted in the corners of the house and on the clear road, which means that the road through which the rat marries is illuminated.

When I was a child, I often heard the old man talk about the third day of the first month of the first month of the mouse to marry, because of curiosity all night without sleeping waiting to be able to see the mouse marrying, but after waiting for a night did not see, the old man said that the mouse has a mouse The road is different from that of people.

According to legend, a long time ago, a mouse couple gave birth to a daughter. They loved her very much since she was a child. When she grows up to be beautiful and well-behaved, they want to marry her to the greatest man in the world. But who is the greatest man in the world?

They think that the sun that shines on the earth is certainly the greatest man! So they ran to the sun and said, "Mr. Sun, we think you are the greatest man in the world, and we want to marry our daughter to you."

The sun was startled by this sudden question and thought: How to get out of trouble? In a hurry, he said:

Thank you for looking up to me, but I'm not the greatest person in the world, and as soon as the clouds come I will be obscured, so the clouds are better than me.

They thought it made sense, so they ran to Yun and said, "Mr. Yun, we think you are the greatest person in the world, and we want to marry our daughter to you." Yun secretly complained, blaming the sun for arming him, and Yun also wanted to throw the hot potato out, and said in a flash of inspiration:

I'm not the greatest person in the world, and I'll be blown away as soon as the wind comes.

The rats were a little disappointed and ran to look for the wind. The wind also secretly scolded Yun for having no conscience, and pulled him into the whirlpool, so he pushed him and said: I am not a great person, because the wall can block me, and the wall is the most amazing.

For the sake of their daughter's lifelong happiness, the rat couple had to run to find the wall again. The wall knows the hearts of parents in the world best, and can't bear to be hurt by their rejection again, so he has good thoughts in his heart, and thinks of a way to be the best of both worlds, so he pretends to be a bitter gourd face and says: I am not the greatest person in the world, I am most afraid of you rats, and the rats will make holes in me!

It dawned on them that my rat generation was the greatest in the world! So he immediately went home and held a hydrangea throwing to choose a mouse son-in-law. Finally on the third day of the Lunar New Year, he chose a young and talented mouse as his son-in-law, married his baby daughter, and lived a happy life ever since.

Chinese folk, according to legend, the third night of the first lunar month is the big day of "rat marrying", you will hear the sound of mice squeaking, in order not to disturb the good thing of mice marrying, people will try to turn off the lights early and go to bed early that night.

According to the ancient legend of our country, the third day of the Lunar New Year is the day of "rat marrying", so according to legend, after night, it is necessary to turn off the lights and go to bed early, let the rat family hold a wedding, and sprinkle salt and rice everywhere in the house, which means to share money with "rats".

In addition, they will sprinkle some rice salt and cakes in the kitchen or corner where rats often come and go, and share the joy of the wedding and the harvest of the year with the rats.

The sound of firecrackers sounded in the New Year, and the streets were densely covered with sulphur smoke, and the lights were on. In the corner of the wall, the Du Mouse family was quietly holding the wedding. The red hijab on the head of the rat bride did not cover her eyes, and she accidentally happened to meet the eyes of the groom.

So the bridegroom blushed and turned away. The bride smiled and said, "What's so embarrassing?"

Hee-hee, your previous answer, please, take it, hehe

It is generally believed that the behavior and taboo of the rat marrying a girl are essentially a rat worship activity, and various rat marriage stories, songs, New Year paintings and paper-cuts and other Han folk crafts are the explanation of the rat worship activity. How did rats become objects of worship or worship? There are two reasons for this:

1. Totem worship, such as some people think that the ancient surname Yan used the rat as a totem.

2. Regarding the myth of the birth of the rat, such as the Han "Legend of the Twelve Genera", the rat has the magical power to open the world and incarnate all things. The Yi myth "The Man Who Came Out of the Gourd" says that human beings originated from the gourd, and the gourd was originally sealed, and it was the rat that bit a hole in the gourd, and human beings were born. According to the Yao myth "The Legend of Millet" and the She myth "Why Do Rice Ears Look Like Mouse Tails", it was the rats that helped humans get rice seeds.

These legends reflect the special status of the rat in the animal god worship of the ancients. As for the relationship between rat marrying and rat worship, Zhong Fulan believes that it is a legacy of the ancient custom of showing respect or friendship to rats.

Some people believe that the marriage of rats as a folk cultural phenomenon expresses the people's desire to eradicate rodent infestation; The reason for the use of "repatriation" is that they are full of fear of rodent infestation, so they disguise their true purpose by providing food, turning off lights and prohibiting light, and other flattering behaviors that cater to the habits and preferences of rodents, which is a choice to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages in an ambivalent mentality. For example, Wang Shucun believes that there is no unified "rat extermination day" in ancient times, and that after the beginning of spring is the breeding period for rats, in order to avoid rat damage, people draw a diagram of "rats marrying", and the actual action is to turn off the lights at night to extinguish the fire, and trick the children to go to bed early, so as to lure the rats out of the hole to hunt them ("Rats Marry", "China Cultural Relics News", February 18, 1996). Ma Changyi believes that the concept of marrying disasters has been around for a long time.

Dialect 1: "Marry, go." It is called marriage from home, and it is also married by a woman.

The so-called marrying disasters, marrying wrongdoing, and marrying rats contains the meaning of expelling disasters, right and wrong, and rats and insects from the house. In the Han folk letters, most of the dates for the rats to choose the day to marry are from the 23rd to the 25th of the first month, which is the peak season of rat breeding. On the other hand, the marriage of a rat to a girl is a product of the belief in the mother goddess of the rat in the culture of the year. The rat genus is the head of the twelve branches, "the son is the cathode, hidden and obscure, and the rat is matched with it".

The rat is a symbol of extreme yin, and the lunar month is the alternation of the old and new years, so the choice of this period to marry the rat also has the symbolic meaning of removing the old cloth and the new, sending the yin and welcoming the yang, and dispelling the disaster.

In southern Fujian, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the warehouse filling festival, and the folk custom is to worship the god of grains, so the lamp can not be lit; In order not to damage the grain, he prayed to the rats to marry. In addition, because rats have a strong reproductive ability, they also have the meaning of passing on the lineage.

Slapping a swollen face and becoming fat, doing illegal things for the sake of face, in the end, it was himself who was unlucky.

Some of the folk customs related to rats are quite interesting, such as the custom of "beating the eyes of rats" was popular in ancient times in southern Zhejiang, that is, during the Lantern Festival, people boiled black beans, and then sprinkled black beans indoors. "It is believed that rodent infestation can be eliminated.

On the stage of China's drama, the rat play is also varied, very funny, such as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the folk have the "mouse pushing and grinding", "mouse swing" rat show performance. In the Qing Dynasty, rat play became more popular. In addition, there are many proverbs related to rats circulated among the linguists, such as "mice can't keep overnight food", "mice look at the warehouse, see the fine light", "cat bites cat, mice laugh", etc., the language is simple, but the meaning is deeper, and it is quite charming to read.