Why are there so many names for cows in China?

The ox has the auspicious meaning of hard work and prosperity, and is regarded as a symbol of hard work, selflessness, courage and stubbornness, and wealth.

1. Diligence and selfless dedication.

2. Brave and stubborn.

The strength of the cow is very great, and the hard-working backbone is often called the "old cattle"; Up.

Strong men are often described as "tall cows and big horses"; And people with stubborn tempers are often referred to as "bull tempers".

3. Wealth. The ox is a symbol of wealth in Western culture, according to the record of the Bible Exodus, the Israelites ran from Egypt not long ago, and followed the custom of hearing and seeing in Egypt, using the image of the ox to create a golden calf with **, as the Lord of God.

The image of God comes to worship, and the golden calf thus becomes a symbol of money and wealth, and the activities of the ox also represent production and value-added, so ****.

A sustained rise is called a "bull market".

This Year of the Ox, I would like if you buy a pair of hand-embroidered five oxen by the Han family.

Send it to a friend, wish him a good Year of the Ox, the ox is angry, the cow turns around, he likes it very, very much!

Because the beef is delicious and delicious, the cattle used to cultivate the land and made a lot of contributions to agriculture.

The honorific titles of the ancients for cattle include ugly cow, native animal, black car, Shen cow and so on. Wuqian often refers to ploughing cattle in general, and Shen Niu refers to buffaloes. Other names for cattle of different ages are calf, calf, calf, etc.

The calf refers to a calf, a two-year-old cow, a three-year-old cow, a four-year-old cow, and an eight-year-old cow. The nickname of the ox is eight hundred li. The source of this nickname is Xin Qiji's "Breaking the Array, Giving Strong Words to Chen Tongfu to Send".

Relevant knowledgeThe ox is industrious and selfless, pulling carts and plowing the fields, never letting go, and has made great contributions to the development of agriculture, and the Chinese not only love, respect and worship it, but also give it many interesting nicknames. The ancient horse is called barge, but "The World Says New Words" talks about that Wang Junzi has a cow, good at galloping, when making a bet with Wang Wuzi, the ox galloped away, Wang Junzi named the cow as "eight hundred miles barge", which is also the elegant name of the cow for later generations.

Ox King Festival: A traditional festival of the Miao nationality, popular in Guizhou Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, the date is the first day of the tenth lunar month. On this day, people do not let the cattle work, and the chickens are killed, and the cattle are fed with baba or glutinous rice in the early morning to show their gratitude.

Some farmers also prepare burning paper, chicken, incense, wine, etc. and place them next to the cowshed to worship the king of the ox.

The nicknames of the cow are: Eight Hundred Miles, Wuqian, Black Peony, Hunting, Prison, etc.

1. Eight hundred miles: Eight hundred miles is from "The World Says New Words." "Ti Luxury" records: Jin Wang Kai has a good cow, the name is "eight hundred miles", and later poems mostly refer to cattle with "eight hundred miles".

2. Wuqian: Wuqian often refers to ploughing cattle. Shen Niu, also known as "Shen Niu", that is, buffalo.

3. Black peony: Niu is also nicknamed "black peony", and Su Shi's poem "Ink Flower" in the Song Dynasty: "A unique madman, seeking to be a black peony."

4. Prison: The cattle prison (prison, which is the pen for raising livestock) is large, so the cattle are called "prisons". Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Zhou Li" is Gaoqing's prison. The prison is the room of the animals, the cattle prison is large, and the Qiling sheep prison is small, so they all get the name of the prison.

5. Covetous: "Mencius, King Hui of Liang": "I can't bear to covet him, if he is not guilty, he will die." It was originally used to describe the fear of the cow, but later it was thought to be a synonym for the cow.

Cow:

It is a mammal of the artiodactyl bovine family. According to different cattle species (genus), the common point is that there are 32 teeth, including 8 incisors, 24 upper and lower molars, and no canines; The upper jaw has no incisors, only tooth pads. The stomach is divided into 4 chambers, including rumen, reticulum, valvor stomach and orange wrinkled stomach, with the rumen being the largest and ruminating.

The hooves are divided in half. The nasal lens is smooth and moist, and if it is dry, it is a sign of disease.

Cattle are very adaptable and can adapt to the local climate well, and its suitable temperature is 15-25 degrees Celsius; Cows will stop eating when they are full, but they will not stop regurgitating; Cattle are vegetarian animals and have a wide range of food, most like to eat grass, but also like to eat some green plants (or fruits), such as water peanuts, sweet potato vines (seedlings), corn (seedlings), rice, wheat seedlings, etc.

Son-in-lawCow:

Ruzi cow"In the past, it was mistaken for a calf by many people, but in fact, its true meaning is"The cow of the child", refers to adults pretending to be cows and playing with children, just like when I was a child, my father lay on the ground and pretended to be a cow or a sheep, and let us ride on our backs.

Heng Mei coldly pointed at the thousands of people, bow your head and be willing to be a son of a cow" is a famous sentence left by the great writer Mr. Lu Xun, which means that we must never give in to the enemy and be willing to serve the people.

The spirit of the cow:

The ox is the most common animal in the zodiac, and although it is the largest of the zodiac, it is very docile. It does not have the playfulness and cunning of monkeys, the empathy and inflammatory attachment of dogs, the fierceness and domineering of tigers, and the greed and obscenity of rats. It only knows the dedication and endurance in obscurity, the hard work without asking for reward, and the spirit of the cow to endure hardships and endure humiliations has always been praised and admired by human beings.

Cows, who sleep in the open all their lives, only feed on grass and grass, and ask for nothing else, but they give infinitely to human beings, and sprinkle their dedication all over the world. When spring arrives, it's a good time for cattle to show their skills. The cattle rushed out of the cattle pen, to the green hillside, to the riverbank near the water, bringing vitality and vitality to the infinite rivers and mountains.

To the fields to be opened, to the land to be sown, and to begin a new work.