The rat is obviously hateful, why do the people of the Northeast regard it as a god ?

In Xinjiang, that is, the land of the ancient Western Regions, there are always extraordinary discoveries and surprises. The ruins you inadvertently encounter may be the former glory of an ancient country, and you can feel the collision and blending of various cultures in museums all over Xinjiang.

In primitive religions, most people worship animals in nature, such as lions, tigers and other powerful and domineering beasts, but it is rare to worship the rats that everyone shouts and beats.

In Tianjin, there is also the folk custom of a mouse marrying a daughter-in-law, which became a traditional theme of Yangliu youth painting in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. In the painting, a group of rats are carrying a sedan chair lively, the rats in the front are wearing black shoulders embroidered with the word "ling", and the rats in the back are wearing red shoulders embroidered with the word "soldier". Sitting in the sedan chair is a rat bride, and white smoke in the shape of a mouse rises from the top of the sedan chair.

The bridal procession blew and fluttered, and the colorful flags fluttered, alarming the lynx, and I saw a big lynx squatting on the top of the hill as if it was about to pounce. The theme of this "mouse marrying a daughter-in-law" is quite a fairy tale, but it is also related to the rat fairy worship of Tianjin people.

Feng Wenxun, a native of Tianjin"Bingyin Tianjin Bamboo Branches" wrote: "There is no reason to push the vulgar original, and most of the favors are for money. The chaff did not lead the money dragon to come, and the rat hedgehog carried the treasure first.

From these four poems, it can be seen that rats and hedgehogs are regarded as the "vanguard army" of wealth, and every year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, some rats and hedgehogs must be steamed with dough and worshipped.

In the Enshi area, there is a Tujia folk tale of "Mouse Marrying a Girl".There are two versions of the story, one is that on the 24th day of the lunar month, a family pushed the mill to make New Year's goods and disturbed the rat to marry the girl, and the next year their family was in a mess by the rat; Another version says: The mouse wanted to find a quick son-in-law who rode the dragon, but after examining the sun, clouds, walls, and mice, in the end, it was the rat who had the most ability and became a son-in-law.

The image of a mouse is embroidered on their Sealan cap, insoles, and flower-picking straps. Why do they worship this "street rat" who steals food, endangers agriculture and spreads diseases? In fact, it is precisely because of their abomination that people are afraid of their scourge, so they have a sense of awe for them, which is also a concrete manifestation of the primitive religion worship of advocating nature and living with nature.

In the Tujia customs in the Enshi area, there is also the "Rat Day", there is also the legend of "rat marrying", on the fifteenth day of the first month, the lights in the rooms of each Tujia family will not be extinguished, just to illuminate the rats, afraid that they will not find the way.

This is caused by the customs of the Northeast, which is the same as why there is a mouse in the zodiac.

Because rats are very intelligent animals, they can survive well no matter how difficult the conditions are, so the people of the Northeast believe that their super survival ability is very godly.

In the Northeast, living in winter is a big thing, and the animals that survive the most in winter are the four creatures of foxes, yellows and grays, and the ash here is mice.

As the head of the 12 zodiac signs, the rat must have its cleverness, it was not the first of the 12 zodiac signs, but he stood on top of the head of the cow, so it became the first, the mouse is a spiritual animal, and he also symbolizes the tenacious vitality.