Mao Na's Gregorian calendar

In the Song Dynasty, "accepting cats" was a dowry for cats, and there was a complete process, just like getting married. First of all, choose an auspicious day of the zodiac, write a "cat-picking deed" and prepare a dowry, which is considered to have completed the preparatory work. The "cat acceptance contract" will write down the date of acceptance of the cat, the appearance of the cat, and most importantly, the owner's requirements for it.

In the Song Dynasty, contracts were signed for buying and selling livestock, but only the ceremony of buying cats was the most special, such as issuing letters of appointment. If the rented cat is born to a domestic cat, send salt, tea or sugar to the original owner. If it is born by a wild cat, send a small fish to the wild cat. As Huang Tingjian wrote: I heard that slaves can count their children, buy fish and wear willows to hire cicadas. Huang Tingjian's betrothal gift is to "buy fish and wear willow" and named the cat "Bite cicada".

On the way home, put the cat in a bucket or bucket, put a cloth bag outside and ask the original cat owner for a pair of chopsticks to put in it. Take the cat home to worship the kitchen god and the dog at home (perhaps to make them live in harmony in the future? ) Then stick chopsticks in a place, and the cat will use this place as a toilet.

The ancients had a comprehensive understanding of cats. For example, they know that cats eat mint and get drunk and hallucinate. Male cats will be sterilized, and then they will become docile and obese. In a dark environment, if you push a cat to a cat, if you pull out Mars, it means you didn't jump. Do you want to have a try? There were many celebrities who loved cats in ancient times, and there were also many incredible things. As mentioned earlier, when Qin Gui's granddaughter lost her cat, Lin 'an magistrate quickly sent someone to look for it, and found an artist to draw and post the cat's revelation, offering a reward of 65,438+0,000 yuan, and the whole city was looking for cats.

Emperor Jiajing also set up a "cat room", and each cat had a name and official position. When a cat died, Jiajing asked the minister to write a memorial and finally set up a monument. Japanese emperors have always had the habit of sealing official positions for animals. An emperor gave a cat in the palace five official positions and sent someone to wait on it. On rainy days, Lu You will stay warm around the stove with the cat.

In ancient times, people attached great importance to etiquette. When it comes to the love of cats, people nowadays are really dwarfed by the ancients.