What is the symbolic meaning of the mouse?

Although the mouse has a bad reputation and ugly appearance, it has long been condemned as "a rat crossing the street, and everyone cries out for it", but from the perspective of society, folklore and culturology, it has already been thoroughly remoulded, and has evolved from an unscrupulous pest into a little creature with unparalleled spirituality, wisdom and mystery.

As early as thousands of years ago, the so-called "four masters" and "five doors" of primitive animal worship were circulated among the people in our country, which reflected the awe of foxes, weasels, thorns, mice and snakes. It is generally believed that these animals have extraordinary spirituality and represent the will of heaven and ghosts. Rats are on the list again, which shows that rats are inextricably linked with human life. Culture of the rat naturally appears in every aspect of human daily life, and culture of the rat makes mice more and more lovely and mysterious.

The first symbolic meaning of the mouse is spirituality, including its intelligence and performance channeling.

Rats have a keen sense of smell, are timid and suspicious, and are highly vigilant. Besides, their bodies are very smart. They run like flies. Moreover, they have two other sudden abilities: from a height of tens or even hundreds of meters, falling from the roof to the ground, turning around and breathing, as if nothing had happened, and there was absolutely no danger to their lives; Although it is not an aquatic animal and has no super swimming ability, narrow ditches and shallow ponds can't stop it. In order to survive, it can drill several meters (more than 10 times its length) under the water without being hurt. So it's useless to fall to death or drown a mouse.

People often use "smarter than a mouse" to describe someone's intelligence, and the intelligence of a mouse has become a standard for category comparison, so it can be seen that its intelligence has reached a considerable level, just as people will say "better than Mercedes-Benz" instead of "better than Volga" when describing the excellent quality of cars. Similarly, to describe a person's quick action and quick response, we often say that he is "as fickle as a mouse."

It is also believed that mice have special functions and can predict good or bad luck. In fact, mice are born in nature. They are longer than nature. For them, it is normal to respond to unexpected events that will happen in nature, such as earthquakes, floods, droughts and locust plagues. This is a special instinct of life on earth, but some of it is limited to human knowledge and does not reveal its mystery and law. On the eve of the Tangshan earthquake, people were surprised to find rats running around in the suburbs, or crowded in relatively empty places such as roads and streets. It is not clear what this sign means. Similar things must have been repeated many times in ancient times, so the mouse became a psychic in human mind. We can get a glimpse of it by analyzing Duke Zhou's explanation of the dream mouse.

In life, everyone dreams. All kinds of things will appear in dreams. If you dream of mice, are you happy, worried, blessed or cursed? As the saying goes: "It is a blessing, not a curse, but a curse that cannot be avoided." Let's listen to what Zhou Wenwang said:

If you dream of muskrats, your career will be successful. I dreamed that there were many muskrats, and difficulties and misfortunes were coming.

Dream that mice will make too many enemies. Married women dream of having children with domestic mice in their hands. Dreaming that catching mice will make dishonest friends. I dreamed that catching mice would be countered by the enemy's plot. It is a blessing to dream that cats catch mice. The enemy will kill each other and lose both sides. I was lucky to dream of a dead mouse. Dreaming that there are many mice, failure will continue to happen. I dreamed that the mouse dug a hole in his living room and the house was stolen. When a man dreams that a mouse bites him, disaster will be avoided. The doctor dreamed of mice, where infectious diseases would appear.

Dream of squirrels, and you will gain something from hard work. Women dream of squirrels and will be separated from their husbands. The deported people dreamed of squirrels, and their goals would be realized. Finally, they could return to their motherland. Travel will be comfortable and your career will be successful. Dreaming of killing squirrels is ominous and will bring disaster. Dreaming of catching squirrels or holding squirrels in your hand is a good sign, and you will find hidden treasures. Dreaming that a squirrel bit himself, he would disagree with his friends on important issues. Farmers dream of squirrels, and the harvest is in sight.

To sum up, "mice fight with each other for business, and mice bite for nothing." "Rats will disappear forever, and cats will get money. “

The second symbolic meaning of mice is their strong vitality. First, it has strong reproductive ability and high survival rate. For example, a female rat can give birth to 5- 10 young rats per fetus in natural state, with a maximum of 24 rats, and the gestation period is only 2 1 day. The mother rats can be pregnant again on the day of delivery, and the young rats mature after 30-40 days, in which the mother rats join the breeding ranks. In this way, the mother mouse can give birth to about 5,000 children every year, but there are too many grandchildren, Ceng Zi and great-grandchildren. According to the research, the female mouse contains a unique chemical substance, which can stimulate the male mouse to bow down to its pomegranate skirt forever, which is probably one of the reasons why the mouse group can give birth and raise children. Therefore, the folk call the good mother in the children group "mouse fetus" or "mouse belly", which means that her fertility is particularly strong.

Rats have high survival rate and long life. Unless attacked by natural enemy cats or exterminated by humans on a large scale, most of them can enjoy their old age and die naturally, and have a large number of children and grandchildren, which is beyond the reach of other animals.

In the past, there was a non-governmental organization among China people, but now it is called "Rat Club" and it is banned. It was originally a form of mutual assistance between people. Members pay a certain membership fee and then introduce new members to join. Due to the large number of members, the membership fee is considerable, which is used for individual members. Every member has the opportunity to get this subsidy, but it needs to be decided according to certain procedures or lots. Its principle is to concentrate idle social funds so that a few lucky members can get rich first in a short time. If members need money urgently in an emergency, they can also make a request, and the association will discuss and decide on special subsidies. This was originally beneficial to the people in terms of security. However, in the specific operation process, because the club leaders have a lot of money and power, they often seek personal gain from it, which has gradually evolved into a financial exploitation and a gang with obvious underworld color, which has been banned by the government, and its benefit has actually been obtained by one-time deposits and installment repayment by banks. There is really no need to exist. This kind of gang is based on introducing members to join. The more introductions, the more profits, so many people get rich by lobbying others to join.

Wherever there is such a "meeting" or "club", members will go out at night, or mobilize others to join the club, or participate in organizing parties. This activity law is almost the same as that of mice staying up all night; Moreover, when the number of members changes from two to four and from four to eight, it grows geometrically, which is very similar to the extraordinary fertility of mice, so people call it "mouse club" vividly. In recent years, there have been popular illegal pyramid schemes, friendship letters and serial letters. In Chinese mainland, most of them are copies of the old "Rat Club".

The third symbolic meaning of mouse is exquisiteness and smallness. Mice are naturally small and exquisite, like jumping up and down, and cannot be associated with the word "big". In the Book of Songs, China's first poetry collection, there is an article called Storytelling, which compares corrupt officials to giant mice, not really such big mice; The ancient book "Biography of Korean Poetry" contains "Rats", which is also a metaphor for supporting rats:

Qi Jinggong asked Yanzi, "What are you most afraid of?"

Yan Zi smiled and said seriously, "The mice are hiding in the earth temple. They just come out to steal food. People want to catch it, but they are afraid of destroying the cultural relics in the land temple and offending the land god, so they have no choice but to take it. Now there are such community rats around the king. May the king no longer shelter them. "

This is Yan Zi's suggestion on Qi Jinggong's way of governing the country. As far as the metaphorical meaning of mice is concerned. Total and insignificant, don't have to be linked together, such as stealing rats and dogs refers to the general "thieves". In Biography of the Old Sage, when describing the social chaos in the last years of Sui Dynasty, he said: "Since Sui Dynasty, Yuxian County has been divided up, and the distance between small mice stealing dogs and big whales swallowing tigers." (Since the end of Sui Dynasty, there has been chaos in the world, and the heroes have stood side by side, and thieves and robbers have come one after another, calling the king the most harmful. )

Another example is mouse skill, which refers to the skill of carving insects. Xunzi's "Persuasion" said: "The flying snake has no feet, and the flying mouse has five skills." Literally, although flying snakes have no feet, they can run as fast as flying. Although flying squirrels have many skills, they are difficult to use. The implication is that it is enough for you to master one skill. Greedy but not refined, learn some introductory kung fu, even if you know more, it is of little use.

Others, such as "rat" and "rat", have the same meaning and all contain contempt and contempt. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wang Yun hated Hu Wencai and Yang Xiu in Liangzhou and deliberately said in public, "What do the Kanto rats want?" (What do these two Kanto villains want to do? ) to express their dissatisfaction.

In addition, because rats' teeth grow violently, they need to grind their teeth constantly to keep their teeth long. People often use "rat's teeth arguing" as a metaphor for those who like to gossip.