Why did ancient ancestors worship turtles so much? What good meanings does it symbolize?

In ancient times, people worshipped turtles for the following reasons: (1) The tortoise symbolizes health and longevity, and has a beautiful meaning; (2) the tortoise is used for divination, and it is used to measure bad luck; (3) The earliest tortoise shell was regarded as the three carriers of recorded characters. The tortoise symbolizes longevity

One of the important reasons why people worshipped the tortoise abnormally in ancient times is that it has the meaning of health and longevity. As the old saying goes: Pine, cypress and turtle crane have a life span of thousands of years? Turtles have a long life span, which makes people believe that people who worship turtles will also live longer.

The worship of turtles has even developed into a turtle culture. In feudal times, court officials had to wear turtle-shaped bags. It is a great honor that people with outstanding achievements will be given a turtle-carrying stone tablet after their death. At that time, the tortoise was no longer an animal, but an important cultural symbol. Turtles are used for divination

In ancient times, people were full of doubts about many phenomena in nature, and in order to seek explanations and inner peace, religion gradually developed. The earliest wizard's main duty was divination to predict the future or bad luck, and the tortoise was an important tool for divination.

The specific operation is as follows: when divining, put the tortoise shell on the fire to burn it, and observe it when it cracks, so as to judge the good fortune and the result of the matter according to the grain. The tortoise is the earliest tool for human beings to communicate with God, and its position is very important. Tortoise shell is used to record characters

Since the invention of characters, the earliest carrier for recording characters is tortoise shell, and the earliest character Oracle Bone Inscriptions in China was carved on tortoise shell by the ancients, which became an important tool for the continuation of civilization. From the characters recorded on the tortoise shell, we can know the evolution of Chinese characters, and how people lived and viewed the world in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Tortoise shell played an important role in this process.

China has always cherished writing paper, and tortoise shells that also record writing will naturally be taken seriously, and the worship of turtles is inseparable from this. Today, the tortoise still has a beautiful meaning, and artworks and crafts based on the tortoise are still popular.