Rabbit-related folklore

Rabbit-related folklore is as follows:

Rabbit culture has a good meaning in folklore because people think that the rabbit has short front limbs and long and powerful hind limbs. Its ratio of front and hind limbs is 5:9, so it is suitable for upward climbing, and people who belong to the rabbit as well as people in the year of the rabbit can climb high step by step. In the folk culture of marriage, there is also "marriage is rare snake pan rabbit, the family must be rich year after year," said that the snake and rabbit marriage will be more and more rich.

People believe that the snake is witty, agile and good at getting money, while the rabbit is soft, gentle and good at keeping money, the rabbit and the snake are two of the most auspicious marriage signs. In traditional Chinese marriage customs, the snake alludes to the male, the rabbit is a metaphor for the female, and the snake and the rabbit refer to human reproduction and fertility, and the meaning of the son of the mouse is prosperous.

Analysis of the Chinese character for rabbit

"Rabbit" is a pictogram for the animal rabbit, first seen in oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi (Explaining and Explaining Characters) explained that "rabbit is the name of a beast that looks like a tail after a distance", and the oracle bone and seal scripts depicted the image of a rabbit with long ears and a short tail. There are not many Chinese characters derived from the character "兔", but they are quite distinctive. For example, "Yi" is an ideogram for a rabbit that runs fast.

Shuowen Jiezi (说文解字) and other books suggest that the character "逸" indicates that rabbits are "good at escaping," which suggests that rabbits are worthy champions of long-distance running, and then "奔逸", "to run, "奔逸", "逃逸", "逸失", "游逸", "隐逸", " "peace of mind", "anecdote", "superb" and other phrases. Another example is the word "injustice", which originally meant that rabbits could not escape under the netting and fencing, and was later extended to mean injustice, deception, and so on, with a strong sense of injustice for the rabbits, which can be seen that the rabbits are a kind of compassionate animals.