Why is it said that a goat will have a bad life?

Why is it said that a sheep woman will have a bad life? It's all the fault of Chinese physiognomy!

Sheep as one of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs, has always been "three yang Kai Tai" of the beauty of the allegory. Ancient people regarded the sheep as a spirit animal and good luck. In the ancient text, "sheep" "Xiang" two words are related. So there are many ancient artifacts, the "auspicious" inscription written as "auspicious sheep".

Initially, the image of the sheep is very positive

But around us we can always hear some of these remarks: "ten sheep nine incomplete, a person sitting in front of the temple", "men belong to the sheep look great, women belong to the sheep to keep the empty room", "Men belong to the sheep, gold pile of roof beams, go out without rations. Women belonging to the sheep, life root hard, grams husband and grams father and mother" and so on ...... For this reason, many people avoid having children in the year of the sheep.

So, about the sheep woman's life is not good, in the end, how did it come?

Appeared at the end of the Yuan Dynasty in the phase book "Ma Yi Shen Xiang"

In fact, this is all the trouble caused by Chinese physiognomy. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in the book "Maiyi Shenxiang", there is a record of "goat eyes four white, adulterer into the house". It means that eyes with more white color are like sheep's eyes, and women with sheep's eyes are prone to adultery.

With the record of "Maiyi Shenxiang", after the book of the unlucky sheep-eyed woman more and more say. Indiscreet behaviors such as husband-killing and lewdness are attributes of goat-eyed women. Only at this stage, it was not yet associated with the Chinese zodiac.

The saying that it is unlucky for a woman to belong to the genus of sheep appeared in "The Plum in the Golden Vase"

During the Ming Dynasty, the sheep-eyed woman began to develop into a woman who belonged to the genus of sheep, and the original "ten sheep and nine blessings" was blackmailed into "ten sheep and nine imperfections". In the novel "Jin Ping Mei", there is such a bridge. Simon Qing invited Mr. Yin and Yang for Li Ping'er divination, Mr. Yin and Yang said Li Ping'er past life created sins, this life to suffer the punishment is to let her belong to the sheep. It can be seen that the saying that a woman who belongs to the sheep has a bad destiny was already spread in the Ming Dynasty.

Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing together created the "Red Sheep Hijacking"

The development continued until the middle and late Qing Dynasty, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement caused the scourge of war and chaos among the people. Due to the surnames of the flag-bearers Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, the uprising was popularly known as the "Red Sheep Robbery". In addition, the Empress Dowager Cixi of the late Qing Dynasty was also a sheep. In the anti-Qing revolutionaries, in order to curse the Empress Dowager Cixi, folk began to circulate "ten sheep nine incomplete, a person sitting in front of the temple". Sheep women's unlucky concept completely deep into the hearts of the common people.

Sheep Empress Dowager Cixi in the late Qing Dynasty encountered the revolutionaries of public opinion

In fact, the ancients set the animal symbols to indicate the year, there is no good or bad points. If the image of the sheep was really unlucky, how could it have made it into the zodiac?!

Ancient paintings of mountain ancient sheep

And the ancients have always regarded the sheep as "moral animal", "good group, good benevolence, dead righteousness, know the rituals" symbol. The so-called "good group" means that sheep like to live in groups. The so-called "good benevolence" means that sheep are kind and have horns but are not good at fighting. The so-called "righteousness in death" means that sheep are quiet when they are slaughtered, and they look at death as if they are at home. Hence the story of King Xuan's "exchange of sheep for oxen". And the so-called "know the rites" means that the sheep knows the kindness, and the lamb kneeling on the breast has been a symbol of filial piety since ancient times.

In the Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Chinese Characters), the word "beauty" is also interpreted as "sweetness", "from the sheep, from the big", and "the sheep is big for beauty". So no matter which way you look at it, there is no doubt that the sheep is a symbol of good luck and goodness.

So, the sheep woman inauspicious statement, in the unprecedented development of technology today, really should not be passed on.