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Bats carry many viruses. Why were they auspicious symbols in ancient times?

There was no concept of virus in ancient times, and naturally the ancients did not know that bats had many kinds of viruses. Many auspicious representatives in ancient times have unique meanings or good homophonic meanings.

Bat is because of its homophonic, bat is called bat for short, and? Fu? Homophonic characters are naturally regarded as auspicious symbols and often regarded as mascots. In ancient times, they were often used on buildings, clothes, plates and chopsticks, and the pattern of five bats was often used to mean Five Blessingg. For example, the Palace Wang Fu, the largest palace in Beijing, has an alias called? Fudi? What is that? Home of bats? Because the bat pattern is the most typical representative in this palace, it is said that it is in the palace? Cui Jin Garden? There are 654.38+00000 bats with different shapes in China, which are distributed on window sills, trusses and gray plastic. And there is a very important reason, bats widely distributed in China are all fruit bats, and they steal some food from farmers at most, but they don't suck blood or eat meat, so naturally there is no evil image. The image of nature, which will not harm human beings, is not much worse in human impressions. Even in Li Bai's poem, there is another sentence. Fairy mice are like white crows, hanging upside down on Qingxi Moon? . It stands to reason that the image of bats in the eyes of the ancients is relatively positive, otherwise they will not bark? Fairy mouse? . In ancient times, they were very keen on flying, thinking that all flying creatures were beasts, and bats just could fly, which coincided with the ancient people's idea, and even probably regarded bats as gods. During the Republic of China, Lu Xun said in the article Talking about Bats: Bats are also Nocturnal Animals, but they have a good reputation in China. ? The images of bats portrayed in China's traditional culture are 1 Zhang, first, and second, Zhong Kui, both of whom love helping others and are kind-hearted; The other is integrity, integrity, which can be regarded as a good image.