It is lively and cute plush, its eyes are big like dough, long beard, round face, mouth side nutrition cream, under the palm of the wool ball. It's the cat we're going to talk about today.
Seeing the cute kitten, we can't help but scream, Ah Wei is dead, as a sign of respect. In fact, not only do we modern people like cute cats, ancient people have great respect for kittens, especially people in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, but also worship cats as gods, what is going on? The cat's original character is "cat", and it is mentioned in the Daya: "There are bears and cats, cats and tigers." ”
It turned out that according to the Book of Rites, "The gentleman of the ancients will repay him, and he will welcome the cat for his field mouse, and the tiger will eat the field for him, and the tiger will also be sacrificed." This sentence records that two thousand years ago, the Eastern Zhou people held a ceremony to sacrifice the cat god every time they came to the wax festival, and in their hearts the cat was handsome and powerful, and it was a sharp tool for catching rats, and offering kittens could make it possible that there would be no rat infestation in the fields in the coming year.
During the Warring States period, Zhuangzi and Lü Buwei also recorded in their own writings the praise of the ancients for the ability of cats to catch mice. The mouse catching recorded in Zhuangzi is not as good as the tanuki and the tanuki to the rat recorded in the "Lü's Spring and Autumn", and the tanuki and the tanuki are other names for cats.
The history of cat breeding in our country originated 5300 years ago, and in the minds of people at that time, the image of cats was always majestic. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people praised the cat even more in the "Book of Poetry", "there are cats and tigers", and the momentum is not lost to the king of the hundred beasts. Scholars at that time often used cats as a vehicle for satirizing the way of kings and subjects when discussing political affairs, and most of these stories came from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which was very philosophical.
The figure of a cat appeared in the works of Han Fei, a representative figure of the Jurist School in the Warring States period, and his "Yang Quan Chapter" once clearly recorded that the chicken was used to make the night and the tanuki to hold the mouse. There is also a very grand historical background to this sentence.
Following the flooding of the capital by the Qin army in 280 BC, the State of Chu was seriously injured, and subsequently, the State of Qin began to deal with the State of Yan and Korea. In 233 BC, in order to rebel against the State of Qin, the State of Yan sent Jing Ke to assassinate Qin, giving the State of Qin a good excuse to destroy the State of Yan. After the death of Prince Dan, in order to seek talents, the Qin king Yingzheng completely destroyed other countries to achieve reunification, and began to do whatever it took, even force, in this historical background, Han Fei left his homeland and came to the Qin state, starting his own life tragedy.
After Han Fei came to the Qin Palace, Han Feizi used a cat to tell the Qin King Yingzheng about the necessity of the monarchy's centralization, and although the words were cold, they were very graphic. Han Fei's position on the issue of the existence of Han is independent, he hates the inaction of king Han, but he has also realized that Korea is no longer able to return to heaven, in order to preserve Korea, as a Korean clan and eager to show revenge, it is inevitable that Han Fei will pour his talents on the king of Qin. A sentence that makes the tanuki hold the mouse not only shows his cold and profound thoughts, but also reveals his thinking and helplessness about his tragic life. However, such an insightful person was eventually framed by The Same Door Lisi for writing to Han and forced to die in prison, and the ending was really regrettable.
In the ancient history of our country, in addition to Han Fei, many literary scholars also used cats to satirize current politics. For example, Liu Ji and Song Lian once borrowed two stories from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in their own works to express their different views on the way of being a king. For example, Zhao Ren in "Yu Ion" put the cart before the horse and forgot his original intention of taking in kittens, in order to cure the rat infestation, rather than prevent cats from eating chicken. It is said that in the Warring States period, there was a Zhao guoren who was worried about the rat infestation, so he sent someone to Zhongshan country to borrow a cat, and after a month, the cat finally caught the mouse, but the chicken in the family was gone, he was angry, decided to drive the cat away, who knew that his father stopped him. And Song Lian's Weiguo shu family has a lot of cats, but never let the kittens catch mice, but give them a lot of delicious meat. One day, his friend Shusheng came to borrow a cat to catch a mouse, and the kitten was scared away because he had never touched a mouse.
From ancient times to the present, people who like cats like it to be cute and cute and good at catching mice, and people who do not like cats think that it is too cunning and sensitive, and it is not as loyal as dogs. Just as the monarchs of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods either did not use power, or were suspicious, or crossed the river and demolished bridges, the courtiers were always more like pets and tools under their hands.
Today, the cat is no longer such a serious image in front of us, many literary works will take the cat as the protagonist to tell many interesting historical stories, for example, the author of "If History is a Group of Meows" borrowed a group of kittens to tell the wonderful history of our country for five thousand years, of which the Spring and Autumn Warring States chapter is very wonderful and worth seeing. For us now, cats are more like good friends in life.
Through this secret history of cats, what I tell you is the position of cats in the hearts of people at that time during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period and the imagery role of literary artists, because of the lack of historical materials, so the story is more far-fetched, in the animal world after that, I will try to make up for this loophole and present more interesting animal stories for everyone.