Joke about the zodiac stone
6. Snake stone
Poetry:
He lived in the Garden of Eden and fell into a bad name.
Selected for the zodiac chart, transformed into a small dragon.
I picked up this stone very early on with a "serpentine" on it. At that time, I did not have the consciousness of combining the "zodiac stone", but only regarded it as a "long worm stone". Later, it was included in the "Zodiac Stone" series, and the snake was immediately worth a hundred times and became a "little dragon".
The reputation of snakes has not been very good. The Bible says that it tempted Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of wisdom in the Garden of Eden, so that they "suddenly had a clear heart, knew good and evil, distinguished between truth and falsehood, and felt ashamed." God was furious and cursed the serpent as a scoundrel, punishing it for having to walk on its stomach and eat earth for life. Whenever I read this, I wonder: The serpent is doing good things, why did God punish it so severely? However, I know that God is always right and cannot be questioned. The reason he punished the snake was that the snake must have made a mistake. As for where the snake is wrong, only God knows. I fuck this heart, how can I do this!
It is said that the sixth century BC is the Spring and Autumn Period in Chinese history. At that time, Old Master Kong was traveling around the world to publicize his idea of "self-denial and retribution" in the world. Around the same time, in ancient Greece there was a newly freed slave named Aesop. He didn't know where to read some words, and buried his head in compiling a copy of Aesop's Fables. One of them, "The Farmer and the Snake," describes the snake as an ungrateful fellow. This article was later translated into Chinese, known to women and children, and even more ruined the reputation of the snake. As a result, there are idioms such as "snake scorpion heart" and "venom like snake scorpion", and snakes are listed as one of the "five poisons" like scorpions.
In fact, human misunderstandings about snakes are far more than that. For example, "cup bow snake shadow" and "once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope", etc., it is obvious that he is suspicious, but he has to blame the snake. "The human heart is not enough for the snake to swallow the elephant", and the man is greedy enough but insists on throwing the pot to the snake. The consequence of these misunderstandings is to make people more disgusted and hateful of snakes. Some people are bored, so they maliciously "hit the grass and startle the snake", anyway, they can't let it live in peace! What's more, they even instigated people to "beat the snake seven inches"!
In ancient times, some people felt that snakes should be rehabilitated. In the Ming Dynasty, Feng Menglong wrote a popular folk tale - "White Lady Yongzhen Leifeng Pagoda". Although, Feng wrote Bai Suzhen as beautiful as a flower, kind and loyal, and loved by everyone. However, the scene where Bai Suzhen appeared in its original form after drinking Xionghuang wine during the Dragon Boat Festival really made people shudder and have palpitations. Therefore, in people's minds, the image of the snake has not changed fundamentally.
Although the Jade Emperor included the snake in one of the twelve zodiac signs, he also called it "Little Dragon". However, this did not rehabilitate the snake. In the eyes of the eagle, it is still a snake; in the eyes of humans, it is still an enemy. Poor snake, you have to hide all day.
If you think about it, our human misunderstanding of snakes is really too big. In the Garden of Eden, the serpent opened the door of wisdom for Adam and Eve, and it should be the benefactor of mankind. The snake's staple food is rodents, which are the guardians of crops and should also be friends of humans. What reason do we have to hate it and always want to get rid of it quickly?
About author:Zhang Zemin, born in 1949, a native of Chen Wu Village, Chen Wu Township, is a member of the Communist Party of China. Before retiring, he served as the director of the office of the county CPPCC committee and the director of the Cultural and Historical Committee.