From the animal point of view of the mouse, it is a perfect species in human society, before the emergence of humans, rats lived on the earth for at least 47 million years, it can be said that the mouse is a living fossil, once there were biologists predicted, if a global catastrophe leads to the extinction of organisms, the rat is the last species of mammals to become extinct.
Qin Jian unearthed in 1975 in Hubei Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land proves that the zodiac was born in the Western Zhou Dynasty of China, when the level of social development was very limited, and human beings had no resistance to natural disasters such as natural disasters, so animal worship was born.
First, the ability of rats to worship
Rats are natural swimmers, endurance is very amazing, a mouse can swim for three consecutive days, diving kung fu is also first-class, can hold the air underwater for about three minutes, rats are good at climbing, very flexible, claws bent, have a special arc, can jump four or five times the length of the body, can climb nearly vertical walls, even if falling from a height of 15 meters is safe.
Rats come and go without a trace, alertness is very high, just by smell to know where there is danger, in some places coal miners respect rats as "rat fairies", taboo rat hunting, sharing meals with rats when eating underground, and some places have special rat temples, dedicated to worshiping rats, grateful for rats' sensitivity to disasters.
Second, the feeding habits of rats
Rats are omnivorous animals, love to eat a wide range of things, as long as it is human eating things rats almost all eat, never picky eaters, their favorite food is cereals, snort a melon seed, peel a peanut or something, in the human living environment, regardless of whether the family is poor or rich, there are rat activities.
An adult mouse can eat about 10kg of grain a year, and it is said that rats steal grain, proving that "hamsters have surplus grain", that is, "money rats", indicating that this family is rich, when there was a famine before, the family did not eat to dig a rat hole, there is surplus grain in the rat hole, and the grain is a big full of particles.
Third, the fertility cult of rats
Late Qing Dynasty painter Ren Pre", "Sub-rat Diagram" in the five rats are grabbing the melon seeds in the jar, "seeds" and "sub" harmonic sounds, symbolizing many children, rats have a strong reproductive ability, the probability of survival is large, the number of growth is very rapid, the pregnancy period of rats is about 21 days, about 8 births a year, 5 to 10 per litter, in addition to humans, rats are the fastest breeding and most successful species among mammals.
Ancient humans worship gourds, melons, egg-bearing animals and plants, "rats" just fit these images, folk rats as a symbol of fertility worship, rats and walnuts, grapes, pomegranates and other seeded plants to form an auspicious pattern, strengthen the desire to have many children and many blessings, children and daughters of mothers are even more jokingly called "rat fetus".
Rats eat and drink without worry, more children and more blessings, and seek advantages and avoid harm, these are people's deep desires, after all, all material and material pursuits must be based on food and clothing, these characteristics rats are in line with, so the laurel of the first of the zodiac must be rats.
Zodiac sign is China's folk culture symbol, passed down for thousands of years, has long been integrated into the blood of every Chinese, with the growing strength of China, China as a cultural exporter, many countries have spent the Chinese Spring Festival, the zodiac natural and Spring Festival at the same time spread to the world, whenever the Spring Festival comes, the world will use various ways to express their blessings to China.