動(dòng)物雕塑老鼠的象征
鼠，十二生肖之一。鼠的第一個(gè)象征意義是靈性，形容某人的精明和機(jī)靈；鼠的第二個(gè)象征意義是生命力強(qiáng)。中國(guó)古代學(xué)者從古代晝夜十二時(shí)辰的角度解說地支和肖獸的配屬關(guān)系。黑天茍地，混沌一片，動(dòng)物雕塑老鼠，時(shí)近夜半之際出來活動(dòng)，將天地間的混沌狀態(tài)咬出縫隙，“鼠咬天開”，所以子屬鼠。
Rat, one of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals. The first symbol of a rat is spirituality, which describes someone's shrewdness and ingenuity. The second symbol of the rat is its strong vitality. Chinese ancient scholars explained the distribution relationship between earth branches and animals from the perspective of the twelve hours of day and night in ancient times. Dark sky, a piece of chaos, animal sculpture mice, when nearly midnight out activities, the chaotic state between heaven and earth bite the gap, "rat bite the sky open", so the son is a rat.
漢族民間故事說：當(dāng)年軒轅黃帝要選十二動(dòng)物擔(dān)任宮廷衛(wèi)士，貓托老鼠報(bào)名，老鼠給忘了，結(jié)果貓沒有選上，從此與鼠結(jié)下冤家。大象也來參賽，被老鼠鉆進(jìn)鼻子，給趕跑了。
Han folklore says: When the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan wanted to choose twelve animals as palace guards, the cat asked the mouse to sign up, the mouse forgot, the cat was not chosen, and from then on they made enemies. The elephant also came to the contest, but was driven away by the mouse.
其余的動(dòng)物，原本推牛為首，老鼠卻竄到牛背上，豬也跟著起哄 ，于是老鼠排第一，豬排最后?；⒑妄埐环?，被封為山中之王和海中之王，排在鼠和牛的后面。兔子又不服，和龍賽跑，結(jié)果排在了龍的前面。
The rest of the animals, originally pushed the cow head, the mouse but ran to the back of the cow, the pig also followed the heckling, so the mouse row first, pork chops last. The tiger and the dragon refused to obey, and were crowned the king of the mountains and the king of the sea, next to the rat and the ox. The rabbit refused to accept again, and the dragon race, the result in front of the dragon.
狗又不平，一氣之下咬了兔子，為此被罰在了倒數(shù)第二。蛇、馬、羊、猴、雞也經(jīng)過一番較量，一一排定了位置，最后形成了鼠、牛、虎、兔、龍、蛇、馬、羊、猴、雞、狗、豬的順序。傳說故事雖不是對(duì)問題的科學(xué)解釋 ，但它卻體現(xiàn)了人們希望對(duì)十二生肖的選擇做出解釋的愿望。
The dog is uneven again, under anger bit rabbit, for this was punished in the penultimate second. Snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster also went through a contest, one by one arranged the position, finally formed the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, pig order. Legends are not a scientific explanation of the problem, but they do reflect people's desire to explain the choice of the Chinese zodiac.
