The things you don't know about the zodiac monkey

As a long-standing folk cultural symbol, the zodiac has left a large number of poetry, spring couplets, paintings, calligraphy and folk crafts depicting the image and symbolic meaning of the zodiac throughout the ages. In addition to China, many countries in the world issue zodiac stamps during the Spring Festival to express their blessings for the Chinese New Year. Although you have a certain understanding of the Chinese zodiac, there must be many things you don't know. Let us take a look at the things you don't know about the Chinese zodiac monkey.

Zodiac Monkey

There are many legends about "monkeys as ancestors". "Shan Hai Jing" contains, "It looks like a Yu with writing arms, leopards and tigers are good at casting, and the name is Jufu". It can be seen that Kuafu (that is, Jufu) is actually a monkey. The myth of Chengdu area believes that Pangu opened the world and Fuxi and Nuwa in the monkey group reproduced human beings. The ancient Tubo recorded the changes of its ancestor, the roe monkey, in the "Tibet Kings Reign". In the Qiang myth "Musister Zhu and Ran Biwa", Ran Biwa burned his whole body of monkey hair with fire to become a beautiful man.

Monkey King Monkey King in "Journey to the West" is a brilliant representative of the monkey image. The prototype of Monkey King is said to be taken from the Hindu god monkey Hanuman; it is also considered to be a mythical image without any support. "Taiping Guangji" of the Song Dynasty portrayed the unbridled Qi, "good at dealing with language...like an ape...golden eyes and snowy teeth, neck stretched a hundred feet, more than nine elephants, fighting, squatting, rushing", similar to Monkey King's martial arts skills.

Monkey King was named as Ma Wen, because the ancients believed that monkeys could "avoid horse plague", and raising monkeys in stables could detect the spread of diseased horses in time. Many stone monkeys were also carved on stone piles in Weinan, Shaanxi.

Monkey is the same as "Hou". Monkey riding a horse means to seal the marquis immediately; the monkey to hang a seal on the maple tree means to seal the marquis; one monkey riding on the back of another monkey means to seal the marquis for generations. Monkeys love to eat peaches, peaches symbolize longevity, and folk paper-cuts are also common in the pattern of "Horary Peach Ruishou", which means longevity.

The things you don't know about the zodiac monkey

Monkey people are clever, smart, and give people a sense of innocence and liveliness. However, the monkey person is sometimes not naive, he always likes to play pranks, for example, he will do things like suddenly jump out and start you, and be very active in the crowd.

In fact, the biggest secret of monkeys is that they are not naive at all. They just use that appearance to confuse the people around them. They just don’t like that lifeless atmosphere. They are actually very stable inside, but they don’t want to express. Come out only.