The role of monkeys in folk customs

"Sou Shen Ji" contains: "The king of Chu travels to the garden, the white ape is in Yan, Wang Ling is good at shooting it, the arrow is shot, the ape fights the arrow and smiles. It is the command that the base, the base caress the bow, and the ape is holding the wood. Number." The white ape was able to knock out the arrows one by one, and was still laughing. When the god archer picked up the bow by Kiki, the white ape knew that it was not good, and hugged the tree and shouted. Here apes are personified, just as the theory of evolution tells people that humans are transformed from apes.

The ancients of our country observed monkeys very carefully. During the Three Kingdoms period, a man named Wan Zhen in Soochow wrote a piece of "The Records of Foreign Objects in Nanzhou", in which there is a passage saying: "South of Jiaozhou, there are Guoran beasts, whose ming is like an ape, with a dog face and a whole body. White, its body is no more than three feet long, and its tail is more than four feet long, and the tail is turned over its head. Looking at its nose, two holes are still seen, and the master is facing the sky. Its hair is long, silky and smooth, and the color is white. Black is the text, which is regarded as a gray-headed duck. The shoulder-side class essays are more than ten skins, and you can get a bit, red and beautiful, thin and warm. "Through this text, the generalization of monkeys is on the paper.

The Han people generally regard monkeys as mascots. Due to the homophony of the monkey and Hou, in many pictures, the image of the monkey represents the meaning of Feng Hou. For example, a monkey is climbing on a maple tree to hang a seal, which means "to seal the seal"; a monkey rides on a horse, and it means "to seal the prince immediately"; two monkeys sit on a pine tree, or One monkey rides on the back of the other monkey, meaning "grandfather from generation to generation".

The folks avoid the Year of the Monkey, thinking that the year of the Monkey is not a good harvest, and it is a year of disaster. As the saying goes, "The year of the hungry monkey, the year of the hungry dog, it is the year of the pig to have a full meal ." ( Chinese Zodiac http:///shengxiao/)

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