Animal profile
Introduction of species
life habit
Population status
Growth and reproduction
Rat hazard
Prevention and cure method
relevant knowledge
Cultural status
The history of "rat"
Mouse stamp
The symbolic meaning of mice
Rat custom
Rat play
Rat proverb
Rat poem
Rat allegorical sayings
Rat riddle
Rat painting
The origin of the first mouse in the zodiac
The relationship between rats and humans
Blessing SMS of the Year of the Rat
The origin of the expression "mouse"
The contribution of mice to mankind
Cartoons and films about mice
Poems about Rats: A Brief Introduction to Animals
Introduction of species
life habit
Population status
Growth and reproduction
Rat hazard
Prevention and cure method
relevant knowledge
The history of the cultural status of "mouse" The symbolic meaning of the mouse stamp Mouse vulgar mouse play mouse proverb Mouse poem mouse allegorical sayings The origin of the mouse puzzle mouse painting the first mouse of the zodiac and the relationship between the mouse and human beings The origin of the saying "mouse" The contribution of the mouse to human beings The cartoons and films about mice and the poems about mice.
[Edit this paragraph] Introduction to animals
Mouse (English: rat pinyin: laó shǔ incarnation) is a kind of rodent, with large and small bodies. There are more than 450 kinds. A large number and rapid reproduction, strong vitality, eat almost anything, can live anywhere. Can dig holes, climb trees, climb mountains and wade, and spoil food and spread diseases, which is extremely harmful to human beings. In addition to catching rats by natural enemies, people also use devices (mouse traps, mouse cages, electronic mouse traps, etc.) and drugs to kill rats.
In ancient times, people were quite afraid of rats. Rats bite everything and spread the plague. The proverb "Everyone cries when a mouse crosses the street" shows that people hate rats. The ancients generally adopted the attitude of "avoiding things they were afraid of". Therefore, the ancients preceded these things with the word "old" to show awe and dare not offend. In some places, because of superstition, when talking about mice, they often dare not call them by their first names and call them "mice". Some people think that the "old" of mice means old age, and that mice mean the longest life among mice, but this statement may not be credible, because mice do not live long. However, rats are also very adaptable to the environment. 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which caused serious damage to the local ecology because of excessive nuclear radiation. However, it was later found that the mice there were hardly affected by nuclear radiation, and they were all normal without deformity.
[Edit this paragraph] Category introduction
There are about 1700 species of rodents in the world ... In China, there are about 170 species of rodents, and there are 32 species of rodents in southern China, including domestic and wild rodents. There are three common domestic rodents in Guangdong: Rattus norvegicus, Rattus flavipectus and Mus musculus. The wild rats are mainly yellow-haired rats, also known as Rossi rats and voles.
1, Rattus norvegicus (Rattus norvegicus): Its coat color is gray, and it likes to make holes in the wall roots and corners. Generally, it weighs about 300g, and the big one weighs 900g g..
2. Musca domestica (mouse): The coat is gray, the individual is small, and it often keeps company with people except the wall roots, weighing about 20-30g.
3. There are also roof rats, hamsters and yellow-haired rats.
4. Rattus flavipectus: It is smaller than Rattus norvegicus, with an average weight of100-250g, long tail and big ears, and its tail length exceeds its body length.
In addition, there is a small insect-eating animal called smelly shrew, commonly known as smelly mouse. It is not a rat, and it does little harm to human beings, so it needs to be distinguished from rats. There is also a kind called gopher.
[Edit this paragraph] Life habits
Characteristics of mice
1, you can tell what food is in the kitchen by your sense of smell at night, play and chase in twos and threes after you are full, and have dinner together when you are hungry or find new delicious food.
2, very flexible and cunning, afraid of people, when sneaking out of the hole, two front paws climb on the edge of the hole, look left and right, and feel safe before coming out of the hole. It likes to establish a fixed route between the nest, food and water to avoid danger.
3. Most mice with quick vision are active and foraging at night. Mice active at night can detect moving objects in very dark light, and mice active during the day have better vision.
4, the ability to drill holes is high. The rat hole is obvious, often in the wall, the animal circle, and the warehouse kitchen.
5, strong memory and aversion to food change a part in a familiar environment, which will immediately arouse its vigilance and dare not move forward. After repeated familiarity, it dares to move forward. If it is attacked, it will avoid this place for a long time.
Food for mice
Rats have a variety of food habits, and they like to eat a lot. They eat almost everything people eat. They are not afraid of acid, sweet, bitter and spicy, but their favorite foods are grain, melon seeds, peanuts and oil-squeezed food. A mouse can eat about 9kg of grain a year.
living environment
Apart from humans, mice are the fastest and most successful mammals. Take the moon mouse, a kind of house mouse that often lives in human areas, as an example, it can conceive up to eight times a year and give birth to four to seven young mice each. In addition to consuming or polluting food, rats like to grind their teeth, so there are considerable packaging materials or construction equipment damaged by rat bites. According to statistics, one quarter of fires with unknown causes in the United States may be caused by rats biting wires.
Rats are easy to adapt to the living environment of human beings, so they become the main pests. Rats often haunt sewers, toilets, kitchens, etc., and move back and forth between bacteria-carrying places and clean places, spreading pathogens through rat feet, body hair and stomach carry.
[Edit this paragraph] Population status
In theory, the growth of population should be multiplied by geometric series, but in fact, due to various factors, the growth rate is limited. When the density reaches the capacity limit of the environment, the growth rate fluctuates around 0. One of the most important ways to control rodent pests is to reduce the capacity limit. Without human intervention, the number of rats varies both seasonally and annually. The fluctuation range of different rat species is quite different, and the difference between high and low of individual rat species can be 50 times or more.
[Edit this paragraph] Growth and reproduction
1, little female house mouse: it can be conceived after growing for 40 days.
2. Big female rats: mature after three months of growth, and can be pregnant in 2 1 day. There are 5-6 first-born babies, and then one will be added for each baby until one baby reaches15-16, and then one will be reduced for each baby until one baby gives birth to 5-6 babies, and then the reproduction will be stopped. A mouse is pregnant eight times a year, as the saying goes: one male and one female, 350 a year.
3. Mice: Mice mature early, have strong reproductive ability, and have a life span of 1~3 years. The newborn mice are hairless, red-skinned, with their eyes closed and their ears glued to the skin. Crawl in a week, open your eyes in 12 days.
[Edit this paragraph] Rat hazards
1, stealing seeds, destroying saplings and endangering forestry.
2, digging fields, stealing food, endangering agriculture.
3. Bite clothes and food and spread diseases.
4. Make holes in the dam and cause floods.
5, destruction of property: because rats regularly grind their teeth, they will bite various objects.
6, polluting the environment: for example, voles will destroy crops, mouse bacteria and so on.
7. Transmitted diseases: 57 kinds such as plague, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, leptospira, typhus, tick-borne relapsing fever, etc.
8, disturbing people's peace.
[Edit this paragraph] Prevention and control methods
1. Ecological rodent control.
Take various measures to destroy the adaptive environment of rodents, inhibit their reproduction and growth, and increase their mortality. Deep ploughing, irrigation and afforestation can be combined with production to worsen their living conditions. This method must be coordinated with other methods to be effective.
2. Biological rodent control.
Protect the natural enemies of rats, such as owls, weasels, badgers, cats and most snakes that feed on rats, so as to control the number of rats.
3. Rodent control with instruments.
Catch rats with rat traps and cages. This method is not suitable for large area or high density of rats. 4. Drugs kill rats. This method has good effect, quick effect and wide application range, and it is necessary to kill rats in a large area. However, attention should be paid to the selection of rodenticide with high efficiency, low toxicity, low residue, no pollution and low risk of secondary poisoning, which will not cause physiological drug resistance of rats. (rodenticide, carbendazim, diphacinone sodium salt, toxic rat phosphorus, Dalong, if it is ineffective, please wait a little longer.)
Four, with 0.005% bromadiolone bait:
Bromadiolone is the second generation anticoagulant rodenticide, which has good effect on farm rodents and domestic rodents.
1, preparation of poison bait:
Firstly, 4 kg of warm water is mixed with 0.5% bromadiolone aqueous solution mother liquor 1 kg, and then it is poured into 100 kg bait (wheat or rice can be selected) to mix well. After the liquid medicine is sucked up, it is covered with plastic film, and it is closed for 30 minutes, then spread out and dried.
2, making bamboo tube bait station:
Made of bamboo tube with a diameter of 5-6 cm. The poisonous bait station in the building area is 30cm long, and the farmland area is 45cm long (excluding the prominent part used for sheltering from rain). Generally, 25-30 grams of poison bait is put in the poison bait station. Leave it for 15 days and check it once. If it is found that the bait is reduced, it should be supplemented.
3. Placement of poison bait station:
The farmhouse is placed directly on the heel of the wall and fixed with small stones, with two for each household, one outside the pigsty and the other under the back eaves. When used in the field, the poison bait station should be fixed and inserted into the ground with iron wire, and 3-5 cm should be left between the ground and the bamboo tube to prevent rainwater from pouring in. It should be placed/kloc-0 per mu and along the ridge of the field. The rodent control time should not be less than 20 days, preferably 30 days.
4. Precautions:
When preparing poison bait, it should be carried out in accordance with the prescribed operating procedures. The place where poison bait is prepared should be far away from water sources and livestock and poultry. Do not touch poison bait with bare hands. The remaining poison and poison bait should be recovered and kept in time, and the poison bait, toxic garbage and collected rat carcasses that are no longer used should be buried deeply.
5. The specific antidote is vitamin K 1.
Spread disease
Rats are the storage hosts or vectors of many diseases. There are 57 known diseases transmitted by rats to humans, such as plague, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, leptospira, typhus and tick-borne relapsing fever.
After research, there are three ways for mice to spread diseases:
1, rat ectoparasites as a medium, bite the human body to suck blood, and transmit the pathogen to people;
2. Rats with pathogenic microorganisms in their bodies pollute food or water sources through the activities of rats or feces, resulting in human diseases after eating;
3. Rats bite directly or the pathogen invades through trauma and causes infection.
Disease symptoms
1, plague: The main clinical manifestations are high fever, swollen lymph nodes, bleeding tendency, special inflammation of the lungs, etc.
2. Symptoms of hemorrhagic fever: Most of them suddenly develop after an incubation period of 7 days to 21day, with acute illness, rapid progress and severe symptoms. When you get sick, you have a fever, and your body temperature rises sharply to 39℃ or higher. At the same time, the manifestations are headache, eye socket pain and low back pain, which are called "three pains"; It also shows flushing and congestion on the face, neck and upper chest, which is called "three reds". In addition, after the onset of the disease, bleeding spots can be seen in the upper palate and pharynx of the mouth, and wired strip-shaped bleeding spots can be seen in the armpit.
3. Symptoms of typhus: acute onset, persistent fever and headache are the main symptoms, with body temperature ranging from 39℃ to 40℃ (accounting for 72. 10%), accompanied by symptoms such as joint and muscle pain and cough. The main signs are facial congestion, rash, pharyngeal congestion and hepatosplenomegaly.
[Edit this paragraph] Related knowledge
The mouse has a pair of growing front teeth, so the little mouse always bites the wardrobe and wooden box to keep grinding his teeth.
The mouse's long tail has a good balance, even if it falls from five floors, it won't hurt.
Researchers from Cambridge University and SmithKline University in Beacham recently published an article in Nature magazine, saying that a transgenic mouse bred by them can always maintain a "slim and light posture" under the condition of eating much more than similar mice. This research result has opened up a broad prospect for finding a new diet drug that can not limit the amount of food, which will be different from all kinds of contemporary diet drugs with the mechanism of suppressing appetite.
Scientists have found through research that mice especially like watching TV commercials. At this time, mice are particularly excited, their mouths are particularly happy and their beards are constantly swinging.
John, who is in charge of the research? Dr. Clapham said that the mice they cultivated can produce a lot of substances called "uncoupled lotus root protein-3" in the mitochondria of their muscle cells, which can accelerate metabolism, and at the same time, convert the energy absorbed from food into heat and emit it, instead of converting it into fat to accumulate in the body. Therefore, these mice can eat as much as they want, but their weight is much lighter than other normal mice. Experiments show that the transgenic mice eat more15%-54% than the normal mice, but their adipose tissue is 44%-57% less than the normal mice.
Dr Clapham said that the research results in mice made it possible to develop human slimming drugs that can promote the consumption of a large number of calories rather than simply suppressing appetite. However, Dr. Clapham also pointed out that no matter what new slimming drugs are developed, diet adjustment and persistent physical exercise will always be the first choice for dieters.
[Edit this paragraph] Cultural status
Although the rat has a bad reputation and an unpleasant appearance, and it has been condemned as a "rat crossing the street, everyone shouts and beats" for a long time, from the perspective of society, folklore and culturology, it has already been thoroughly remoulded, and has evolved from an unscrupulous pest into a little creature with incomparable spirituality, intelligence and mystery. As early as thousands of years ago, the so-called primitive animal worship of "four masters" and "five gates" spread among the people in our country, which is a reflection of the awe of foxes, weasels, thorns, rats and snakes. It is generally believed that these animals have extraordinary spirituality and represent the will of heaven and ghosts. Rats are on the list again, which shows that rats are inextricably intertwined with human life. culture of the rat naturally appears in all aspects of human daily life, and culture of the rat makes rats more and more lovely and mysterious.
[Edit this paragraph] History of "Rat"
The word "mouse" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is like a little mouse biting with its mouth open; In the evolution and development process from Shang Dynasty to Qin Dynasty 1000 years, the pictographic mouse character has changed a lot, and it has tended to be symbolic and linear in Xiao Zhuan in Qin Dynasty. The mouse character in official script evolved on the basis of seal script. The mouse head became square, and the mouse foot and tail were still pictographic, but the image of the mouse was not obvious. The mouse character in regular script absorbs the characteristics of the mouse character in official script, which is also the word "mouse" used today, while cursive script is more common in artistic calligraphy and painting works.
In recent years, it has been found in archaeology near Anhui Province that mice lived on the earth for more than 47 million years before human beings appeared, which can be said that mice are living fossils.
[Edit this paragraph] Rat stamp
In China, there are many folk stories about mice, the most famous of which are "the mouse marries a woman" and "the mouse marries a woman", which have become the theme of artists' new year pictures and are deeply loved by the masses. And spread to neighboring countries such as Vietnam. Therefore, Vietnam 1996 issued zodiac stamps (a full set of 2 stamps and a sheetlet) with the story of "a mouse marries a girl" (Figure 2 shows a "sedan chair").
Ghana 1996 issued the Zodiac Stamp Mini-pane (Figure 3), which adopts the story of "mice getting married" and consists of four stamps, respectively depicting the lively scene of mice getting married to the bride: Figure 1, the groom riding a horse, the mice ringing gongs and blowing suona to clear the way, and Figure 2, the mice carrying "100"
Mice are annoying, harmful and clever animals, and their images often appear in literary works, with love and hatred. The earliest is Wei Feng Shuo in The Book of Songs. The Journey to the West wrote back in the 8th1~ 83rd that the bottomless rat spirit forced Tang Priest to get married, which was the development of the rat marriage story. The "A Xian" in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is about the love between man and mouse, which is vivid and vivid! Lou ratty in fifteen passes is a rat thief and a murderer. Bai Sheng, the day mouse in Water Margin, is a character in 108. The "five rats" who made a scene in Tokyo in "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" are chivalrous men and are welcomed by readers. And so on, and so on.
There is a folk song in China that has been sung for a long time: "Little mouse, get on the lampstand, steal oil and drink, but can't get off." It is said that the mouse smells the fragrance in the oil pot and wants to eat it, but it can't get in. What should I do? After repeated several times, I finally dipped my long tail into the pot mouth and ate the oil. This story is very interesting, so the stamp designer put it on the zodiac stamp, which means, for example, the first picture of the zodiac stamp "Year of the Bingzi" issued by China 1996 (1960-1): the mouse holds the lampstand and has an oil gourd stamp on the left, and the mouse's tail has almost reached into the oil gourd. The composition of the Zodiac Rat stamps is relatively straightforward, such as those issued by Grenada, the Grenadines and Gambia in Africa (Figure 4 ~ 5).
Legend has it that the mouse went to register on the back of a cow and won the first place in the ranking competition of the zodiac, which shows that the mouse is a flexible animal with a high IQ. Therefore, the legend that rats are heavenly rats (god rats) is circulated among the people in ancient times:
The second picture of the Zodiac stamp (1996-1) issued in China1996 and the first picture of the New Year postage postcard (with prizes) in 2007 adopt the folklore of "the mouse bites the sky": when the ancient world was not open, the universe was chaotic, and it was the mouse that bit the sealed world, and the yin and yang leaked. In the creation myths of some ethnic minorities in China, there are also legends similar to "the mouse bites the sky", such as the creation epic Mupamipa of the Lahu nationality, which describes that the god Ersha cultivated a gourd for educating people, but people grew up in the gourd but could not get out. Only the mouse bit a hole in the gourd and welcomed Zhadi and Nadi brothers and sisters, who became the ancestors of the Lahu nationality.
Some Asian countries are influenced by China culture, and there are also legends about the rat (god mouse), which can be seen in the stamps issued by South Korea, Mongolia, Thailand, Bhutan and other countries.
South Korea 1984 issued the "Year of Jiazi" Zodiac stamp. The main picture (Figure 6) is a stone sculpture of a mouse standing with a weapon. The prototype is taken from the stone relief statue of the 12 Zodiac in the cemetery of General Jin Yuxin, the founding hero of Silla Dynasty.
The Zodiac Stamp of the Year of Renzi issued by Mongolia 1972 (Figure 7) is composed of a race between a mouse (a god mouse) and a spacecraft. On the left side of the design, a fat mouse is running forward, and on the right, the Apollo 15 lunar rover driven by two American astronauts is chasing after it. The image is vivid and realistic, and the composition is humorous and romantic. 1996 1 month 1 day, the Zodiac Rat Stamps (all two kinds) are based on the design concept of the mythical and legendary vole, depicting the flying vole with great colors.
Thailand 1996 issued the Zodiac Rat Stamp, which is based on the Thai myth of Buddha Runwheel X "Jipunnana" and depicts the grace of the gods riding mice (Figure 8). The mouse controlled by the gods should be the "heavenly mouse" (god mouse).
The Kingdom of Bhutan is adjacent to China, influenced by Tibetan culture, and adopts Tibetan calendar. 1996 is the year of "Fire Rat", so the zodiac stamp of "Year of Bingzi" issued by Bhutan is designed with the legendary "Fire Rat" (Figure 9). There is also a record of "fire rat" in the Divine Classic of our country: there is a volcano in the south, which is 40 miles long and has inexhaustible wood. It burns day and night, and there is a rat in the fire, weighing 100 kilograms and its hair is more than two feet long ...
1997 The mini-stamp of the Chinese Zodiac issued by the Kingdom of Bhutan has a main picture of a mouse running between the moon and the earth (figure 10). Obviously, this mouse is also a celestial mouse (god mouse).
[Edit this paragraph] The symbolic meaning of the mouse
The first symbolic meaning of the mouse is spirituality, including its cleverness and performance channeling. Rats have a sensitive sense of smell, are timid and suspicious, and are highly alert. In addition, their bodies are very dexterous, and they run like flies. Moreover, they also have two other sudden abilities: from a height of tens of meters or even hundreds of meters, the roof falls to the ground, turns around, and breathes as if nothing is wrong, and there is absolutely no worry about life; Although it is not an aquatic animal and has no super swimming ability, it can't be stopped by a narrow ditch shallow pond. In order to survive, it can drill several meters at the bottom of the water in one breath, but it is unscathed. So it's a waste of effort to fall to death or drown a mouse. People often use "better than a mouse" to describe someone's smart cleverness, and the mouse's cleverness has become a standard of category comparison, so it can be seen that its cleverness has reached a considerable level, just as people will say "better than Mercedes-Benz" instead of "better than Volga" when describing the excellent quality of cars. Similarly, to describe a person as quick-moving and responsive, we often say that he is "as fickle as a mouse." Folks also believe that rats are psychic and can predict good or bad luck. In fact, rats are born in nature, and they are longer than nature. It is normal for them to react to the unexpected events that will happen in nature, such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, locust plagues, etc. This is a special instinct of earth creatures, but some of them are limited to human knowledge and have not revealed its mystery and laws. On the eve of the Tangshan earthquake, people were surprised to find that rats were running around the suburbs, or huddled in relatively empty places such as roads and streets, and did not understand what this sign implied. Similar things must have been repeated many times in ancient times, so the mouse became a psychic deity in human mind. We can get a glimpse of it through duke of zhou's explanation of rats.
The second symbolic meaning of the mouse is its strong vitality. One is its strong reproductive ability and high survival rate. For example, a female rat can produce 5 to 10 young rats per fetus in the natural state, with a maximum of 24 rats, and the pregnancy period is only 2 1 day. The female rat can conceive again on the day of delivery, and the young rats mature after 30 to 40 days, and the females among them join the ranks of breeding offspring. In this way, the mother mouse can give birth to about 5,000 children a year, but there are too many grandchildren, granddaughters, Ceng Zi and great-grandchildren. According to the research, the mother mouse contains a unique chemical substance, which can stimulate the male mouse to bow down to its pomegranate skirt forever, which is probably one of the reasons why the mouse community can have children and raise them. Therefore, the folk call the good mother of the children group "mouse fetus" or "mouse belly", which means that her fertility is particularly strong. Rats have a high survival rate and a long life. Most of them can enjoy their old age, die a natural death, and have a large number of children and grandchildren unless they are attacked by natural enemies cats or put out by humans on a large scale, which is beyond the reach of other animals.
[Edit this paragraph] Rat custom
Some folk customs related to mice are quite interesting. For example, in southern Zhejiang, the custom of "beating the eyes of mice" was popular in ancient times, that is, during the Lantern Festival, people cooked black beans and then sprinkled them indoors. The bean scatterer stood under the beam and threw black beans on the beam, chanting: "On the west beam, under the east beam, the mice were beaten." Common beliefs can eliminate rats. Another example is that the Maonan nationality in Guizhou regards the first day of the twelfth lunar month as the "rat sending festival". These folk customs reflect people's hatred of rats.
[Edit this paragraph] Rat painting
Ancient and modern painters seldom like to draw mice, but the mice written by Qi Baishi, a master of Chinese painting, are vivid and have both form and spirit. The composition of his painting "Rats and Oil Lights" is concise and vivid. The oil lamp is painted on the left, and the flame on the oil core seems to be blown by the breeze. The lower right side of the painting is a mouse, which is concise and full of agility.
[Edit this paragraph] The origin of the first mouse in the zodiac.
1, Legend has it that one day the Jade Emperor will arrange the zodiac, and he will order cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs and cats. The Jade Emperor asked them to rank the next day. At that time, the cat and the mouse were good friends. The cat said to the mouse, "You should wake me up early tomorrow. I am one of the 12 zodiac animals, and I will rank second in heaven tomorrow." The mouse readily agreed.
The next day, the mouse woke up early. He didn't wake the cat, but went to heaven by himself. At that time, it was just the time to rank second. The Jade Emperor ranked the zodiac in the order of ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog, pig and cat. The jade emperor asked the animals if they had any opinions, but the mouse raised an objection: "I don't think cats should be chosen. He doesn't respect you at all." You see, he is still sleeping, and he doesn't care about your arrangement of the zodiac at all. " The Jade Emperor saw that the cat was really sleeping! He flew into a rage. In a rage, he decided never to allow cats to go up to the sky again. At the same time, he let the mouse take the place of the cat. The mouse spoke again: "I must rank first!" " "Why? Is your contribution greater than that of cattle? " "People think I'm much bigger than an ox." The Jade Emperor had no choice but to let people judge him. So the mouse came to the street and ran from the street. Everyone who saw the mouse shouted, "Big (hit) mouse, big (hit) mouse ..." God listened and put the mouse in the first place.
2. Some people think that the zodiac first appeared at the time of writing. A day and night is twenty-four hours, and ancient astronomers divided day and night into twelve hours. At the same time, when they watch the celestial phenomena, they determine the zodiac according to the living habits and activities of twelve animals.
From eleven o'clock at night to one o'clock the next morning, it is the time when mice are active in the dead of night, and they are called "mice".
From 1 am to 3 am, it is ugly. Cattle are used to eating grass at night, and farmers often get up late at night to feed them, so they are called "ugly cows".
From three o'clock to five o'clock in the morning, it belongs to Yinshi. At this time, the tigers that lie in the daytime and walk at night are the fiercest. The ancients often heard the roar of tigers at this time, so they were called "Yinhu".
From five o'clock to seven o'clock in the morning, it is maoshi. At first light, rabbits leave their nests and like to eat grass with morning dew, so they are called "Mao rabbits".
From seven o'clock to nine o'clock in the morning, it is the time of day. At this time, it is generally easy to get foggy. It is said that the dragon is happy to fly in the clouds, and it is worth the rising sun, so it is called "Chen Long".
From 9: 00 am to 11: 00 am, it is the fourth time. The fog cleared, the sun shone brightly, and snakes came out of their holes to feed, pretending to be "snakes."
From eleven to one noon, it is noon. In ancient times, wild horses were not tamed by human beings. Whenever noon, they ran around screaming, so they were called "afternoon horses".
From one to three in the afternoon, it is untimely. In some places, it is called "sheep out of the slope", which means it is a good time to herd sheep, so it is called "weiyang".
From three o'clock to five o'clock in the afternoon, it is the application time. The sun is west, and monkeys like to crow at this time, so it is called "Shen Monkey".
From five o'clock to seven o'clock in the afternoon, it is a unitary time. When the sun goes down, the chicken spins around in front of the nest, so it is called "unitary chicken".
From 7: 00 to 9: 00 in the evening, it is a time of sorrow. After a hard day's work, I bolted the door and got ready for a rest. Dogs lie in front of the door and guard. When there is any movement, they bark and shout, so they are called "dogs".
From 9: 00 to 11: 00 at night, it is Haishi. In the dead of night, you can hear the sound of pig arches, so it is called "Hai Pig".
In this way, the time of day is arranged with animals: mouse, ugly cow, yinhu, maotu, chenlong, sishu, afternoon horse, sheep, monkey, you chicken, dog, and sea pig.
Later, people used this method to date the year, and the zodiac appeared.
[Edit this paragraph] The relationship between rats and humans
The study found that 99% of the bones of mice and humans are the same.