Cattle farming green field mulberry field golden yellow thousand warehouse full,
Tiger roaring green mountains and land mighty and mighty.
This year is the year of the lunar calendar on the mainland, commonly known as the "Year of the Tiger". With the moment the Spring Festival bell rings, the golden tiger steps on the spring, and the tiger tiger is born.
Shuang Qing's eyelids shot shock, and his tail shrugged like a pole gun.
Roaring and cracking, the hundred beasts went to hide in the mountains.
--Qing Jin Zhizhang, "Shooting Tigers in forks in the road"
The tiger is the king of the hundred beasts, it is mighty, brave, and a symbol of strength. You see: the twinkles of fire like an electric light, and the tail rises high from behind the towering ass like a gun shaft. With a loud roar, the Hundred Beasts and Mountain Monsters in the deep mountains were frightened and fled into hiding. In the Han Dynasty Ying Shao's "Customs and Customs, Rituals, and Painting the Tiger", it is said, "Painting the tiger at the door, the ghost does not dare to enter"; "The tiger, the yang, the chief of a hundred beasts, can hold a file and sharp, and eat ghosts." "In the hearts of the ancients, the tiger had a masculine spirit, could ward off evil spirits, eat ghosts and demons, bless peace, and was the protector of mankind.
CaiZhang shines in the morning, and the minions are majestic.
The high clouds floated one by one, and the thick ground vibrated with the sound.
- Tang Chu Guangxi, "The Word of the Tiger"
Tiger and "Fu" and "Fu" are harmonized, implying good fortune at the door. Therefore, since ancient times, people have worshipped the majestic tiger as a totem. Since the Han Dynasty, there have also been Chinese New Year's Eve hanging tiger paintings at home, or "painting tigers at the door".
The tiger dives deep into the mountains and roars in its own wind.
——Xie Huilian of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, "Tiger Line"
When the Chinese nation has culture, it also has a "tiger culture". Looking at China's tiger culture, the essence of it is an indomitable and courageous spirit.
Wang Fenwu was as shocked as anger.
Enter the tiger chen, Kan is like a tiger.
—— Pre-Qin "Book of Poetry • Changwu"
In the poem, the tiger is used to praise the troops of King Xuan of Zhou, and the roar shook the earth, achieving a major victory in quelling the rebellion of the Xu state.
The tiger roars in the valley and produces the wind, and the dragon hides the creek and spits out the clouds.
--Tang Li Bai, "Minggao Song Sends Cen Zhengjun"
A child who is strong is called a "tiger head tiger brain". A person who is born with a wide back and a wide waist is called "tiger back bear waist". Many people are called "Tiger Dragon Tao" and so on.
The tiger will be like thunder, and the general rong will patrol eastward.
--Tang Li Bai, "Gifting Zhang Xianghao".
Since ancient times, tigers have been used to symbolize the bravery and strength of soldiers, such as tiger generals, tiger ministers, etc.
Liu Yingchun tried the horse, and the tiger tent talked about the soldiers at night.
——Tang Like used the joint language given to Zhou Dewei
In ancient times, the big tent in the military was called the "tiger tent".
Tiger Fu divides the town of Zhejiang East, and the Gate of The Gate of The Dragon Gate makes Xu Xiong.
--Song Zeng Xiaozong, "Sending Yue Shuai Cheng Gongkai"
The tiger head took the marquisate by himself, so that he could make a meritorious contribution to the Ming Dynasty.
- Song Zhendexiu, "Gift to Xia Zongyu One"
The ancient emperor dispatched soldiers to send soldiers called "tiger runes".
In myths and legends, the tiger is the god of war and the god of killing. For example, many fierce generals such as Luo Cheng, Xue Rengui's father and son in the Tang Dynasty were said to be the reincarnation of the White Tiger Star.
Cold grass smoke hides tigers, and Takamatsu moon illuminates the eagle.
- Tang Jia Dao, "Sending Dragon Pond Temple Zhenkong Er Shangren"
Because of the tiger's might and ferocity, some gods also chose it as a mount. According to ancient texts, the emissary and mount of the Queen Mother of the West was a tiger. The mount of Zhang Tianshi, the founder of Taoism, was also a tiger. In the divine demon novel "Fengshen Yanyi", the mount of Zhao Gongming, the god of wealth, is a black tiger, and the mount of Shen Gongbao is a white-fronted tiger.
What a fierce tiger in the mountains, a roar of wind and a hundred beasts cold.
——Qian Yifei, "Qi Ji"
The literary language is also permeated with an interesting tiger culture. Legend has it that Tang Bohu, a talented son of the Ming Dynasty, was born in the yin year of yin, the month of yin, and the day of yin, so he was talented and talented.
"Tiger line snow plum blossom five, crane frost field bamboo leaf three" (ancient lian).
The shape of the plum blossom is just like the mark left by the tiger when it walks in the snow, and the plum blossom has five petals.
When Wang Anshi went to the capital to participate in the examination, he used "flying tiger flag, flag flying tiger, flag rolling tiger hiding"; coping with "walking marquee, lights walking horse, lights off the horse stop"; successfully hugging the beautiful people back.
When Dai Dabin of the Ming Dynasty was 5 years old, he was admitted to the Tong Bachelor's Degree by his father. He used the "rabbit pen to write the Yuanfang", and the shanglian "tiger skin mattress cover bachelor chair" of the upper school master. The prodigy is quick-witted and has spread throughout the ages.
Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty summoned a first-class and three-jinshi at the Golden Ruan Hall, and the third tanhua was called Liu Fenghuan, blind at first sight, but talented. Qianlong saw that his appearance was ordinary, and deliberately taunted him in front of the Manchu dynasty ministers: "One-eyed man does not climb the dragon and tiger list." Liu Fenghuan, who was full of warp, immediately chanted the excellent link of "half a moon is still shining". The lower joint work is ingenious and atmospheric, which can be called the absolute of eternity. The Manchu Dynasty was full of magic.
These are all topics that people talk about in the Year of the Tiger. "Tiger culture" makes us feel the profundity and charm of Chinese civilization.
A roar of wind and valley, sleeping in the grass and trees.
This king is deeply hidden, and the deer is silent.
--Qing Wang Changgan
As early as 2 million years ago, the ancestor of the tiger, the "Chinese Ancestral Tiger", lived in this land we have today. Respecting the tiger, praising the tiger, loving the tiger, and fearing the tiger, this unique cultural phenomenon has always continued in the spiritual life of the Chinese nation. The story of "Qianren Fenghu Cultivating the Field" in the Collection of Qing Dynasty Palm Anecdotes compiled by Xu Ke of the Republic of China, "Qing Dynasty Notes, Agricultural and Commercial Categories IV", makes people can't help but be amused, and interested friends may wish to find a reading.
People will be new Guo, Shochiku does not know autumn.
Night tigers roar in the forest, streams and springs flow down.
- Song Mei Yaochen, "Ouyang Temple"
Cooking smoke rises on the edge of the city, the creek babbles next to the huts, and the quiet bamboo forest at night reveals a roar of tigers, what a beautiful "harmonious picture of people and tigers".
Of course, in ancient times, the land was sparsely populated, the mountains and forests were dense, and there were often tiger infestations.
The shepherd boy of the mountain village was devoured by the tiger, and the flesh and blood were all over the bun.
The family wept for the bones, and the road smelled of it.
- Song Lu you, "Tiger Hunting"
In September 1957, the villagers of Gaoping Village, Tongdao County, Hunan Province, located at the foot of Xuefeng Mountain, experienced the most terrifying three days and nights. A child in the village caught the tiger king's tiger boy on the mountain and brought it home, and as a result, more than 100 tigers surrounded the village for three days and three nights. Later, the terrified villagers released several small tigers, and the besieging tigers had no worries, and after biting all the livestock in the village and dragging them away, they also took away three people from the village. The "Hundred Tigers Walled Village" is a great conflict between humans and tigers.
The emperor is natural for good and evil, and it is better to be alone than a man.
I heard that the tiger is hungry and eats people, so what is the heart of the man who kills the tiger now?
Tiger eater who kills who, revenge Hu Jagged?
The strong in ancient and modern times will eventually be weak, just as there is mourning in human affairs.
- Qing Fang Gonggan, "Tiger Skin Line"
The psalmist warns people: The weak eat the strong, and the things will be reversed; if the strong bully the weak, they will be retaliated against.
The black wind swept up the empty mountain, roaring out of the rock forest out of the brocade.
The proud general flew the iron hammer and suddenly startled a little grass shoot Yin.
- Yuan Zhang Hongfan, "Shooting the Tiger"
The general's iron hammer flew out, and the tiger was killed in a thrilling scene. Historically, because of limited understanding, fighting tigers has been praised. Such as the long-standing "Wusong fighting tiger".
The death of the tiger and the death of the dragon do not remember the year, and the old nest and the double phoenix are still there.
--Song Xiang Anshi, "The Huaihu Brothers at the Junction of Nanyue Road"
The tiger, the "king of beasts" that once dominated the mountains and forests, has been ranked first among the top ten endangered animals and is facing extinction. With the development of the economy and the progress of society, human beings should exert the wisdom of balance and harmony in order to leave no regrets.
Cold rain and snow fall, dry forest tiger alone.
- Don Guanxiu, "Nostalgic Mountain in Late Autumn"
Human beings must follow the laws of nature, can not destroy the ecological balance of nature for the sake of development, without the diversity of species, the final victim is still human beings themselves. Albert Einstein once warned people that if the bees go extinct, humans can only survive on the earth for 4 years! Although this statement is a bit alarmist, although it is not so that human beings will disappear immediately, this is definitely not a small disaster. On the morning of April 23 last year, a tiger in Linhu Village, Baiyuwan Town, Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province, came down the mountain, slapped the car window with one hand, and bit the tire of the car...
Many people have seen the majesty of the tiger with their own eyes, which also makes us see the importance of harmonious coexistence between humans and animals.
More than a hundred years ago, Liang Qichao enthusiastically called out to China:
The hidden dragon soars into the abyss, and the scales and claws fly.
The milk tiger roared in the valley, and the hundred beasts trembled.
——Liang Qichao, "Young China Says"
In the crisis of the new crown pneumonia sweeping the world, the world has heard China's "Milk Tiger Roaring Valley", and it is this "Chinese tiger" that has realized the first "centennial dream" of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and brought hope to the global fight against the epidemic and economic recovery.
"The cow calls for winter to go, leaving the red plum to reflect the green field; the tiger roars in the spring, calling out the beautiful sunshine and the blue sky." In the year of the tiger, I wish everyone "a living dragon and a tiger", and the Chinese nation "leaps and leaps"!
The Year of the Tiger is as expected, and the New Year is auspicious!
-Author-
Zhu Shaohua, a native of Junan County, is a senior middle school teacher. Loves to write. Teaching papers, prose essays, poems, paper cuttings and other works have been published in many newspapers and online platforms. He has won many awards in the Essay contest and online literature competition.