The third solar term in spring is fright. When the scare happens, there will be a phenomenon of "Rex sacrificing fish". Do otters also make sacrifices?
Li Ji Yue Ling
The moon in Meng Chun. The sun is in the camp. In the faint ginseng. At the end of the light taste. The sun is in the dark. Its emperor is very big. Its god is Ju Mang. Its insect scales. Its sound angle. Its method is great. Its number is eight. It tastes sour. It stinks. It worships its family. It sacrifices the spleen first. The east wind thawed. The stinging insects began to vibrate. On the fish.
The son of heaven lives to the left of Qingyang. Take Luan Road, drive black dragon, carry the green flag, wear Tsing Yi, serve the jade, eat wheat and sheep, and his tools are sparse. Zheng Xuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty noted: "At this time, the fish is fat, and the otter must eat it first and then sacrifice it." It was also saved as "Rex Sacrifice".
1. This means that otters often fish and show the water's edge as if they are offering sacrifices.
"The Book of Rites and the Moon Order": "The Moon of Meng Chun! The east wind thaws, the stinging insects vibrate, the fish freeze, the Tyrannosaurus rex sacrifices the fish, and the geese come. " "Lv Chunqiu Meng Chun": "The fish is frozen, and Rex sacrifices the fish." High lure note: "otter? , waterfowl also. "Take carp, put it on the water's edge, and present it all around, which is called offering sacrifices to the world. "Ye Song Shao Weng?" "Qing Ci" recorded in the Four Dynasties: "Resist the fox's revenge and sincerely sacrifice Rex. "Qing Sun Zhiwei? The poem "An old wife makes a cake to offer sacrifices to God after she recovers from illness" says: "Be a little pious and offer sacrifices to fish with Rex. "In fact, otters kill and eat a lot of fish when they eat fish, so there is a saying of' Rex Sacrifice'.
Lu Zongda and Wang Ning said "sacrifice" to the meaning of ancient Chinese: the original meaning of "sacrifice" should be "slaughter", while "Zheng Xiao in Li Jixia" and "Yue Ling in Li Ji" all said "rex sacrifices fish" ... otters are sexually dysfunctional, and they often throw away fish after eating one or two, so they have strong fishing ability and eat them every time. "People call it' Rex Sacrifice', which means to pile up the remains. "
2. Metaphor lists the facts and piles them up.
Wu Song Jiong? "Wutonglu": "When Li Shangyin wrote articles and commented on the history of books in the Tang Dynasty, it was said that one of Rex sacrificed fish." Hey? The poem "Weeping Wang Wenduan" wrote: "Make a series of diligent Rex sacrifices and pick up snail saliva from leftovers." Liang Qing burns people? On Autumn Rain and Mao Xihe: "(Mao Xihe) must write poems before Luo ... (His wife) said,' Do you think Mao has knowledge? It takes seven words and eight sentences to build a canal and a rex sacrifice. " "
Wen Yiduo in the Republic of China? "Dragon and Phoenix": "As for the allusion that Phoenix is better than Confucius, it is also close at hand. I don't know why it has never become the material of the poet's' Farewell Day'."