动物雕塑老鼠的象征

鼠，十二生肖之一。鼠的第一个象征意义是灵性，形容某人的精明和机灵；鼠的第二个象征意义是生命力强。中国古代学者从古代昼夜十二时辰的角度解说地支和肖兽的配属关系。黑天苟地，混沌一片，动物雕塑老鼠，时近夜半之际出来活动，将天地间的混沌状态咬出缝隙，“鼠咬天开”，所以子属鼠。

Rat, one of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals. The first symbol of a rat is spirituality, which describes someone's shrewdness and ingenuity. The second symbol of the rat is its strong vitality. Chinese ancient scholars explained the distribution relationship between earth branches and animals from the perspective of the twelve hours of day and night in ancient times. Dark sky, a piece of chaos, animal sculpture mice, when nearly midnight out activities, the chaotic state between heaven and earth bite the gap, "rat bite the sky open", so the son is a rat.

汉族民间故事说：当年轩辕黄帝要选十二动物担任宫廷卫士，猫托老鼠报名，老鼠给忘了，结果猫没有选上，从此与鼠结下冤家。大象也来参赛，被老鼠钻进鼻子，给赶跑了。

Han folklore says: When the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan wanted to choose twelve animals as palace guards, the cat asked the mouse to sign up, the mouse forgot, the cat was not chosen, and from then on they made enemies. The elephant also came to the contest, but was driven away by the mouse.

其余的动物，原本推牛为首，老鼠却窜到牛背上，猪也跟着起哄 ，于是老鼠排第一，猪排最后。虎和龙不服，被封为山中之王和海中之王，排在鼠和牛的后面。兔子又不服，和龙赛跑，结果排在了龙的前面。

The rest of the animals, originally pushed the cow head, the mouse but ran to the back of the cow, the pig also followed the heckling, so the mouse row first, pork chops last. The tiger and the dragon refused to obey, and were crowned the king of the mountains and the king of the sea, next to the rat and the ox. The rabbit refused to accept again, and the dragon race, the result in front of the dragon.

狗又不平，一气之下咬了兔子，为此被罚在了倒数第二。蛇、马、羊、猴、鸡也经过一番较量，一一排定了位置，最后形成了鼠、牛、虎、兔、龙、蛇、马、羊、猴、鸡、狗、猪的顺序。传说故事虽不是对问题的科学解释 ，但它却体现了人们希望对十二生肖的选择做出解释的愿望。

The dog is uneven again, under anger bit rabbit, for this was punished in the penultimate second. Snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster also went through a contest, one by one arranged the position, finally formed the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, pig order. Legends are not a scientific explanation of the problem, but they do reflect people's desire to explain the choice of the Chinese zodiac.