動物雕塑老鼠的象征
鼠，十二生肖之一。鼠的第一個象征意義是靈性，形容某人的精明和機靈；鼠的第二個象征意義是生命力強。中國古代學者從古代晝夜十二時辰的角度解說地支和肖獸的配屬關系。黑天茍地，混沌一片，動物雕塑老鼠，時近夜半之際出來活動，將天地間的混沌狀態咬出縫隙，“鼠咬天開”，所以子屬鼠。
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.
漢族民間故事說：當年軒轅黃帝要選十二動物擔任宮廷衛士，貓托老鼠報名，老鼠給忘了，結果貓沒有選上，從此與鼠結下冤家。大象也來參賽，被老鼠鉆進鼻子，給趕跑了。
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.
其余的動物，原本推牛為首，老鼠卻竄到牛背上，豬也跟著起哄 ，于是老鼠排第一，豬排最后。虎和龍不服，被封為山中之王和海中之王，排在鼠和牛的后面。兔子又不服，和龍賽跑，結果排在了龍的前面。
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，一氣之下咬了兔子，為此被罰在了倒數第二。蛇、馬、羊、猴、雞也經過一番較量，一一排定了位置，最后形成了鼠、牛、虎、兔、龍、蛇、馬、羊、猴、雞、狗、豬的順序。傳說故事雖不是對問題的科學解釋 ，但它卻體現了人們希望對十二生肖的選擇做出解釋的愿望。
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.
