羊有兩種，一種用來吃，一種用來罵人

撰稿：向前

編譯：馮斯嘉

設計：陳毅星

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（圖片來自華輿）

「媽，我睡不著。」

「你數羊。」

「……我更睡不著了。」

——華輿冷笑話精選

"Mum, I can t sleep."

"You could count sheep."

"...... I can t sleep anymore."

——Huayu Dry Joke

丨詞源/The Origin of the Phrase

屬羊的人注意了，你們正面臨著生命中的最大危機。

事情是這樣的，在這個情慾涌動的季節里，中國北京各大公園一角中出現了一群群的大爺大媽，他們手執小廣告、四處發材料，打著為子女相親的旗號，形成了公園中一道亮麗的「相親一角」。

Attention! People who were born in the Year of the Sheep, you are facing the biggest crisis in your life.

In some major parks in Beijing, a lot of aged people advertise their children for marriage every day, which make the corner of park a Marriage Market.

"The annual salary need to be twenty thousand, good-looking, overseas returnees have priority, junior college education is eliminated" ……The spouse choosing standards be quantified, after these requirements were put forward by those graying people. Thus they also created a clear disdained chain of blind date.

「年薪兩萬，長得好看，海歸優先，大專滾蛋」這些擇偶標準被量化後直接搬到了檯面上，大爺大媽瞬間開啟「雲計算」模式，三六九等人瞬間被劃分出來，由此還形成了一條明晰的相親鄙視鏈——

等等，學歷、年薪、長相這些指標都可以理解，但裡面的「十一生肖＞羊」是神馬情況？更有家長直接給出相親條件：「可以輕度殘疾，但屬羊的絕對不行。」

Educational background, annual salary and appearance, these indicators all could be understood, but inside the chain, there is requirement of "other eleven Zodiac ＞sheep"? Some parents even said: "The person they』d accept can be mild disability, but born in the Year of Sheep are definitely not."

網友的反應很無奈——

屬羊到底犯了什麼錯？

The netizens are also helpless……

What is wrong with them??

丨釋義/Interpretation

其實，羊在古代中華文化中一直是一個吉祥的象徵，「羊」與「陽」諧音，三羊開泰就是三陽開泰，是句非常吉利的話。古代著名的幾頭瑞獸，麒麟，獬豸、夷羊等，都是以羊的形狀為基礎。古文字里的美、鮮、羨等好字，字源均來自於羊的象形。甚至於「祥」字本身，都是以「羊」兼表聲義。

In fact, sheep is an auspicious symbol in ancient Chinese culture. The "sheep(羊)" and "Yang(陽)" are homophonic, Sanyangkaitai(三羊/陽開泰) is a very auspicious sentence. Some beautiful characters in Chinese such as beauty, freshness, admiration and so on in ancient writings are also derived from the pictographic characters of sheep. Even the Word "Xiang(祥)" is based on the "sheep".

（圖片來自孔夫子舊書網）

那究竟什麼時候開始羊變得不招人待見，「十羊九不全，一人坐殿前」、「女子屬羊，獨守空房」這些民間俗語又是從何時興起的呢？

民間說法不一。

一種說法是，由於慈禧太后屬羊，民間反抗勢力出於政治造勢的目的，有意藉此進行輿論宣傳，稱慈禧的屬相誤國。加上曾國藩、李鴻章都屬羊，清末吏治腐敗，百姓憎恨當權王侯將相，「十羊九不全」的說法就在民間得到廣泛認可。

還有說法是「屬羊不吉」其實在明代以前就在民間流傳。明代江元禧的《耳目日書》中就有「女子屬羊守空房」的俗諺記載，明代大名鼎鼎的《金瓶梅》更是為這一說法提供了佐證。《金瓶梅》第六十二回《潘道士法遣黃巾士，西門慶大哭李瓶兒》中提到，李瓶兒暴病身亡，西門慶請了位姓徐的陰陽先生批書。徐先生告訴西門慶，李瓶兒前世是濱州王家的一個男人，打死了一隻懷胎的母羊，所以今世罰做女人，還要罰她屬羊……「被罰屬羊」在當時已經成了一種詛咒，可見對羊的怨念有多深……

丨相關/Related Information

其實，中國民間流傳著的謠言迷信又何止「屬羊不吉」這一個，你們記憶中的「正月剪頭死舅舅」等說法其實都是民間以訛傳訛的牽強附會。

In fact, Chinese folk spread rumors are not only about "people who were born in the Year of the Sheep are seemed to be unlucky", but also about "your uncle will die if you cut hair in lunar January", which are all wrongly informed.

民國時期《掖縣誌》卷二《風俗》里有這麼一段記載：「聞諸鄉老談前清下剃髮之詔於順治四年正月實行，明朝體制一變，民間以剃髮之故思及舊君，故曰『思舊』。相沿既久，遂誤作『死舅』。」原來「死舅舅」的說法僅來自一個牽強附會的諧音：滿清入關，要求漢民剃髮留辮。於是漢人相約正月不剃頭，以示不忘舊君，稱為思舊。後來在百姓中傳著傳著就變了味，「思舊」就變成了「死舅」……

捕輿者手記：中華傳統文化博大精深，而對於每一個中國人來說，首先要學會的是取其精華、去其糟粕。「正月不剪頭」尚可接受，但真因「屬羊不吉」這一牽強附會的說法而拆散了一對姻緣豈不讓人痛心。仔細想來，「屬羊不吉」一說來源不明，指向偏激，能流傳至今勢必是有人傳播過程中推波助瀾。那麼在「屬羊不吉」的風波中究竟誰是那個最大受益者呢？真相只有一個——

終於沒人黑處女座了。

So in the "Year of Sheep " crisis, who is the biggest beneficiary? There is only one truth -

Finally no one criticize Virgo.

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