机灵小勇士:赵敬晨(济南)砸来的问题:古时,人们对虎和鼠这两种动物是相当畏惧的。虎威猛无比,鼠则什么东西都咬,还会传播鼠疫,令人们防不胜防。据传古人在这些动物之前冠以“老”字,是为了表示敬畏和不敢得罪的意思。还有一种说法认为老鼠长寿,“老”是指年老的意思。事实上老鼠只是繁殖很快,寿命并不是很长。 Smart little warrior: Zhao Jing morning (Jinan) smashed the question: In ancient times, people on the tiger and rat these two animals is quite fearful. Hu Wei extremely fierce, while rats are bitten everything, but also spread the plague, people are hard to detect. It is said that the ancients had the word “old” before these animals in order to show their fear and aversion to offenses. There is also a saying that mice longevity, “old ” refers to the meaning of old age. In fact the mouse just reproduce quickly, life is not very long.