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What Does the Dream Mean? Dream Interpretation in China

What Does the Dream Mean? Dream Interpretation in China muTu Note - Learn Chinese with Chinese Girl When I was a kid, there were mornings when I’d wake up and was eager(急切的,jí qiè de) to tell my mom about the dreams I’d had. But she would say, “Don’t tell me about your dreams until you brush your teeth(刷牙,shuā yá), otherwise the bad dreams(噩梦,è mèng) will come true, and the good dreams(美梦,měi mèng) won’t.” I always believed this was an important rule as a kid until I grew to realize it was probably just a trick that my mom played on me to get me up and about in the morning. I’m still not sure if what she told me was a common superstition(迷信,mí xìn) about dreams, or whether my mom made it up(编造,biān zào). What is certain though is that interpreting the symbolic meaning(象征意义,xiàng zhēng yì yì ) of dreams is an ancient tradition in China, much as it is elsewhere around the world, albeit with different interpretations(解释,jiě shì). Zhougong (the Duke of Zhou) is a semi-legendary figur