俗语“猴年马月”系由“驴年马月”衍化而来,现今词典上都将其视作同义词,泛指事情遥遥无期,不知什么时候方能实现。两者是怎样产生,如何衍化和为什么有这样的语义呢?分说于后——先说“驴年马月”。中国古代是用十二个地支(相应的是十二种动物的生肖)来记录人的出生年月的。十二个地支依次是子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌 As the saying goes, “Monkey Year of the Horse” is derived from “donkey Year of the Horse”, which is regarded as synonymous in today’s dictionaries, referring to things in the foreseeable future, I do not know when to achieve. How are the two produced, how to derive and why there is such a semantic? After talking about - say “Donkey Year of the Horse”. In ancient China, twelve branches of land (corresponding to the zodiac of twelve animals) were used to record the date of birth. Twelve earthly branches followed by sub-ugly Yin Chen Chen had not apply Xi Xu Xi