The news came, alarmed the flower cat and the mouse this two good friends. The flower cat said to the mouse: "tomorrow five nights to the Heavenly Court should be selected, I have a sleepy problem, when you can shout me ah!" The mouse said, "Yes, yes!"
But early the next morning, the untrustworthy mouse secretly got up and left without saying goodbye.
On this day, the beasts of the Spirit Heavenly Palace, such as clouds gathered, began to answer the election. Jade Emperor according to the difference between heaven and earth, singled out dragons, tigers, cows, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs, rabbits, snakes, rats twelve kinds of large family of land and water beasts to do the twelve phases of the genus. The rooster had two beautiful horns and was also included in the beasts.
The Jade Emperor just wanted to give them the next row of seats, only to see the class flashed out of the black pig to. This old black, don't look at the birth of a clumsy mouth, but specializes in trouble. He said, "Since the Jade Emperor has already chosen the twelve leaders, I am willing to share the cost for the Jade Emperor and be a fair person to rank the brothers in order." The Jade Emperor was overjoyed at the news, and instructed the black pig to be impartial and judgmental, and then retired from the court.
As soon as the Jade Emperor left, the twelve genera became a pot of porridge.
At the beginning, everyone unanimously elected the gentle, generous old bull in the first place, even the mighty tiger, the dragon also respect it a few points, agreed. However, the mouse in the corner of the wall but drilled out, protested. It said, "I am the biggest in terms of the number of big, do not believe that let's go to the earth to compete, listen to the people's comments." So the old bull and the mouse came to the street market.
When the bull walked through the crowd, people did not react. At this time, the mouse "giggle" a climb to the back of the cow, playing a stake to the people on the street have yelled: "What a big mouse!" When people take out sticks to rush to fight, the mouse has long run away.
The rat came back to brag, all the chiefs are fighting for the bull, only the black pig secretly happy. It feels that only this size is not divided, good and bad difficult to distinguish, in order to be able to fish eyes, they are also from the profit. He waved his pen, the first row of rats, after the row of bulls.
The tiger and the dragon were annoyed, and the two of them clamored so loudly that they shook the heavens. The chiefs were busy worshipping the dragon and the tiger, and unanimously elected the tiger as the king of the mountain and the dragon as the king of the sea, ruling the world. Monkey wrote the word "king" for tiger and hung it on his forehead, and rooster gave two horns to Canglong. From then on, the dragon wore a crown. Tiger and Canglong had the power on earth, and they were willing to take the place of mice and old cows. At this time, another nosy hare jumped out, it sneered and said: "Hey, hey! In terms of looks I am about the same as the mouse, in terms of size I am bigger than the mouse, I am the guard of the Mountain King, and should be ranked ahead of the Sea King."
Canglong heard the anger, said: "You do not have to mess around, not convinced that we also test than try." The black pig heard just what he wanted, and said: "A deal is a deal, you guys than race to run it, let the hound do your referee."
The hound and the rooster have always been at odds, he saw the rooster to please the dragon, they want to take the opportunity to tease them a little. He chose a thorny track, and secretly said to the hare, "Your tail is too long, it will hinder the race, so bear with it." He cut off a large portion of the hare's tail, leaving only a bit of the tail root.
The race began, and Cthulhu flew ahead in a few moments. But when running to the bush corner was hanging on the branches of the wild vine, how can not pick down. The hare leaped eighteen ridge, a breath of running to the end.
The black pig ignored the opposition of the chiefs and ranked the hare before the dragon and after the tiger.
The pig and dog went to congratulate the hare, and it sold the hare a good deal, saying, "If you don't choose such a runway, and don't help you to cut the tail, how can you have today's victory ah!" The hare is holding the thick tail regret, heard the words of the hound, skimming the three-valve mouth, said: "Humph! I am based on the ability to win, without you, I can not lose this beautiful tail it!" When the hound heard this, his eyes were red with anger, and he said, "Since you have the ability, let's take a walk together!" The hare said arrogantly, "What's so hard about it, I'll run first, if you can catch me, I'll treat you to a bone." With that, he ran up proudly. The hound dog sharpened his claws, a brake waist, arrow-like chase. In no time at all, he whisked up the hare. He bit the hare's neck with his mouth and ate it while saying, "Well, it's my turn to gnaw on the bones."
For this, the hound was also disciplined, and was relegated to the end of the line.
After the dragon failed to race, he often complained about the pair of chicken horns hanging tired of it. The rooster heard and regretted and sad, it came to the beach, said to the Canglong: "Brother Dragon, since these two horns are of no benefit to you, then please return to me." The Canglong said cunningly, "Although these two horns have harmed me, they can adorn my instrument. It is not difficult to return them to you, until the sun rises in the west and the moon goes down to the east sea." After saying this, he went to the bottom of the sea with a jerk. Naive rooster believed in the truth, it every day before dawn to get up, looking forward to the sun out of the western mountains, but also from time to time to stretch his neck, to the sky and the sea call: "Dragon brother ---! Horn --- still --- me ---! "
From then on, the rooster lost two horns, also ranked in the back.
Only the monkey, snake, horse, sheep and pig chiefs remain to be revealed. The black pig and ulterior motives to incite up: "Monkey brother is the king of juggling on land, snake brother is the water swim across the able, you two who first and who after?" After some discussion, they decided to conduct another poll on earth for a juggling performance. The green snake invited the red horse, the monkey invited the goat, so that it two help make costumes and props.
At that time, the snake had twelve legs under its belly, and walked clumsily and slowly. The red horse is a helpful doer, it does not say a word to the snake with a thin skin to do a long tube of dragon clothes, dragon clothes above the horsehair weaving a chevron pattern, very beautiful. The red horse also scraped a layer of grease from under his belly and painted it on the dragon's coat, making it very slippery. The green snake put on the dragon clothes, cover the stupid legs, with sliding instead of walking, both sensitive and beautiful.
The goat usually hate the monkey, smack it all day jumping up and down, give it trampled grass, so the monkey since the help is not so enthusiastic. Monkey wants to make up for the defects of the bare buttocks, to the goat to ask for help: "Goat big brother, please cut to me a little fluff, let me make up the back buttocks it." The goat said unhappily, "It's going to be cold, and you know I'm all about this precious coat." The monkey had no choice but to go butt naked.
On the day of the competition, the green snake was draped in a dragon's coat, coiled like a vine on the branches of a tree for a while, and then glided on the water like a shuttle. It raised its head and neck, only with the tip of the tail on the ground, performing a variety of acrobatics, people applauded. The turn of the monkey show, only to see it climb the bar, swing, also won a lot of applause. When the performance to "upside down bamboo curtain", the monkey with the tail tip rolled in the branch, head down to do a variety of thrilling action. Suddenly, someone shouted: "Look! The monkey's buttocks are on fire!" People laughed loudly. The monkey was always protective. It blushed and panicked, busy with the tail to cover the buttocks, only to hear the "thud" sound, head down a face full of flowers.
In this way, the green snake and the red horse in the front, the goat and the monkey in the back.
After the leaders ranked, the black pig wrote himself in the forefront, and said: this time, but I was promoted to wealth, fame and fortune time!
He came to the Temple of the Spirit, saw the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor took over the seating plan, took a look at it, and without saying a word, ticked off the name of the black pig in front of him and filled in the end. So, the Jade Emperor let the Great White Star written by the earth's branches row: sub-mouse, ugly cattle, c tiger, rabbit, c dragon, snake, afternoon horse, ungoat, Shen monkey, You chicken, dog, Ohio pig twelve birthdays table. Sent down a le decree, so that the duty of the day Cao Gongcao to the earth to publish.
Arrangements have been determined, the Jade Emperor's anger has not disappeared, and gave the black pig approved a few words:
Useless fools, inverting black and white.
The Jade Emperor was angry and gave the black pig a few words of approval.
The black pig was depreciated, and was angry with a big belly. It lies in the nest all day long, it is no longer difficult to meddle. However, sometimes the heart is still itchy, can not hold back, with the mouth of the arch this and that, to make right and wrong.
The mouse returned home, happily stroking three and a half whiskers dancing, the sleeping cat woke up. The cat asked, "Not yet time ah?" The mouse said, "It's past time. We're still competing for first place!" He bragged to the cat about his good behavior. The cat was annoyed and said, "I've told you again and again, why don't you call me?" The mouse said to the cat, "You don't have ears? I called you to go, you also Xing arch my position!" Flower cat heard, angry long whiskers upside down, almond eyes round, it opened its sharp claws, an arrow pounced on, the mouse ate.
From then on, the cat and the mouse have become generations of enemies.
In fact, this is just a legend. The twelve signs of the Chinese Zodiac are two opposite each other, reflecting all the expectations and requirements of our ancestors for Chinese people.
In fact, it is just a legend.