Why is there no cat in the Chinese zodiac? Why does the rat come first?

Because the rat, which is the most numerous animal, represents the common people who create wealth,

After the rat represents the people, the cat, which specializes in eating rats, could not have been included in the 12 zodiac signs.

Why is the rat in the first place? The people are the first element of the country, they work hard and save money to create wealth for the country, which is the basis of the country, so they are the first.

There is also a folk legend:

There is a legend:

The Jade Emperor wanted to elect 12 kinds of animals as representatives of the Jade Emperor, and then he sent the gods and goddesses down to the earth to talk to the animals about this matter, and then set up a time in the year of the year, the month of the year, the day of the year, the time of the month of the day, the time of the election to the Palace of Heaven, come to the earlier the more the more the row of the front of the row of the back row of the row of the cat and the mouse is still a good friend of the cat loves to sleep, but he also wanted to be elected to the election of the cat. The cat loved to sleep, but he also wanted to be elected, so he asked the mouse to call him, but the mouse forgot about it, and the mouse went to the ox and said that he was an early riser and a fast runner, and asked the ox to bring him along, and the old ox promised to do so

And at that time, the dragon didn't have any horns, while the chicken did have horns. The dragon then said that the chicken was very pretty, and that it didn't need horns, and asked the chicken to borrow it. The dragon promised to pay him back

At the hour of dawn on the day of the month in the year d, all the animals rushed to the heavenly palace, but the cat was still sleeping

The mouse was sitting on the back of an ox, and it arrived at the heavenly palace. The mouse jumped, and the Jade Emperor said that he was the earliest to arrive, and put him in the first place, the old steak in the second place, the tiger in the third place, and the rabbit in the third place, and the dragon was very late, but he was very late. The dragon arrives late, but he's big, and the Jade Emperor sees him and calls him over, and because he's so pretty, he puts him in fifth place, and says he'll put his son in sixth place, but the dragon's disappointed, because his son didn't show up today, and then the snake in the back comes running up and says, "He's my godfather, and I'm in sixth place, and I'm in sixth place. I'm sixth! So the snake came in sixth, and the horse and the goat arrived, and they gave way to the horse and the goat, and they gave way to the goat, and they gave way to the horse and the goat, and they pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed, and the Jade Emperor, seeing that they were so courteous, gave them seventh and eighth, and the monkey, who had been in the thirties, but who knew how to jump, jumped ahead of them by pulling on a cloud in the sky, and they came ninth, and then the chickens, and the dogs, and the pigs, and the pigs all came up

After the contest was over, the cat woke up and the mouse came home, and was chased all over the world by the cat. The cat chased him all over the world.

After the race was over, the dragon came to the sea and saw that with his horns he was much prettier than before, so he wasn't going to give it back to the chicken, so in order to hide from the chicken, he disappeared from the world, and the chicken was very angry, so he got up early in the morning every day and shouted to the sea, "Give it back to me! Give it back! The hen shouted, "Give it back! Give it back! And the chickens shouted back, "Give it back! Give it back!

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