First, the Chinese and foreign fighting sheep taming style - the game of sheep Playing games is both easy and interesting. Readers and friends, please go with me to enjoy some of the ancient and modern fighting sheep taming style it. Sheep fighting is a popular folk entertainment in Tunisia, with a history of more than 1,000 years. Nowadays, Tunisian people use sheep fighting competition to develop tourism and attract foreign tourists. 1975 Tunisia specially set up the National Federation of Sheep Fighting to formulate a set of rules for the competition, so as to formalize this activity. Folklore of the Old Yellow River Road--Sheep Fighting. Sheep fighting in China is said to have begun in the Three Kingdoms era. Once Cao Cao was defeated by Yuan Shao and retreated to Caozhou (now Heze). One day, Cao Cao suddenly saw two goats facing each other in a very impressive manner. Cao Cao was so excited that he immediately thought: why not use the sheep to boost his army's morale? Cao Cao called his men to watch the performance, and it really boosted their morale. Cao Cao took the opportunity to strike back and defeated Yuan Shao. From then on, the sheep-fighting style emerged here. This folklore is spread in the junction of Suzhou, Henan and Anhui in the area of the Yellow River Road, and more in the temple fair and fair held in the late 1970s in some places set up a sheep fighting association, so that it has become an organized, rules of the traditional cultural and entertainment activities. Or let us enjoy the fighting sheep enthusiastic scene it! Sheep fighting began, only to hear a burst of melodious silk and bamboo music, accompanied by the Yellow River Road, the unique sound of suona, two curly hair and horns of the male sheep out of the line. You see, they have a leisurely expression, like a walk together, scratching each other's hair, kissing, very close, do not see a little fighting style. A moment later, with the music gradually accelerated, and accompanied by a tight drum, a martial arts generals are about to debut the atmosphere came into being. Two dueling sheep eyes gradually red, each other with horns rubbing each other, mouth also "sizzling" sound. To be horn rubbing frequency disorder, only to hear the referee a whistle, the two owners will pull the sheep away from the distance of about 50 meters. At this time, the music suddenly stopped, only to hear "when" a sound, the master of a shot, two sheep such as two silver light flashed, like boxing generals mixing together, hard to give up hard to share, yellow soil four, the audience jumped, spectacular. So repeatedly, about to fight a few rounds, before they can determine the male and female. Second, playful literature - Chinese idioms in the sheep Idioms are unique to the Chinese people. Adults read them to be more mature and children read them to increase their knowledge. 1、Sheep-intestinal bird road. Describes a narrow and winding path, mostly referring to mountain roads. This idiom is from the Tang Xuanzong "early ascent of the Taihang Mountains in the Zhi" "fire dragon Ming bird road, iron riders around the goat's intestines". It is also used as "goat's intestine path". The Eighth Episode of Journey of the Old Remnant: "Although this road is not a sheep's intestines path, it is suddenly high and suddenly low, and the stone path is exceptionally slippery when it is frozen with snow and ice." Deng Tuo, "Chen Cang Road": "The original mountain road is still visible now, that can really be said to be a sheep's intestine path!" 2、Sheep and Wolf Greedy. Originally refers to people doing things ferociously greedy, a fight for power and profit. Later, it is often used as a metaphor for corrupt officials viciously exploiting and oppressing the people. This idiom comes from "The Records of the Grand Historian Xiang Yu": "Fierce as a tiger, ruthless as a sheep, greedy as a wolf, the border is not messenger, all beheaded. Tang Dynasty's Han Yu in the "Yuncheng Xitang poem and preface" has: "Who is the state grub, section of the root of the borer; sheep ruthless wolf greed, with the mouth to overthrow the city." 3, wool comes out of the sheep. Metaphorically speaking, all the expenses and expenditures, in the final analysis, are out of others, do not need to pay out of their own pockets. The Twenty-Seventh Episode of "The Present Condition of Officialdom": "And I read: 'Everything should always be trivialized and trivialized. The wool comes out on the sheep's body, and so on the surname Jia's two more, put this matter peacefully over, not to end it.'" Eighty-one Dreams - Eighth Dream: "A usual lipstick, you can knock broads dozens of dollars of bamboo bar, broads also did not for you so knocking bamboo bar itch on an itch, can think they are also wool out of the sheep body." 4, sheep quality tiger skin. Originally a sheep, but clothed in the skin of a tiger. Originally, it refers to a sheep wearing a tiger's skin, but its timid nature remains unchanged. Yang Xiong in the Han Dynasty in the "law of speech - my son" said: "sheep quality and tiger skin, see grass and say, see jackal and fight, forget the skin of the tiger." Later, it was used as a metaphor for external strength or vain reputation. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty - Liu Yan's Biography: "The so-called sheep's quality and tiger's skin, seeing a jackal, are afraid." Liang Zhangjui (梁章钜) in the Qing Dynasty, "Returning to the Field: Preface to Gao Yunong (归田琐记-高雨农序)": "Sheep-quality而虎皮，但见其可狎，不见其可畏。". Zheng Zhen of the Qing Dynasty, "Nesting Poetry Notes - Volume VII - On Poetry Showing Students That the Times Will Come": "Li, Du and Wang, Meng, the talent score is similar to each other, and the sheep quality and the tiger's skin, even though it is clever, is still a fake. The people who never speak, never follow the customary scholar." Also made in the shape of a sheep and a tiger. The Empress Dowager Cixi Acts, 13th: "seems to be a new opportunity to flourish, the political situation is bright, in fact, it is futile to attack the skin, not get the essence of the sheep quality and tiger shape, help what things?" 5、Tiger into the flock. A tiger runs into a flock of sheep. Metaphorically speaking, the strong rushed into the middle of the weak, arbitrarily exerting authority. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, 11th: "Kong Rong saw Tai Shi Ci and Guan, Zhang rushed to kill the thieves, such as the tiger into the flock, and the vertical and horizontal when not." Another, sheep into the tiger herd. It is a metaphor for the weak falling into the strong or the good falling into the hands of the bad. Liaozhai Zhiyi - Shao Jiuniang: "I thought the sheep into the tiger herd, the wolves have been unbearable." 6, sheep mending. Sheep lost, hurry to repair the sheep pen. Metaphorically speaking, it is necessary to remedy the mistake in time. The warring states policy - chu policy four ":" the sheep is lost to mend the prison, is not too late." Guo Moruo (郭沫若), "Mourning Wen Yiduo" (悼闻一多)："Japan has surrendered, and we are fortunate to have been spared the pain of losing our country. It is not too late to mend the prison." 7、Lost sheep but got cattle. Lose the sheep but get the cattle. Metaphorically speaking, the loss is small and the gain is big. The idiom of "Huainanzi - Saying Mountain Training" is: "If you lose sheep but get cattle, then there is nothing unfavorable to lose. Sheep in Chinese and foreign poems What kind of image do sheep have in poems? There is a poem "Cile Song" that even children can recite by heart, which describes the vast grassland scenery and nomadic life. Here sheep become a landscape in the poem. "Cile River, under the Yinshan Mountain. The sky is like a dome, covering the four fields. The sky is pale and the wild is vast. The wind blows the grass down to see the cattle and sheep." Wen Tingjun, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty who was once a lieutenant of Fangcheng County, wrote in his poem "Su Wu Temple": "Su Wu's soul was lost in front of the Han envoys, and the ancient ancestral shrine with its tall trees was two bewildering. The moon of Hu Tian is broken by geese in the clouds, and the sheep in the Long Shang return to the smoke of the grass." Please read aloud a poem called "Sheep of America" *** Let's enjoy the exotic flavor together. I am a sheep of America California is my hometown The buildings are placed on the soil with white clouds in the middle The trees are lined up like artificial incubation The grass is green as the eyes Let the whole spring be full of fantasies The moon is full today, and the train is not so loud I think it should be nighttime in California Chen Yi in the poem "Le'an Yihuang Road," "Thousands of Cliffs and Ten Thousand Ravines for the wild to sleep in, and Sheep Intestine and Bird Paths to laugh at the Zin fans. " Liu Yazi's "Four Songs of Sentiments" has the following to say about tiger skin and sheep's quality: "Tiger skin and sheep's quality are ultimately hard to fake, and the underground Yuanxun is already too late to regret." Mei Yaochen, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, sang in a poem "Sending Wang Zha Dujian to Dengzhou": "In the past, I remembered Luoyang from Nanyang, where oranges were ripening in the early fall and the forests were yellow. The car passed by the white water and the sand marks were wide, and the geese dropped the rice ears. The ruined Han monument is engraved in gold, and the ancient Qin mound is a stone for sheep. The peace of the feather diatribe has never been? The guests and hosts are happy to recommend chrysanthemum goblet." At that time, the Nanyang people already took the stone sheep as a good luck charm. Fourth, the sheep in Chinese and foreign songs Ancient rhyme melodious "Su Wu Shepherd Sheep" song lyrics are like this. If you want to be happy, you can sing the Prairie Shepherd's Song: It is the white clouds in the blue sky, it is the sheep in the pasture, it is the flowers on the grassland that open up for me, I am the eagle on the prairie. The meadow, the blue sky, the white clouds, and the sheep ...... are always linked together. In the textbooks of primary and secondary school students we can feel the poetry from the prairie to our heart's content. You listen to an Inner Mongolian folk song "pastoral": blue sky hey floating white clouds, white clouds covered with snow-white sheep underneath. The sheep seem to be speckled with silver, sprinkled on the prairie so love to kill people! In the elementary school music textbook there is a happy "little shepherd's flute". The song says: "Little shepherd's flute, play the song, brother sheep and I put the geese, he drove the sheep up the mountain, I drove the geese down the river. ...... "Shearing" is an Australian folk song. The lyrics are: The grassland on the other side of the river is white, as if the white clouds are drifting from the sky, look at the snow pile around like winter, this is our shearing. Don't shiver, sheep, don't be afraid, don't worry about your old coat, you won't need it in the hot summer, and you'll put on a new coat in the fall. The white wool is like silk and cotton, the sharp shears are clicking, as long as we all work hard to labor, happy life will surely come. After the song, let's listen to the story. Fifth, the endless story of sheep 1, Su Wu shepherd sheep - Ambassador and 19 years "shepherd" story. After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, it was constantly threatened by the Xiongnu in the north. The Xiongnu infestation annoyed Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. He sent his generals Wei Qing and Huo Daizi to send troops to crush the Xiongnu many times. Each time the Xiongnu was defeated, they sent envoys to beg for peace. For the sake of friendship between the two sides, the Emperor of Han Dynasty often sent envoys. However, the Xiongnu often used excuses to detain the Han envoys. Su Wu was sent to Xiong Nu as an envoy by Emperor Wu of Han. On the steppe, the Xiongnu monarch feasted the Han envoys. However, due to a change of heart, Su Wu was interrogated as a prisoner. In order to maintain his dignity, Su Wu drew his sword and wiped it on his neck. After Su Wu's sword wound healed, the Xiongnu monarch tried every means to persuade him to surrender. Su Wu refused to do so. He was locked in the cellar without food and water, and in the cold winter months, he quenched his thirst with snow and tore off the fur from his jacket to feed his hunger. Shan Yu ordered him to be exiled to the North Sea to herd sheep. From then on, he kept company with the sheep and conversed with them; he kept company with the cold and conversed with the grassland. This sheep herding life lasted for 19 years. Su Wu fought against his fate with tenacity and perseverance. In 85 A.D., when Xiong Nu's Monarch died and civil strife broke out, the new Monarch sent an envoy to the Han Dynasty to seek peace. And Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty had died, Emperor Zhao of Han Dynasty sent an envoy to bring Su Wu back. The story of Su Wu shepherding sheep, like the famous song, whimpering with sad beauty. 2、Five rams' skins exchanged for the destiny from slave to prime minister--The story of Bailey Xi. This story happened in Nanyang. There was a man named Baili Xi, who was poor as a young boy and later wandered around. In the seventh century B.C., when Duke Xian of Jin destroyed Yu, he captured the Duke of Yu and his ministers, Jing Bo and Thyi Li Xi, and accompanied them to the state of Qin as Mu Ji's dowry. Unable to endure the life of slaves, Thyme fled to Wan (Nanyang) and was captured by the Chu. Duke Mu of Qin learned of this and ransomed him with five rams' skins. Thus, Bai Li Xi went from slave to prime minister. Under his assistance, Qin opened up thousands of miles of land and dominated Xirong. When he died, the men and women of Qin grieved and wept, the children did not sing, and those who worked did not make a sound. 3. A fairy tale classic - the story of the Wolf and the Lamb. I guess that out of a hundred children, ninety-nine will have to grow up listening to the fairy tale of The Wolf and the Little Lamb. Whether Chinese or foreign, whether urban or rural; whether black or white, whether ancient or modern; whether boy or girl, whether good or bad ...... The fairy tale of "The Wolf and the Little Lamb" has traveled around the world through word of mouth. Despite the fact that the story is famous, it has been passed down through different languages and nationalities, and various versions have been interpreted in a variety of ways. This is the original "The Wolf and the Lamb" from Aesop's Fables. A lamb was drinking water by the river, and when the wolf saw it, he thought: How can I eat this lamb rightfully? So he came up with a solution and ran upstream, complaining viciously that the lamb had muddied the river, making it impossible for him to drink the fresh water. The lamb replied, "I only stand by the river to drink, and moreover I am downstream, so surely I won't muddy the water upstream." When the wolf saw that this plan would not work, he added, "My father was scolded by you last year." The lamb said, "I wasn't even born then. The wolf said to the lamb, "No matter how you justify it, I won't let you go anyway." This shows that any justifiable defense is ineffective against the wicked. 4. The story of the five sheep and the city of Guangzhou. There is a statue of five rams on Yuexiu Mountain in Guangzhou City, which seems to tell people the origin of "Sheep City". The ram in the center of the statue is holding the ears of grain in its mouth, which means Guangzhou is abbreviated as "Sui". The five sheep with their heads in the south seem to tell a beautiful story to the visitors. This story is called "The Five Immortals Giving the Valley". At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, Guangzhou had thousands of miles of bare land and no harvest. The officials were like wolves and tigers, pressing for rents and taxes. A young boy's father was arrested and put in jail, and if he could not pay the tax in three days, he would be fed to the sharks. The desperate young man cried like an ancient ape in the night, weeping in the sky. His cries alarmed the Five Elder Emperors of the Five Directions. He sent five emissaries to rescue him. The eastern messenger wore a green dress and rode the green sheep; the northern messenger wore a black dress and rode the black sheep; the southern messenger wore a red dress and rode the red sheep; the western messenger wore a white dress and rode the white sheep; and the central messenger wore a yellow dress and rode the yellow sheep. They came to earth with five-colored ears of grain in each of their hands. The messengers of the five directions said to the weeping young man, "You grieve for your father, weep for the people, are filial and dear to them, worry about the country and the people, and your emotions move heaven." After saying this, they presented the ears of grain in their hands to the young man; and instructed him to plant the grain in the ground this night, water and fertilize it, and harvest the grain at daybreak. The gods and goddesses put their palms together and wished: "Southeast, West, North, West, North and South, all over the world; sprinkle a thousand grains today, and wish to live in ten directions!" After the blessing, they disappeared with a wisp of white smoke. The young man planted grains in the night as the five immortals said, and sure enough, by the dawn of the next day, he harvested a golden crop. With the grain, he saved his father. The Five Immortals came to earth again to teach his father and son to plant in the spring and harvest in the fall. The officials heard about this and came like wolves. The Five Immortals rose up in the air and left the Five Immortal Sheep on the ground because they were in a hurry. The officials went to catch the sheep, and the five divine sheep turned into five stone sheep. 5. Wonderful Replay - A story of a beautiful maiden and a goat in the world famous novel. The founding work of Romantic literature in the 19th century, the great French writer Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris has a classic image that makes it unforgettable. There is a girl dancing in the River Plaza. Is this girl a fairy or an angel? She really looks like a transcendental spirit! The poet Grandgoire thought to himself, "Truly, she is a fire spirit, a mountain nymph, a goddess, the sacrificial daughter of the wine goddess of Mount Mannerus!" This handsome sixteen-year-old Esmeralda stopped after her dance, and then a beautiful little goat performed a magic trick. This little goat had a beautiful name, "Jiali," and was snow-white and very smart. The horns on its head and the feet on its legs were golden yellow. Around its neck was a gold-plated necklace. The beautiful maiden handed the tambourine to the goat and asked what month it was. The goat raises its front feet and taps them on the drum. It is indeed the month of January. The audience applauds. The maiden asks what day it is. The goat taps six times on the drum with its little golden feet. The maiden asks what time it is, and the goat knocks seven times. The goat also acts as the captain of the city's defense hand cannon squad, bringing that greedy and fake look to life. The goat also in the young girl's command to learn the church court complainant sermon appearance, that every move, voice, gesture imitation of a perfect. 7, "Aesop's Fables" - a mysterious story box full of sheep. Aesop's Fables is said to have been written by a freed slave in the 6th century B.C. who was later killed by a fall. There are countless stories about sheep in the book. Like the fox fell into the well and the male goat "," the little goat and the blowjob wolf "," ate the wolf and the sheep "," shepherd and sheep "," bulls and wild goats "," wolves, sheep and rams "," shepherd and dog "," goats and shepherds "," standing on the roof of the goat and the wolf "," the female goat and the vine "," the crow and the goats ", and so on. It seems that the goat plays the leading role in the fable. The story of The Lying Goat Herder, told by a kindergarten aunt, may be unforgettable for the rest of one's life. There was a goat herder who drove his flock of sheep to graze far away from the village. He was always a liar and a joker, and often called out to the village people for help, lying that there were wolves coming to attack his flock. In the beginning, the village people were so frightened that they immediately ran to help him, but he laughed at them and had to walk back in dismay. Then, one day, the wolf really came and scurried into the flock, biting and killing. The shepherd boy cried out for help to the village people, who thought he was lying and joking as usual, and no one paid any more attention to him. As a result, all his sheep were eaten by the wolves. This story shows that those who often tell lies will not be believed even if they tell the truth one day. As we move into the Year of the Sheep, we read sheep poems, sing sheep songs, listen to sheep stories, and our mood will get better and better. We wish people good luck in the Year of the Sheep.