After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was constantly threatened by the Xiong Nu (匈奴) in the north. The Xiongnu's intrusion annoyed Emperor Wu of Han. He sent his generals Wei Qing and Huo Daizi to crusade against 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. But the Xiongnu often used excuses to detain the Han envoys.
Su Wu was sent to Xiongnu 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 to persuade him to surrender. Su Wu was not willing to do so. He was locked in the cellar without food and water, and in the winter months, he quenched his thirst with snow and tore off the fur of his jacket to feed himself. Shan Yu ordered him to be exiled to the North Sea to herd sheep. From then on, he was accompanied by sheep, and the sheep dialog; with the cold for companion, and the grassland dialog.
This life of sheep herding lasted for 19 years. Su Wu fought against fate with tenacity. In 85 AD, Xiong Nu Shan Yu died of civil unrest, the new Shan Yu sent an envoy to the Han Dynasty to seek peace. And Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty had also died, Emperor Zhao of Han Dynasty sent an envoy to bring Su Wu back.
The story of Su Wu shepherding the sheep is like that famous song, whimpering with sad beauty.
2. Five rams' skins were exchanged for the destiny from slave to prime minister - the story of Thyme.
This story happened in Nanyang. There was a man named Bai Li Xi, who was poor as a teenager and then wandered around. In the seventh century BC, 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 Qin as Mu Ji's entourage.
Unable to endure the life of slaves, Thyme fled to Wan (Nanyang) and was captured by the Chu people. 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. The fairy tale classic - the story of The Wolf and the Lamb .
I guess, among one hundred children, ninety-nine of them grew up listening to the fairy tale of "The Wolf and the Little Lamb". Whether it is Chinese or foreign, whether it is urban or rural; whether it is black or white, whether it is ancient or modern; whether it is boy or girl, whether it is good or bad ...... The fairy tale of the Wolf and the Little Lamb traveled around the world by word of mouth. Although the story is famous, but through different languages, different nationalities of the circulation, a variety of versions of interpretation of a variety of.
This is the original version of Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb
4. The story of the five sheep and the city of Guangzhou.
There is a statue of five sheep on Yuexiu Mountain in Guangzhou City, which seems to tell people the origin of "Sheep City". The ram in the center is holding the ears of grain in its mouth, which means Guangzhou is abbreviated as "Sui". These five sheep head south, as if to tell visitors a beautiful story.
The story is called "Five Immortals Give Valley". At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, Guangzhou had thousands of miles of bare land and no harvest. The government was like a tiger, pressing for rent and tax. A young man's father was imprisoned, and if he failed to 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 the people on the goat. 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 youth, "You grieve for your father, weep for the people, are filial to your dear ones, worry about the country and the people, and your emotions move heaven." When he had said this, he presented the ears of grain in his hand 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 with the same; today sprinkle a thousand particles, wish to live in the ten directions!"
All the gods and goddesses have joined hands to wish for the same, and now they have sprinkled thousands of particles, wishing to live in ten places.
The young man planted the grains in the night as the five immortals said, and really harvested a golden crop by the dawn of the next day.
Having the grain saved his father. Five Immortals once again came to earth to teach his father and son to plant in the spring and harvest in the fall. The officials heard about it and came like wolves. The five gods rose up in the air, and because they were in a hurry, they left the five gods' sheep on the ground. The official went to catch the sheep, and the five divine sheep turned into five stone sheep.
5. Wonderful playback - the story of a beautiful girl and a goat in the world famous novel.
There is a classic image in Notre Dame de Paris by the great French writer Victor Hugo, the cornerstone of Romantic literature in the 19th century, that makes it unforgettable.
There is a girl dancing in the square on the riverbank. Is this girl a fairy or an angel? She is like an extraordinary spirit! The poet Grandgoire thought to himself, "Truly, she is a fire spirit, a mountain nymph, a goddess, the sacrificial daughter of the god of wine on Mount Mannerus!"
This handsome sixteen-year-old Esmeralda paused after her dance, and then a beautiful little goat performed a magic trick. This little goat has a beautiful name "Jiali", is covered with snow-white, very smart. The horns on its head and the feet on its legs were golden yellow. It also wore a gold-plated necklace around its neck.
The beautiful maiden handed the tambourine to the goat and asked what month it was. The goat raises its front foot and taps it on the drum. It is indeed 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 maiden under the command of the church court sermon of the complainant's appearance, that every move, voice, gesture imitation of the perfect.
6. Aesop's Fables - a mysterious story box full of sheep.
Aesop's Fables are said to have been written in the 6th century BC by a freed slave who was later killed by a fall. There are countless stories about sheep in the book. Like "into the well of the fox and the male goat", "the little goat and the piper's wolf", "full of wolves and sheep", "shepherd and sheep", "bulls and wild goats", "wolves, sheep and rams", "shepherds and dogs", "goats and shepherds", "standing on the roof of the goat and the wolf", "female goats and grapevines", "ravens and 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 a lifetime. There was a sheep herder who drove his flock to graze far outside 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, even if they tell the truth one day, no one will believe them.
As we move into the Year of the Sheep, we listen to sheep stories and our mood will get better and better. We wish people good luck in the Year of the Sheep.
7. Sheep cake kneeling milk grace to educate unfilial children.
A long, long time ago, there was a child who was very ungrateful to his parents, who had no choice but to look for the child's uncle. The uncle was a goat herder, herding sheep on the hillside every day. Although he was uneducated, he had a good way of educating his children. He said to the child's parents, "Leave your nephew to me, and after a while he will change his mind and become a good boy who honors his parents." The next day, the child's parents sent the child to his uncle's house. When the uncle saw his nephew, he neither scolded nor beat him, and without saying a word, handed him a sheep whip.
One noon in June, the sun baked the hillside like a ball of fire, and the birds all hid in the shade of the trees and did not come out. Uncle also took his nephew to a big tree to cool off. At this time, there were a few small birds flying around in the hot sun. The nephew asked his uncle, "Aren't these little crows afraid of the heat? What are they busy with as they keep flying around?" The uncle pointed to the bird's nest on the tree and said, "I guess there is a crow in the bird's nest that is too old to fly and is tilting its head and opening its beak to be fed by the little crows one bite at a time. Without the little crows feeding him, he would have starved to death. This is called 'the crow feeding back'." The nephew listened on the side and silently lowered his head. Another day, uncle and nephew were fiddling with some lambs in the sheepfold. The nephew saw that the lambs were all kneeling down to eat milk and felt strange. He asked his uncle, "Why are the lambs always kneeling for milk?" Uncle sitting on a stone, about the origin of the lamb kneeling milk: a long time ago, a ewe gave birth to a lamb.
The mother of the sheep very much love the lamb, sleep at night to let it snuggle up to the side, with the body of the lamb warm, so that the lamb slept well and fragrant. In the daytime to eat grass, and bring the lamb around, inseparable. When other animals bully the lamb, the mother sheep uses her head to resist and protect the lamb. Once, the mother was feeding her lamb. A hen came up to her and said, "Mother sheep, you have lost a lot of weight lately. All the food you eat is smacked away by the lambs. Look at me, I never care about what the chicks eat or drink, I just let them go on their own." Sheep mother hated hen words, said nonchalantly: "you talk too much about right and wrong, in the end to commit the death of wringing the neck, but also to get a knife, what good for you?" After being angry with the hen, the lamb said, "Mom, you love me so much, how can I repay you for your kindness?" Sheep mother said: "I do not want you to repay anything, as long as you have a piece of filial piety will be satisfied." After hearing this, the little sheep did not feel tears, "flop" kneeling on the ground, said it is difficult to repay the mother of a piece of deep love.
From then on, every time the lamb ate milk, it was kneeling. It knew that its mother had fed it with milk, and kneeling down to eat milk was a sign of gratitude for its mother's kindness in breastfeeding. This is the "Lamb's Kneeling".
Wisdom: The crow knows how to feed itself, the lamb knows how to kneel down, don't people know how to honor their parents?
Wisdom: The crow knows how to feed itself, and the lamb knows how to kneel.