Executive Summary: Zodiac is the Chinese zodiac with twelve earthly branches to match the year of birth of a person's twelve zodiac signs, including rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, goats, monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs, each of which has a wealth of legends, and in doing so, form a conceptual interpretation system, become the Folk culture in the image of philosophy, such as marriage on the genus, temple prayers, the year of life, etc. Here we take a look at the story of the twelve Chinese zodiac legends!
The Chinese zodiac is the twelve Chinese zodiac signs with the twelve earthly branches to match the year of birth of people, including rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, goats, monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs, each of which has a rich legend, and as such, the formation of a conceptual interpretation system, which has become the image of the philosophy of the folk culture, such as marriage on the phases of the genus, the temple prayers, the year of the birth of a baby, and so on, the following let's look at! The story of the twelve signs of the zodiac legend it!
Mice earn the boss
It is said that the first division of Chaos, the heavenly stems and earthly branches have just been timed, the Jade Emperor ordered the universal appeal of the world's animals, according to the son, ugly, c, d, m, chen, Si, afternoon, not yet, shen, you, Huxu, Ohio, twelve branches of the twelve earthly branches to select the twelve phases of the Chinese Zodiac. After the news spread, alarmed the flower cat and mouse the two friends. Flower cat said to the mouse: "tomorrow five night to heaven 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 Spirit Heavenly Palace on the beasts Yunan set, began to be selected, the 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 land and water beasts for the twelve phases of the genus.
The rooster had two beautiful horns and was included in the beasts. The pig's move the Jade Emperor just want to give them ranked, only to see the pig flashed out, don't look at it was born with a clumsy mouth, but specializing in trouble, it played: "Jade Emperor has been selected twelve phases of the genus, the small minister is willing to help the king to share the worry, when a fair person, for the brothers in order to rank." The Jade Emperor was delighted to hear this, and instructed the pig to be impartial and judgment, and then retired from the court.
The Jade Emperor left, the twelve signs of the zodiac into a pot of porridge. Mouse first start, 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'm the biggest in terms of number, if not, let's go to the earth to compete and listen to the people's comments." So, the old bull and the mouse came to the street market.
The cow walked through the crowd, people did not react. At this time, the mouse "giggle" a climb to the back of the cow to play a stake, the people on the street have yelled: "What a big mouse!" When people took out their sticks and rushed to fight, the rat had already run away. The rat came back to brag, all the animals are for the bull to fight, 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, so it is a big stroke of the first picked the rat, after the row of the old bull.
Tiger King of the Mountain, Dragon King of the Sea
This can be annoyed at the side of the tiger and the dragon, it two loud clamor, shocked the crowd of animals trembling. The animals were busy worshipping the dragon and the tiger, and unanimously chose the tiger as the king of the mountains and the dragon as the king of the sea, to rule the world. The monkey wrote the word "king" for the tiger and hung it on the tiger's forehead, and the rooster gave two horns to the dragon.
From then on, the dragon wore the crown. Tiger, Canglong has the power of the earth, but also willing to live in the mouse and the old bull after. Dragon and rabbit race at this time, and jumped out of a meddlesome hare, it sneered and said: "Hey! On the looks of me and the mouse about the same, on the size of me than the mouse big, I am the king of the mountain guard, should be ranked in front of the king of the sea."
Canglong heard the anger, said: "You do not have to mess around, not convinced that we will test than test." The black pig heard just what he wanted, busy said: "A promise is a promise, you guys than the race to run it, let the hound to do your referee." The dog and the chicken had never been at odds, it saw the chicken pleasing the dragon, so it wanted to take the opportunity to tease them a little, it chose a thorny runway, secretly said to the rabbit: "Your tail is too long, it will impede the race, you have to bear the pain." He cut off a large portion of the rabbit's tail, leaving only a bit of the tail root.
The race began, Canglong prancing clouds, a few moments to fly to the front, but when running to the bushes when the corner was hung up by the vines, how can not be taken off. The hare leaped eighteen ridges and ran to the finish line in one breath. The black pig disregarded the opposition of the animals, the rabbit ranked in the Canglong before the tiger after.
The dog and the rabbit
The dog went to the hare to congratulate him, and it sold the rabbit well, saying, "If you don't choose such a runway, and don't help you to cut off your tail, how can you have today's victory." The hare is holding the thick tail sorry, heard the dog's words, 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!" The dog heard, eyes are angry red, it said: "Since you have the ability, that we also walk a trip!"
The hare said arrogantly, "What's so hard about this? I'll run first, and if you can catch up with me, I'll treat you to a bone." Said the proudly run up. The hound dog sharpened his claws and chased after him like an arrow. In a short time, it caught up with the hare, and it bit the hare's neck with its mouth, and ate it while saying, "Well, now it's my turn to gnaw on the bone." For this, too, the dog was disciplined, and was relegated to the end of the line. From then on, there was an unresolved hatred between the dog and the rabbit, and the hound often helped people to catch the hare on the mountain.
The rooster lost his two horns
After the dragon lost the race, he often complained behind his back that the pair of chicken horns were hanging him up, the rooster heard it and regretted it and was sad, it came to the sea and said to the dragon, "Brother Dragon, since these two horns are of no use to you, please give them back to me. " The dragon said cunningly, "Though these two horns have harmed me, they can adorn my instrument, and it is not difficult to give them back to you, until the sun is out of the western mountains, and the moon is down in the eastern sea."
Said, then a fierce rooted down to the bottom of the sea. Naive rooster believe it, it is up every day before dawn, looking forward to the sun out of the western mountains, but also from time to time to stretch his neck, to the sea call: "Dragon brother - brother! Horn - still - I ......". From then on, the rooster lost two horns and was also ranked in the back.
Acrobatics to set the row
Only the row of monkeys, snakes, horses, goats, and pigs is left undecided. The pig and ulterior motives to incite up: "Monkey brother is the king of the land juggling, snake brother is the water swimmer, you who first and who after?" After much discussion, they decided to take another folk test on earth and perform acrobatics. The green snake invited the horse, the monkey invited the goat, so that it two help to make costumes and props.
At that time, the snake had twelve legs under its belly, and walked clumsily and slowly. Horse is a helpful doer, it does not say a thin skin to the snake to do a go tube dragon clothes, dragon clothes above the horsehair braided chevron pattern, very good-looking. Horse double from the underbelly scraped a layer of grease painted on the dragon coat, so that the dragon coat is very slippery. The green snake put on the dragon coat, covered its clumsy legs, and slithered instead of walking, which was both sensitive and beautiful. From then on, the snake had no legs, and moved forward by gliding.
The goat usually hate the monkey, smack it all day jumping up and down, to it trampled grass, so the monkey's help is not so enthusiastic, the monkey wants to make up for the defects of the bare buttocks, the body of the goat to ask for help: "Goat big brother, please shear me a little bit of fluff, so that I can make up for the back buttocks it." Goat unhappy said: "the day to be cold, you know I all rely on this body of precious clothes it!" The monkey had no choice but to remain butt-naked.
On the day of the competition, the green snake was wearing a dragon's coat, and it was coiled like a vine on the branches of a tree, and it was gliding like a shuttle on the surface of the water. It raised its head and neck, and landed only on the ground with the tip of its tail, performing all kinds of acrobatics, which were applauded by the people.
The turn of the monkey show, only to see it climbing bar, swing, also won a lot of applause, when the show to "hanging upside down bamboo curtain", the monkey with the tail tip rolled in the branches, head down to do a variety of thrilling action, suddenly heard someone shouted: "Look ah! Monkey butt eye on fire!" People laughed loudly. Monkey has always been protective of shortcomings, it is red and panicked, busy with the tail to cover the buttocks, only to hear the "flop", head down a full face flower.
In this way, the green snake and the red horse are in the front, and the goat and the monkey are in the back.
The black pig was relegated
After the pig's selfishness ranked all the animals, the pig wrote himself in the forefront, and said in his heart, "This time it's the time for me to get promoted and get rich, fame and fortune!" The pig came to the Temple of the Spirit and met the Jade Emperor. Jade Emperor took over the seating table, took a look, without saying a word, the front black pig's name check off, fill in the last.
So, the Jade Emperor let the Great White Star written by the earth's branches row into the son of the rat, the ugly cow, c tiger, rabbit, chenlong, six snakes, afternoon horse, unsheep, the Shen monkey, You chicken, 11th dog, Ohio pig twelve birthdays table, and descended an oracle, so that the duty of the day Gongcao to the earth release. Unlucky pig row has been selected, the Jade Emperor's anger has not disappeared, and give the pig approved a few words: "useless fools, inverting black and white. Punished to eat repeatedly, a year a slaughter".
The black pig was devalued, and all of a sudden gas a big belly. It lies all day in the nest, no longer lazy meddling. However, sometimes still itchy heart, can not hold back, with the mouth of the arch this arch that, to make right and wrong.
The hatred of the cat and the mouse
The mouse returned home, and happily stroked three and a half whiskers dancing, the sleeping cat woke up. The flower cat asked, "Is it not time yet?"
Mouse said: "Early over, we also competed for the first it!" The mouse bragged to the cat about how well behaved he was.
The cat said, "I told you so many times, why didn't you call me?"
The mouse, however, grabbed the cat and said, "I called you? You may not be able to take my place!" The cat heard, angry long whiskers upside down, almond eyes round, it opened its sharp claws, an arrow pounced on, and ate the mouse.
From then on, the cat and the mouse became generations of enemies.