Sheep or Rabbit in the Chinese Zodiac.
The rabbit is a wonderful creature. A long-eared, short-tailed, lipless animal.
Born in the year of the rabbit, it is said that the rabbit is also in the dawning hours (5:00 am to 7:00 am) to return to the cave to rest, according to the animal wonders recorded: the cunning rabbit three grottoes, the rabbit ate grass during the day attaches importance to the intelligence, often in the giraffe under the grass when the giraffe to see the tiger and leopard come to run and the rabbit will hide, so the rabbit has never been a record of tiger and leopard eaten, unless the intelligence to judge the error in hiding into the cave found that it will be caught, so the wrongly accused of the "rabbit" is a wonderful creature. So, the "wrong" is not a hole, you are not wronged?
The rabbit has always had a variety of stories, such as the moon hare worship, the tortoise and the hare race. Do you know that there is such a story in folklore. It is the cow and the rabbit race.
When the Heavenly Emperor chose the 12 zodiac signs, the yellow ox was chosen because of his selfless contribution to mankind, but the yellow ox was not satisfied, and he also gained the position of the head of the 12 zodiac signs through his own efforts. He then asked the champion long-distance runner, the rabbit, how to run fast. The rabbit sneered at the old ox and said, "To run fast, your body should be light, and you are so thick and stout that you will surely not be able to run fast.
The bull was not convinced to go home and practice long-distance running, the bull began to practice long-distance running, with a resilient . Ox force, the yellow ox finally practiced a pair of "iron foot". Tail cocked, hooves like the wind, a few days and nights do not know fatigue.
The emperor chose 12 kinds of Chinese zodiac sign up time, the yellow ox and rabbit agreed who first can be the zodiac. When the rooster crowed the first time and the yellow ox got up, the rabbit set off alone. The rabbit ran for quite a while, but when he looked back, he could not see any animals. The rabbit thought to itself, "I am the first to get up today, and the fastest runner is the one who sleeps, and I will be the head of the Chinese Zodiac anyway. So he fell asleep on the grass.
While the ox was behind, but it was any tough endurance and usually practiced iron foot, a drum, when the rabbit is still sleeping soundly, it first ran to the Palace of Heaven. Due to the tiger's rapid footsteps are very loud, the rabbit woke up, the rabbit found bad, and rushed to catch up. Unfortunately, it was one step too slow and always lagged behind the tiger. Although the rabbit became the Chinese zodiac, but the ultimate poor feel disgraced, lost to their own sarcastic old ox, which is the meaning of the said hate to find a crack in the ground.