At the beginning of the chaos, the Heavenly Dry Earth Branch was just timed, and the Jade Emperor ordered the universal animals to be summoned to select twelve genera according to the twelve branches of Zi, Ugly, Yin, 卯, 辰, 巳, Noon, Wei, Shen, Unitary, 戌, and Hai.
After the news came out, it alarmed the two good friends of flower cat and mouse. The flower cat said to the mouse, "Tomorrow the fifth day will go to the heavenly court to choose, I have a snoozing problem, then you may want to shout at me!" The rat said in a loud voice, "Good to say, good to say!" "
But the next morning, the untruthful rat secretly got up and said goodbye.
On this day, the Yunnan collection of animals and beasts on the Lingxiao Treasure Hall began to be selected, and the Jade Emperor singled out twelve kinds of land and water beasts such as dragons, tigers, cattle, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs, rabbits, snakes, and rats according to the difference between heaven and earth to make twelve genera. The rooster had two beautiful horns at the time and was also included in the beast.
The Jade Emperor was just about to give them a seat, only to see the black fox pig flash out, don't look at it born clumsy, but it loves to cause trouble, it played: "The Jade Emperor has chosen the leader, the young minister is willing to share the worries for the king, be a just person, and rank the brothers in turn." The Jade Emperor was overjoyed when he heard this, and instructed the pig to be impartial and break, so he withdrew.
As soon as the Jade Emperor left, the zodiac signs became a pot of porridge.
At the beginning, everyone unanimously elected the gentle and generous old scalper to be the first, and even the mighty tiger and the dragon saluted it a few points and agreed. But the rats cowering in the corner of the wall came out and protested. It says, "I am big in the numbers, but I don't believe that we should go to the human world to test and listen to the comments of the people." So the old cattle and rats came to the streets.
As the cattle walked through the crowd, the people did not react. At this time, the rat "sneaked" and suddenly climbed onto the back of the cow to set up a pile, and the people on the street shouted: "What a big rat!" "By the time people pulled out their sticks and rushed to pounce, the rats had already run away.
The rat came back and bragged, all the animals were uneven for the scalper, only the black pig was secretly happy, it felt that only such a size is not distinguished, good or bad, in order to fish and beads, it also profited from it, so it picked the mouse first with a big stroke, and the old cow in the back row.
This annoyed the tigers and dragons on the side, and they both made a loud noise, which made the animals tremble. The animals were busy worshipping the dragon and the tiger, and unanimously elected the tiger as the king of the mountains and the dragon as the king of the fishing, ruling the world. The monkey wrote a gold plaque with the word "King" for the tiger, which hung on the tiger's forehead, and the rooster gave two horns to the dragon. Since then, the dragon has worn a laurel crown. Tigers and dragons have human power, and they are willing to live after rats and old cattle. At this time, another eventful hare jumped out, and it sneered and said, "Hey hey! I'm about the same as a mouse in terms of appearance, I'm bigger than a mouse in terms of height, I'm the guard of the mountain king, and I should be ahead of the sea king. "
When Cang Long heard this, he was furious and said, "You have to mess around with it, and if you are not convinced, we will try to compete." As soon as the black pig heard this, he said busily: "In a word, you will run faster than the game, and let the hounds be your referees." "
The dog and the chicken have never been at odds, and when they saw that the chicken was pleasing to the dragon, they wanted to take the opportunity to tease them, so they chose a thorny runway and secretly said to the rabbit: "Your tail is too long, it will hinder the game, you have to endure the pain of cutting love." "It cut off a large section of the rabbit's tail, leaving only a little tail root.
The game began, the dragon soared into the fog, and in a moment it flew to the front, but when it ran into the bushes, the horns were hung by the vines, and it could not be picked. The hare leapt eighteen rounds and ran to the finish line in one breath.
Ignoring the objections of the animals, the black pig ranked the rabbit after the tiger before the dragon.
The dog went to congratulate the hare, and he sold it to the rabbit and said, "If you don't choose such a runway and don't help you cut off your tail, you will have today's victory." The hare was holding the thick tail and lamenting, listening to the dog's words, skimming the three-flap mouth and saying, "Hum! I won by my own merit, and without you, I wouldn't have lost this beautiful tail! When the dog heard this, his eyes turned red, and he said, "Since you have the ability, let's take a walk!" The hare said arrogantly, "What's so hard about this, I'll run first, you'll be able to catch up with me, and I'll ask you to gnaw on the bones." With that, he ran triumphantly. The hounds sharpened their paws and chased after them like arrows. After a while, he caught up with the hare, and he bit the hare's neck with his mouth, and as he ate it, he said, "Okay, now it's time for me to gnaw on the bones." "Transferred from https://www.qigushi.com/zgsh/ Ancient Chinese mythology
For this, the dog was also punished and ranked last.
After the dragon failed in the game, he often complained behind his back that the pair of chicken horns were tired of it, and the rooster heard it and regretted it and was sad, and it came to the beach and said to the dragon: "Brother Dragon, since these two horns are not good for you, then please give it back to me." The dragon said slyly, "Although these two horns have harmed me, it is not difficult for you to decorate my appearance, and you must wait for the sun to come out of the western mountains and the moon to descend the East China Sea." After saying this, a fierce son plunged down to the bottom of the sea. The naïve rooster believed it to be true, and it got up every day before dawn, hoping that the sun would come out of the western mountains, and from time to time it stretched its neck and called out to the sea: "Brother Dragon--Brother!" Call--also--I..."
Since then, the rooster has lost two horns and is also ranked behind.
Only monkeys, snakes, horses, sheep, and pigs remain in the ranking of which is not determined. The pig instigated with ulterior motives: "Brother Monkey is the king of juggling on land, and Brother Snake is a master of diving in the water, who of you is first and who is behind?" After some discussion, they decided to conduct a folk test and an acrobatic performance in the human world. The green snake invited the red horse, and the monkey invited the goat and asked them both to help make costume props. https://www.qigushi.com/zgsh/
At that time, the snake had twelve legs under its belly, and it was clumsy and slow to walk. The red horse is a doer who helps others, and it silently makes a dragon coat for the snake with thin skin, and the dragon coat is woven with a checkered pattern with a horse's mane, which is beautiful. Red Horse Shuang scraped a layer of grease from under his abdomen and applied it to the dragon coat, making the dragon coat very slippery. The green snake put on the dragon's coat, covered the stupid legs, and replaced the walk with a taxi, which was both sensitive and beautiful.
The goat usually hates the monkey, thinking that it jumps up and down all day and tramples on the grass, so the help for the monkey is not so enthusiastic, the monkey wants to make up for the defect of the bare stomach, the goat asks for help: "Big Brother Sheep, please cut me a little fluff, let me mend the back of the stomach." The goat said unhappily, "It's going to be cold, and you know I'm all in this robe!" "The monkey had no choice but to remain bare-chested.
On the day of the competition, the green snake was dressed in dragon clothes, coiled like a vine on the branches of the trees for a while, and glided like a shuttle on the water for a while. It raised its head and neck, landed only on the ground with the tip of its tail, and performed various acrobatics, and people cheered one after another. When it was the turn of the monkey to perform, only to see it climbing the bar, swinging the swing, but also won a lot of applause, when the performance to the "upside-down bamboo curtain", the monkey with the tip of the tail rolled on the branch, head down to do a variety of thrilling actions, overheard someone shouting: "Look! The monkey ass eye is on fire! People were laughing loudly. The monkey has always been short, it blushed and panicked, busy with its tail to cover its ass, only to listen to the "fluttering" sound, and its head fell towards a full face.
In this way, the green snake and red horse are in front, and the goat and monkey are behind.
After ranking the animals, the black pig wrote himself at the front and said in his heart, "This time is the time for me to rise to fame and fortune!" It came to the Lingxiao Hall and met the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor took the seat table, looked at it, and without saying a word, he checked out the name of the black pig in front of him and filled it in at the end. Therefore, the Jade Emperor asked Taibai Venus to write the following arrangements according to the earth branch: Zi Rat, Ugly Cow, Yin Hu, 卯 Rabbit, ChenLong, 巳 Snake, Noon Horse, Wei Sheep, Shen Monkey, Unitary Chicken, Shu Dog, and Hai Pig Twelve Birthday Tables, and sent down an edict ordering Cao Gong Cao to be issued to the human world.
The selection was decided, and the Jade Emperor was still angry, and he gave the black pig a few words:
Useless stupidity, inverting black and white.
Penalties go to eat repeatedly, slaughter once a year.
The black pig was degraded and suddenly got angry. It lay in its hut all day and was no longer bothered to be nosy. However, sometimes I still feel itchy in my heart, I can't hold back, and I arch this and that with my mouth, playing with right and wrong.
The mouse returned home and danced happily with three and a half whiskers, waking up the sleeping flower cat. Flower Cat asked, "Isn't it time yet?" The mouse said, "It's been too early, and we've fought for the first!" The rat boasted to the flower cat about his goodness. Hua Cat said regretfully, "I told you again and again, why don't you call me?" The mouse grabbed the white flower cat and said, "You don't have ears yourself?" I told you to go, and you took my place! When the cat heard this, his long whiskers stood upside down, his apricot eyes were wide open, and he opened his sharp claws, and an arrow leapt up and ate the mouse.
Since then, tom and jerry have become generational enemies.
Another way of saying about the zodiac signs, the selection and arrangement of the zodiac signs is determined according to the law of the animal's daily activity time.
At least since the Han Dynasty, China has divided a day and night into twelve hours according to the time of the sun's rise, and used the twelve earth branch timekeeping method to record these twelve hours (large hours), each hour is equivalent to two hours, so that one day and night is now called twenty-four hours.
From 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., when rats are most active, they come out to look for food, and if you have the experience of living in a bungalow, you will have a deep understanding.
From one o'clock to three o'clock in the morning, it is ugly time, and the cow is ruminating. It is also said that it is also the time when the cattle begin to plough the fields, and they work diligently.
From three o'clock to five o'clock, it is yin time, when the tiger is wandering around for food, the most ferocious, hungry, and going out to find prey.
From five o'clock to seven o'clock, when the sun has not yet risen, the moon is still hanging in the sky, and at this time the jade rabbit is busy with medicine. Human rabbits also began to come out to feed.
From 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., it is a good time for the dragon to rain, and it is a good time. http://www.qigushi.com
From nine o'clock to eleven o'clock, when the snake began to come alive, woke up, and wanted to come out for a walk.
From 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the yang qi is in full swing, and it is noon, which is the time to show your fists and feet.
From one o'clock to three o'clock in the afternoon, it is not time, the sheep eat grass at this time, and they will grow stronger, also because after the exposure of the sun, the yang is more abundant, which is conducive to health.
From three o'clock to five o'clock in the afternoon, for Shen Shi, this time the monkeys are active, at this time the tiger may have to rest, the monkeys are good to come out to play, there are no tigers in the mountains, the monkeys dominate, everyone has heard.
From five o'clock to seven o'clock, when night falls, the zodiac chickens begin to return to the nest, ready to rest.
From 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., the dogs began to keep vigil to escort us.
From 9:00 to 11:00 p.m., it is time for the night, when everything is silent, and the piglets are snoring and maintaining a healthy body.
There are various legends about the arrangement of the zodiac, and there may be many such stories, or fables, but the scheduling of the zodiac seats is by no means overnight, nor can it be completed in a very short period of time. It may also be the most suitable twelve selected from many animals, and have been passed down to this day, in short, the complicated process needs to be studied continuously. #Chinese Mythology & Folktales ##Story Headlines##Ancient Myths##十二生肖 #
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