What is wealth, Xiao?

In ancient times, pigs were usually used to represent wealth and fertility. There are also many piggy banks that look like pigs now. Tianjin, Hebei and other places have "Fat Pig Arch" festival window grilles, which are cut with black wax paper. Pigs carry a cornucopia on their backs, and stick one on the left and right when carrying towels to show their intention to get rich.

The origin of the zodiac

? Legend has it that there was a gentleman in ancient times who was rich and prolific and had no children under his knees. Who knows that when I was near the flower, I got a son. The family is happy, relatives and friends * * *, and there is a big banquet outside to celebrate the successors.

On the occasion of the holidays, a fortune teller came to see the child. When he saw the child's forehead was wide, his face was big, his ears were wide, his wheels were round, his heaven was full, and he was fat in vain. He asserted that the child must be a rich man.

? The fat boy was born in happiness and grew up in happiness. From an early age, he only knew how to reach for clothes, how to make a living, how to make a living and how to farm. He just idles around, thinking that his fate is set and he is extremely rich, so he doesn't have to work hard. I didn't know that when children grew up, their parents died, their wealth declined, their land was sold, and their servants were scattered. The fat boy continued to spend money like water until he finally starved to death in his room. After his death, the fat boy still lingered on, complaining to the underworld, saying that he was born rich and could not die so miserably. Yan took the ghost to the jade emperor in heaven and asked him to arbitrate. The jade emperor called the kitchen god on earth. When asked how the man with a rich face starved to death in the room, the chef released the fat boy from his study and research. When the Jade Emperor heard this, he was furious and told the officers to obey the order and told Fat Boy to wait for his life. The Jade Emperor said, "Although you are lucky, you are lazy, so you are punished as a pig to eat coarse chaff." This period of time coincides with the choice of the zodiac in Tiangong. The official in this heavenly palace listened to "eating coarse chaff" as "being a zodiac". Immediately put the fat man back to reality. From then on, the fat man became a pig and ate coarse chaff, which became the zodiac.

Pigs have become the zodiac by their own efforts. On the day when the zodiac signs were arranged in the Heavenly Palace, the Jade Emperor stipulated that they must arrive at the Heavenly Palace at a certain time, and the first zodiac sign was regarded as the zodiac sign. Knowing that he was stupid and walked slowly, the pig got up in the middle of the night and hurried to queue up to do the zodiac. Because of the distance and many obstacles, the pig climbed to the Nantianmen very hard, but the time for arranging the twelve zodiac animals has passed, but the pig begged, and the other five animals also begged. Finally, he moved his mind and put the pig into the worse gate, becoming the last zodiac sign. In this way, horses, cows, sheep, chickens, dogs and pigs have all become human zodiac signs.