Who can explain the origin of the zodiac?

As an ancient folk cultural phenomenon, scholars have different opinions about the origin of the zodiac. Some people think that the zodiac and earthly branches are homologous and can be traced back to prehistoric legend times. In Historical Records, the Yellow Emperor's statements of "building Jiazi for life" and "making every effort to cure Jiazi" are the embodiment of this statement, and scholars believe that Jiazi here refers to the zodiac. Zhao Yi, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, believed that the zodiac originated from nomadic people in northern China. He said in "An Examination of Jade Congkao": "At first, there was no such thing as ugliness on the 12th, but in the next year, it spread to China." (See Zhao Yi's Textual Research on Jade Cong in Qing Dynasty). Some scholars even hold the view that the zodiac was introduced to China from Babylon, and Guo Moruo is the representative of this view. He said in "A Study on Oracle Bone Inscriptions" that "there are twelve statues in Babylon, Egypt and India, but they are not very old, nor did they come from more than 100 years after the Western Dynasties. The original intention is that this was made in the Western countries during the Han Dynasty, imitating the Babylonian zodiac and then spreading to the surrounding areas. " It is believed that the Chinese Zodiac was formulated by Middle Eastern residents imitating the Babylonian Zodiac, and was introduced to China when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty communicated with the western regions. The above viewpoints are different, so I dare not judge right or wrong subjectively. However, it is proved by a large number of documents that the Chinese zodiac really originated in China, and it is the crystallization of animal worship, totem worship and early astronomy of China ancestors.

The Book of Songs is the earliest record of the zodiac in the existing literature. There are eight words in The Book of Songs Xiaoya Jiri: "Jiri Wugeng means poor horse", which means it is a good day to ride a prancing horse and go hunting. This is an example of a horse in the afternoon. It can be seen that the corresponding relationship between earthly branches and twelve kinds of animals has been established and spread around the Spring and Autumn Period. The bamboo slips 1975 unearthed from tomb1in Shuihudi, Yunmeng County, Hubei Province, further proved that the zodiac had existed before and after the Spring and Autumn Period. There is a chapter on "Thief" in the bamboo slips unearthed in Japan, which talks about the appearance characteristics of thieves, and records: "Son, mouse, thief wants his mouth, ... ugly, cow, thief with big nose and long neck, ... yin, tiger, thief, if he wants his beard, his face is black." Hair, rabbits, thieves are big. Chen, [original leak] The thief is a man, green and red ... Third, the worm is also black. At noon, the deer is also a thief with a long neck and a small cut. ..... No, horse, thieves have ears. ",ring also, thief round face ..."

It says "Without a horse, a thief must have ears". Is it wrong? According to the order of earthly branch and zodiac, shouldn't it correspond to sheep?

The zodiac recorded in Japanese books is roughly the same as the popular saying now. According to textual research, the tomb of Shuihudi 1 1 was in the 30th year of Qin Shihuang (2 17 BC), so the appearance of the zodiac can be traced back to at least the Spring and Autumn Period before Qin Dynasty. Scholars believe that this is the earliest and most systematic record of the zodiac found in China so far.

Exactly the same as the popular zodiac signs today is the record of Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Wang Chong's "On the Balance of Things" contains: "Yin, wood, birds and tigers. Soil, its birds and dogs are also. ..... At noon, the horse also arrived. Son, mouse, unitary, chicken. Hair, rabbits, too. ..... hey, tapir. No, so are sheep. Ugly, cattle also. ..... Third, snakes are also. Shen, Qitian also. "

In the above text, there are eleven kinds of animals in the zodiac, but the dragon is gone. The book "Poisonous Words" says: "Chen is a dragon, and he has become a snake. Chen and Yu are in the southeast. "

In this way, the zodiac is complete, exactly the same as the popular zodiac. This is indeed the earliest and most complete record of the zodiac in ancient literature.

By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the zodiac had been widely used, and it was clearly recorded in the Southern Dynasties' Five Elements Records of South Shu Qi that the zodiac was divided according to the year of birth. Shen Jiong, a poet in the Southern Dynasties, once wrote a poem about the zodiac, which said:

"In the case of mice and dust, cattle and sheep fall at dusk.

Tigers sit in empty valleys for food, and rabbits open windows to the moon.

The dragon ridge is far green, and the snake willow lingers near.

Ma Lanfang is far away and breeds sheep in spring.

The monkey chestnut shames the fragrant fruit, and the chicken anvil leads to a clear cup.

Dogs are proud of owning, but pigs are carefree. "

This poem of the zodiac is obviously written in the order of animals assigned by the twelve branches, which shows that people at that time were already very familiar with the zodiac.

It is clear from the above documents that the origin of Zodiac culture is in China. According to the foreign zodiac, the zodiac was introduced to China from the Middle East in the Han Dynasty, which is similar to the introduction of Buddhism. From the above documents, we prove that there were records about the zodiac in China as early as the Spring and Autumn Period (The Book of Heaven and the Book of Songs), which shows that the appearance of the zodiac and the collocation of the zodiac and the earthly branches have been produced as early as the Han Dynasty, so it is certain that the zodiac originated from an ancient culture in China. So what is the origin of the zodiac? Why did the ancients choose these twelve animals? Scholars have been paying attention to this problem and making various explanations.

Some scholars believe that the zodiac originated from animal worship in primitive times, and Mr. Zhang Binglun of China University of Science and Technology holds this view. He believes that under the condition of low productivity and extremely limited ability to understand nature in primitive society, he has a sense of dependence on animals closely related to his life (such as horses, sheep, cows, chickens, dogs, etc.). ), the fear of animals that endanger his own safety (such as tigers and snakes), and the reverence for some animal organ functions that exceed human beings (such as dogs' sense of smell, etc.). ), which leads to the worship of animals. The zodiac is an animal calendar that people use to record the years and months under the influence of the primitive belief of animal worship.

The animal worship of primitive people is also manifested in primitive dances such as Nuo dance, which was produced around the Zhou Dynasty, and the protagonist in Nuo instrument is Fang and twelve beasts. Twelve kinds of animals are selected in Exorcism Dance, which is a manifestation of primitive people's reverence for animals. The twelve beasts (or the Twelve Gods) selected at the ceremony are to take care of the twelve months of the year, to drive away plagues and ghosts from all directions and to take care of the twelve directions for the safety of each month. Of course, the care of the twelve directions involves twelve branches, so it is linked with the zodiac, and the zodiac has been well used in the exorcism ceremony. It can be seen that the twelve animals and the zodiac are in the same strain, and their common source is primitive animal worship.

Mr. Liu Yaohan, a ethnologist, believes that the dates of the zodiac and the "Zodiac" are related to the "October Calendar" method of the Yi people. Yi people living in Daliangshan area of Sichuan have a calendar with twelve kinds of animals as the date of the year. They use twelve kinds of animals as the date of the year. Today is the Year of the Rat and tomorrow is the Year of the Ox. By analogy, three rounds is a month, 36 days, a month is 36 days, and a year is ten months. This is the later "October calendar" method. Mr. Liu Yaohan believes that the October calendar, which marks the dates according to the Chinese zodiac, came into being in the Xia and Yu Dynasties (see Liu Yaohan's Collection of Social and Historical Investigation of Yi People), which is related to the primitive totem worship. The zodiac was influenced by the October calendar, and the Yi zodiac calendar later developed into the zodiac.

When we talk about the origin of the zodiac, we must associate it with heavenly stems and earthly branches. The oldest existing branch table in China unearthed from the Yin Ruins in Anyang in modern times shows that the date of branches in the Yin and Shang Dynasties has been mastered. Later, with the passage of time, the functions of the branches gradually diversified. As a label as a time unit, on the one hand, it is extended and used in chronology; On the one hand, it reduces the time (twelve hours a day). According to historical records and textual research, the zodiac appeared after the establishment of the "branch chronology" Twelve kinds of animals correspond to the twelve earthly branches one by one, and animals are the signs of earthly branches. People born in the same year all have their own animals, so twelve kinds of animals are used to date the year and calculate each person's zodiac. It can be seen that the zodiac and the twelve earthly branches are inseparable. For a long time, scholars have found that the ancient Chinese characters of the zodiac contain the information of the zodiac. They compared the ancient Chinese characters of the Chinese zodiac with those of the Chinese zodiac, and found that the ancient Chinese characters of the Chinese zodiac were related to twelve kinds of animals. Careful observation shows that there are some similarities and some differences. In Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the word "four" was described as a pictographic character of a snake, and there were also "hai" and "tapir". People nearby have also verified that there are similarities between the characters of the earthly branches in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the inscriptions on bronze inscriptions and the characters of the zodiac, which makes people wonder whether the zodiac is the pictographic characters of the animals of the zodiac. Because the ugly shade and ugly hair of the twelve earthly branches are easy to remember, people use twelve kinds of animals instead, and animals instead of ordinal numbers to match the earthly branches, which becomes the symbol system of the year. Although the above conjecture has certain credibility, if you think about it carefully, you can still judge that the zodiac can't be pictographs of the zodiac, because as mentioned earlier, the zodiac was skillfully used in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, while the zodiac was only produced in the Spring and Autumn Period and came from different sources. If the earthly branches are related to the zodiac when creating characters, wouldn't the zodiac be produced at the same time as the earthly branches?

To sum up, the author thinks that the zodiac appeared later than the twelve earthly branches, but it is closely related to the twelve earthly branches. The zodiac is an appendage of the twelve earthly branches. Choosing twelve animals as symbols instead of the twelve earthly branches stems from the animal worship psychology of the ancients.

[Edit this paragraph] Selection and arrangement of the Chinese zodiac

The choice of the zodiac is not complicated, but it is close to the daily life and social life of the Han people, which can be guessed. Zodiac animals can be roughly divided into three categories: one is the "six animals" domesticated by human beings, namely cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, dogs and chickens. Animals domesticated by human beings for economic or other purposes account for half of the Zodiac animals. "Six Livestock" is an important concept in China agricultural culture with a long history. In the traditional concept of China people, "Six Livestock Flourishing" represents the prosperity, auspiciousness and beauty of the family. During the Spring Festival, people usually talk about "the prosperity of six animals", so it is inevitable that these six animals will become the zodiac. The second category is well-known wild animals, which are closely related to people's daily and social life. They are tigers, rabbits, monkeys, rats and snakes, and some of them participate in human life with awe, such as tigers and snakes. There are also rodents that people hate and taboo, but they rely on human beings to survive; More people like it, such as rabbits and monkeys. The third category is the traditional symbolic mascot of China people-the dragon, which is a symbol of the Chinese nation, an "artifact" with many animal features, and a "spiritual thing" in people's imagination. Dragon represents wealth and auspiciousness, and it is the most symbolic auspicious animal, so its position in the zodiac is indispensable.

Why are there no cats in the zodiac?

Since ancient times, people have different opinions about why there is no cat in the zodiac, including the above story and the story of "the cat catches the mouse", but they are not convinced.

Why can't cats make the list? In fact, the real reason is that there were no cats in ancient China. Cats are native to Egypt, but it is unknown when cats were introduced to China. Folklore was brought back from India by Tang Sanzang, but it will never be so late for cats to be introduced to China. Ancient literati called cats "raccoons", such as Li Shangyin sleeping on raccoon tiles. So cats should have been introduced into China earlier. Now when it comes to why there are no cats in the zodiac, it is explained by folk stories. In fact, before cats were introduced to China, there were twelve zodiac signs in China. So it is not surprising that there are no cats in the zodiac. According to the classification of zoology, tigers belong to mammals, carnivores and cats. Tigers and cats are actually relatives of the family. With the tiger as the representative, cats are willing to masturbate without the trouble of "right to speak" in the "agreement" of the zodiac.

As can be seen from the above, the choice of zodiac animals is not arbitrary, but has certain meanings. People choose animals from different angles, which has certain significance.

So in what order are these twelve animals arranged? As mentioned earlier, the zodiac was born in the atmosphere of ancient animal worship and totem worship. People just use animals to borrow ordinal symbols to match the earthly branches. Why did you choose these twelve animals, who came first and in what order? There is no conclusion. Because the zodiac was born in ancient culture, people have lost the original intention of the arrangement because of its age. Today's legends and stories are only attached to it, and they can only rely on legends and imagination. There are three explanations about the arrangement of the zodiac.

The first is the arrangement of the zodiac in folklore stories.

Han folktale says: In those days, Huangdi in Xuanyuan wanted to choose twelve kinds of animals as court guards, and the cat asked the mouse to sign up, but the mouse forgot. As a result, the cat didn't choose it, and since then, it has made enemies with the mouse. The elephant also came to the competition, and the mouse got into its nose and drove it away. The rest of the animals, originally headed by cows, were rushed to the backs of cows, and pigs also booed, so the mice came first and the pork chops came last. The tiger and the dragon refused to accept it, and were named king of the mountain and king of the sea, ranking behind the mouse and the cow. The rabbit refused to accept it again, raced with the dragon and finally reached the dragon. The dog was unfair and bit the rabbit in a rage, so he was punished from the bottom. Snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys and chickens have also gone through some contests and arranged their positions one by one. Finally, the order of rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs was formed. Although the legendary story is not a scientific explanation of the problem, it embodies people's explanation of the choice of the zodiac.

Secondly, Chinese ancient scholars explained the relationship between earthly branches and Xiao beasts from the perspective of twelve o'clock in ancient times.

There is chaos in the darkness. Rats come out in the middle of the night and bite the chaotic state between heaven and earth out of the gap. "Rats bite the sky", so they belong to rats. When the sky opens, the land will be reclaimed. "This land will be saved from ugliness." Cows have to plow fields, so ugliness belongs to cows. Yin Shi is the time when a person is born. If he lives, he must die. Nothing can kill people more than a tiger. Yin has awe, so Yin belongs to a tiger. Shi Mao is like the sunrise. The sun should be separated from divination, which is like fire, and the yin contained in it is the essence of the moon, so Shi Mao belongs to the rabbit. March is the rainy season. Chen Ziran belongs to the dragon. The divinatory symbols in April, at this moment, spring grass is flourishing, which is a good day for snakes, like a duck to water. Besides, it's morning, and the snake is returning to the cave, so it belongs to the snake. At noon and afternoon, the sun's spirit reaches its peak, and the yin is budding. A horse, an animal, gallops and flies with its hooves, but it tramples on the ground from time to time. The sky is yang, the earth is yin, and the horse jumps between yin and yang, so it becomes the zodiac at noon. Sheep, grazing in the afternoon is the best time, and it is easy to gain weight. This time is not timely, so it is not a sheep. Not after dressing, but when the monkey is crying near the western hills, and the monkey likes to stretch his arms and jump at this time, so the monkey is worth dressing. When the moon appears, it belongs to water, so it should be divination. The hexagrams are the upper and lower yin, and the middle yang represents the sun and the essence of the sun. That's why you are a chicken. When night falls, it's time. Dogs are vigil animals, and when they are with them, they become dogs. Then when the sea comes, heaven and earth are immersed in a state of chaos, just like a fruit wrapped in stones, and everything in the world is covered at night. Pigs are chaotic creatures that only know how to eat, so pigs have become the zodiac of Hai. Zhu, a famous Neo-Confucianist in Song Dynasty, holds this view.

Thirdly, according to China people's belief in Yin and Yang, twelve kinds of animals are divided into Yin and Yang, and the Yin and Yang of animals are arranged according to the odd-even difference of toes.

Animals generally have the same number of toes in front, back, left and right. Only mice have four feet in front and five feet in the back, even and odd. Things are rare, of course, they rank first, followed by cattle and four toes (even number); Tiger, five toes (odd number); Rabbit, four toes (even number); Dragon, five toes (odd number); Snakes, no toes (occasionally); Horse, one toe (odd number); Sheep, four toes (even number); Monkey, five toes (odd number); Chicken, four toes (even number); Dog, five toes (odd number); Pig, four toes (even number). This view was held by Hong Xun, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, and Lang Ying, an Amin scholar, classified it on this basis, and put forward "below the earthly branch" in his manuscript of the Seventh Revision of the Zodiac, so the number of toes should be treated differently. The mouse has four claws in front, even number is yin, hind foot is five claws, and odd number is yang. The first half of the child is the yin of last night, and the second half is the yang of today, just using mice to symbolize the child. The four claws of cattle, sheep, pig's trotters and chickens, plus the four claws of rabbits lacking lips and the tongue of snakes, should all be even, belonging to Yin, accounting for six. Tigers have five claws, monkeys and dogs have five claws, and horseshoes are round and undivided. All six are odd numbers, belonging to Yang, and together with the mice belonging to Yang, they account for the other six branches. Lang Ying's classification is the flood borrowing classification, and the two are similar.

The above three explanations explain the arrangement of the zodiac from different angles, and the folklore about the arrangement of animals in the zodiac is very rich. On the one hand, the spread of these legends enriches the content of the zodiac, on the other hand, it also promotes the inheritance and development of the zodiac culture. The zodiac is divided into two categories, Yin and Yang, which are incorporated into the concept of China people's belief in five elements. The purpose is to link the zodiac with life rituals, and to correspond the Yin-Yang and Five Elements with the zodiac, thus explaining other related life and cultural phenomena.

The moral of the zodiac

The Chinese zodiac signs are opposite to each other, and they are the six divisions in the wheel of karma, which embodies all the expectations and demands of our ancestors for us in China.

The first group: rats and cows. Rats represent wisdom and cows represent diligence. The two must be closely combined. Only wisdom without diligence will become wisdom, and diligence will become stupidity. So the two must be combined. This is the first set of expectations and requirements of our ancestors for China people, and it is also the most important set.

The second group: tigers and rabbits. Tigers represent courage, rabbits represent caution. The two must be closely combined to achieve the so-called boldness and caution. Courage without caution becomes recklessness, and blind caution becomes timidity. This group is also very important, so it is placed in the second place.

The third group is the dragon snake. The dragon represents tenacity, and the snake represents flexibility. The so-called rigidity is easy to break, too rigid is easy to break, but if there is only a soft side, it is easy to lose your mind, so combining rigidity with softness is our ancestral motto.

The fourth group is horses and sheep. Horses represent indomitable spirit and go straight to the goal, while sheep represent harmony. If a person only cares about himself and goes straight to the goal, regardless of the surrounding environment, he will inevitably bump into the surrounding environment and may not be able to achieve his goal in the end. But if a person is condescending and integrated with his surroundings, he will lose his direction and goal. Therefore, indomitable nature must be closely combined with harmony.

The fifth group is monkeys and chickens. Monkeys represent flexibility, and chickens crow regularly, representing constancy. Flexibility and constancy must be closely combined. If you are flexible and not static, no matter how good the policy is, you will not get anything in the end. But if you just stay the same, stagnate and be monolithic, there will be no reform and opening up today. There is only a very harmonious combination between them. On the one hand, it has stability and maintains the overall harmony and order, on the other hand, it can continue to develop flexibly.

Finally, dogs and pigs. Dogs represent loyalty and pigs represent easygoing. If a person is too loyal and doesn't know how to be easy-going, he will exclude others. On the other hand, if a person is too easy-going and has no loyalty, he will lose his principles. Therefore, whether it is loyalty to a nation-state, loyalty to a team, or loyalty to one's own ideals, it must be closely combined with easygoing, so that it is easy to truly maintain deep loyalty. This is what we in China have always insisted, that a gentleman is harmonious but different.

Everyone in China has his own zodiac sign. Some people are pigs, others are dogs. What's the point? In fact, our ancestors expected us to be harmonious and impartial, and asked us to know how to cut into the corresponding surface. For example, pigs can pursue loyalty in an easy-going nature; On the other hand, the loyal nature of dogs is easygoing.

[Edit this paragraph] Poetry of the Chinese Zodiac

Yao Ming

In thousands of years of traditional culture in China, the zodiac is not only a vivid way to mark the year and the moon, but also has been combined with everyone and endowed with a magical personality. According to the textual research of Evonne in Qing Dynasty, the zodiac originated from the Eastern Han Dynasty. Since then, many Chinese zodiac poems written by literati have been circulated among the people.

The earliest Zodiac poem is said to be "Zodiac Poem" written by Shen Jiong, a poet of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and Chen Dynasty: "The case of rat dust, cattle and sheep come at dusk. A roaring tiger gives birth to an empty valley, and a rabbit opens a bright moon window. The dragon ridge is far green, and the snake willow lingers near. Ma Lanfang is far away and breeds sheep in spring. The monkey chestnut shames the fragrant fruit, and the chicken toe attracts the bosom. The dog is outside the house and the pig window is long. " The first word of each sentence in the poem points out the names of the animals of the zodiac in turn, and highlights the habits and characteristics of each animal. Zhu, a writer in the Southern Song Dynasty, also wrote a poem about the zodiac, which is rigorous in structure, easy to understand and full of fun: "Smelling empty mice in the daytime can drive away the wasteland." When I was a tiger, I listened to arrogance, and the old rabbit garden was unscrupulous. You see, after sleeping for three winters, the dragon's head doesn't argue with the snake. Destroying a car and killing a horse is easy to cook and drink. Hand-planted monkey peaches hang green, and Kunming birds crow horns are raised. Guests come to the dog to urge tea, and they don't have to buy pork from the owner. "

In the Yuan Dynasty, Liu's zodiac poem says, "The hungry eagle scares the mouse, and the cow lies on its back." . The battle for the rabbit hole in Jingzhou has traveled thousands of miles. There is no end to fish and dragons entering the water, but a cup and a plate of snakes in the mirror. The autumn wind in the horse's ear has gone without a trace, and the narrow path has returned home early. There is no need to dance with monkeys in the hall, and chickens in the intestines are paradise. Chai Men's dog barked at his neighbors and told them to buy Xie Chunyu, a god pig. "The Chinese zodiac is embedded with poems, and every sentence is a brilliant story, which is wonderful.

Characteristics and Disadvantages of China Zodiac

Rat: attraction, social skills, influence, intelligence, frugality, charm, tension, power desire, wordiness, cunning, greed, intervention.

Cattle: integrity, innovation, purposefulness, diligence, stability, good words, stubbornness, indifference, prejudice, dullness and revenge.

Tiger: Enthusiasm, good luck, courage, charity, charm, authority, impulsiveness, boasting, irritability, indulgence, disobedience and drifting with the flow.

Rabbit: wit, caution, skill, longevity, virtue, ambition, secret, amateur, too formal, melancholy, dazzling and complicated.

Dragon: strength, enthusiasm, success, courage, health, passion, rigidity, confusion, distrust, boasting, dissatisfaction and talkative.

Snakes: intuition, wisdom, attraction, vigilance, caution, sympathy, cover-up, greed, luxury, arrogance, laziness and narcissism.

Ma: Persuasiveness, fashion, autonomy, sensitivity, popularity, achievement, selfishness, haste, arrogance, impatience, resistance and conceit.

Sheep: invention, whimsy, sensitivity, courtesy, perseverance, taste, attachment, pessimism, lack of foresight, unreality, dullness and anxiety.

Monkeys: improvisation, leadership, wit, intelligence, stability, loyalty, cunning, self-confidence, trickery, stupidity, rap and speculation.

Chicken: flexible, conservative, enthusiastic, beautiful, frank, humorous, arrogant, boastful, idolatrous and dissolute.

Dogs: persistent, responsible, brave, intelligent, respectable, moral, uneasy, sarcastic, critical, bad, social, self-righteous and smooth.

Pig: Cautious, cheerful, brave, educated, sincere, honest, credulous, materialistic, angry, hesitant and stupid.

Interesting articles about the zodiac

Mouse: Whenever we see a mouse, our first reaction is to "fight". Indeed, "everyone is crying for a mouse to cross the street." From this

It can be seen that our impression of mice is so poor that we even think that mice are a symbol of laziness, meanness, cunning and cowardice.

Although rats are so hateful, there are several interesting stories about rats in history. Now let's look at them.

Look, rats are in these stories. Now let's look at the role of the mouse in these stories.

Cattle: When we mention "cattle", we will see cows working hard in the fields. It can really be said that they are hardworking.

The representative of. On the other hand, it is also a symbol of stupidity. Don't we often call people "big stupid cows"?

China is founded on agriculture, and cows are indispensable animals in China's life, so the legends about "cows" are different.

Shao, now choose a few legends for everyone to enjoy.

Tiger: Although the West regards the lion as the king of all animals, in ancient China, the king of all animals was the tiger!

People in China have regarded tigers as inviolable animals since ancient times, and they are really afraid of them.

People's faces change at the mention of tigers. When they see tigers, they may be scared to death. Tiger can really be said to be Wei.

The embodiment of bravery, courage, danger and struggle. There are countless wonderful things about tigers. Now let's be strong.

Take your time!

Rabbit: Rabbit is a very docile animal. Anyone who sees it can't help touching it. It's really a person.

See people love.

The rabbit's hearing is very sensitive. Its long ears detect all directions, and no wind can escape it.

Its flying speed is beyond the reach of many animals. For this gentle, lovely and agile animal, we

Of course, it depends on what kind of legend happens to it.

Dragon: Emperor Lapras ascended to heaven.

In ancient times, the Yellow Emperor was a very wise king. He once defeated the invader Chiyou for the survival of the nation.

The era of the Yellow Emperor was also a period of great inventions in ancient history. Ships, calendars, arithmetic and music were invented in this era.

Huangdi invented the tripod in his later years. When the first tripod was cast, suddenly a dragon fell from the sky. Longyou

Powerful eyes, long silver beard, the whole dragon body shining with golden light, it seems that when he comes, he will bring ten thousand horses.

Forging has enveloped the whole sky.

The Yellow Emperor and his courtiers were surprised. The dragon slowly approached the Yellow Emperor, his eyes became very gentle, and he suddenly spoke to the Yellow Emperor.

He said, "The Emperor of Heaven is very happy to see that you have made Chinese civilization take another step forward, so he specially sent me to take you to heaven."

Meet the Emperor of Heaven. "

Hearing this, the Yellow Emperor nodded, went to the dragon's back and said to the ministers, "The Emperor of Heaven wants to summon me, so be careful.

Farewell. "

"Please let us follow you!" The ministers rushed up, hoping to climb the dragon's back and follow the Yellow Emperor.

But the dragon twisted its body and threw those people down.

Jinlong and Huangdi flew into the sky together and disappeared into the clouds. The princes had no choice but to watch.

Watching the Yellow Emperor ascend to heaven and die.

A minister looked at the sky and said thoughtfully, "Not everyone can get on it!" " Just like the yellow emperor

Great people are qualified! "

Later, people named the place where the Yellow Emperor ascended to heaven "Dinghu" to commemorate the Yellow Emperor.

Monkey: The monkey is a very clever animal. Its movements are agile and fast, and its long and powerful arms are soup in the Woods.

It's amazing how the soup can have such a light skill!

Monkeys are particularly curious, which is both its advantages and disadvantages, so people often use this weakness to design.

Monkeys. Since ancient times, there have been many anecdotes between humans and monkeys. Let's look at them with a relaxed mood.

All right!

Chicken: In ancient times, people knew it was dawn when they heard the cock crow. It was time to get up. Modern people use the bell of alarm clock to make it.

I woke up from my sleep. Although the alarm clock is punctual, it is always not as kind and emotional as a crow.

Chicken, we will never be strangers. It can be said that it is one of the most beneficial animals to human beings among all poultry.

It can not only tell the time, but also make the whole body food, which is really a great contribution to mankind. The fable about "chicken"

Many stories are also wonderful, which makes people really want to gamble quickly!

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Pig: Pig essence descended to earth.

Legend has it that when Yue Fei was a teenager, there was a fortuneteller from Xiangtai who called himself Shu Weng. He saw it.

See the appearance of yue fei said:

"You are a pig, so in your life, you will inevitably suffer from the pig's reckless personality.

Ring, so, I advise you to find a way out at the peak, or you are likely to encounter misfortune. "

Yue Fei's character is very generous. He didn't believe the fortune teller's prediction, but just laughed it off.

Later, Yue Fei was really jealous of Qin Gui because of his sharpness, and was arrested and imprisoned by slanderers.

Yue Fei was sent to Dali Temple (equivalent to today's imperial court) for interrogation, and the person in charge of interrogation was Zhou Sanwei. One night,

In fact, on Wednesday, when I was patrolling everywhere, I saw a strange animal walking under an old pine tree in the distance.

"Hey, what animal is that? It seems to have a horn on its head, which is shaped like a pig. What's so strange about this?

Things? "Wednesday wiped her eyes in fear and looked at it carefully.

I only saw this "horn pig" slowly walk into the small temple next to the execution ground, and I couldn't help but be surprised on Wednesday.

"Is this' horn pig' like Yue Fei Yuan Shen?"

On Wednesday, he was too scared to make any noise. He carefully observed the movement of this "horn pig", and he saw the neck of this "horn pig"

I posted a piece of paper with only one word "hair" on it!

When Lu Ji finished reading the letter, he found that Huang Er had died of fatigue. Lu Lu badminton was very sad. She was holding Huang Er's body.

Cry bitterly.

"Huang Er, you are a loyal dog. I killed you. toot .........................................................................................................................................................

, Woo ............... "

Lu Ji chose a piece of land not far away to build a tomb for Huang Er. This place is what people later said.

——————— "Huanger Tomb".