I want English about the origin of 12 zodiac.

What time? Yellow? The emperor? How about choosing twelve animals as imperial guards?

The cat traded the mouse for the mouse and forgot that the cat had no choice but to become friends with the mouse. ?

The elephant came, and the mouse got into its nose and was scared away. Where are the rest of the animals?

It turns out that the cow is the first to push, and the mice all run behind the cow, and the pigs follow.

So rats came first, and pork chops came last. ?

Tigers and dragons refuse to obey.

He who is crowned king is behind the mouse and the cow. Rabbit? And refused to obey?

And the results of the competition are ahead of the dragon. ?

The dog is rough and angry? Bit? Rabbit, because this is the second from the bottom. Snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys?

Chickens have also been competing, one by one predetermined position, and finally formed a mouse, a bull,

Tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and pig.

At that time, Emperor Xuanyuan wanted to choose twelve kinds of animals as palace guards. 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 rats ranked first and pork chops ranked 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.

Extended data:

In ancient times, in order to let the poor remember the year of their birth, the simplest method of animal chronology was adopted, which was later called "Zodiac Year". (Zodiac: born; "Xiao" is the same kind.

The origin of the zodiac is very early, and animals with branches of the zodiac have appeared in Qin bamboo slips of Sleeping Tiger Land and Letting Horse Beach at the end of the Warring States Period.

The names and branches of animals are similar to those of the later zodiac, and their usage and divination logic are also similar to those of the later zodiac. Therefore, it can be inferred that the zodiac signs appearing in Qin bamboo slips "Sleeping Tiger Land" and Japan's "Let the Horse Beach Book" should be the embryonic form of the later zodiac signs.

The zodiac calendar began in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

A letter written by Yuwen Hu's mother is recorded in the Biography of Northern History Yuwen Hu, which says: "Your brother was born in Wuchuan Town. The first one is a mouse, the second one is a rabbit, and you are a snake." Explain the folk usage of 12 zodiac at that time.

According to China's ancient books, the ancient Central Plains originally used the "trunk-branch chronology method", that is, the 10 heavenly stem symbol was used for chronology. At the same time, there are also twelve kinds of animals that simply determine the year.

By the Sui Dynasty, the calendar of the Central Plains had spread to the nomadic people in the northwest of China, and they only absorbed twelve kinds of animal chronologies.

Therefore, it is recorded in the Book of the Tang Dynasty: "Tuoba Sinian is bounded by twelve things. If the year is cloudy, it is called the year of the tiger. "

In addition, the History of the Song Dynasty, The Biography of Tubo, also records that when the Tubo leaders narrate, they take events as a chronology. As the saying goes, "Twelve old things belong to Japan, the Year of the Rabbit and the Year of the Horse".

As Zhao Yi pointed out in the Qing Dynasty's "Examination of Jade Cong", "The ugliness of ugly children, at the beginning of the custom of covering the north, doesn't matter whether it is ugly or not, but in the next year, it was spread in China, so it didn't waste its ears."

This explanation about the origin of 12 zodiac has been recognized by many people.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Origin of Zodiac