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Wait for the rabbit to make up for the dead.

1. Story 1: Legend has it that a long, long time ago, people didn't have the concept of time, and everyone was like a baby, at a loss every day, not knowing what time was. In order to allow human beings to distinguish the year, month, and day, and to facilitate life, the Jade Emperor decided to select 12 kinds of animals from a variety of animals to take turns to represent a year, and 12 years is a reincarnation.

The Jade Emperor asked all the animals to set off from their homes on the first day of the new year and rush to the heavenly court, and whoever stepped into the gate of the heavenly court first was the head of the twelve zodiac signs, and the followers were also sorted in order. The ox is the most industrious, get up early in the morning and rush to the heavenly court, and when he is about to reach the heavenly court, he sees the gate open, but unexpectedly a mouse crawls out of the cow's ear and runs to the heavenly court, and in this way, the mouse becomes the first, and the ox has to be the second. Then came in turn tigers, rabbits, dragons and other animals, the chickens to be reported and the dog to be seen because they could not leave in the morning, came late, ranked tenth and eleventh, and the lazy pigs had to be the last because they slept and fell asleep.

And just like that, the zodiac was born.

2. Story 2: "Primitive Tribal Totem Theory" believes that the zodiac ** is a totem worship in primitive society, some historians believe that the level of primitive productivity is low, so the animals closely related to life, such as horses, cows, sheep, chickens, dogs, etc., have a great sense of dependence, and have a sense of awe for more dangerous animals, such as snakes and tigers, and also create legendary creatures like dragons according to imagination, as a totem, slowly, evolved into the zodiac.

3. Story 3: "Animal Appearance and Habit Theory" is to link the origin of the zodiac signs with the habits and appearance of animals. With the twelve zodiac signs with twelve hours, each zodiac has deficiencies in appearance, such as rats without teeth, cattle without teeth, tigers without spleen, rabbits without lips, dragons without ears, snakes without feet, horses without guts, sheep without pupils, monkeys without hips, chickens without kidneys, dogs without stomachs, pigs without tendons, and people without deficiencies.

1. After the rat and the cow, horse and sheep were elected as the twelve genera, the rat said: I should be in the first place. The cows, horses, and sheep were not convinced, and said:

Why are you number one? The rat said, "I'm big, so I'm going to be number one."

Niu Ma and the others couldn't help laughing: Are you as big as us? The rat said

It doesn't count if a few of us argue, let's let people talk about it. Cattle, horses, sheep, etc. all agreed to let people comment. So they discussed a solution:

Led by oxen, horses, sheep, and rats walked down the street one after another to see what people were saying.

2. On the street, the cow came and the people said: This cow is strong. The horses came, and the people said:

This horse is so tall. When the sheep came to them, they said, "This sheep is fat."

Finally, the rat came with a swaggering belly, and when people saw a big rat suddenly coming out of the street, they all chased it and shouted: What a big mouse, what a big mouse! In this way, the cows, horses and sheep have nothing to say, so that the rats are in the first place.

3. Mice and cats are good friends. Once, the Jade Emperor wanted to choose the 12 zodiac signs, and they made an appointment to participate together. The cat said to the mouse

I wake up late in the morning, you have to remember to wake me up. The rat agreed, not actually barking. I went alone and won first place.

When the cat finds out, it will catch the mouse as soon as it sees it. So, the cat and the mouse became enemies.

4. The 12 zodiac signs, also known as the zodiac, are 12 kinds of animals in China that match the year of birth with the 12 earthly branches, including rats, oxen, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, and pigs.

5. The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship. According to the Qin Jane unearthed in Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land in Hubei Province and Fangmatan in Tianshui in Gansu Province, it can be seen that there was a relatively complete zodiac system in the pre-Qin period. The earliest hand-me-down document that records the same 12 zodiac signs as in modern times is Wang Chong's "On Balance" in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

6. The zodiac is a figurative representative of the twelve earthly branches, namely Zi (Rat), Chou (Ox), Yin (Tiger), Mao (Rabbit), (Dragon), Si (Snake), Wu (Horse), Wei (Sheep), Shen (Monkey), You (Rooster), 戌 (Dog), Hai (Pig), with the development of history, gradually integrated into the folk belief concept of mutual restraint, manifested in marriage, life, New Year's fortune, etc., each zodiac has a rich legend, and in this way to form a concept interpretation system, become the image philosophy in folk culture, such as the marriage of the genus, Temple fairs, prayers, natal years, etc. In modern times, more people regard the zodiac as the mascot of the Spring Festival and become a symbol of entertainment and cultural activities.