The Year of the Rat is the first of the 12 zodiac signs, what kind of allusions does this have?

The Year of the Rat is the first of the 12 zodiac signs, but in fact, there are some allusions to this, because the rat is active at night, it will choose to go out when people have already rested, if you can always hear some inexplicable sounds at night, it is mostly because of the rat, so we call it the child rat in the zodiacAnd the child hour is the first hour in the zodiac, so the rat is in the first place in the zodiac, so it makes sense to see that the rat is the first in the list.

In the past, I always thought that rats were harmful, and they would always wreak havoc in other people's homes, and they were so small, it was really strange that such an animal could be ranked first, and there was actually such an allusion about miceIt is said that the Jade Emperor selected a total of 12 animals as the zodiac, and sent people to tell them to come to the heavenly palace to campaign, and those who came early could be in front, so the mouse got up very early that day, and it thought that it would be the first to arrive, but it did not expect to meet a cow on the road.

It knows that it has no advantage over the cow, because its size is much different from the cow, so the steps are much smaller than the cow, so the cow will definitely arrive earlier than it, so it counts and tells the old cow that he wants to sing a song to itBut he said that his voice was too small to be heard by singing to the ox, so he asked to ride it up to the neck and sing to it in the ox's ear so that it could hear it, and the ox agreed without much thought.

After riding to the neck of the ox, the mouse began to sing, and the ox was very happy to hear it, so it ran even more vigorously, and sure enough, the ox was the first to arrive, and the ox thought that it must be the first, but what he didn't think was that at this moment the mouse jumped off the cow's back and walked in front of the ox, so the mouse became the first, although a bit of a victory, but I have to say that the mouse is really smart, and it may be precisely because of this that the mouse has become the representative of insidious and cunning in everyone's impression.

At that time, when the Jade Emperor convened the twelve zodiac signs, the mouse was sitting on the head of the bull, and when he arrived at the destination, the cunning mouse jumped up and rushed to the finish line, so it was the first place in the zodiac.

There is a folk tale that determines the ranking of the zodiac, and the 12 animals compete to see who can run fast, and the ox takes the lead, and he doesn't notice that the rat sits on the cow's body, and then it becomes the rat's head.

It is said that before the world was dark, the five fingers could not be seen, and the rat used his own ability to bite out of one side of the sky, so that there was sunshine, and the rat bit the sky, so the mouse was the head of the zodiac.

There are many reasons why the rat has become the zodiac, the most well-known is that the rat deliberately said the time of the zodiac sign to go to heaven and deceived the cat, and the cat missed the time to go to heaven, so the cat will pounce on it and bite it to death when it sees the mouse.

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The zodiac rat is the sub-water in the earthly branch, which represents the first, and the second represents the pure water, because this sub-water reservoir only has decay water, which represents the initial state of life. The rats are ranked first, that is, the sub-water is ranked first. In addition, because the front and rear toes of the mouse are in line with the yin and yang, they often live in a shady place, which is also more in line with the characteristics of the child water as a yang with yin.

Of course, another reason is the version of the mythological story that everyone often hears. Someone suggested that the zodiac should be used to date the year, and this suggestion was approved by the Yellow Emperor and ordered Cangjie to undertake the matter. On the first day of the first month of this year, all animals in the world were summoned to the Yellow Emperor's palace to candidacy.

When the animals heard the news, they all cheered and rushed to get ready to go to the meeting. Among them, Niu knew that his legs were slow, so he left home on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and as a result, he won the first place. But the mouse did not keep his promise to ask the cat to run for the election, and went to the election meeting alone.

The mouse said to the Jade Emperor, "I must be number one!" "Why?

Are you contributing more than a cow! "People think I'm a lot better than a cow. "The Jade Emperor has no choice but to let people judge.

Everyone who goes to the clouds on earth says, "Oh! What a big cow!

Then they saw the rat standing on the head of the bull and said, "What a big mouse!" It's bigger than a cow!

The Jade Emperor had no choice but to put the rats first.

Why is the rat number one in the zodiac?

So to sum up, there are three main reasons why rats are ranked first: First, the zodiac arrangement in folklore stories. Second, ancient Chinese scholars explained the relationship between the earthly branch and the Xiao beast from the perspective of the ancient twelve hours of day and night.

Third, according to the Chinese's concept of yin and yang, the twelve kinds of animals are divided into two categories, yin and yang, and the yin and yang of animals are arranged according to the odd and even differences in the toes of animals.