The Enjoyable Legend Story On Chinese Zodiac Origins?
Maybe you have known that Chinese Zodiac in order contains "rat
, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig", but do you know why the animals order like this?
There are many legends about the origins of the animals' order and the most popular and interesting reads as follows: It is said that the Jade Emperor (the legendary ancestor of the Chinese people) decided to hold a competition (some said the banquet) to select twelve animals to serve as zodiac signs. When the news was noticed, it caused a great storm throughout the animal kingdom.
At that time, the rat and the cat are the best friends and the cat who has a habit of sleep had asked the rat to wake him up when the day of race. The rat agreed but he did not carry out his promise to wake the cat on that day. So when the cat finally found that he had missed the race, he was so angry and swore enemy for ages to come.
During the race of other animals, there also happened many interesting stories. At first, the animals were announced that they must go through a river so that they could reach the end. But the rat was bad swimmers among them, and he knew the best and fastest way to cross the river was to hop on the back of the ox who was the strongest and fastest animal. The ox is a kindhearted animal that he agreed the rat's request to allow him sit on his back. However, when the ox would cross the river, the rat jumped ahead and reached the shore first that was unexpected for the ox, and the rat got the first place in the competition and the ox after.
Following closely behind was the tiger as his powerful strength and he was named the 3rd animal in the Chinese Zodiac and the king of animal kingdom.
Latter, the rabbit arrived at the shore through jumping from one stone to another stone at first, unexpected lost the race halfway, but he did not give up and was lucky to grab a log which drifted him to shore. So the rabbit became the 4th animal in the zodiac.The 5th coming is the dragon. Actually, the dragon was strong and flying, but he last fail to reach first because he had to help all the lives of the earth to make rain and give a hand of a little rabbit who grab a log during he was race. Therefore, he was held back a little.
Suddenly, the horse appeared after the dragon, but a snake hidden on its hoof. At last, the snake arrived at the shore before the horse as he made a fright to the horse, and the snake was named the 6th zodiac animal and the horse became the 7th one.
Then, the goat, monkey and rooster arrived at the shore through helped each other. They combined their efforts to make a raft so as to cross the river. Therefore, the goat became the 8th, the monkey as the 9th and the rooster was the 10th.
Coming the 11th zodiac is the dog for he was addict to playing the water and the last one is the pig for he was lazy and had a nap during the race.
by: venturiwang
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