Chinese Zodiac Legends

A long, long time ago, the matter of the Chinese Zodiac was under the control of the Four Heavenly Kings, and whatsoever the last name of the Heavenly Kings who were in charge that year was the genus of the people born in that year. Later, after the Four Heavenly Kings returned to the Heavenly Palace to guard the Southern Heavenly Gate, the Jade Emperor decided to use the twelve animals to represent the Chinese zodiac on earth and bestowed the title of God.

The Jade Emperor is fair and just, he ordered, in the stipulated days, the earthly animals can come to the Heavenly Palace to run for the election, and to rank them in the order of their arrival, and only take the first twelve.

At that time, the mouse and the cat or a pair of very good friends, they agreed to go to the Palace of Heaven to campaign together, and agreed to the time the mouse to call the cat with the departure. However, the quirky little mouse thought, the earth's many animals are more beautiful than their own, and also useful to human beings, for example, cats read the scriptures, rabbits worship the moon, dogs guard the house, dragons and snakes to control the water, monkeys to town the mountain, cows and horses to plow the field, pigs and sheep for human consumption.

And the mouse thought that he had no special skill, he had to think of a way to win the genus. So, to the day of the campaign, the mouse quietly up, one of their own to go to the Palace of Heaven, did not go to call on the cat, because it is very small size, since the self will secretly hide in the horns of the cow inside.

The old ox was very diligent, got up very early, it is very tough, and did not notice the mouse hidden in the horns, and brought it together to the Palace of Heaven. When they arrived at the Heavenly Palace, the old ox was indeed the first to arrive at the gate of the Heavenly Palace.

The four heavenly kings just opened the big palace door, the cow has not had time to lift his hooves, the mouse is in a hurry from the old cow's horns and jumped down, straight to the heavenly palace hall to go, the old cow did not react to follow the past.

But the Jade Emperor looked at the mouse is to use the scheme is the first to arrive, he is very reluctant to seal the mouse for the twelve zodiac of the first, but the Jade Emperor is the most authoritative ruler of the Palace of Heaven, the king is not joking, they set the rules can not be changed, the Jade Emperor had to declare the mouse for the zodiac of the first.

The old ox is the second to arrive on the ranking of the second of the Chinese zodiac, followed by the tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog, pig have all arrived, just twelve in the animal, the Jade Emperor also fulfilled his promise to their twelve kinds of animals listed as twelve zodiac sign of the phases of the Chinese zodiac.

Cat at home, waiting for half a day, do not see the mouse to call it, they had to rush to the Palace of Heaven, because it waited too long for the mouse, rushed to the Palace of Heaven, the twelve signs of the Chinese Zodiac has been full of places, there is no cat's share.

From then on, the cat hated the mouse, and would pounce on it and bite it as soon as they met, to relieve their anger. And the mouse felt a little sorry for its friend and would hide when it saw the cat. Until today cats and mice are enemies.

This is the origin of the legend of the Chinese star sign, in the story there are also worthy of our deep consideration of the content, a person is the most important character, and friends trust each other, if you do not consciously do so, I believe that in the future when you encounter difficulties, you will not get the help of others.