Folklore about cattle

Folk stories related to cows, cows are animals that we are all familiar with. Speaking of cows, do you think of words like simplicity and diligence? Do you know all kinds of stories and legends about cows? Then I'll share a folk story about cattle with you. Welcome to reading.

Folk stories related to cattle 1 Folk stories related to cattle: the legend of Yao Niu's birthday

There is a legend in the Yao family: "Pangu opened the sky, Lu Ban built a wall, the king of grain delivered food, and the king of cattle plowed the fields." Yao's ancient books "Pan Tian Da Ge" and "Bang" said: "In the two years of the great flood, everything in the world was flooded, leaving only Fuxi brothers and sisters hiding in the gourd floating on the water. Only in this way can mankind continue. Later, Pan Wang went to the temple and gave all the mountains in the world to the Yao people to cut seeds and live and work in peace. However, in Yaoshan area, entering the barren land is still in jeopardy despite people's hard work. One year, Taibai Venus went down the mountain to visit the people's feelings, and saw that the Yao family lived in the mountains from generation to generation, slash and burn, and life was difficult, so he told heaven. The Jade Emperor sent the king of grain down to earth, and the king of cattle down to earth to plow the fields. Since King Niu came to the world, the Yao family began to farm and grow crops, and the weather was favorable every year and the crops were bumper. In order to thank Niu Wang, the Yao family took the day when Niu Wang came down to earth (the eighth day of the fourth lunar month) as the traditional festival of Niu Wang's birthday.

Yao's family has a folk song, "On April 8th, we lost our plough. On July 30th, we went to Man Cang Valley to restore 10,000 tons of grain. With all the help, Niu." On the eighth day of April, Yao's family loved cows so much that they would leave their harrows and plows to rest all day. On this day, no one is allowed to whip, beat, kill or even scold cattle. On the first day, every household should give the cow a hot bath, brush the whole body clean, tidy up the cowshed, spread new grass, paint it with red paper or cut it into Buddha's name and stick it on the cowshed to ward off evil spirits and rob the sick, and protect the health of the cow. On this day, the food eaten by cattle is even more unique and wonderful. In the early morning, people rushed to let the cows go out to eat bare water plants. The sooner the better, "scratch your head". Boil eggs with glutinous rice distiller's grains for cows in the morning. In the Yao family, children have the habit of eating eggs on their birthdays, which shows the worship of cattle. There is a saying in worship: "People live and eat ginseng; Cattle live much more and eat Sophora flavescens. "In the afternoon, use Sophora flavescens to cook loach and feed it to the cows, so that the cows can live a long and healthy life. In the evening, the Yao family will also choose the best and strongest cattle for the party. Yao families will wear festive costumes, dance around the blazing bonfire, beat long drums and sing cheerful songs.

Folktales related to cattle 2 Folktales related to cattle: Taurus and Morning Glory

In the southwest of Nianshuiwa (now Fenshuiling Reservoir), there is a hill named "Jinniu Mountain" in the north of Laojiashan. Legend has it that there is a "golden bull" on the mountain, which often appears in spring ploughing and autumn planting to help poor households plow and rake the land. Strangely, as long as the crops planted by Taurus are plowed, they can get a bumper harvest regardless of drought or flood. Legend has it that this "golden bull" was changed 500 years ago after the death of the second child of Jinjia in Jinling Village. What happened? Let's start from the beginning.

Legend has it that there is a rich man Jin Shifu in Jinling Village. His family owns 800 acres of fertile land, most of which are washed fields in two mountain streams. The land is fertile and basically belongs to drought and flood. Jin Shifu married two wives. The first gave birth to a son named Jinma, and the second gave birth to a son named Jinniu. These two wives have rarely got along well since ancient times. Mrs. King's first wife and second grandmother are also incompatible. They quarreled at 369 and quarreled at 258. Jin Shifu plays the fool every day and never asks if he makes too much noise. When the first lady and the second grandmother are tired, they will also ask for a truce on the steps. The funny thing is that Golden Horse and Taurus are as good as one person, and they don't care about the disagreement between the two mothers. The first lady often complains that Jinma doesn't help the old lady, calling him the purple melon on the eggplant tree and his father. These two grandmothers often accuse Taurus of planting the right seeds. Like his father, they are all loaded with rapeseed-boring seeds. You scold you, I play with me. The younger brothers go to school together, catch birds in the trees together, and turn stones to catch crickets together. One day, when they came home from school and climbed a mountain, they saw two little girls catching stone crabs in the mountain stream. The two little brothers began to squat by the stream, watching the two little girls turn over the stones by the water. The stone crab hid under the stone and soon caught more than a dozen. The younger brothers enjoyed it, so they simply took off their shoes and rolled up their trouser legs to help two little girls catch stone crabs. After playing for a while, my brothers knew that these two little girls belonged to Ma Neng's family in Mazhuang, Xia Ling. Their elder sister's name is Jujube, and their younger sister's name is Morning Glory. Since then, my brothers have trotted to the mountain stream to catch stone crabs with Zizyphus jujuba and morning glory after school, and they will make trouble when they don't catch stone crabs.

Time flies, a few years have passed, and my younger brothers are both seventeen or eighteen years old, sixteen dates and fifteen morning glory. Two poor girls in the mountains, though coarse shirts, can't cover the girl's vigorous figure. The matchmaker smells that there are two beautiful wild flowers in Mazhuang, but the two girls have long had a crush on each other, and the two brothers will not marry unless they are married in gold. Hard-working matchmakers run too much, and I don't know Miss Sister's mind. The matchmaker heard that the sweetheart of the two sisters was the second young master of Master Jin in Jinling Village, holding a honey pot in his arms, thinking it was a fat job. These two brothers are really stupid. When they heard that their family was going to marry them, they shook their heads like selling drums. Later, I heard that it was Zizyphus jujuba and Petunia in Mazhuang. The two brothers were overjoyed and had great energy not to marry this woman. Master Jin had Ma Neng's property moved. A few acres of fertile land at home, busy for a year, with food and clothing, poor, but honest. When the gold owner invited someone to choose a lucky date, the big sedan chair was carried into the jujube. Although Zizyphus jujuba is the daughter of a poor family, she is beautiful and smart. After cooking in the door, the whole family washed and wrapped up, and the owner and wife were very satisfied.

In a blink of an eye, the following autumn, Jin Shifu found someone to marry morning glory another day. But this time Ma was upset with the old couple, and the morning glory remarried, leaving a hole for the old couple. How do they spend their old age? The daughter saw her parents' thoughts and boldly proposed that Taurus be adopted by her wife. Otherwise, I would rather die than marry. The matchmaker is in trouble. How can you talk to Jin Shifu? Even if master Jin agrees, the second wife will not agree. The matchmaker tried to tell this story to several tenants in Jinling Village. There was a sharp-tongued woman among the tenants, and this matter soon reached the ears of the second wife. These two grandmothers seem to have been hit with a sap on their heads, and their tears are like broken beads crying for Jin Shifu. Jin Shifu comforted him and said, "Isn't that what all the tenants said?" Whether her in-laws want to do this remains to be confirmed. Seeing that Second Daughter-in-law stopped crying, she said, "Hi! They only have one daughter. If they want to marry again, how can the old couple live? It would be a good idea if the cow was adopted by her son-in-law. Second Daughter-in-law began to cry again after listening to Master Jin's words. "。

This Taurus heard about it and was very happy. He wants to work for a few years after adoption and his life will be better. He quietly asked his sister-in-law, Zizyphus jujuba, to bring a letter to morning glory, and made an appointment to meet at the mountain stream where stone crabs were caught after dinner. He wants to bite the button with the morning glory. This year, Zizyphus jujuba knows that Jinniu is a good man and a gentleman, but fortunately he is not far from home. Zizyphus jujube found an excuse to go back to her mother's house that day, told the morning glory of Taurus's entrustment, and made an appointment to meet in the mountain stream late at night.

Something is growing in my heart. Taurus and morning glory are holding the sun and setting soon. After dinner, Jinniu and Penny sneaked out of the village and went straight to the mountain stream. Two people are almost front foot hind foot. I found a flat stone and sat for nearly an hour, except for the sound of autumn insects far and near, which was the "rustling" sound of the leaves blown by the breeze. Both of them have endless words, but neither of them knows where to start. Taurus bows its head and morning glory looks up to the sky.

"Brother Taurus, I heard that your mother disapproves of your adoption?" Morning glory couldn't hold back, so she broke the silence first.

"What would you do if my mother refused to die?" Taurus did not answer the question directly, but asked the morning glory question instead.

"I won't marry." Morning glory was a little angry and broke out firmly.

Taurus knows the temper of morning glory, and it will really get angry if it has been stiff. So I poured out my thoughts like a bamboo tube, and I shook them out in detail. Morning glory was overjoyed and plunged into Taurus's arms, crying with joy.

It turns out that Taurus, Golden Horse and Sister-in-law Ziziphus jujuba have a good idea, that is, they want Morning Glory to do its duty as a parent and let the matchmaker insist on not marrying. If the second young master of the Kim family doesn't agree to adopt, the morning glory won't marry anyone else. If you want Taurus to pretend to be sick, you become a ghost and a god. Let the Kim family spend money to invite an exorcist from outside, and make a big fuss about the word "Petunia" by using the coincidence of the names of Taurus and Petunia.

On this day, the family was eating, and Taurus suddenly fell to the ground on his back, rolling his eyes and foaming at the mouth. The family was scared to death. Master Jin hurriedly sent for a doctor, and the second daughter-in-law patted her son on the back and cried. It's a pity for Jiang. Jinma and Zizyphus jujuba know fairly well, but they can't help snickering in panic and admire their younger brother's affectation. The doctor took a pulse, and the pulse was normal, and then the tongue coating was normal. I still can't see the problem by turning my eyelids. I don't know what the disease is and I can't prescribe medicine, but I can't say that I can't see what the disease is, for fear of losing face and turning over the brand. So nonsense: "Master Jin is not sick, but possessed." Say that finish, I picked up the medicine box and left. The doctor's influence is exactly what he wants. Jinma clamored for the exorcist to exorcise his brother. Besides, the second daughter's mother was crying and making noise. Jin Shifu repeatedly said, "Please go, please go." Less than an hour later, Jinma came back with the wizard. The wizard set up the incense table, lit red candles, burned incense, strung a peach wooden sword with a few pieces of paper, and muttered in his mouth. Suddenly, like being choked by a mass of rice, he repeatedly "giggled" twice and asked Jinma with wide eyes: "Does the second young master have a lover?" Golden Horse replied in surprise: "Yes." "It's called pulling ..." Before the wizard finished, the second grandma replied, "It's called morning glory." "Yes, Petunia. The point is that your second young master's name is Taurus. The point is that penny is a match made in heaven. Because this cow needs to be led at the age of marriage, the matchmaker goes to Penny's house once, and the second young master is possessed once. If the young lady marries someone else, the second young master will lose his life. "

Master Jin and Second Grandma sighed. Let him go, it's fate! After all, this Taurus is still the meat from my second grandma. She kept blowing in Jin Shifu's ear. If Taurus is adopted, Jin Shifu will cross 100 mu of fertile land. Jin Shifu is very clear: "My two sons in the Kim family, whether married or adopted by a daughter-in-law, are descendants of the Kim family. When we were alive, we gave him 100 mu of land. If you plant another 300 mu after death, Ma and Zizyphus jujuba are also reasonable people, and there will be no problems in the future. "

Ma Neng's family was very grateful to hear that the Jin family agreed to accept Jinniu as their son's wife, and they also took their children across 100 mu of fertile land.

Accidents will happen. One day, Ma Neng picked a load of firewood as usual and sold it in the city. Just entering the city, I bumped into several people. When he hit it, Ma Neng shook the bundle of firewood behind him and slipped off the ground. The shoulder pole lost weight behind him and suddenly flew over, hitting the face of a rich young master in front without discrimination. "Wow!" Let out a strange cry, cover your face with your hands and roll on the ground. The minions couldn't help arguing that they could tie up the horses and send them to the yamen. The horse can tell that he is in trouble. The injured man is the son of the county grandfather. This shoulder pole doesn't know the severity of the injury.

Horses can be put in prison. I heard that the shoulder pole smashed the official's son's eye, and the county grandfather asked the horse to pay 520 silver. The next day, the county magistrate sent servants to Mazhuang to inform Ma Neng's family to bring 520 pieces of silver to redeem the man. Where can I scrape together so much money at once? The next day, Petunia helped her mother and Jinniu go to the county government to find out. When I came to the lobby of the county government, the county magistrate said that Ma could blind one eye and had to pay 520 silver. Otherwise, you will be convicted and executed. This morning glory offered to see if anyone was blind in one eye, to see his father and ask what was going on. This official's son is impatient in kitchens. He rushed into the hall when he heard that someone didn't believe that he had been deceived. Deng Yuan's remaining good eyesight was about to get angry when he saw the morning glory under the hall at a glance. A Zhang Yuanyuan's face was as red as a mountain in autumn, a pair of watery eyes were like the moon in the night sky, and her coat wrapped up a girl's youth and beautiful curve. I don't know if it's the eyes that focus on the light or the girls who don't usually pay attention to the mountains. At this time, the left eye of Liu's official's son couldn't be closed, and his mouth was watering. Favourite watching the doorway, in the official's son's office, people whispered a few words, and the official's son gave a creepy strange smile.

The county magistrate asked the chief to detain the morning glory, and told the morning glory's mother and Jinniu to go back quickly to prepare for the redemption of 520 yuan for three days. Mother Ma and Taurus hurried home, tears streaming down their faces. While comforting Ma's mother, Jinniu is planning to sell the 100 mu of fertile land that his father is going to allocate to him to raise money to rescue Morning Glory and her father. Taurus came home and told her parents and sister-in-law. The whole family agrees with Taurus. Second Daughter-in-law also took out forty taels of silver from the bottom of the box with tears in her eyes, which was the private money she had hidden for many years.

The next day, Taurus began to sell land, went out early in the morning and ran around all the surrounding villages. But nobody wants to buy it. Later, I heard that the county government sent someone to inform all families, no matter how high or low, that they were not allowed to buy the land of the Kim family. For two days in a row, Taurus looked sad and didn't know what to do. Master Jin took out all the money and only took more than three hundred taels. Seeing that the three-day deadline had arrived, Jinniu came to the county government with less than 420 pieces of silver on the afternoon of the third day, and the remaining money Jinniu repeatedly knelt down and asked for a few days' grace. The county magistrate collected more than 300 taels of silver and said, "This is for the official's son. The rest 100 taels is allowed for three days." Then he coughed a few times and said, "Morning glory was afraid that you wouldn't get 520 pieces of silver, so she jumped into the well last night and committed suicide."

When Taurus heard this, it was like a body blow and immediately fainted in the hall of the county government.

I wonder when Taurus woke up. He was lying on the donkey cart with morning glory beside him. When the driver saw Jinniu awake, he stopped the car, sat on the stump, pressed a pot of cigarettes, took a few sips and said, "Young man, this girl was forced to get married by the little official's son and committed suicide by jumping into a well. She is a good girl. " Taurus has no tears, his eyes are in a daze, and he looks silly with morning glory.

The Kim family buried the morning glory as the daughter-in-law of the Kim family on the hillside where they often dated. Taurus lies on the grave of morning glory all day, and no one can pull it away. One day, the dark clouds suddenly rolled, the wind blew hard and it rained cats and dogs. Soon, it began to rain, getting heavier and heavier. The next morning, people came to the hillside, and they could no longer see the graves of Taurus and Petunia, but the graves were covered with pink Petunia.

One day, someone saw a Taurus pulling a golden plow in Ma Neng's field from a distance, and no one helped plow the field. The audience was very surprised. They ran three steps at a time and two steps at a time. There was nothing in front of them, but the plowed land was really plowed. The news spread. Every day, many people stood on the top of the mountain and looked at Jinniu Lajin Plough. One day someone saw it again, but there was nothing ahead. Later, people spread that La Jinli's Taurus is the second son of the gold master and the pink morning glory is Ma Neng's second daughter.