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How did the twelve animals die in the Zodiac story?

1, the spirit of the mouse

Youth led the animals to fight with the thunderbolt spirit, but could not defeat it. At this time, the mouse bit through the drum, to help the youth to defeat the thunderbolt spirit, but the mouse gave up his life, people in order to commemorate it, this year as the year of the mouse.

2. The Year of the Ox

The next year, the One-Horned Spirit ruled the land, and he filled the world with poisonous cacti. Humans were in danger of being starved and dying of thirst. The bull stepped forward and used his horns to eradicate the poisonous cactus. In the end, the bull sacrificed his life to eliminate the king of the cactus. People named this year as the Year of the Ox in honor of Hercules.

3. White-fronted Tiger

When people were organizing a wedding, the Black Wind Woman appeared, and she blew a black wind to drive all the people to a hole in the ground. The Warrior Brother converted the firecrackers into dynamite gourds, and rode the White-fronted Tiger to fight with the Black Wind Woman, but he was inadvertently caught by the Black Wind Woman.

The black wind woman with the conch trapped the warrior brother, and with the magic mirror to the white tiger out of the world later, and tempted him to do the king of the mountain, the white tiger in order to the happiness of mankind, witty coaxed the black wind woman rescued by the black wind woman tied up in the young people, and finally with the black wind woman with the people in order to commemorate it, the year of the tiger year.

4. The Long-footed Rabbit

The Hulud monster put poison in the water, which made the villagers get plague. The Long-footed Rabbit realizes that the Huluk monster has the antidote to the poison, so he uses his quick ears to find the Huluk monster and steal the antidote gourd. However, the Hulkster has replaced the antidote gourd with poison, so that the villagers become sicker and all the other animals fall ill.

The Hulud monster hid in a cave and went to sleep. The rabbit led the youth to find the cave with his sharp ears, blocked the entrance with firewood, and attacked it with fire, so that the Hulud monster had no choice but to promise to hand over the antidote, but asked them to go in and get it. Desperate to save others, the Long-footed Rabbit jumped into the cave and threw out the captured antidote gourd. However, the rabbit died with the Hooter in the fight. People named this year as the Year of the Rabbit in honor of this year.

5. Collapsed Nose Dragon

This year came to the year when the shark spirit ruled the world, his spell was to send a flood, forcing people to hand over the smart people, people stumbled upon the fact that he was afraid of fire, so Warrior Brother rode the Collapsed Nose Dragon and attacked him with arrows with fire, but he accidentally fell into the water, luckily, the two seashells on the bottom of the sea saved them, and Warrior Brother attacked the shark spirit with a much more powerful musket later on.

The shark spirit panicked and dived under the water to hide, Warrior Brother and Collapsing Nose Dragon chased them down, and the shells pointed them in the right direction again. Collapsing Nose Dragon was accidentally hit by the rocks pushed down by the shark spirit, and Warrior Brother's musket flew out, and Shark Spirit wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to escape, but Collapsing Nose Dragon did its best to get out from under the rocks and swallowed the musket, and swiftly spit out the blazing fire and burned Shark Spirit to death, and he himself was also killed because of being stuck! and died.

The people named this year the Year of the Dragon in honor of the dragon.

6, the green snake

Nine-headed monster has nine heads, he used his nine lives want to drink all the water of mankind, just when he was going to drink all the last piece of water of mankind, everyone used the light on him to launch an attack, the nine-headed monster fled in fear, and later he used the bat swarms to block the sunlight, just when the people were at their wits' end, the green snake stood up, and with his flexible slippery slender body through the straw to drill into the nine-headed monster, and then the green snake was able to escape. The Green Snake was able to get into the Nine Headed Monster's stomach through a straw.

The Hydra lost its power of attack because of the pain in its stomach, and the Warriors took the opportunity to cut off eight of its heads, but the last one could not be cut off, so the Warriors were defeated for the time being, and the Green Snake bit through the Hydra's belly, and the Hydra grabbed the Green Snake from its belly and ripped it off, and died of its own belly being bitten through. People named this year the Year of the Snake in honor of the Green and Green Snake.

7. Snow White Horse

The King of the Green-nosed Ghosts released poisonous smoke, which caused the seedlings to wither, the fruit trees to wither, the village houses to fall, and the children to faint. The youths found out where the yellow smoke came from and rode their snow-white horses to fight with the Green-nosed Ghost King, who turned into yellow smoke, smoked them down and knocked them off the mountain and into a pool of sludge.

The snow-white horse, in order to save the youth, pushed him up to the shore as hard as he could, but he himself was drowned by the sludge. After his death, the snow-white horse turned into a lotus flower, and the fragrance of the lotus flower awakened the fainting youth, but the green-nosed ghost king couldn't stand the smell of the fragrance.

The young man took the lotus flower in his hand and fought with the green-nosed ghost king, who took out his masterstroke and produced yellow smoke, and the young man held up the lotus flower and released the fragrance, and in the repeated fight, the fragrance wrapped the yellow smoke around and collected it into the lotus flower, which eliminated the green-nosed ghost king and rescued the earth and all living creatures, and the spirit of the snow-white horse was sublimated, and the year was named the Year of the Horse.

8, sword horned sheep

This year it was the turn of the mixed sky demon to rule the world. Mixed sky demon with a dragnet cover the earth and mankind, people in the dragnet without food and water, see will be trapped to death, the sword horned goat stepped forward, clever use of a plan to get the mixed sky demon's dragnet, to save mankind.

Finally, the sword-horned goat used the spell to cover the mixed heavenly demon, and the mixed heavenly demon struggled to hook the sword-horned goat to death, and the sword-horned goat and the mixed heavenly demon died together, and in order to commemorate the sword-horned goat, the people named that year the year of the goat.

9, red-faced monkeys

Long-clawed Demon King's giant claws to the village, furniture, windmills, ships are destroyed, people into a great panic. Red-faced monkeys defied the danger, bravely entered the demon cave, to explore to the long clawed king afraid of the mystery of salt. So, the youth with monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs, riding their own built wooden horse and the king of the long claw to start a fight to the death.

The red-faced monkey, with his wit, coated his whole body with salt, lured the Long-clawed King into a trap, and finally died with the Long-clawed King. This year was named the Year of the Monkey.

10, colorful chicken

In ancient times there was a demon three-eyed demon, she used poisonous juice to cultivate colorful butterflies scourge of humans and animals. Colorful chicken in order to protect the survival of mankind to break into the demon cave, from the three-eyed demon to learn the antidote to the mystery of the poison, punished the evil demon, and with their own blood to save the poisoned people and animals. People named this year as the Year of the Rooster in its honor.

11, flower tailed dog

This year it was the turn of the red-haired monster to rule the world. The red-haired monster used its own demonic fire to burn down the inventions of human society, and the townspeople were in extreme pain. The dog knew that if he took away the red-haired monster's fire pearl, the red-haired monster would burn to death in the crater of a volcano. Flower Tail Dog volunteered to sneak into the red-haired monster's crater.

Taking away the fire beads and smearing them with oil on the joints of the red-haired monster's hands and feet, so that the red-haired monster lost its self-control, and finally the flower-tailed dog and the red-haired monster died together in the crater in the fight for the fire beads. People named this year as the Year of the Dog in honor of Flower-tailed Dog.

12, big ear pig

This year, the twelve demons in the cold-blooded princess magic, draw blocking the wind and snow pipa lute hole of the ice and snow pipa, the world turned into a world of ice and snow. The cold-blooded princess also played a magic song, so that the villagers in a drowsy dream, the youth and the big-eared pig bravely explored the lute hole through all the difficulties and dangers, with the fire of justice to destroy the cold-blooded princess's magic, eliminating the demons.

In order to save mankind, the big-eared pig is not afraid to use his body to block the wind and snow Pipa hole, curbing the ravages of the snow and ice, his own heroic death. The year was named the Year of the Pig.

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The origin of the story of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs

The origin of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs is circulating a myth: it is said that the Jade Emperor wanted to choose 12 animals as representatives, then he sent the gods down to the earth to talk to the animals about this, and then he fixed a time in the The earlier the animals came, the more they were ranked ahead, and the later ones were not ranked.

And at that time the cat and the mouse were still good friends. The cat loved to sleep but he also wanted to be elected, so he told the mouse to call him at that time. But the mouse forgot as soon as he turned his head. The mouse went to the old cow and said he got up early and ran fast, and asked the cow to take him then. The ox promised.

The dragon in those days had no horns, and the chicken had horns. The dragon told the chicken that the chicken was already beautiful and didn't need any horns, and asked the chicken to lend them to him. The chicken was so happy to hear the dragon's flattery that he lent him his horns and told the dragon to remember to return them to him on time after the campaign.

The dragon promised. When it came to the hour of the day of the month in the year d, all the animals rushed to the palace of heaven, while the cat was still sleeping. The mouse sat on the back of the ox. After arriving at the Heavenly Palace, the mouse "rubbed" a jump. The Jade Emperor said that the rat was the earliest to arrive, let the rat row first; old steak second; tiger also arrived later, row third;

Rabbit also arrived, row fourth; dragon came very late, but he is big, the Jade Emperor saw him at once, and look at him so beautiful, let him row fifth, and said that his son row sixth, but the dragon is very disappointed because his son did not come today. At this time the snake behind him ran and said, "He is my godfather I rank sixth! I'm sixth!"

Snake so ranked sixth; horse and sheep also arrived, the two you let me I let you: horse brother you first, sheep brother you first, they pushed and pushed and pushed, the Jade Emperor to see them so courteous, so they ranked the seventh and eighth;

Monkey would have been ranked thirty-something, but he jumped on his own, he pulled the clouds in the sky jumped in front of them, ranked the ninth; and then chickens, dogs, and pigs have also been The cat woke up at the end of the race, and the mouse was chased by the cat all over the world.

After the race was over the dragon came to the sea and saw that with his horns he was much prettier than before, and was not ready to return the chicken. In order to avoid the chicken, he has since disappeared from the earth, and the chicken is very angry so he has since then every day early in the morning to get up and shout at the sea: quickly return me! Give it back! The hen then shouted: Give it back! Give it back! The chickens also shouted: Give it back! Return it!

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - The Story of the Chinese Zodiac