Ancient stories about cows

Ancient stories related to cattle

Ancient stories related to cattle, there are numerous stories about cattle in history, there are myths and some of the real examples of celebrities turned into allusions, but many people should be quite unfamiliar with these stories, the following I bring you a brief understanding of the ancient stories related to cattle.

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1, Yao cattle birthday legend

Yao family has a legend: "Pangu opened the sky, Luban build walls, Wo Wang sends the harvest, the cow king plowing." Yao ancient book "Pangu Tian Da Ge" and "over the hill list" said: "Yin and Mao two years of heavy water, everything under the sun was flooded, leaving only Fuxi siblings, hidden in the gourd floating on the water.

Only to continue the human race, and then the King of the plate on the temple, giving the Yao people to the world's mountains, allowing them to cut the seed, live in peace and work in contentment. However, the Yao Shan region, poor mountains and water, despite the hard work of people farming, is still precarious.

One year, the Great White Star visited the people, and saw that the Yao people have been living in the mountains for generations, slash and burn, life is difficult, so reported to the Court of Heaven. The Jade Emperor sent the King of Harvest to the earth, and the King of Cattle came down to plow the fields.

Since the Ox King came to earth, the Yao people began to plow the fields and inserted the harvest, and every year, the wind and rain, the five grains are plentiful. In order to thank the Ox King, the Yao people take the day of the Ox King's descent to earth (the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar) as the traditional festival of the Ox's birthday.

The Yao family has a folk song "April 8, throw the plow and harrow, half of July, full of grain, to recover 10,000 quintals of grain, relying on the ox to help." On the eighth day of April, the Yao people love the ox most, and treat the ox as a god to worship and serve, and let the ox leave the plow and harrow to rest for a whole day.

On this day, no one is allowed to whip the cow, no bullfighting, not to mention killing the cow, and even cursing the cow is not allowed. On the first day, every family should give the cattle a hot bath, comb the whole body clean, but also to make the cattle pen neat and tidy.

Shop for a new grass, painted with red paper or cut into Buddha talisman pasted on the cattle fence, to drive away the evil spirits to send the plague God, bless the cattle's health. On this day, the cattle to eat is more chic and wonderful, early in the morning, people will compete to put the cattle out to eat dew grass, the earlier the better, "grab the head".

In the morning, with glutinous rice wine lees boiled eggs to the cattle to eat, in the Yao family, children have the habit of eating eggs on their birthdays, visible on the worship of cattle. There is a saying in the worship family: "When a person has a birthday, he eats ginseng; when a cow has a birthday, he eats bitter ginseng."

In the afternoon, the bitter ginseng boiled loach to feed the cattle, so that cattle healthy and long life. In the evening, the Yao people also choose the best and strongest cattle to party, the Yao people dressed in festive costumes, around a roaring bonfire, beating a long drum, singing and dancing with joyful songs.

2. The Legend of the Crouching Bull Stone

There is a natural village in Guanshan Township on the Drinking Horse River, where there is a large green stone shaped like a crouching bull, and although the river was diverted and the stone washed away into the river, the legend of the Crouching Bull Stone has been widely circulated in the folklore.

Once upon a time there was a farmer, raised a gray donkey and a yellow cow, yellow cow bull all day every day of the year honest work, while the gray donkey is lazy everywhere rubbing sly. Pulling the car when the gray donkey to pull the car cover very straight, but a little force is not used.

So that all the weight falls on the bull's body, the farmer saw the bull tired and sweaty, while the gray donkey is not a little sweat, he thought the gray donkey than the bull's strength, plowing time, the bull just bowed his head and silently pulling the pear.

And the gray donkey's eyes were always fixed on the farmer, and as soon as he saw him approaching, he hastened to stick out his tongue and lick the farmer's hand, leaving an impression of loyalty on the farmer.

One day, the yellow cow and the gray donkey were grazing in the meadow, and the farmer lay down on the soft grass to sleep. Suddenly, a hungry wolf came out of the grass and pounced on the farmer, and the frightened gray donkey hid in the grassy ditch and did not move a muscle; but the yellow ox met it.

Blocking the front of the hungry wolf with the hungry wolf to fight, although the hungry wolf bites two pieces of fur, but the hungry wolf is also injured, it is still courageous, the hungry wolf will be whisked to the grass deep in the swamp.

The gray donkey saw the hungry wolf run far away, stayed out of the ditch to wake up the farmer, to lead ah to the wrestling place just now, the farmer saw the wolf hair and blood on the grass, and knew that he had come to the wolf while he was sleeping, and he thought that the gray donkey had saved him.

Touched by the gray donkey with his hands to tickle, from the swamp back to the bull but not care. The bull searched for it all morning and finally found it in the grass by the side of the road.

It used two sharp horns to carry back the pocket of buckwheat. When he returned to the village, the gray donkey came out of the doorway and said, "Brother Ox, you're tired.

Said, with the mouth over the pocket sent into the farmer's room. From then on, the farmer thought that the gray donkey is faithful and diligent, and the yellow ox is lazy and greedy, and he gave all the good grass to the gray donkey to eat, and the rest of the grass and straw to the yellow ox to eat.

The next spring, the farmer to go to the south bank of the Drinking Horse River to buy cotton, he smacked the yellow ox is not useful, only gray donkeys frame car set off, back in time, just in time for the Drinking Horse River rise, the farmer to do in the car with a whip to guide the gray donkeys from the shallows to cross the river.

When they reached the middle of the river, the water was fast. The water is so strong that it is over the carriage. Gray donkeys feel that the cross-stream is not as good as the water to pull the car to save energy, so do not listen to the farmer's yell, straight to the downstream pulling the car, no matter how much the farmer whip and yell, gray donkeys do not listen to the results of the even with the car rushed into the Songhua River.

The lazy gray donkey was also drowned by the river. Yellow ox at home after plowing the land, every day lying on the riverbank waiting for its master back, day after day, year after year. It waited for several years in a row. The cow did not wait for the farmer, but it was lying there and became a stone.

3, Taurus Lake

Once upon a time, West Lake was called Taurus Lake. At that time, the lake was still a big white water, along the shore of the lake is black oil fertile land. The people around the lake were planting crops there, irrigated by the lake water, and the ears of rice grew round like a string of pearls.

In the spare time, people fish and shrimp on the lake. People live in harmony and live a happy life. At the bottom of the lake, there is a golden calf. As long as the sky is clear for a long time, the lake slowly shallow down, the golden ox in the lake will appear.

From a distance. You can see its golden back, head and horns up, it spit out a mouthful of water, the lake immediately rose again full of water.

One summer, counting has been nine hundred and ninety-one days without rain, drought to the bottom of the lake sky, the surrounding fields hard as stone, cracks have a few inches wide, green seedlings are yellow. The people were so thirsty that their eyes were sunken in, and they had no energy. They are looking forward to the appearance of the golden calf every day.

One morning, just as everyone stood by the lake looking forward to the golden calf, suddenly came "moo" sound, only to see the golden calf from the bottom of the lake out of the ground. It shook its head, swung its tail, and spat out a great deal of water, and in a flash the lake was full again.

The people were so happy that they shed tears of joy, and were grateful to the golden cow, which raised its head, flashed its bright eyes, and bellowed "moo", and disappeared into the lake.

The story spread quickly. The government officials reported it to the magistrate, and the magistrate reported it to the magistrate of Qiantang. The magistrate heard, holding the stomach smiling and said: "This is really a living treasure, if you bring it to the emperor, will be able to promote the Secretary to get rich!"

At that moment, he ordered his men to hurry to catch the golden calf. Those yamen, land bailiffs hurriedly ran to the lake, look up, in front of a white lake, where there is a golden calf? Ask the people in the neighborhood, and they will see that it is the people in the government office.

Either said did not see, or quietly avoided. The magistrates could not think of anything but to report back to the magistrate. The magistrate was angry in his heart, flicking his beard, thinking and thinking, and came up with a bad idea.

He said to his men: "In that case, let's call the people to come and dry the lake. Whoever doesn't come will be beheaded!" The common people who lived by the lake, men, women, old and young, were driven here.

They were forced by the magistrate to set up a waterwheel, and with tears in their eyes, they drove the lake water. Car ah car, a series of car for 9981 days, exhausted everyone, the last day, finally the lake car dry.

Sure enough, the golden calf lying at the bottom of the lake, it that the body of the golden light shining brightly in the world. The magistrate was so illuminated that he couldn't even open his eyes, but he still called out to the magistrates to hurry down to the lake to grab the golden ox.

Strange to say, the golden ox seems to be rooted as if, lift and lift not, lift and lift not. The people are secretly happy in the heart. The magistrate looked at the move, said to the people: "Who can lift the golden ox, the reward silver 300 silver!"

But, the people are standing still, angry and ignore him. When the magistrate saw that the people ignored him, he roared, "If you don't lift the golden ox today, you will all be killed!"

Just after the magistrate finished his words, the golden ox bellowed, like a thunderbolt from the sky. Only to see the flying sand and stones, the ground shaking the mountain, the magistrate scared face like dirt, legs soft, want to escape, but a step can not walk.

At this time, the golden calf turned round eyes, stood up, and the sky long screamed, from the mouth spit out a large white water, rushed to the magistrate, the magistrates, all of them rolled into the huge waves.

Immediately, the lake was full again. From then on, the golden calf in the lake no longer appeared, the lake never dried up, people can not forget the golden calf. They built a high tower on the wall next to the lake and climbed up every day to look forward to the golden calf.

4, the cowherd weaving cow matchmaking

Legend has it that the weaver is the granddaughter of the Queen Mother, she and six sisters in the heavenly palace to the sky weaving colorful clothes. The story goes that there was a cowherd on the earth who was not treated well by his brother and sister-in-law, so the cowherd split up his family and gave him only one old cow.

The cowherd relied on the help of the old cow, and his life got better and better. One day, the old ox suddenly speaks up, saying that the seven sisters are going down to the hot spring to take a bath, and that the cowherd can take this opportunity to hide the Weaving Maiden's clothes and make her promise to be his wife.

Cowboy according to the old ox said to do, in the hot springs next to persuade the weaving woman, the two were married. After marriage, the two men plowed and weaved, love each other, life is very happy, but also gave birth to a son and a daughter. However, the Emperor of Heaven caught the Weaving Maiden and sent her back to Heaven to ask for punishment.

The cowboy could not catch up with the weaver, holding a pair of children crying. The old cow spoke again: "I'm dying, after death, take my skin off, you wear it on your body can fly up to the sky to meet with the Weaving Maiden." After the death of the old cow, the cowherd, clad in cowhide, picking the child, went up to the sky to find his wife.

Just as the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden were about to meet, the Queen Mother pulled down a golden hairpin and made a stroke, and the Milky Way turned into the River of Heaven, forcing the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden to look at each other across the river. Later, the Heavenly Emperor and the Queen Mother were touched and allowed them to meet on the seventh day of the seventh month every year.

On the seventh day of the seventh month when the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden met, countless flocks of magpies flew to build a bridge for them. On the bridge, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden were reunited! The Weaving Maiden and the Cowherd were y in love with each other, embracing their children, with countless words to say, and endless feelings to pour out!

Legend has it that every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, if people in the grapevine under the grapevine quietly listen, you can faintly hear the fairy music playing, the Weaving Maiden and the Cowherd in the deep conversation. Straight: it is difficult to see each other when it is difficult to say goodbye, they are looking forward to the next year day after day on July 7 reunion.

5, the green ox to the earth

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was no ox on the ground, plowed and harrowed the fields are with manpower, very hard. One day, the Supreme Lord came to earth, saw people naked, sweaty pulling the plow, pulling the harrow in the cultivation.

The old man then walked up to those who plowed the field and said, "Old man, you rest rest ah!" The people said, "How can we rest when the season is over?" Hearing this, the Old Lord Taishang no longer answered, and went away in silence.

On the way back to heaven, Taishang Laojun kept thinking about the hard work of the people when they were plowing, and had not come up with a good solution when he arrived at the Heavenly Palace. At this time, his front suddenly came a few "ow" sound.

The Supreme Lord looked up and saw a male and a female not far away, two large green oxen in the leisure, the Supreme Lord heart, they walked to the two green oxen in front of the greeting, "cattle old brother, you really leisure ah!"

The male green ox said: "What can be done, the whole day nothing to do, eat enough to sleep, sleep enough to play." The Supreme Lord said: "cow old brother, you are so free all day long, feel bored, right?" The green ox said: "Of course boring, but what can be done?"

Hearing this, the Supreme Lord was so happy that he said to the green ox, "Well, I'm going to tell you to go to a good place, so that you won't feel lonely." "Where to go?" The two green oxen heard this and were also happy in their hearts.

The Supreme Lord Laojun said, "I order you to go to the earth and do good deeds for the people, and guarantee you a lifetime of pleasure." "Why do you want us to go to the mortal world?" The Green Ox was very surprised to hear this.

The Supreme Lord Laojun said seriously, "Yes, don't you want to, right? There are 90,000 hillocks and 100,000 fields and pangs below the earth. Those 90,000 hillocks are full of soft green grass. I have tasted it myself, and the flavor is much better than that in heaven.

I don't lie to you, if you don't believe me, go to the earth and take a look." "Really?" The green ox heard Taijun say that the grass in the mortal world is better than the heavenly one, his heart was a little moved, but on second thought, he said to Taijun, "How can we eat the grass from those 90,000 hillocks?

We have to eat dozens of ridges in the sky to eat immortal grass." Hearing this, the Supreme Lord knew that the two green oxen moved the mortal heart, and said: "Alas, I remembered wrong, that the mortal world is 100,000 hillocks, 90,000 fields and pangs, and even that 90,000 fields and pangs are full of lush green grass.

Grass grows fast, you just ate, back to eat and grow out. That 100,000 hillock scenery is very good, eat while playing in the mountains, package your life are happy." The two green oxen heard, full of joy, said, "Well, we would like to go to the mortal world."

Said, jumped out of the southern heavenly gate, straight to the earth. The green ox will be close to the mortal world, from above to see that the 100,000 hillocks really is a large green, the scenery is also much better than the sky, happy to jump from the high clouds.

Jumped to the ground, the green cow's front hooves a knee, the cow's head slammed on the ground, the upper jaw of the teeth all touch off. So until today the cow is also no upper teeth. Originally, the mortal world should be 100,000 fields and pangs, 90,000 hillocks.

Because the old man in order to take care of the green ox, the mortal earth into the mountains more than the field of the pasture. Those two green oxen to the earth, and later caught by the people, tamed them, taught them to pull the plow and harrow, for the earth to cultivate.

The oxen saw people treating them very well, and saw the slope full of young grass, really much better than the sky, and no longer want to go back to the sky, a single-minded, diligent in the underground for people to do, and later, it was passed down from generation to generation.

String Gao's Cattle Trafficking

During the Warring States period, String Gao of the state of Zheng was in the business of long-distance cattle trafficking. As he was driving his oxen along the road, he met a national army that was planning to attack Zheng. In his haste, he offered the cattle to the Qin army commander, saying that he had been ordered by the king of Zheng to come to work for the army, and the Qin army commander, thinking that he had lost the plot, withdrew his troops and went back.

Fire Ox Formation

At the end of the Warring States period, the Yan army, led by Le Yi, was invincible, winning successive victories and knocking down many cities. In the end, only two cities were left, Juyi and Jimo . And King Hui of Yan replaced the main general Le Yi at the critical time, and sent the general riding robber to lead the troops to attack the two cities. Qi general Tian Dan immediately organized a counterattack. He collected more than a thousand oxen, tied the two horns of each ox with sharp blades, covered the oxen with pictures of various sacred oxen and beasts, and put a straw handle on the tail of the oxen, pouring oil on the handle. At night they opened the gates of the city, set fire to the straw handles soaked with oil, and drove the oxen out of the city. More than a thousand oxen, burned to the point of madness, rushed toward the Yan army barracks, and Tian Dan's 5,000 Qi troops followed behind the fiery oxen. The Yan soldiers were so scared and disorganized that they lost their ability to fight. The Yan soldiers were scared and lost their ability to fight.

You don't get it

In ancient times, there was a musician named Gong Ming Yi, who was good at playing the zither. One day, when he saw a very strong cow grazing, he had a strange idea, and then he played a piece of music for the cow on the spot, `Ching Kok's Manipulation', but the cow ate the grass as if she hadn't heard a thing. Gong Ming Yi carefully speculated and realized that it was not that the cow did not hear the sound of the zither, but that this kind of tune was too elegant, it simply could not listen to it.

The Ox

Duke Jing of Qi had a son named Tuan, whom he loved very much. Once Duke Jing of Qi and Tuan were playing together. Duke Jing of Qi, as the king of a country, bit a rope in his mouth and let Tuan lead him. Unexpectedly, his son fell down accidentally and broke Qi Jing Duke's teeth. Before his death, Duke Jing of Qi made Tuan the king of the country. After the death of Duke Jing, Chen Xizi wanted to install Duke Yangsheng. Bao Mu, a minister of Duke Jing of Qi, said to Chen Xizi, "Have you forgotten that the king broke his teeth for a baby cow? And you have carried it on your back!" Therefore, the Chinese character "孺子牛" was originally used to express parents' excessive love for their children. Later, the great modern writer Xun's "cross-eyed cold to thousands of fingers, head down willing to be a child cow" sentence so that the spirit of the child cow has been sublimated and expanded, and later people with "children" to the metaphor of willingness to serve the people, selfless dedication.