The mouse is the first of the twelve zodiac animals. What's the story of the Year of the Rat?

Once upon a time, people worked hard, and every household soon had enough food and clothing, so they forgot their roots and began to spoil food. Some people even wipe their children's bottoms with steamed bread. God couldn't stand it and got angry, so there was a drought and no crops were harvested. You can't live without food! People ate all the food because of hunger. In spring, it's time to sow, but there are no seeds. What can we do? Let's go to heaven and ask! But people can't go to heaven. In order to discuss it, we have to send a domestic cat to pray for God.

Domestic cats were ordered to live a narrow life in heaven. It is said that cats have nine lives to stay. On this day, the domestic cat finally met the fairy in charge of grain seeds. The fairy took out the key, took out a rice seed from a pile of grain, and gave it to the domestic cat to bring it back to the world. Although it is a grain of rice, it is a fairy who comes down to earth and is a domestic cat in her mouth. When she came back, her mouth was full of fragrance. As she walked more and more, she couldn't help swallowing. Unexpectedly, the rice grains swallowed down the saliva, and the domestic cat cried, ashamed to meet people, and wandered around.

Besides, people in the underground, eager for success, always don't see the domestic cat coming back, and know that it hasn't been done, so they scold: Damn cat, it's really greedy and lazy, and usually loves it when nothing happens. You still need seeds. In desperation, we had to send mice to heaven to ask for seeds. Before leaving, they were asked to bring it back.

The mouse did live up to expectations and brought back immortal seeds. People are so happy that they finally have seeds, so they sow them quickly when the sun is shining and the weather is sunny. Fairy seeds are fierce. As soon as they are buried, they grow with the wind and produce big ears. People pounded hard, and the grain fell and soon became a hill.

People finally have food to eat, and they dare not spoil food any more. In addition to eating by themselves, they also left seeds, which are the seeds of the earth. They can't plant a grain of rice and then collect so much food.

In order to thank the mouse, people promised to let it live in the granary and let it have nothing to worry about. In fact, the mouse is not as annoying as the idiom says. It is short-sighted and timid. In fact, the mouse is tenacious and a symbol of spirituality, so it ranks first among 12 zodiac animals.