Myths about Sheep

A. Collect at least 3 idiomatic stories, fables, folk tales, etc. about sheep

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Folklore stories about sheep:

In the ancient flood era, there was no grain on earth, and human beings relied on vegetables and weeds for their livelihood, and were severely malnourished and thin.

One autumn, a divine sheep from the Palace of Heaven to the mortal world, found that the human face poor, depressed, asked to explore the reasons, only to know that human beings do not grow food, even what is called food also do not know. The goat was so kind that he told the people that he would bring them some grain seeds next time. It turned out that only the Royal Field of the Heavenly Palace had nutritious grain. The stingy Jade Emperor did not want to share the delicious taste of grain with human beings. After returning to the Heavenly Palace, the divine goat took advantage of the sleep of the guardian gods in the middle of the night to sneak into the imperial field, picked five grains (rice, grain, wheat, beans and cotton), put them in his mouth, and slipped down to the earth before daybreak. When the people heard that the goat had brought them the seeds of the five grains, they were very curious. The sheep gave the seeds to the human beings and told them how to plant the grains, and then quietly went back to the heavenly palace.

Humans sowed the seeds, and crops grew that year. At harvest time, human beings saw the spikes of the grains, both like sheep's horns, and like sheep's tails, the harvested grains were fragrant and sweet, and the harvested cotton was woven into clothes that were light and warm. After harvesting in the fall and storing in the winter, people held a grand ceremony to thank the sheep for the gift of seed.

The grand ceremony of sheep sacrifice alarmed the Jade Emperor, the Jade Emperor and thought of the earth appeared on the five grains, immediately thought of is the god of sheep, after ascertaining the situation, the Jade Emperor was furious, cruel he ordered the heavenly officials to slaughter the god of sheep, and to be under the order of the mortals to eat sheep. The next year, the strange Bonnie thing happened, in the place of the execution of the divine sheep, first grew grass, and later grew lambs, sheep from now on in the mortal world to pass on, to eat grass for a living, the meat of their own, milk, the sky privately contribute to mankind. The human beings are grateful to the sheep for giving up their lives and seeds, and they hold sacrifices every year to show their remembrance and thanksgiving.

C. Collect at least three idiomatic stories, fables and folklore about sheep

Once upon a time, there were three sheep that became a fable in the folklore

D. Folklore about sheep

It is said that in ancient times, there were no grains and cereals on earth. One year in September, a divine goat came to the earth and found that the common people only ate wild fruits and vegetables and were so thin that they were skin and bones, so he sympathized with them very much. After the kind-hearted goat learned that there are no grains on earth, it returned to heaven and stole five kinds of ears from the Jade Emperor's grain fields, sent them to earth, and taught people the way to sow grains. From then on, the earth to eat grains and cereals, the day is also good.

The Jade Emperor knew, very angry, ordered the gods to pull the divine sheep to the earth to slaughter, and want people to eat lamb. Unexpectedly, the next year in the slaughter of the place of the sacred sheep, full of green marjoram grass, and gave birth to a lamb. From then on, the sheep were passed down from generation to generation on earth, eating grass for their own living, but supplying sheep's milk, mutton and fur to people to enjoy.

This myth not only explains the origin of the sheep, but also shows the close relationship between the sheep and human beings and their feelings towards the sheep.

(4) Extended reading of sheep-related myths

Sheep and mankind have a close relationship with one of the six closest animals, the other five also include chickens, dogs, pigs, horses and cows. That's why the ancients loved sheep, and there are traces of sheep in many aspects of life, "such as diet, clothing, architecture, bells and sacrificial vessels, home decoration, religious rituals, and so on."

Many of the Chinese characters and words related to sheep literally mean something better. Cultural scholar Hu Yeqiu said, "Sheep" in ancient Chinese and "Xiang" is the word for "Xiang", the earliest Chinese characters, many good words are related to sheep, such as "Sheep Da for beauty," "Sheep's mouth for good," "Sheep's mouth for good. "Sheep's mouth is good", "Sheep's sacrifice is auspicious", etc. "Xu Shen in Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Characters in Chinese) interpreted the character for sheep bluntly: 'Sheep is also auspicious', so sheep has been a symbol of beauty in folk life for thousands of years. thousands of years of folk life is the embodiment of beauty and goodness."

Because the sheep and "yang" harmonic, the Spring Festival occurs in the spring, the return of yang, the sheep has become a symbol of auspicious culture, "so the traditional culture of the so-called auspicious, and in ancient times also known as auspicious sheep. Folk common auspicious phrases are three sheep (Yang) Qitai, auspicious sheep (Xiang) Ruyi, bell reported auspicious and so on."

E. What are some idioms, fables and folklore about sheep

Idioms by The Free Dictionary of Chinese idiom

亡羊补牢_金山词霸

拼音：

wáng yáng bǔ láo

解释：

It's not too late to fix the pen after the sheep is lost. It's not too late to fix the sheep's pen after they've been lost.

Origin:

"Strategies of the Warring States - Chu Ce IV": "Seeing the rabbit and taking care of the dog; it is not too late; losing the sheep and mending the prison; it is not too late."

Example:

After their unit was burglarized yesterday; the leadership immediately ~; take security precautions.

F. Are there any legends about sheep in European and American mythology

Yes, there is the half-human sheep, which is usually stupid, aggressive, alcoholic

But there are exceptions, and the half-human sheep that befriended Hercules was a wise man

G. Myths of the Year of the Sheep

The white stone was transformed into a sheep

Once upon a time there was a good and prudent man named Huang Chu. Once upon a time, there was a good man with a very prudent personality named Huang Chuping, who was the shepherd of the sheep in this part of Danxi.

One day, a Taoist priest who practiced Taoism saw him and thought he was a talent that could be made, so he took him to Jinhua Mountain to practice qi. After Huang Chuping entered the stone room to practice, it took forty years before he returned to earth.

When Huang Chuping was first taken away, his friends and relatives were worried and anxious for him, thinking that he would meet with misfortune. Huang Chuping's brother also often misses his lost brother, and resolutely put down the sheep, to find his brother's whereabouts. After many years, finally let him find Huang Chuping in Jinhua Mountain.

Huang Chuping and his brother happy together a few days later, his brother can not help but think of the home of the flock, so the heart of the row of ideas to tell Huang Chuping. Huang Chuping meal laughed and said, "Brother, you can rest assured, absolutely safe at home, sheep healthy."

After Huang Chuping finished speaking, he took his brother home to take a look. They came to the wilderness near their home to see, where there are flocks, only to see a large white stone! Brother could not help but get anxious, turned and asked Huang Chuping: "Where are the sheep?"

"Isn't the sheep here?" Then, only to hear Huang Chuping shouted, took out a whip to the white boulder, that a white boulder, immediately turned into tens of thousands of white sheep came.

"Wow! It's really great! Brother, you have practiced a good spell." Brother couldn't help but be happy for Huang Chuping.

Song Dingbo captures a ghost and turns it into a sheep

During the Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Song Dingbo in Nanyang (now part of Henan Province). When he was young, he once encountered a ghost during a night drive. At that time, he asked, "Who are you?" The other replied. "I am a ghost." The ghost asked, "Who are you?" Song Dingbo lied to him and said, "I am also a ghost."

The ghost asked, "Where are you going to go?"

The ghost asked, "Where do you want to go?" and Ding Bo said, "To the Nanyang city fair."

The ghost said, "I also want to go to the marketplace."

So they were accompanied by each other and went on the road together. After a few miles, the ghost said, "Walking is too tiring, let's rotate each other's backs."

Ding Bo said, "Very well."

In the beginning, the ghost first carried Ting Bo for a few miles, and the ghost said, "You're too heavy to be a ghost, I'm afraid?" The

Ding Bo said, "I am a new ghost, so I am heavy."

When it was Ding Bo's turn to carry the ghost on his back, he only felt light as if he didn't have any weight.

They took turns walking on their backs several times. Ding Bo said to the ghost, "I just died, I don't know what ghosts are afraid of and what they are afraid of."

The ghost replied, "I just don't like human spittle.

Then they stopped carrying, and walked together. On the way, they had to cross a small river, and Tingbo told the ghost to cross the river first, and listened to it wade in the water, and there was no sound at all. The ghost asked the ghost to cross the river first, and listened to it wading, but there was no sound at all.

Tingbo said, "I just died and I don't know how to wade, so I'm making a noise, don't blame me."

When he was about to arrive at the Nanyang fair, Ding Bo carried the ghost on his shoulder again and held him tightly without letting go. The ghost shouted loudly and loudly, pleading with Uncle Ding to let him down. Ding Bo ignored him and walked all the way to the marketplace before letting him down, and as soon as the ghost hit the ground, it turned into a sheep. The ghost was then sold, I am afraid that he will change again, spit on him with saliva, sell this ghost into the sheep, Ding Bo got 1,500 coins, and only then left.

At that time, a nobleman named Shi Chong knew about this incident and said, "Ding Bo sold the ghost and got 1,500 coins."

Goat Matchmaker

In ancient times, there were two hunters, one called Yuan Xiang and the other Gen Shuo, in the county of Heping (now in Zhejiang Province). One day, they went to the deep mountains to hunt, walking through a high mountain, suddenly saw six or seven goats, they went to chase them.

As the goats ran, they passed a stone bridge between two mountain streams, which was very narrow and dangerous. Yuan Xiang and Gen Shuo ignored the danger and chased them over the stone bridge as well. On the other side of the cliff was a red-colored stone wall with the words "Red City" engraved on it, and on the cliff there was a waterfall pouring down to the bottom of the mountain. The two men followed the goat closely on the path, and suddenly the goat ran into a mountain drop. The two men followed it into the cave, which was spacious with a stone door. Into the cave, see another world inside the cave, the ground is very open, grass and trees emit a burst of fragrance. In the midst of the grass and trees, there was a house. Two people into the house, see inside living two girls, age are fifteen or sixteen years old, look very beautiful, there are two green servant girl. The two girls saw the two hunters arrived and said happily to them, "I have longed for you to come!"

It turned out that those goats were raised by the two fairies, and today the goats are following their orders and leading the two hunters here. The two hunters then married the two fairies, and the goats became their matchmakers.

H. Idioms, Fables and Folk Legends about Goats

Mending the Prison after the Goat is Lost

Losing a Goat on the Way,

Leading a Goat to Wine,

Hanging the Antelope by its Horns,

Wool Comes from the Sheep,

Getting Successful for the Goat,

Scapegoat,

Hanging up the Goat's Head to Sell the Dog's Meat,

Ask a Goat to Know a Horse,

Ask the Goat to Know a Horse,

Ask the Goat to Know a Horse. Ask the sheep to know the horse,

The path of the sheep's intestines,

Losing sheep in many different directions,

Going up against the wall,

Sheep in a row,

Nine shepherds in ten sheep's mouth,

Losing sheep in the valley of the zang,

Wine of the lambs,

Trading a sheep for a cow,

The tiger's skin is a skin of sheep's teeth,

The love of gifts is a gift to a sheep,

A tiger enters a herd of sheep,

A tiger in a flock of sheep,

Dr. Lean Sheep,

Rationing sheep,

Meat in the hand,

Sheep in the hand,

Sheep and wolves in the hand,

Mouse in the hole,

Hungry tigers pouncing on sheep,

Sheep and birds in the gut,

Not to eat mutton in the mouth,

Losing sheep to get cattle,

Losing sheep to mend the prison.

Once upon a time, there was a child named Zhang San, who kept many sheep at home, but he did things in a sloppy way.

One day, a hole collapsed in the railing on the sheep pen. When Zhang San's neighbor saw it, he reminded him to fix the sheep pen quickly, and he shook his head and said, "There's only a small hole, it doesn't matter, we'll fix it in a few days." The neighbor had no choice but to walk away.

When Zhang San was ready to repair the fence of the sheep pen, by the way to see how the little baby lambs grow, found that the sheep ran off a lot, there are no more than a few left, he saw this scene, can not help but sadly cry out: "My sheep? Wow ...... wow ......"

An old man heard Zhang San's cries, so he came over and asked him with concern: "What's wrong with you? Crying so hard? I can't sleep because of the noise." Zhang San, with tears in his eyes, told the old man what had happened, and the old man, hearing this, said to Zhang San with a smile, "Your sheep have disappeared because the hole in the fence on the sheepfold was repaired too late. Once you realize it, you have to repair it in time, otherwise the sheep will run away one by one, and it's not too late for you to repair it now, and you can still save the rest of the sheep." Zhang San suddenly came to his senses, thanked the old man, picked up the hammer, and repaired the fence on the sheep pen firmly.

From then on, Zhang San's family never had many more sheep, and he completely changed this bad habit of procrastination. Although Zhang San lost a lot of sheep, but he learned a great lesson from this incident, and since then he has developed a good habit of correcting his mistakes.

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