What is the content of cattle culture?

Cattle is one of the important domestic animals, and is known as the "head of six livestock". Cattle raising in China has a long history, and cattle are closely related to the lives of working people. China's cattle culture is also rich and colorful. From the role of cattle, the history and development of cattle culture in China traditional culture, the Chinese dream and the spirit of cattle, the cattle culture in China is promoted, which shows the far-reaching influence of cattle culture on the social life and cultural development of China people.

The totem worship of cattle can be traced back to Dayu's water control period 4000 years ago. According to legend, when Dayu was controlling water, whenever a place was controlling water, he threw the cast iron cattle into the water to prevent flooding. In the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, before humans began to use cattle for labor, the status of cattle was not low. On those noble objects-bronzes, cows have become a common decorative pattern and are in a prominent position. At this time, the "cattle" are basically abstract, and most of them just show some remarkable characteristics.

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China has been an agricultural society since ancient times. With the development of farming culture, cattle culture has been constantly created and written in the long history of the Chinese nation. Cattle are huge, powerful, docile and easy to tame, and have been good friends of mankind since ancient times. Every spring, when everything recovers, people take cows for agricultural production activities.

Sowing farmland and transporting it are the tasks and missions of Wumingniu Gate 2. Cattle help working people share a lot of heavy production activities, so people are very respectful and grateful to cows. Therefore, throughout the ages, industrious people, knowledgeable experts and scholars, and talented literati and poets all praised the industriousness and selfless dedication of cattle, which made China's cattle culture endless and shining in the process of inheritance and innovation.