Folk Tales with Cows

Folktales related to cattle

Folktales related to cattle, cattle is an animal we are all very familiar with, mentioning cattle whether you think of is simple and hard-working and other words, about the cattle of the various stories and legends you know, then the following I'll share with you with the cattle related to folktales, welcome to read.

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Folk tales related to cattle: 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 field." Yao ancient book "Pan Tian Da Ge" and "over the hill list" said: "Yin and Mao two years of heavy water, everything under the sky are flooded, leaving only Fuxi siblings, hidden into the gourd floating on the water. Only the two Fuxi siblings, hidden in a gourd floating on the water, were able to continue the human race, and then the King of Pans ascended to the throne, giving the Yao people the world's mountains, allowing them to cut down the seeds and live in peace and happiness. However, Yao Mountain area, poor mountains and bad water, despite the hard work of people farming, still precarious. One year, Tai Bai Jin Xing came down to visit the people and saw that the Yao people had been living in the mountains for generations, plowing and farming, which made their life difficult, so he reported to the Heavenly Court. The Jade Emperor then sent the King of Harvest to the earth, and the King of Ox came down to plow the fields. Since the Ox King came to earth, the Yao people began to plow the fields and planted the harvests, and every year, the wind and rain went smoothly and the grains were plentiful. In order to thank the Ox King, the Yao people take the day of the Ox King's descent (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 and protect the oxen, and treat the oxen as gods to worship and serve, and let the oxen leave the plow and harrow to rest for a whole day. On this day, no one is allowed to whip the ox, fight the ox, kill the ox, or even curse the ox. On the first day, every family should give the cattle a hot bath, the whole body combed clean, but also the cattle pen neat and tidy, laying a change of new grass, painted with red paper or cut into Buddha talisman pasted on the cattle pen, to drive away evil spirits to send the plague God, bless the cattle's health. On this day, the cattle to eat something 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 for cattle to eat, in the Yao family, children have the habit of eating eggs on their birthdays, visible to the worship of cattle. There is a saying in the Bay 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 boil loach to feed cattle, so that cattle healthy and long life. In the evening, the Yao people also choose the best and strongest cattle to party, Yao people dressed in festive costumes, around a roaring bonfire, beating a long drum, singing and dancing with joyful songs.

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Folktale related to cattle: the golden calf and the petunia

In the southwest of the Catfish Puddle (present-day Watershed Reservoir), north of the old Jia Mountain, there is a small hill called the "Golden Calf Mountain". Legend has it that there is a "golden calf" on the mountain that often appears in the spring plowing and fall planting to help poor families plow and harrow the fields. The strange thing is that as long as the "golden cow" plowed and harrowed under the planting of crops, both drought and flood can be a good harvest. Legend has it that this "golden calf" is five hundred years ago in Jinling Village, the second oldest Jin family, called the golden calf after the death of the change. What is going on, and let's start from the beginning.

Legend has it that there is a rich Jin Ling village Jin old man, the family has 800 acres of good land, most of the two mountain streams in the rushing fields, fertile land, basically is a drought-flooded fields. This gold master married with two houses, the big house gave birth to a son named Jin Ma, the second house gave birth to a son named Jin Niu, the size of the two wives since ancient times rarely get along well. Jin family wife and two grandmothers are incompatible with water and fire, three six nine small quarrel, two five eight big trouble, Jin Laozi daily play deaf and dumb, do not make too much trouble from the overly never ask. The first wife and second grandmother tired, will also find their own steps to truce. The funny thing is that the golden horse, the golden ox brother and sister as good as a person, the two mother's discord they do not care, the first wife often complained that the golden horse does not help my mother to speak, scolded him is an eggplant tree on the purple melon and his old man a color. This second grandmother also often accused Jinniu right seed, and his old man, the same as the gourd head in the vegetable seeds - boring seed. You scolded you, I play my own, the two brothers went to school together, a piece of the tree to catch birds, a piece of turning stones to catch crickets. One day after school to go home over a mountain ridge, the two brothers saw two little girls in the mountain stream to catch stone crabs, the two brothers began to squat at the edge of the stream to see the two little girls keep turning over the water's edge of the stone, stone under the stone hidden stone crabs, a moment to catch more than a dozen. The two brothers did not enjoy watching, simply took off their shoes and rolled up their pants, and helped the two little girls catch stone crabs. After playing for a while, the two brothers know that these two little girls are Lingxia Ma Zhuang Ma Neng's family, the sister called sour jujube child, sister called petunia. Since then, the two little brother and sister will come to the mountain stream after school, and sour jujube child, petunia flower together to catch stone crabs, not to catch stone crabs when the time to catch catnip.

Time flies, in the blink of an eye a few years past, the two little brothers are 17 or 18 years old, that sour date is sixteen, Altair 15. The two mountain poor girl, although it is coarse linen shirt, but can not wrap the youthful girl fit body. Matchmakers nose sniffing out the horse Zhuang have two beautiful wild flowers, but the two girls already have a lover, non-Jin family brother and sister do not marry. There are diligent legs of the matchmakers run more know the little sister's mind. The matchmaker heard that the two sisters' sweethearts were the two young masters of the Jinling Village Jin, like carrying a honey pot in their arms, thinking that this is a fat deal. The two brothers were really dumb, as soon as they heard that their family wanted to give them a wife, they shook their heads like a drum. After hearing that it is the Ma Zhuang's sour jujubes and petunias, the two brothers heart happy flowers, and have the strength to not marry this woman. The gold master asked someone to touch the horse Zhuang Ma Neng's family background, the family's a few acres of thin field, a year busy down is no food, no wear, no food, poor is poor point, but people are a honest man. In the winter of that year, Master Jin asked people to choose an auspicious day, the sedan chair carried into the sour jujube child, this sour jujube child is the daughter of a poor family, but people look beautiful, smart, over the door pot on the pot, the family washed and shuffled all wrapped up, the master, Mrs. very satisfied.

In the blink of an eye, it was the fall of the second year, and Master Jin asked someone to choose a date to marry him again. But this time, Ma Neng's old couple is worried, the flower is married again, the family will be left with the old couple, how to live in the old age ah. Daughter saw the thoughts of parents, boldly proposed to the golden cow into the family; otherwise rather die not married. The matchmaker had a problem, how can she talk to Mr. Jin about this? If the master agrees, then the second grandmother will not agree to it. The matchmaker tried to put this in the Jinling village a few tenants said, tenants have fast-talking woman, soon spread to the ears of the second grandmother. This is the first time I've ever seen a woman in the world who has been in a position to do that, and I'm not sure if I've ever been in a position to do that. Master Jin comforted her by saying, "Isn't that what the tenants said? We'll have to find out if the in-laws are interested." He saw that the second grandmother had stopped crying. When he saw that the second grandmother had stopped crying, he said, "Hey! They only have one daughter, so if they marry again, how will the old couple live? It would be a good idea for Niu'er to marry into the family." The first time I heard this, the second grandma cried out again.

The golden ox heard about this and was happy to hear about it. He thought that after a few years of work in the past, the days will be better. He quietly asked his sister-in-law to bring a letter to Altair to meet him after dinner at the mountain stream where he caught the stone crab. He was going to bite a good button with Altair. Over the door for a year, sour jujube child knows that the golden calf is a good boy, gentleman, well not far from home, sour jujube child that day to find an excuse to go back to his mother's home to go to the golden calf's trust told the petunia flower, about good evening evening to meet in the mountain stream.

Something in his heart complained about the long day, that the golden ox and the petunia flower are barring the sun quickly set. After dinner, the golden calf and Altair each quietly slipped out of the village and went straight to the mountain stream. The two are almost the feet before and after the feet and arrived. Find a flat stone to sit down, this sitting is nearly an hour, in addition to the sound of autumn insects near and far is the breeze blowing the leaves of the "rustle" sound. Two people have endless words, but no one knows where to start. The golden calf lowered its head, and the petunia looked at the sky.

"Brother Golden Bull, I heard that your mom doesn't agree with you joining the family?" Petunia couldn't hold her tongue and broke the silence first.

"If my mom dies and doesn't agree, then what do you do?" Instead of answering the question directly, Golden Bull tuned in and asked Petunia the question.

"I'm not marrying." Petunia gets a little angry and booms out in a decisive manner.

Taurus knew Petunia's temperament, and she really `would' get angry if the stalemate continued. So put their own ideas like bamboo tube pour beans, one by one all shake out. Petunia listening to listen to the heart happy flowers, head into the arms of the golden calf, happy tears.

It turned out that the golden cow and the golden horse and sister-in-law, sour jujube child on a good point, just to do a good job of the parents work, so that the matchmaker to wear out their mouths to bite not to marry, if the gold family, the second master did not agree to go into the family, the flower of a cow don't get married to someone else. The Golden Calf pretends to be sick, but the ghosts and gods will not marry Marionette. Let the gold family spend money from outside to invite exorcism sorcerer, with the golden cow, Altair two people in the name of coincidence, take "Altair" word, make a big fuss.

On this day, the family is eating, the golden cow suddenly fell to the ground, rolling his eyes, foaming at the mouth, the family was scared half to death, the golden master panicked and sent people to ask for a bone-setter, the second grandma held his son and pressed the middle, and patted the back of the chest, crying and howling, it is a ginger tragedy. The golden horse and the sour date child have a number in mind, in the panic, can not help but secretly laugh, admiring the little brother pretend to be really like that. Langzhong please come a pulse, pulse jump normal, and then after the tongue is not abnormal, turn over the eyelids or can not see the problem, I do not know what disease, medicine can not be opened, but can not speak of their own can not see what disease, for fear of losing face, inverted brand. So he just made a bunch of nonsense and said, "Young master Jin is not sick, but has a devil in his body." After saying this, he picked up his medicine chest and left. The Bone-setter's bullshit hit the nail on the head. Jin Ma yelled to invite the exorcist for his brother, and when the second grandmother cried and made a fuss, Master Jin said, "Quickly go and invite, quickly go and invite." In less than an hour, Jin Ma returned with the sorcerer. The sorcerer set up the incense table, lighted red candles, burned incense, a peach wood sword strung on a few pieces of paper in the mouth of the "gibberish" in the Hu hum, suddenly as if choking on a lump of rice to play two "cluck", the eyes round and asked the Golden Horse: "the second young master is not a love interest?" The golden horse replied in surprise: "Yes, there is one."" Isn't it called Petunia..." before the sorcerer could finish his words, the second grandma snatched the answer, "It's called Petunia."" This is right, Altair Flower, the key is in this word, your second young master called Golden Cow, the key is in this cow word, Altair is a pair of heavenly matches, because to the age of marriage this cow needs to be held, if the matchmaker to Altair Flower home to propose a marriage, the second young master on a time of the devil, such as the young lady married someone else, the second young master's life shall not be protected."

The golden master, two grandmothers heard all sighed, both the fate of God let him go! In the end, the golden calf is still the second grandmother's meat off the body, she kept blowing in the golden master's ear, if the golden calf to join the family to the master to cross 100 acres of good land. The golden old master said in his heart: "I Jin family just so two sons, whether it is married or into the family, have children are Jin family offspring, we are alive to row to him 100 mu of land, if we die and then row 300 acres, the horse and sour jujube children are also reasonable people, there will not be a problem in the future."

This Ma Neng family heard that the Jin family agreed to the Golden Bull into the family, but also with the child rowed over 100 acres of good land, very grateful.

There is a lot of bad weather in the sky, and there is a lot of bad luck in the world. One day Ma Neng and the usual pick a load of firewood to sell in the city, just into the city face broke through a few people, a collision, Ma Neng a hit sway behind the bundles of firewood slippery buckle fell to the ground, this stretcher behind the loss of weight, violently flipped over, not biased to hit in front of a broad young man in front of the face, "wow, wow," a burst of strange screams, both hands covering the face of the ground straight rolled. The followers will be tied up and sent to the Yamen. Ma Neng know trouble, this is the person who was injured is the son of the county magistrate, this stretcher do not know the severity of the injury.

The first time I saw this, I heard that the man was blinded by the stretcher. I heard that the flat stretcher smashed one of the eyes of the magistrate, the magistrate wants to compensate 500 silver. The next day, the county magistrate sent the magistrate to the horse village to notify the Ma Neng family to bring 500 taels of silver ransom. Where can they get so much money? The next day, Altair helped his mother and Jinniu together to go to the county court to ask the truth. Came to the county hall, the county master said Ma Neng hit a blind eye, should be compensated for the silver 500 two; otherwise to be sentenced to death. The marionette proposed to see if someone was blinded an eye, and to see his father to ask what was going on. The back room of the yannei sulked, as soon as he heard that someone does not believe that he was beaten blind, angry and stormed into the lobby. Staring round that remaining a good eye, just to be angry, only eye saw the hall under the petunia, a round face like the fall of the mountain red, a pair of big watery eyes like the moon in the night sky, the cloth shirt wrapped out of the beautiful curves of the girl's youth. I don't know is one eye spotlight, or usually did not pay attention to the girls in the mountains, at this time Nga Nei can't close the remaining eye, the corner of the mouth straight drooling. Master aside to see the doorway, in Nga Tong, people whispered a few words in the ear, Nga Nei issued a burst of creepy strange laughter.

The county magistrate let the yamen detained Petunia, called Petunia's mother and the golden cow quickly returned to prepare 500 two ransom, the period of three days. The mother of the horse and the golden ox rushed home, all the way to tears like a spring. While comforting Ma's mother, the Golden Bull thought of selling the 100 acres of good land that his father was going to allocate to him to get the money to save Petunia and her father. Jinniu returned home and told his parents, brothers and sisters-in-law about the idea, and the whole family agreed with Jinniu's approach. The second grandma also took out 40 taels of silver from the bottom of the box with tears in her eyes, which is the secret money she has hidden for many years.

The next day, Jinniu began to sell the land, and early in the morning went out and ran through all the surrounding villages. But no one wanted to buy it. The next day, I heard that the county government had sent someone to notify all the families that they were not allowed to buy the Jin family's land, no matter how expensive it was. For two days in a row, Jinniu was worried and didn't know what to do. Master Jin took out all the silver and only managed to get together more than 300 taels. Seeing the three-day deadline has come, the golden ox with less than 400 silver in the afternoon of the third day rushed to the county office to pay the money, the remaining silver Jinniu again and again kneeling to ask for a few days of grace. This county official master received more than 300 two silver said: "This is to the yannei see eyes, the remaining 100 more than two can be three days of grace." Said and dry cough a few times said: "Altair is afraid that you can not get 500 two silver, last night jumped into the well and committed suicide."

The golden ox heard this, as if five thunderbolts, immediately fainted in the county hall.

I don't know when he woke up. Driving the old man saw the golden calf woke up, stopped the car, looking for a stump sat down, pressed a pot of smoke "abda, abda" inhaled a few mouths and said: "young man this girl is forced to marry by the small Yamen, jumped into the well to commit suicide, is a good girl." Jinniu no more tears, eyes also began to daze, holding the petunia stupid look.

The Golden Family buried Petunia as the daughter-in-law of the Golden Family on the hillside where they used to date. The golden ox is lying on the grave of Altair all day long, and no one can pull it away. One day suddenly dark clouds rolled over, windy, pouring rain from the sky, not long after the rain flow, and more and more big. The next morning people came to the hillside, no longer see the golden calf of the people and the petunia grave, in the place where the grave is buried but full of pink petunias.

One day someone saw from afar a golden golden ox pulling a golden golden plow in the field of Maneng plowing, no one to support the plow. Look at the people are very surprised, three steps and two steps to run over, but to the front, but there is nothing, but that plowed field is indeed just plowed. The news spread, and every day many people stood at the top of the hill and in the fields to see the golden ox pulling the golden plow. One day there was another sighting, but when they came to it, there was nothing there. Later, people have been rumored, said that the golden ox pulling the golden plow is the second son of the golden master of the golden ox, that the mountain pink petunia is the second daughter of Ma Neng's petunia.