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Grass and punished, I help the world - the myths and legends

The officers in front of the king in ancient times, the cow is the jade emperor temple, often back and forth between the heaven and the earth.One day, the farmer the cow king a message to the jade emperor, said nothing grows on earth, the earth bare, too ugly, the jade emperor, please bring some grass seed, to the world to look my room.The jade emperor heard, feel the truth, and asked his royal highness, the gods who want to go to earth and grass.

"The jade emperor, I want to go to earth and grass."Ox king volunteered to say.

"You're a careless guy, I'm afraid I can't."The jade emperor is not safe to say.

"The jade emperor rest assured, this little things I do bad, willing to be punished."Ox king insisted that go to.

The jade emperor consented to the request of the ox king, king charged cattle to the earth, walking three steps and a handful of grass seed.

Ox king with grass seed, out of the temple, when make the worse, accidentally fell down, after falling world, head dizzy, mistook the will of the jade emperor is the step and three seed.So, a lot of grass seed in the earth.

In the second year, the weeds, the farmer couldn't grow crops.They tell the jade emperor of kitchen, the grass is too much, the crops can't grow.The jade emperor know bad, called the cow king, just know a careless cattle king is step 3 seed, do a good thing.

"You're a careless women, made the earth and grass everywhere.How do you guarantee?From now on, you and your children and grandchildren are only allowed to eat grass, help the farmer get rid of weeds, at the same time, the ancestors have to help the farmer work."The jade emperor to say that finish, his anger is not, fly up a kick to the old cow, the cow king a somersault fall to earth from heaven and mouth down, was cast away on a row of teeth.

Cow was then a lifetime when the farmer laborers, and never stop eating grass.Until today, it's come out of the upper teeth and have no long.

But the bull had known the change is a good animal, it bears the burden of responsibility, loyal, diligent cart plough never loose tube, do a lot of good for the farmer, has evoked people's high praise.In a row to mutually, people elected him as the animal sign, cattle on own contribution to the human as the animal sign of human beings.If not speculationThe mouseHidden on the horn, won the top first, must also be on the animal sign of the princes of the king of the cow?

Chinese characters, as long as with cattle compatibility, is not the sort of bullishness, is the spirit of some cattle, otherwise it is a real head of cattle.

Cattle in the twelve animal signs, maximum volume, and is in contrast to mice, so people in life in order to "mouse" yu small or less, in order to "bull" or more.

Cow is famous for its blind loyalty.People often think of not wise wandered, stupid person is called "stupid cow" or "cattle".Ancient ridiculed illiterate person as "qing Ming" cow cow (blind).The unknown words meaning "casting pearls before swine".Said traduced by human "call cow horse".