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Or die trying, sheep sheep brood - god myth and legend

In the Chinese folklore, the sheep is a bit like the Greek myth of Prometheus great man, Prometheus for stolen skyfire to human on the dais, sheep, or die trying for stealing the corn seed to human.

There is no grain in ancient time of universe, human and human by vegetables and weeds and severe malnutrition, face yellow hand-picked.

One year autumn, a sheep came to earth from heaven, god found human face sallow, malaise, asked reason, only know the human being is not food, doesn't even know what is food.God sheep with benevolence, promptly tell people must give them to bring some seeds next time.It turns out that the only kind of heavenly palace royal field nutritious food in abundance.Stingy, the jade emperor wouldn't share delicious food to human.After the sheep back to the heavenly palace, guardian angel was sleeping in the middle of the night, while sneaking into the field, took the grain (rice, millet, wheat, beans, hemp), contain in the mouth, in the morning, sneak to the earth.Human hear god brought them corn seeds, sheep are very curious.God give seeds to humans, sheep and charged the method of planting corn, and went quietly back to the heavenly palace.

Human sow corn seeds, that year to grow crops.At the time of harvest, the human see the corn ear, both horns, entered, and like grain fragrant and sweet, the harvest of linen clothes, light and warm.People after the autumn harvest winterizing, held a grand peasant worship ceremony, the sheep to thank god send a.This kind of peasant fete ceremony there are still part of the autumn harvest winterizing held in rural areas.

Big sheep ritual in stirred the jade emperor, the jade emperor in a thought of human corn, and immediately think of is the god bring seed to the sheep, after find out the situation, the jade emperor great anger, ordered cheongwan slaughter a sheep on earth, and people eat mutton.

In the second year, a strange thing happened, in the place where god sheep on the execution, the first long out of the grass, then long out of the lamb, sheep breed in the earth, eating grass for a living, his own meat, milk selflessly GongFeng to humans.Human for sheep give to send a thank you, the Greek festival, held each year to mark.

When humans heard that the jade emperor will choose twelve animals for human to mutually, and given the seal of god, was unanimously elected sheep as a kind of animal sign.In spite of the jade emperor for sheep stolen from the seed, but difficult to spread public opinions, so we have to agree to sheep when the animal sign.

For a long time, the sheep become people's favorite animal, therefore, people are also often with the help of the sheep and describe different words, these words can be said to be the different its interest:

Self trouble or dead, is called "sheep will Wolf";Metaphor the cruelty of the ruling class, corrupt officials, people call it "like a Wolf sheep";Loss of small, big, is described as a "better", is actually a blessing in disguise.A magistrate outnumbered the people, has been described as "ten nine grazing sheep", can be exaggerated and do not break its true.A personal learning or doing things without perseverance, not perseverance, hard to progress and success, it is often said that "better" than disambiguation.

Docile sheep, vulnerability once fell into the tiger group, one can imagine the consequences, so people often think that fall into the hands of the strong or the weak man fall into the wrong hands is called "the sheep into the proverbial.

Sheep oil condensation give a person a kind of very soft, delicate, tender feeling, so people often use "white as suet" to describe the skin white tender.