The dog in the folk folk

Song dynasty Zhu Bian QuHu's news, record a must for the emperorBelong to the dogAnd the slaughter dog story: "on the early tang ning, Fan Zhixu said: 'the zodiac, god dog in place of the life for your majesty.This imperial capital for slaughter dog, should be banned.'because of command, the world dog, gratuity to twenty thousand.Too, of students at the beginning of a declaration to the yue: "move toward everything ZongSheng salt Assyrian city, abundant, god the son of the and the smell of livestock cat.'with good comment, dense-phase language yue: "a dog in the five elements, its take interest in, today to avoid Yu words and valuable if the, such as trial" hung fan ", is its sorrow beyond description.'"

The old han folk have "catch hair dog" festival customs."MAO dog" the fox demon, generation demon on the fifteenth day of the worship, vex creatures.A booth pooch, people in the night, and set fire to, at the same time, gong drumSet off firecrackersIn order to send wen exorcism.

Mongolians have shot grass "dog" ceremony, people will form straw into a dog, and an arrow, to eliminate the ominous.(Chinese zodiac /shengxiao/)

Jiangsu a funeral custom with "dozen dog bread".After death, with seven longan and flour for the ball, that hung on the wrist of the dead.Superstition says, people should pass after the death of the dead dog village of bread is used to feed dogs to pass, therefore calls dozen dog bread.