What is the zodiac?
In ancient times, pigs were usually used to represent wealth and fertility. There are also many piggy banks that look like pigs now. In Tianjin, Hebei and other places, there are "Pig Arch" festival window grilles cut with black glossy paper. Pigs carry a cornucopia on their backs, one on each side of a towel, which means making a fortune.
Legend has it that there was an adjutant in ancient times who was rich and prolific and had no children under his knees. Who knows that when he was nearly sixty, he got a son. The family was happy, friends and relatives congratulated them, and employees held a banquet outside to celebrate their successors.
During the festival, a fortune teller came to the children. Seeing the child's forehead is wide, his face is big, his ears are wide, his wheels are big, his heaven is full, and he is fat in vain, so he asserts that the child must be rich.
Fat people have a good life, and life is also very good. From an early age, I only knew how to reach for clothes, open my mouth for food, be both civil and military, and farm. He just spends a lot of time fooling around, thinking that his fate is fixed and he is extremely rich, so he doesn't have to work hard. When children grow up, their parents die, their wealth declines, their possessions are sold off, and their servants are scattered. The fat boy continued to spend money like water until he finally starved to death in his room. After his death, the ghost of the fat man lingered. He complained to the underworld that he was born rich and could not die so miserably. Yan took the ghost to the jade emperor in heaven and asked him to make a ruling. The jade emperor called the kitchen god on earth and asked how this seemingly rich man could starve to death in his room. Kitchen God made the fat boy forget his studies and studies. Hearing this, the jade emperor was furious and sent officials to listen to the decree and asked the fat boy to obey. The Jade Emperor said, "Although you are lucky, you are lazy. You should be punished for eating coarse chaff as a pig." This time coincides with the choice of the zodiac in Tiangong. This heavenly palace official listens to "eating coarse chaff" as "being a zodiac sign". Bring this fat man to reality at once. From then on, the fat man became a pig and ate coarse chaff, which became the zodiac.
Pigs have become zodiac animals by their own efforts. On the day when the twelve zodiac signs were arranged in the Heavenly Palace, the Jade Emperor stipulated that he must arrive at the Heavenly Palace at a certain time, so he chose the first twelve zodiac signs as the zodiac signs. Pigs know that they are stupid and walk slowly, so they get up in the middle of the night and queue up to buy the zodiac. Because of the distance and many obstacles, the pig climbed to the worse gate, but the time of the zodiac has passed, but the pig begged, and so did the other five animals. Finally, he moved his mind and put the pig into the worse gate, becoming the last zodiac sign. In this way, horses, cows, sheep, chickens, dogs and pigs have become the human zodiac.