Irene Law aka Acrene Law is a simple woman who loves to share her own life experiences and her views on topics ranging from parenting, love, friendship, career, fun, travel, social networking to more serious stuffs like medical, health and passion of life.
Chinese New Year is around the corner, why we celebrate Chinese New Year and how the story began?Let me share a fairly tales story with you.
Long ago, the world was not a safe place; monsters dominated the world. There was one horrifying monster that came out on the same day each year to eat people. This monster was named Nian, and the people marked the end of a year by his visits to the human civilization. That is where the Chinese word for year came from.
This monster was the most feared by the people because every time it came out, whole villages would be destroyed at a time. So, every time the monster came, people would huddle together in their homes and stay up all night, wanting not to be eaten. This happened for many years until a wise man thought up a plan to scare the monster away.
This man proposed that the people should light bamboo. The bamboo would crack and make a lot of noise, possibly scaring the monster away. The villagers thought this was a very good idea and started to light the bamboo. The noise was tremendous. The monster was scared by the loud noise and ran back to its cave without not eating any people.
The next morning, everyone was present. They were all elated. The people congratulated each other for executing the plan effectively. So, from then on, people stayed up late, lit firecrackers (to simulate the lighting of the bamboo), and congratulated each other when the new year came.
Today my topic is about chinese zodiac. well, i would like to thanks my friends kevinn who's give me this inspiration. Assume that we don't know this fairly tales began, when i am young i like to read all the fairly tales story for Hans Christian Andersen & some other authors included chinese story books. Is one of my hobbies. And always dream that my life will just like what the fairly tales is. But too bad in the real life is different with fairly tales. Maybe i am wrong 'cos there might be a small group of people really happen in their life whose know. Kevinn hope you will like this story and won't bored you.
Long long time a ago, the lord announce to all the animals that he will like to choose twelve animals to represent the chinese calender,who come first than he will be number 1 and so on. this announcement make the whole jungle animals very excited and all of them was figure out how to be the number one.
This was hear by the cat,rat,elephants,zebra,lion,tiger,cow,rabbit,snake,dragon,monkey,
horse,goat,pig,dog,crocodile,chicken,duck and etc.... and they was discuss how to work as a team to reach for this races. So the cat told the rat "Hey friends i will take a rest so tomorrow i will have the energy to bring together to be no:1" so rat answer " Oh! good idea will wake you up than". So the cat start to sleep but the rat think over and decide to start the journey without awake cat.
second is the OX 'cos cow always wake up early to start works for farmer, third is tiger cos lion still take his sweet time due to his though that he is the king of the jungle. Forth, is rabbit fifth dragon sixth is snake seventh horse eight goat ninth monkey ten chicken eleven dog and the last is pig. What about the others who can't manage to this races?Well that why now you can see that the crocrodile will attack and eat all the animal there can eat ,the cat will always chase the rat whenever there meet . Does it make sense on this story kevinn?
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