What zodiac can cross the river?

There are ponies that can cross the river in the zodiac. Because the pony crossed the river.

An old horse and a pony live in the stable.

One day, the old horse said to the pony, "You have grown up. Can you do something for mom? " The pony jumped up and down and said, "Why not? I am very willing to help you. " The old horse said happily, "That's good. Take this half bag of wheat to the mill. "

The pony picked up the wheat and ran quickly to the mill. Running and running, a small river blocked the way, and the river was rushing. Pony was embarrassed and thought, can I go over? If mom is around, how nice it is to ask her what to do!

He looked around and saw an old cow grazing by the river. The pony pattered past and asked, "Uncle Niu, please tell me, can I cross the river?" The old cow said, "The water is very shallow. I just don't have calves, so I can wade across. "

The pony listened to the old cow and immediately ran to the river, ready to cross the river. Suddenly, a squirrel jumped down from the tree and stopped him, shouting, "Pony, don't cross the river, don't cross the river, the river will drown you!" " The pony asked in surprise, "Is the water deep?" "Squirrel said seriously," deep! Yesterday, one of my partners fell into the river and drowned! "

The pony stopped quickly and didn't know what to do. He sighed and said, "Alas! Go home and ask your mother! "

The pony wagged its tail and ran home. Mother asked, "Why did you come back?" Pony said shyly, "A river is blocked, and I ... I can't get through." Mother said, "Isn't that river very shallow?" The pony said, "Yes! That's what Uncle Niu said. But the squirrel said that the river was deep and drowned his partner! "

Mother said, "So is this river deep or shallow?" Have you thought over what they said? "The pony looked down and said," No ... I didn't think about it. Mother kindly said to the pony, "Son, it is useless to listen to others without thinking and trying." "No matter how deep or shallow the river is, you will understand it if you try."

The pony ran to the river and just raised its front hoof when the squirrel shouted again, "What's the matter, you are desperate!" " "The pony said," Let me try. " He got off the river and waded carefully. It turns out that this river is neither so shallow as the old cow said, nor so deep as the squirrel said.

12 Chinese zodiac signs

The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship. According to the Qin bamboo slips unearthed in Yunmeng Shuihudi, Hubei Province and Fangmatan, Tianshui, Gansu Province, there was a relatively complete zodiac system in the pre-Qin period. The earliest handed down document that recorded the same Chinese zodiac as the modern one was Lun Heng written by Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The zodiac is an intuitive representation of the twelve earthly branches, namely, Zi (mouse), Ugly (ox), Yin (tiger), Mao (rabbit), Chen (dragon), Si (snake), Wu (horse), Wei (sheep), Shen (monkey), You (chicken) and Xu (chicken).

With the development of history, it has gradually integrated into the concept of folk belief, which is manifested in marriage, life, annual luck and so on. Each zodiac has rich legends, forming a conceptual interpretation system and becoming an image philosophy in folk culture, such as the zodiac in marriage, the blessing in temple fairs, the year of birth and so on. In modern times, more people regard the zodiac as the mascot of the Spring Festival and become a symbol of entertainment and cultural activities.

As a long-standing symbol of folk culture, the zodiac has left a lot of poems, Spring Festival couplets, paintings, calligraphy and paintings and folk arts and crafts that depict the image and symbolic meaning of the zodiac. Apart from China, many countries in the world issue stamps of the zodiac during the Spring Festival to express their wishes for the New Year in China.