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Why is pork chop last in the Chinese zodiac?

Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. I think these twelve animals are the most familiar to the Chinese people, because each of us will correspond to one of them. This is the Chinese zodiac. We all know that the pork chop is the last in the Chinese zodiac. Knowing the reason for this, let’s take a look with the editor.

Pigs are famous among animals for their laziness, but in people’s minds, pigs are probably the most honest domestic animals. They are not elves like dogs. They understand the mind of their masters, follow their masters before and after, and do everything they can to please. And pigs have a round, chubby and honest appearance. They sleep when they eat and eat when they are hungry. They seem to be honest and responsible.

Pigs have an indissoluble bond with hundreds of millions of farmers. People recommend 12 kinds of animals as zodiac signs, and they will naturally use the animals that are closest to their lives to represent them. Therefore, it is natural for the pig to become the zodiac sign.

The origin of the zodiac pig

There is also a folk legend about the pig being the zodiac sign.

In ancient times, there was a member outside the family, the family wealth was huge, the fertile land was thousands of hectares, but he had no children under his knees. Who knew that when he was approaching his sixtieth year, he had a son. The family rejoices, the relatives and friends congratulate, and there is a large banquet outside the members to celebrate the successor.

At the time of the feast, a physiognomist came to the child and saw that the child had a wide forehead, a big face, wide ears and round ears, a full sky, white and fat, and he concluded that the child must be a person of great blessing and great honor.

This fat boy, Fu Lisheng and Fuli Xiao, has only been able to stretch out his hands since he was a child, and open his mouth to eat. Little did he know that after the child grew up, his parents died, his family declined, his property was sold, and his servants scattered. The fat boy continued to live a high-spending life until he finally starved to death in his room.

After the fat boy died, his ghost persisted, and he went to the underworld to complain to the king of hell, saying that he was born rich and noble, and he couldn’t die in such a bleak way. The Kitchen God in the world asked how this rich and noble-looking man could starve to death in the room, and the Kitchen God reported the fat boy’s behaviors one by one for not thinking about studies, not doing farming, sitting on empty mountains, and profligate.

When the Jade Emperor heard this, he was furious, and ordered the officials to obey the order, asking the fat boy to wait and see what happened. Tiangong is picking zodiac signs. On this day, the officials of the palace took “eating chaff” as “being a zodiac sign”. Immediately, the fat boy was brought down to the world. From then on, the fat boy became a pig, which not only ate rough chaff, but also became a zodiac sign.

Another said that pigs became the zodiac sign by their own efforts. On the day when the zodiac was arranged in the Tiangong, the Jade Emperor stipulated that they must arrive at the Tiangong at a certain time, and the twelve animals that arrived first were selected as the zodiac signs. , then got up in the middle of the night and rushed to line up to be the zodiac sign. Due to the long distance and many obstacles, the pigs were desperate to climb to Nantianmen.

But the time to arrange the zodiac has passed, the pig begged hard, and the other six animals also pleaded for it, and finally moved the gods, put the pig into the Nantianmen, and became the last zodiac. In this way, the “six animals” of horse, ox, sheep, rooster, dog and pig have become the zodiac signs in the world.

Speaking of the zodiac, it is really one of the representatives of our traditional culture. As a long-standing folk cultural symbol, the zodiac has left a large number of poems, spring couplets, paintings, paintings and folk crafts depicting the image and symbolic meaning of the zodiac throughout the ages. In addition to China, many countries around the world issue zodiac stamps during the Spring Festival to express their blessings for the Chinese New Year.