十二生肖的故事(英文版)

十二生肖的故事（英文版）
In the beginning of the chaos, when the heavenly stems and earthly branches were just established, Jade Emperor ordered that all the animals in the world should be summoned according to the twelve earthly branches of Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, you, Xu and Hai.
After the news spread, the cat and the mouse to alarm the two best friends. The CAT said to the mouse: “Tomorrow, the Fifth Shift to heaven should be elected, I have a problem of sleepiness, then you can call me!”The MOUSE REPEATED: “Easy to say, easy to say!”
But the next morning, do not honor the mouse but secretly got up and left without saying goodbye.
On this day, the animals from Yunnan gathered on the Lingxiao Temple and began to choose. According to the difference between heaven and earth, Jade Emperor singled out twelve kinds of water and land animals, namely, Dragon, tiger, ox, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, pig, rabbit, snake and rat, as signs of the twelve Genera. The rooster had two beautiful horns and was included in the list of beasts.
Jade Emperor was just about to give them a seat when he saw the black civet pig flash out, clumsy as a snout but a troublemaker, it played: Jade Emperor has chosen a leader, the small minister is
willing to share the king’s sorrow, when a just man, for the brothers in turn ranking.
With Jade Emperor gone, the Chinese Zodiac was a mess.
At the beginning, everyone unanimously elected gentle, generous old cattle in the first place, even the mighty tiger, Japanese aircraft carrier Sōryū also respect it some points, agreed. However, shrink in the corner of the mouse but drilled out, protest. It said: “I am big on large numbers, do not believe that we go to the human race, listen to the comments of the people.”So, the old cattle and rats came to the streets.
There was no reaction as the cattle passed through the crowd. At this time, the mouse “Chi Liu”all of a sudden climbed on the back of the cow to put up stakes, the people in the street shouted: “WHAT A BIG MOUSE!”By the time people took out sticks to rush at, the mouse had already run away.
The mouse came back and bragged, all the animals were Dachimawa Lee for the cattle, only the black pig was secretly happy, he felt that only this size, good or bad, can be mixed, and he also profited from it, so he picked the mouse with one stroke of his pen, there’s an old cow in the back. This annoyed the tiger and the dragon on one side, who made such a noise that the animals trembled. All the animals busy to dragon and tiger worship,
unanimously elected tiger as the king of the mountains, Canglong as the king of the fishing, rule the world. The monkey wrote “King”for the tiger on a gold plaque, hanging on the tiger’s forehead, the rooster gave the two horns to the dragon.
From then on, Canglong wore the Laurel crown. The tiger, Japanese aircraft carrier SŌRYŪ has the human power, also willing to be placed behind the mouse and the old scalper. At this time, and jumped out of a meddlesome hare, it sneered: “Hey hey! In terms of looks I and rats, in terms of size I than rats, I am the mountain king’s escort, should be in front of the Sea King.”
When the black pig heard this, he said, “It’s a good deal. Let’s race. Let the hounds be your referees.”The dogs and the chickens never get along, seeing that the chicken was flattering the Dragon, he wanted to play a trick on them. He chose a thorny track and said to the rabbit in secret, “Your tail is too long. It will hinder the competition.”He cut off a big part of the tail for the Rabbit, there’s just a little bit of tail left. The race began, and Japanese aircraft carrier Sōryūwas in the clouds, and in a few moments it was in front, but when it reached the bushes it caught on the vine and could not be picked. The Hare shot up eighteen rungs and reached the finish line in one breath. Black pig in spite of the opposition of the animals, the rabbit in the tiger before the dragon behind.
The dog went to congratulate the Hare, and he said to the Hare, “If you don’t choose such a track, if you don’t cut your tail, how can you win today?”“Hem! I won by skill. Without you, I wouldn’t have lost this beautiful tail,”said the dog, ”The hare said Haughtily, “If you can do it, let’s go for a walk!”The Hare said haughtily, “Why not? I’ll go first. If you can catch me, I’ll treat you to a bone. The hound sharpened his claws and chased after him like an Arrow. After a while, he caught up with the Hare. He put his mouth on the Hare’s neck and said, “Now it’s my turn to gnaw on the bone.”
And for that, the dog was disciplined, too, at the end of the line. When Cang Long failed in the competition, he often complained behind his back that the chicken horns had worn him down, and the rooster felt regret and sorrow when he heard it, he came to the sea and said to the Dragon, “Brother long, since these horns are of no use to you, please give them back to me.”The Dragon said slyly, “These horns have done me harm, but they can decorate my instrument, and it is not difficult for you to do so until the sun rises in Western Hills and the moon descends into the East Sea.”He plunged to the bottom of the sea. The innocent rooster believed it.
He got up every day before dawn, hoped the sun would come out of Western Hills, and every now and then craned his neck to call out to the sea, “Brother long. Only the ranks of Monkey, snake,
horse, sheep and pig are left undetermined. After some discussion, they decided to go to the world for a folk test and an acrobatic performance. “Monkey is the king of juggling on land, and snake is the best swimmer in the water. The Green Snake invited the red horse and the monkey invited the goat to help make the costumes.
At that time, the snake had twelve legs under its belly and walked slowly and clumsily. Red Horse is a helpful man of action, it quietly with thin skin to the snake to do a long coat to the tube, dragon coat above the use of horse hair with plaid patterns, evil spirit is good-looking. The Red Horse both scraped a layer of grease from under the abdomen to spread on the Dragon’s clothing, making the dragon’s clothing very slippery.
The Green Snake put on the dragon’s clothing, covered the stupid leg, with the slide instead of walking, both sensitive and beautiful. Goats usually hate monkeys. They suspect that they jump up and down all day, trampling grass for them. Therefore, they are not so keen on helping monkeys. Monkeys want to make up for their lack of bare buttocks, the goat asked for help, “Brother sheep, please cut me some wool and let me mend my butt.”The goat was not happy and said: “It’s going to be cold, you know I rely on this precious clothes!”The monkey had no choice but to remain naked. On the day of the race, the green snake was draped in Dragon’s
clothing, winding up like a vine on a branch and gliding like a shuttle on the water. He raised his head and landed on the ground with only the tip of his tail. People cheered him on as he performed all kinds of acrobatics. When it was the monkey’s turn to perform, I saw him climbing on a pole and swinging on a swing, and he also won a lot of applause.
When the performance came to “Hanging a bamboo curtain upside down,”the monkey rolled up on a branch with the tip of his tail and made all kinds of dangerous movements upside down, suddenly I heard someone shout: “Look! The monkey’s BUTT EYE IS ON FIRE!”People all burst into laughter. The monkey always protects the short, it blushes the heart panic, hurriedly uses the tail to cover the bottom, only hears “Plops”the sound, the head fell toward a full face to spend. In this way, green snake and red horse in the first row, goats and monkeys in the back row.
After ranking the animals, the black pig wrote himself at the head, the heart says:”This is the time that I promote a position to get rich, fame and fortune!”! It came to the temple of the dead and met Jade Emperor. Jade Emperor took the seating chart, looked at it, and without a word ticked off the name of the black pig in front and put it at the end. So, Jade Emperor let the Taibai Venus according to the local branch to write: rat, ox, tiger, tiger, rabbit, Chen Long, the
snake, Wu Ma, Wei Yang, monkey, you chicken, Xu dog, Hai pig twelve birthday list, and issued a decree, the duty Cao to the human release. The selection has been decided, Jade Emperor still angry, and to the black pig criticized a few words: useless fool, reversed black and white. We’ll eat them. We’ll kill them once a year. The black pig was demoted and became angry with a big belly. He lay all day in the thatch, and did not bother to meddle any more.
However, sometimes still itch in the heart, can not resist, with the mouth arch this arch that, stir up trouble. The mouse returned home and happily stroked three and a half whiskers and danced to wake the sleeping cat. The cat asked, “Is it too late?”The mouse said, “It’s too late, we also contend for the first! “The mouse to the tabby cat to boast of his clever.”Tabby cat ruefully said: “I told you repeatedly, “Why didn’t you call me?”The mouse grabbed the cat and said: “You don’t have long ears?”? When the cat heard this, it bristled with anger and opened its wide almond eyes, and with its sharp claws it sprang forward and ate the mouse.
from whence the cat and the mouse became enemies for generations.。