One day, the Jade Emperor suddenly wanted to choose twelve kinds of animals as the human zodiac.
After the news reached people's ears, they all said, "There are so many animals in the world, how can we pick them clearly!" Therefore, people wrote a letter asking the gods to take it to the Jade Emperor. After seeing it, the Jade Emperor came up with an idea. First, build a palace, and where to register it after seven days. This idea makes people have no other opinions. Now the animals are very happy. Among them, cats and mice are good friends. However, the cat always sleeps late, and the cat is worried that he can't get up. So the early mouse told him to get up, and the mouse agreed happily. That day, the mouse was in a hurry to sign up and completely forgot about the cat. On the road, the mouse saw the old cow on the road and thought, "the old cow has long legs, but my legs are short, so I can't run away from it." Let's take a bus. " In this way, the mouse climbed on the back of the old cow, and it didn't know it. When he arrived at the palace, the old cow thought he was the first to arrive. He didn't want a mouse to jump off his back and be the first.
The Jade Emperor looks at these animals: mice, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs. Thinking of drawing lots to judge, the results are rat first, cow second, tiger third, rabbit fourth, dragon fifth, snake sixth, horse seventh, sheep eighth, monkey ninth, chicken tenth, dog eleventh and pig. In this way, they became the zodiac.