Long ago, there were no cows in the world. Landlords and rich people occupied the world and forced ordinary people to plow the fields. The villagers face the loess with their backs to the sky, and work from sunrise to sunset. I wonder how many people are exhausted. There is a child named Niu. When he was just nine years old, his father was exhausted from pulling a plow. Niu Niu's mother cried for seven days and nights, and her eyes were blind. At that time, cows were still young, but they were very sensible. He wiped his tears and advised his mother, "Mom, don't be sad. In the future, I will pull a plow to feed you. "

Mother hugged the cow and said, "cow, you are still young." Even if we eat grass roots and drink cold water, we will not plow the fields for the cruel rich. " The cow said, "The ugly land in the world has no boundaries, so it is not as big as the hands of the poor. There is a silk mountain in the world, and there is no line in poverty. If you want to survive, there is only one way, pulling the plow. " Mom said: "cow, you are the lifeblood of mom, and mom can't watch you go to the wall." Mother and son cried all night. ?

The next day, the poor cow plowed the land for the rich man, and the vicious rich man said, "I want to end my family's rice bowl and plow ten acres of land a day." In order to feed the foster mother, the cattle entered this den. ?

Cows get up earlier than anyone and go to bed later than anyone else. He plowed and plowed, day after day, year after year, and the rich only gave him thin soup twice in the morning and evening. The cow was so hungry that she had to leave some for her mother. She often pulls weeds to fill her stomach. Three years later, the cow was all skin and bones, with only one breath in her mouth and exhausted.

Before he died, the cow wanted to see his mother and climbed home. The cow crawled and called to her mother, but it was too far from home. How did her mother hear her? The cow was taken back, hanged and beaten by the rich man. The "black-hearted rich man" scolded: "poor wretch, break your leg if you want to run." You came into my house, and my ghost died. Today, I want you to plow 7749 mu of land. If you can't finish ploughing, I will kill you and fall into the ravine to feed the wolves. "

The cow was beaten so hard that it had to crawl and pull the plow. The rope was pulled into his flesh, and whisked bones were exposed. Blood stained the rope and soil, and the cow was in pain.

At this time, the cow saw her mother touching the field. The cow wanted to cry and scream, but something blocked her throat and she couldn't cry. Tears in my eyes couldn't help swishing down. How much the cow wants her mother to hear her son's voice for the last time. With all his last strength, he only shouted "Mom ...", and a blood clot came out of his mouth. When he was black at the moment, he fell dead.

Suddenly, the cow's body boomed with a loud noise, like half the sky collapsed, and a big hole was opened in the ground, and the cow's body fell down. The mother was very angry when she saw her son exhausted. The rich man stood by laughing, but before he finished laughing, he plopped into the hole in the ground.

With the roar of the sky, the crack closed again, just grabbing the rich man's neck. The rich man shouted twice in despair: "Help! Help ... "He's dead.

I don't know how many years later, there was a big mound where the cow fell. The mound is getting taller and bigger every day, almost like a hill. It is covered with all kinds of tender grass and flowers. One morning, just as the sun rose to the top of the hill, a fiery red flower suddenly appeared on the top of the mound. As soon as it is dried, it grows bigger and bigger, and finally it becomes something with long horns and long hair. It is a cow now.

Niu Gang was black and thin when he was born. It is hungry and eats grass on the slope, and thirsty and drinks spring water in the ditch. Slowly, it grew up and gained weight. It firmly remembers its relatives, looks for its mother everywhere and calls one after another. It is so sad that it just calls "Mei" ... and can't stop.

The development of "Niu" culture in China?

The development of "Cattle Culture" in China has experienced such important stages as totem worship in primitive tribal period, rapid development and consolidation in farming period and gradual decline. ?

In the primitive tribal times, "Niu" became the object of worship of many clans because of its huge size, and began to have cultural attributes; In the farming era, "Niu" became the first choice of agricultural auxiliary tools because of its strong physique, docile personality and herbivorous characteristics, and began to load farming culture; With the rise of modern civilization, farming civilization has gradually declined, and the "cow" culture is more reflected in food culture, literary works and folk culture. ?

It can be seen that any cultural connotation is constantly changing with the development of the times, and "cow culture" is no exception. However, it is worthy of recognition that both ancient people's praise and praise of cattle and contemporary people's ridicule of cattle actually show people's love and psychological identity.