Chinese legends, historical stories, and myths about cats
1. Lu You has been writing all his life, and he has written more than ten poems about cats, making him the best among poets. who. In these poems, there are three named cats, namely Tutu (little tiger), Fenbi, and Xueer.
The reason why Lu You kept cats was to get rid of mice in the first place. He likes to collect books, and his home is a book nest, but rats keep coming to make trouble and chew up his books into a mess. He specially wrote a poem "The Book of Rats" to accuse the rats of their "crimes". From this, Lu You raised a kitten. Because the kitten was good at catching mice, he gave it a domineering name - Yutu, which means little tiger.
2. Kittens are spiritual and like to be neat and clean by nature. Therefore, in addition to being used for catching mice, the ancients also kept cats as pets. During the Tang Dynasty, more and more people kept cats, and they began to pay attention to coat color and breed. In the Song Dynasty, the city's economy prospered, the number of citizens expanded, people became more and more interested in daily life, and keeping cats became popular.
During the Southern and Northern Song Dynasties, there were markets specializing in cat food and cat nests in Hangzhou and Kaifeng. These are recorded in "Tokyo Menghua Lu" and "Mengliang Lu". During the Southern Song Dynasty, lion cats with long white and yellow fur were particularly popular among dignitaries.
3. Feng Zikai, a modern literati, also loved cats. He loved cats, wrote about cats, and drew cats all his life. He had an indissoluble bond with cats and left a lasting legacy. Few funny words about cats. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Feng Zikai lived in Hangzhou. Once, his cat was lost, and he was very anxious. He immediately posted a notice for finding the cat, which said that the person who found the cat would be rewarded. Seeing how sad he was, his friends were moved by his love for cats, so they sent him more than 10 cats, some big, some small, black and some white.
Although losing a cat and gaining a group of cats is a blessing in disguise, all kinds of troubles come one after another. A group of cats stay together, causing chaos in the house. They also want to eat and drink, making it overwhelming. Feng Zikai had to organize an emergency family meeting to discuss the cat's food standards. If the standard is set low, the cat is treated badly; if the standard is set high, the cat competes with humans for food, which once gave him a headache.
4. "Miscellaneous Notes of Wanshu" written by Shen Bang when he was the magistrate of Wanping County, records the story of Emperor Jiajing and his beloved cat Shuangmei. This cat was very popular with the emperor and stayed with him day and night, like a servant. It would not leave even when the emperor was resting. He would not leave until his master woke up to eat or go to the toilet. Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty named his pet "Qiulong".
One day, the horned dragon staggered forward, wailing, and then walked away after a while. People soon discovered that the horned dragon died quietly, and before it died, it was still thinking about saying goodbye to its master. Zhu Houcong felt regretful and ordered his beloved cat to be buried in Wansui Mountain, and a monument was erected saying "Qiulong Tomb".
5. As we all know, Qi Baishi’s shrimp paintings are one of the best in the painting world. Cats can often be found in his works. Qi Baishi likes to paint cats and mice together. The pictures are full of story and humor. Among the many ink paintings of "cats", "Oil Lamp Cat and Mouse" is the one with the strongest sense of plot and the most humorous one.
In the picture, the mouse is stealing oil, while the cat is sitting on the ground waiting and watching. The most interesting thing is his inscription: "Last night, I lit the lamp in front of the bed early, waiting for me to undress and fall asleep. I only have one penny of oil for a poor family, how can I feed the rats. If the cat comes quietly, the oil is exhausted and the lamp is dry. ” Later, this work was sold at auction for a sky-high price of 4.48 million yuan.
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Cats are sacred animals in ancient Egypt. Legend has it that at night, the sun emits The light of life is hidden in the cat's eye for safekeeping. Every night, the Sun God's boat is accompanied by the ghosts of the dead and travels through the underworld. The poisonous snake Apep prevents the Sun God from drinking the water under the boat, but the cat will appear and cut off the Apep snake's head, and the ghosts of the dead will make a "meow" sound to cheer the cat. The Egyptians were able to see the sun again. In this legend, the cat symbolizes the savior, and the snake represents death and disease. Egyptian women even tried to apply the mysterious temperament exuded by cat eyes to their eyes, thus developing their own unique eyeliner painting method.
Historical stories about cats
1. Lu You wrote continuously throughout his life, and he wrote more than ten poems about cats, making him the best among poets. In these poems, there are three named cats, namely Tutu (little tiger), Fenbi, and Xueer.
The reason why Lu You kept cats was to get rid of mice in the first place. He likes to collect books, and his home is a book nest, but rats keep coming to make trouble and chew up his books into a mess. He specially wrote a poem "The Book of Rats" to accuse the rats of their "crimes". From this, Lu You raised a kitten. Because the kitten was good at catching mice, he gave it a domineering name - Yutu, which means little tiger.
2. Lu You's "Notes of Laoxue'an" also recorded that Qin Hui's granddaughter loved a lion cat very much, but one day it suddenly disappeared. So he ordered the people in Lin'an Prefecture to find it within a time limit, which made the whole city aware of it.
3. More than 2,000 years ago, our ancestors began to raise cats, mainly to eliminate voles. "Book of Rites: Jiao Te Sheng" says, "Welcome cats to eat voles." (Raising cats is to make them eat voles)
4. Feng Zikai, a modern scholar, also loved cats. Such as crazy. He once said: "The cuteness of cats is the opinion of the people. They can turn silence into liveliness, boredom into fun, and troubles into laughter. They can help people become friendly and teach people to unite." After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Feng Zikai lived in Hangzhou. Once, his cat was lost, and he was very worried. He immediately posted a notice for finding the cat, which said that the person who found the cat would be rewarded.
5. In 1953, a cat named Uncle Willy was hit by a car and was seriously disabled. Hemingway had to shoot it in the head to relieve its pain. A letter that remains to this day reveals his deep emotions: "It's like shooting a person who I have known and loved for 11 years, who has two broken legs and is in pain."
Eight years later, Hemingway committed suicide by drinking a bullet. Before his death, he did not forget to place the cats at home in his will, leaving his inheritance to the cats so that they would have enough food and clothing for generations to come.
Fairy tales about cats
In the past, there were black cats and white cats in the world, just like today. But at that time, white cats were nobles and rulers. They pampered themselves and ate all day long. Canned cat food, lazily lying on the balcony to bask in the sun; but the black cats can only come out at night, wandering on the rooftops and streets, catching mice to satisfy their hunger.
White cats say: White is the color of nobility, and black is the color of sex. The black cats thought so at first, but later, a self-taught black cat put forward the opposite view.
He believes that only black cats are good cats, while white cats are bad cats. Noble is bad, *** is good. Black is the true color of the universe, and black cats should rule over white cats.
Under his leadership, some of the blackest cats formed the Black Cat Party and launched a revolution, overthrowing the rule of white cats and establishing the Black Cat Republic.
The black cats announced their ideal: to establish a paradise for all black cats. If the white cats do not want to become extinct, they must grow black hair.
However, after the Black Cat Party came to power, strange things happened. Perhaps due to the rich nutrition, or perhaps due to constant exposure to the sun, the fur of the black cat party members began to fade and become whiter and whiter. Some looked like gray cats, and some simply turned into white cats, with their roots completely mixed. No hair either. Some old party members stood up and called for maintaining the purity of the party and the purity of black hair, and not to have sex with white cats dyed black, so as not to leave bastards, but with little success. In the end, there was not even a single black cat left in the Black Cat Party.
The seriousness of the situation forced the Party Central Committee to convene a meeting and put forward a new revolutionary theory: "It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat."
It is said that this The theory is the inheritance and development of the theory that "only black cats are good cats, while all white cats are bad cats".
It seems that there will never be an all-black cat paradise again. All the cats are concentrating on catching mice.
However, the Black Cat Party still calls itself the Black Cat Party. Black is a symbol of power. How about changing the name? With the support of the new theory, they don't even bother to dye their fur black. If a cat still has a few black hairs around its mouth, it must be an atavism.
So so far, the white cats rule the black cats, and this will be the case in the future.
A story about a cat
I know a story
There is a cat who will not die for a million years. In fact, the cat died a million times and lived a million times. A million people loved the cat, and a million people cried when the cat died.
But the cat never cried even once. Once, the cat was the king's cat. The cat hates the king. The king loved to fight and always started wars. One day, the cat was shot to death by a flying arrow. While the battle was going on, the king hugged the cat and began to cry. The king did not fight anymore, returned to the palace, and then buried the cat in the palace yard. The cat was once a sailor's cat, a magician's cat, a thief's cat, a lonely old woman's cat, a little girl's cat. He was sawed to death, bitten to death by dogs, and died of old age. , and was strangled to death by the child's belt, but he no longer cared about death. Later, the cat was no longer someone else's cat. He became a wild cat. The cat became his own cat for the first time. No matter which female cat she is, she wants to be the cat’s bride. Some give a big fish as a gift. Some offer fresh mice. Others lick the cat’s beautiful tiger skin pattern. But the cat said: "I don't want to do this!" Because the cat likes himself more than anyone else.
Only one cat did not even look at him, a beautiful white cat. The cat walked over and said, "I've died a million times!" "Oh." That's all the white cat said. On the second and third days, the cats all came to the white cat. One day, the cat asked the white cat, "Can I stay with you?" "Okay." The white cat said. In this way, he stayed by the white cat's side. The white cat gave birth to many cute kittens. The cat no longer says "Oh, I have died a million times...". Cats like white cats and kittens more than they like themselves.
The kittens grew up quickly and ran away one by one. The white cat has become an old woman. The cat became more gentle to the white cat, and made a "purr" sound in its throat. The cat wants to live with the white cat forever. One day, the white cat became silent beside the cat. The cat cried for the first time. From night to morning, and from morning to night, the cat cried a million times. One day at noon, the cat stopped crying. This time, the cat never came back to life.
As far as I know, if a kitten feels uncomfortable, it will find a place to sleep slowly on its back. So if I were a kitten I wouldn't let others see me dying. Not to mention needing help from others, and if the outside world doesn't lend a helping hand, it's blaming others.
Besides, if the kitten had caught mice in the house for these onlookers before, the kitten would not have ended up in such a miserable situation.
Fables about cats
One day, the tiger met the mouse and told the mouse that he wanted to learn a skill, but he didn’t know which animal had the highest skill. The mouse told the tiger, Your co-owner, the cat, is the most capable. After listening to the mouse, the tiger went to the cat's house to learn from his master. Before leaving, the mouse whispered something in the tiger's ear and turned away.
The tiger sincerely asked the cat to teach him the skills. The cat saw that the tiger and he were the same owners, and thought that the tiger would not hurt him after learning the skills, so he concentrated on teaching the tiger skills. The cat taught him the skills. He taught the tiger all his skills except the ability to climb trees. When the cat told the tiger that he had learned the skill, the tiger was happy and suddenly became fierce and pounced on the cat. The cat quickly and nimbly climbed to a tree not far away, so he escaped.
Later, the cat learned about the mouse's plan to let the tiger learn skills from the cat and kill him after learning. From then on, he taught his offspring not to trust the mouse, but to be careful about the mouse, and to treat the mouse as an enemy for generations to come. Instead, use mice as the staple food. In this way, the mouse and cat began a life-and-death chase!
Cat stories should be short, good ones will definitely be praised
I have always had a special affection for cats.
One day, my colleague Zhuzhu said that there was a litter of abandoned cats in the corridor of her home, five kittens and one big cat. They were so pitiful. She heard that Alian's son liked it, so she brought one in her arms. So I dragged Maomao and ran to see it. It was a shiny black kitten with only four small paws and a small mouth that were white. I liked it immediately and named it "Heihei". I couldn't put it down holding "Hei Hei". "Hei Hei"'s eyes were like two emeralds, and the pupils were yellow and watery, as if covered with a layer of mist of tears. It looked at me pitifully and helplessly, as if I could help it find its mother. My heart seemed to have been stabbed hard by something. It was sour and uncomfortable.
When I got back to the office, I couldn’t do anything.
The cat's eyes are always swaying in front of me, so miserable and helpless. I know Heihei is lucky because someone adopted him, but what about those poor kittens? Who will look after them? Will it freeze in such a cold day? So I mobilized everyone to adopt cats, but everyone found it too troublesome and didn't want to keep them. In the end, only Lu Lu and Maomao reluctantly agreed to adopt one each.
After finally getting off work, Maomao and I carried a bag and came upstairs to Zhuzhu’s house. We went up to the third floor and saw a green mesh bag covering the In a cardboard box, there were three kittens stretching their necks and meowing. Their mother, a big black cat that looked very much like Hei Hei, seemed to know that she was unable to raise her. His own child lay on the side dejectedly.
We took away the mesh bag, and the big cat jumped out, shook its fur, stretched, and turned twice on the ground. I worry about whether the big cat will be impatient and scratch people when I pick up the kitten. But after trying it twice, the big cat didn't respond. I asked Maomao to keep an eye on the big cat while I quickly picked up the three kittens and put them in my pocket. But the big cat just meowed sadly twice, then jumped back into the box and lay still. Maomao and I carried the kitten downstairs. My nose felt sore and I shed tears. Maomao saw it and said, "You must feel sorry for that mother cat again. Let's take it back together!" I was really touched. Those who know me, Maomao said, "That mother cat is too stupid and too pitiful." , The child is gone, why go back? But it’s not convenient for me to stay and raise it!” As he said this, the tears came again. "Don't cry, don't cry. I have a way. Send the mother cat to my mother's house." "Okay?" "Okay!" Maomao said seriously, "My mother is so kind. What kind of rabbit is a cat or a dog?" Yes, she can do whatever she wants!" "Puch", I was amused by her words. We went back upstairs and picked up the poor mother cat, and went straight to Maomao's mother's house.
When we got home, we put the cat on the ground. We immediately warmed the milk for the cat and prepared ham, bread and other food. We saw the mother cat leading the kittens so greedily and contentedly. We rushed to eat, and we were very happy. Look at those three kittens. The most greedy gray and yellow tabby cat, we named it "Ganchan"; the gray and red tabby cat that eats and plays for a while, we named it "Ganchan" Named "Taotao"; the gray kitten, which is the quietest and seems to be the weakest, we call it "Huihui".
The stories about cats in Cats, Rats and Dogs include German fairy tales __, Allen Bee short stories __, Japanese __ stories, ancient Chinese __ stories, etc.
< p> German fairy tales of cats and dogs becoming enemies. The story of the Japanese "cat lady". The story of a cat teaching a tiger its skills. The short story "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe. The story of the "cat ghost" in ancient China (from "The Biography of Northern History Du Guxin" )Looking for legends and myths about cats!
1. In Japan during the Edo period, there was a very desolate temple called Kotokuji Temple in Setagaya. The priest of the temple loved cats very much. Even if he could not eat three meals a day, he would eat the cats first. something to feed his cat.
But one day, he finally reached the end of his rope and even his cat had nothing to eat. The Master stroked the cat sadly and said to it: "I really have no other choice. Do you have any idea?" ?" After saying that, the cat ran out.
The next day, Ii Naokao, the minister of the Tokugawa shogunate, was passing by the temple. He happened to be caught in a thunderstorm. He walked aside to avoid it. At this time, he unexpectedly saw a cat constantly attacking him at the door of the temple. Waved, he walked over curiously, and suddenly there was a bang. The place where he had been sheltering from the rain was struck by lightning, and the tree fell to the ground and cracked.
Seeing this scene, Minister Ii thought that it was the temple cat that saved him, and he took care of the temple from then on. The master and his cat could finally live a life of food and clothing. After Ii Naokao's death, the master also renamed Hongtoku Temple to Gotoku Temple after his dharma name.
2. After raising the Jinhua cat for three years, every midnight, it squats on the roof, opens its mouth to the moon, and absorbs the essence of the moon. Over time, it turns into a monster and always comes out. It enchants people. When they meet women, they become beautiful. When they meet men, they become beautiful. Every time they go to other people's homes, they first drown in the water. When people drink the water, they are invisible, eventually making people sick.
It is said that in order to solve the mystery of Jinhua cats, when encountering a cat monster, one should put on blue and black clothes at night and slowly see clearly. If there are furs, secretly invite a hunter to come. , lead a few dogs, come to the house to catch the cat, roast its meat and feed it to the patient, and the patient will recover on his own.
If a man is sick and catches a male cat, and if a woman is sick and catches a female cat, it will not be cured. It is said that Zhang Guangwen of Fuxiang had an eighteen-year-old daughter who was killed by a cat monster. Her hair fell out due to food infestation. Later, a male cat was captured to treat her, and the disease was cured.
3. Cat ghost, also known as cat voodoo, is a kind of animal voodoo among witches and voodoos. It is a witchcraft that curses people to death. Cat ghosts were first recorded in "The Biography of Dugu Tuo" in Northern History. There was a man named "Dugu Tuo" among the relatives of the Sui royal family. He was fond of evil arts by nature. His maternal grandmother Gao had raised cat ghosts, and the cat ghosts entered. Tuo's home.
It happened that both Queen Xian and Yang Su’s wife Zheng were sick, and they called the doctors to see them. The doctors all said: "This is cat-ghost disease." The emperor because Dugutuo was the half-mother of the queen His brother, Dugu Tuo's wife was Yang Su's half-sister, and they were very close, so he suspected that Dugu Tuo had done it and ordered him to be investigated.
As a result, Xu Ani, Dugutuo's maidservant, said that the ghost who kept the cat would use "zi" to sacrifice it day and night, and "zi" was the mouse. Every time a cat ghost kills someone, the property of the family that dies is secretly transferred to the family that keeps the cat ghost.
Dugutuo once asked for a drink at home, and his wife said: "I don't have money to buy wine." Then his wife said to Ani: "You can let the cat ghost come to Yue Gong (Yang Su)'s house Go, let me have enough money." Ani cursed Yang Su. A few days later, the cat ghost went to Yang Su's house.
Later, when the emperor just came back from Bingzhou, Dugutuo said to Ani in the garden: "You can let the cat ghost go to the queen and let her give me more property." Ani cursed the queen again, and the cat ghost Entered the palace.
Yang Yuan (probably the official investigating the case) asked Ani to call back the cat ghost, so Ani placed a basin of fragrant porridge at night, put a spoon on the porridge basin and shouted: "Cat, come back quickly. "Don't live in the palace." After a long time, Ani's complexion turned yellow and black, as if he was being dragged, and he said that the cat ghost had come back. Later, the emperor sentenced Dugutuo and his wife to death.
4. Black cats are spiritual, and magicians rely on black cats to improve their spirituality. In the early seventeenth century, people believed that cats raised by witches could speak and predict the future, and were used as gifts for witches. The goblin summoned by the witch, a "witch" suspect in the English witch case, testified that her mother (also accused of being a witch) used the victim's gloves to rub the back of the goblin cat, and then performed other procedures, causing the victim to suffer die.
According to folklore, the black cat demon is the incarnation used to play tricks on humans, and everyone hates it. At the time, the cat was accused of various crimes, including encouraging people to commit crimes. Cats were hunted down and killed, sometimes with formal executions. If a cat's owner was convicted of witchcraft and executed, the cat might also be put to death when the cat owner was tortured.
5. In magic legends, cats are sacrifices for casting spells. Cat hair and bones were once one of the materials for spells and amulets. It is still said that cat hair can increase the power of spells.
In 1590-1591, John Fian and his "Coven" were accused of attempting to sail the King James and Queen Anne Denmark drowned them on the way. John and others first baptized a cat, tied it with human corpses, and threw it into the sea to cause a storm, forcing the royal ship to sail back to Scotland.
Please tell me a classic story about cats
Kitten Fishing
On this day, the wind was beautiful and the sun was shining brightly. The cat got up early, carried a small bucket and a fishing pole, came to a pond, sat upright, and started fishing.
The morning passed quickly without catching a single fish. Noon came and he still hadn't caught a fish. Seeing that it was getting dark, the hungry kitten still found nothing.
The hungry and thirsty kitten cried sadly, and reluctantly said to the mother cat found by Xun Sheng: "I concentrated on fishing today, but I didn't catch a single one. Why is that?"
Mother Cat smiled and said: "You are right to concentrate on fishing, but have you looked carefully? This is a stagnant pond without fish.
If there are no fish, you will naturally not be able to catch them. A good attitude cannot be used for useless work! ”