Many countries and nations in the world worship cows as totems. For example, the ancient Egyptians and Persians regarded the bull as the ancestor of mankind.
2. Cows mean to get married.
In the communication custom of the Han nationality, there is a saying called "making friends with money", which is popular in Hunan. In the local area, a cow is shared by several families and is regarded as a relative. Once the ownership of the cow is changed to someone else, its "relative" is related to this end.
The popular "Niuwanghui" in Liuba County, Shaanxi Province is a title for the elderly to celebrate their birthdays. Because cows plow and plough fields, they contribute to people and rank in the forefront of the zodiac. They celebrate the birthday of the elderly in the name of cows to show their respect.
Miao people have the marriage custom of grabbing the oxtail, which is popular in northwest Guizhou. After the engagement between men and women, the woman should feed a yellow cow, bring it to the scene on the wedding day, and tie the cow leg with two ropes. Then the bride cuts off the oxtail with a knife, and the groom will immediately grab the oxtail. If he can win the oxtail before the woman's parents arrive, he can get married at once, otherwise the marriage will be ruined. ?
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The origin of cattle culture:
With regard to the origin of other cattle breeds, Keller (1909) once thought that bos frontalis was domesticated by Javanese bison. However, according to the research on the types and angles of skulls in modern times, and the analysis that the hybrid between tumor cattle and ordinary cattle can produce offspring and breed new varieties, it is proved that tumor cattle also originated from the original cattle, and its domestication time in South Asia is roughly the same as or a little later than that of ordinary cattle.
The characteristics of the "cow" recorded in China ancient books, that is, the modern buffalo China Buffalo, are very similar to the Indian wild buffalo in terms of coat color, skull and horn shape. Therefore, scholars previously believed that China buffalo originated from the Indian wild boxer cow-Bubalius Arn.
However, the study of no less than 7 kinds of buffalo fossils unearthed in different periods of Pleistocene in North China, Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and other regions shows that at least 1 ~ 2 of them evolved into modern domestic buffaloes.
China buffalo originated in the south. This may be due to the glacier attack in northern Asia in the late Pleistocene, which made the vast area north of the Yellow River basin, which used to be a tropical climate, extremely cold, so that ancient buffaloes and other animals were forced to migrate to the south.
China yak is domesticated from wild yak. Up to now, wild yaks are still distributed in Haibei, Hainan, Qinghai Province, between the mountains and mountains with an altitude of 4,000-5,000 meters in the northern Tibet Plateau, and in the northeast of Siberia, Mongolia and Russia.
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