1. The cow is the totem of ancestors

There are many countries and nations in the world that worship cows as totems. For example, the ancient Egyptians and Persians regard bulls as the ancestors of human beings.

2. Cows have the meaning of getting married

In the communication customs of the Han people, there is a saying of "making cows to make a wealthy marriage", which is popular in Hunan. In the local area, a cow shared by several households is called a cow wealth relationship and is regarded as a relative. Once the ownership of the cow is changed to someone else, the "relative" relationship ends.

The "Ox King Hui" popular in Liuba County, Shaanxi and other places is a term used to celebrate the longevity of the elderly. Because oxen plow the fields and plow the fields, they contribute to people and are ranked at the forefront of the zodiac. Therefore, they are named after oxen. Birthday wishes to the elderly to show respect.

The Miao people have a marriage custom of grabbing ox tails, which is popular in northwest Guizhou. After a man and a woman get engaged, the woman will feed an ox. On the wedding day, she will bring the ox to the scene and use two ropes to tie the ox's legs. The bride will then chop off the ox tail with one stroke, and the groom will immediately go up to snatch the ox tail. If he can grab the ox tail before the bride's parents arrive, he can get married immediately, otherwise the marriage will fail. ?

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Origins of cattle culture:

As for the origin of other cattle breeds, Keller (1909) once believed that the Indian Zebu lineage originated from Java. It was domesticated from bison, but according to modern research on skull type and horn type, as well as the analysis of hybridization between zebu and ordinary cattle to produce offspring and breed new varieties, it is proved that zebu also originated from aurochs, and the time of its domestication in South Asia Roughly the same as ordinary cattle or slightly later.

The "cow" recorded in ancient Chinese books is the modern zebu. The Chinese buffalo's coat color, skull and horn shape are very similar to the Indian wild buffalo. Therefore, previous scholars believed that the Chinese buffalo originated from the wild flat horns in India. Buffalo - Bubalus arne.

However, the study of the fossils of no less than 7 buffalo species excavated from the strata of different periods of the Pleistocene in North China, Northeast China, Inner Mongolia and Sichuan can prove that at least 1 or 2 of them later evolved and became modern domestic buffalo.

The Chinese buffalo originated in the south. This may be due to the fact that northern Asia was invaded by glaciers in the late Pleistocene, causing the vast area north of the Yellow River Basin that originally had a tropical climate to become extremely cold, forcing ancient water buffalo and other animals to migrate south.

The Chinese yak line was domesticated from wild yaks. To this day, wild yaks are still found in the alpine regions of Haibei and Hainan in Qinghai Province and among the high mountains of 4,000 to 5,000 meters above sea level on the Northern Tibetan Plateau, as well as in Mongolia and northeastern Siberia in Russia.

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