[Golden Dog Auspiciousness] The legend about the dog eating the first bite of new rice

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I found a Zhuang area on the Internet. It seems that there is such a legend in the southwest region. I heard the same thing from my elders when I was a child. －－ －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－ 在广西一些农村，常常能见到置于家门口、村头或寨口的石狗，或大或小，昂头蹲卧，形态拙朴可爱。 When asked about the origin of the stone dog statue, most of the villagers said that it existed a generation ago or several generations ago and was probably used to guard the house and ward off evil spirits. In fact, these stone dogs contain deeper cultural connotations. In the profound rice farming culture of Bagui, dogs are the protagonists of the rice origin myth and are closely related to the origin and development of rice production. This is why there are many stone dogs in Bagui rural areas. The Zhuang people are a rice-growing nation, and thus many versions of myths about the origin of grains have emerged. Among them, the Zhuang myth "Grain Seeds and Dog Tail" from Long'an County, the birthplace of the Zhuang rice civilization, tells the story of animals helping the Zhuang ancestors steal grain seeds. In ancient times, there was millet in the sky, but it was not available to humans, so people sent a nine-tailed dog to the sky to find it. When the nine-tailed dog arrived in the sky, it covered the grain drying place with its nine tails. When the grain watcher found out, he chopped off eight of the dog's tails with an axe. Finally, the nine-tailed dog escaped from the gate of heaven and brought a few grains of grain stuck to the last tail to the human world. Since then, humans have had grain seeds, and when they have grown millet, dogs have only one tail. In order to repay dogs, people keep dogs at home. Because the rice is brought by a dog's tail, the ears of rice that grow look like a dog's tail. From then on, the Zhuang people had unique customs such as the "New Rice Taste Festival". When new rice was produced, it was first given to the dogs to show their kindness.