Do you know why roosters crow in the morning? The Miao minority group in southwestern China have an interesting story about it.
A long time ago, there were seven suns and seven moons in the sky that come out in turn to give people light and warmth. However one year, after a big fight among them, these seven suns and moons got very angry. So they came out together. Almost everything was destroy by the heat. The lakes and rivers dried up; the plants and crops died.
A man called Nuo Ya made a decision to help people out of this situation. He crafted a big bow and arrow with the branches and trunk of an old tree, then climbed to the top of the highest mountain to shoot the suns and moons. Soon, he shot down six suns and moons. Then Nuo Ya talked to himself: the sun is male, and the moon is female. I should keep each one of them for the world. So he stopped shooting and left.
It got immediately cooler without the six scorching six suns. But a new problem came: the sun and moon were afraid of being shot, so they hid and dared not appear. Without the sun and moon, the world was terribly dark and freezing.
People were so upset that they talked to Nuo Ya, Our life is in hell! Nuo Ya asked them, In this world, who has the loudest voice? We can send him to ask the sun and moon out. The men replied, A tiger's voice is the loudest. After the tiger came, he roared to the sky like thunder, which only make the sun and the moon more scared.
Nuo Ya asked his people again, Whose voice is the most attractive in this world? The girls replied, songs of a rooster can intoxicate anyone's heart. Why not let him to call out the sun and the moon?
The next morning, the rooster got up very early to sing loudly to the sky. His beautiful songs awoke the sun and moon, who winked their eyes and yawned. The rooster sang loudly again. The sun climbed in the sky and eventually came to the top of the mountain. The beautiful sunshine brought hope to the world. The excited people sang and danced around the beautiful rooster.
But the moon was still timid, so it only appeared in the evening.
Today, the Miao family always like to keep a rooster at home.
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