The scapegoat, also known as scapegoat sheep and scapegoat sheep, originally refers to the Jewish believers offering lambs as atonement sacrifices on the day of atonement according to the ceremony recorded in Leviticus. Now it generally refers to the innocent person who takes responsibility and is punished instead of the offender, that is, the scapegoat. This is a religious allusion. According to the Christian Bible (Old Testament), in order to test Abraham's loyalty, God asked him to take his only son Isaac to a designated place and kill him as a burnt offering to God. Just as Abraham was about to kill his son with a knife, an angel stopped him and said, "Now I know that you fear God. There is a sheep in the forest ahead, and you can use it to sacrifice to God. " So Abraham killed the goat from Asherah and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son. In the Yom Kippur ceremony in the Jewish temple, people will sacrifice two lambs. The high priest will sacrifice one of them first, and then put his hand on the head of the other, saying, "Confess all the sins and transgressions of Israel, that is, all their sins." This is the scapegoat. The New Testament says that in order to redeem the sins of the world, Jesus would rather be crucified as a "sacrifice" to God, and charged his twelve disciples to do the same after his death. Because this is an imitation of ancient Jews who often slaughtered a lamb as a "sacrifice" when asking for forgiveness from the Lord, the church usually called Jesus the lamb of atonement. Interestingly, there was a record of sheep replacing cattle in ancient China. "Mencius-Hui Liang Wang Shang" contains: "You sit in the hall and have a cow in the hall. Wang Jianzhi said, "What is a cow?" Yes:' I can use the clock (note: the ceremony of casting a new clock, slaughtering livestock, taking blood and painting the clock).' The king said,' Give it up! I can't bear to be stabbed. If I am innocent, I will die. "Yes, he said,' but why bother the clock? Say,' What can be abolished? You can exchange it with sheep. ""Qi Xuanwang couldn't bear to see the cow tremble with fear, and ordered the sheep to sacrifice to the clock instead of the cow. Since then, "scapegoat" has spread as a tragic word.