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The Most Interesting Traditional Chinese Culture Facts

Traditional Chinese culture is profound and profound, and there is no shortage of some particularly interesting culture. One of them contains a particularly interesting knowledge about the Chinese zodiac, which is about the reason why there is no cat among the twelve zodiac signs. It is widely known that in addition to the dragon, the other animals in the Chinese zodiac are more common. The cat is also an animal that people often see in their daily lives, so why is there no cat in the Chinese zodiac?

It is said that it is because before the Han Dynasty, there is no real sense of cats in our country, because at that time the more common in the mountains and fields are leopards and tigers, usually wild felines, there is no humanely bred cats, which means domestic cats. And because of the dating method, so the domestic cat is actually because it came late, so it was not included in the zodiac.