Knowledge of the Chinese Zodiac

Zodiac related knowledge

Zodiac related knowledge, the origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship. According to Hubei Yunmeng sleep tiger land and Gansu Tianshui put horse beach unearthed Qin Jane can be known, the pre-Qin period, that is, there is a relatively complete system of the Chinese zodiac exists. Learn more about Zodiac related knowledge

Zodiac related knowledge 1

Symbol of God

The Chinese zodiac is not only integrated into the life of the Chinese people as an ordinary spirit, but also its natural habits have been given a lot of cultural significance by the people, and it has risen from an animal to a god, to be honored and worshipped. Only the combination of natural spirits and cultural deities can form a complete impression of the animals of the Chinese zodiac.

Folktale

Emperor Regulus to choose twelve animals as palace guards, the cat to the mouse enrollment, the results of the mouse forgot, and from then on, the cat saw the mouse to seek revenge. The original push of the cow as the first, the mouse secretly climbed on the back of the cow to take precedence. The tiger and the dragon were not convinced, and were made gods of the mountains and the sea, ranking behind the ox. The rabbit was not convinced and wanted to race with the dragon, and the rabbit ran ahead of the dragon. The dog is not happy and bites the rabbit in a fit of pique and is penalized by coming first in the countdown. There was also a battle between the snake, horse, sheep, monkey and chicken, and finally the pig ran to occupy the bottom seat.

The legend also explains why there is no cat in the Chinese zodiac. In fact, there was no cat in ancient China, and the Chinese zodiac had already been formed when the domestic cat was introduced to China. This legend, which borders on a children's story, is far from being a scientific explanation of the problem.

Rat

The rat steals food, proving that "the hamster has food", which means that the household is rich, and that there are many rats in the house to symbolize affluence.

In the Qing Dynasty, Fang Hiei Yi's "Dream Garden Series" recorded a "money rat" toy in eastern Guangdong, which screamed as if it were counting money. The mouse can make a sound like counting money. In the old days, Hubei and other places took this sound as an omen of good luck. Zhejiang area, however, that "the first half of the main wealth, the second half of the main scattered wealth", while the Chongming area that the sound of the disaster prediction disaster.

The rat's ability to reproduce is very strong, folk often as a symbol of fertility worship. Mothers of children living in groups are jokingly referred to as "rat fetus" or "rat belly". The late Qing dynasty painter Ren pre "twelve Chinese zodiac album", which "son of the rat map" five rats are grabbing food cans of melon seeds, and "seeds" and "son" sound the same, expressing the meaning of many children. Rats and gourds, grapes, pomegranates and other multi-seeded plants to form an auspicious pattern, reinforcing the desire to reproduce.

Northeastern coal miners respect the rat as the "rat fairy", taboo rat hunting, eating in the underground food to feed the rats. Yunnan, an old mining area and a rat temple. Miners are grateful to the rat's sensitivity to disasters, the worship and taboos will be passed on from generation to generation.

Cattle

Because of the ox plowing, the Chinese people have deepened their feelings for the ox, and attached such qualities as honesty and diligence, and unrewarding to the ox, Lu Xun said, "Bow down your head and be willing to be a child's ox".

"Dai Dai Li Ji - Zeng Zi day round": "the vassal's sacrifice, the cow, said the jail." In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the vassal alliance, the king of the country to hold the cow's ear to cut blood, coated in the mouth.

The creation myth of the Hani ethnic group, "Ao Se Mi Se", recorded the story of the cow's parts into the natural world. Han areas worship cow king, the Northern Wei Utopia Daoyuan's "Shui Jingji - Wei Shui Note" that the cow king was originally a large camphor in the South Mountain, was stolen and felled, "the tree gradually, turned into a cow into the water, so the Qin for the establishment of the shrine". Later gradually personified, evolved into a cow head and body, and blackmail for Ranbo cattle. Chengdu has been built in the seventh year of the Kangxi Ox King Temple.

Buddhist belief in Yama, "five bitter chapter and verse of the scriptures," recorded: "The jailer's name is A Pang, bull head and human hands, two feet and hooves of the bull, strong force row mountain, holding steel fork." Later absorbed by Taoism, it became the ox head and horse face.

Buffalo horn, yellow ox horn, yak horn, etc. is one of the most common door decoration. Tibetans still hang the horns on the door after killing a cow, and the number of horns symbolizes the level of hunting, and even dress up and wear a cow's horn as an ornament.

Tiger

Tiger is the king of beasts, c tiger match, oracle bone "c" word such as an arrow, the "Shawen" in "c" means "yang", although there is frozen ground on the rise. Rising, although there is frozen soil, will break out of the ground", and the tiger's fierce Yang Qi fit. If the Shang Dynasty bronze tiger eater wine containers reflect the fear of the ancients of the tiger, then the tiger brand in the war, on behalf of the desire to conquer, marching to play the white tiger streamer flag, Xiaoyong brave for "tiger generals", the deployment of troops with the tiger, weapons with tiger lines ......

Nanto, Changsha, 7,000 square meters of excavations in the Datang site. Datang site unearthed 7000 years ago in the earthenware, appearing human face tiger head "long fang face pattern"; 6500 years ago, Puyang Xishuipo primitive tombs also have mussel shells molded tiger image, and the opposite of the dragon, the tiger in the left for the honor. Chinese culture has always been called the dragon and tiger, "Zhouyi, Qian Gua" to the dragon and tiger metaphor Qian Kun, heaven and earth, the dragon flying in the sky, the tiger line in the ground. Dragons and tigers are regarded as the guardian of the stars, the "Records of the Grand Historian" Liu Bang "people look at its gas, all for the dragons and tigers".

Tiger in Chinese folklore to the White Tiger God and the Queen Mother of the West is the most famous. Twenty-eight stars in the east, west, south, north and south of the four star groups to form the four elephants, and later combined with the five elements with the five color theory, the formation of the "East Blue Dragon, West White Tiger, South Vermilion Bird, North Xuanwu". Taoism will be the four elephants as a guardian deity, the white tiger became the "White Tiger God". The image of Queen Mother of the West in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: residing in the Jade Mountain, "human face and tiger body ...... leopard tail and tiger teeth and good whistling, canvas hair and wear victory", the position is the God of Punishment, in charge of disease and life and death. Other tiger gods are the god of water Tian Wu, the god of punishment Matsui, the god of wealth Zhao Gongming's mount is also a black tiger.

Rabbit

The legend of Chang'e running to the moon originated from "Huainanzi, Viewing the Underworld Training", and Chang'e had the Jade Rabbit with her in the moon. The rabbit is a symbol of the moon. The Spring and Autumn Transportation Dou Shu says: "If the line loses Yao Guang, then the moon comes out of the rabbit". There is a poem "The white rabbit often kneels and pounds medicine for nine toads" in the Lefu Poetry Collection, and Fu Xuan in the Jin Dynasty chanted in the "Proposed Heavenly Questions", "What is there in the moon? White free pounding medicine."

Ancient people believe that there is a rabbit in the moon because, some say that the shadow of the moon face like a rabbit, but also said that the moon and the rabbit belongs to the yin, and said that the rabbit nose has an exclusion and the moon's roundness of the sense. Wen Yiduo testified that the rabbit as the essence of the moon began in Han, pre-Qin for the toad, then turned toad, rabbit. Shandong jiaxiang han portrait stone, there are jade rabbit and toad together pounding medicine, mawangdui excavated silk painting also have toad rabbit and the moon depicted. By the Jin Dynasty, the rabbit had come to represent the moon alone.

In the north, there is a "snake coiled rabbit, must be rich," the marriage of the popular beliefs. Folk paper cutting "snake coiled rabbit", the picture of the snake head rabbit head opposite, snake body around the rabbit body. "Snake and rabbit" is also sometimes used in funeral customs. In the Ming Dynasty, Ye Sheng's "Shui Dong Diary" recorded that, at that time, in the north of Juyongguan, people were scrambling for the graveyard of the Snake Plate Rabbit.

Dragon

The origin of the dragon said quite a lot to wen Yiduo inferred that the snake as a totem clan has merged with many other totem clans, the formation of the "serpent as the main body, both the horse's head, hyena's tail, the deer's horns, the dog's paw, the scales of the fish and whiskers mixed with the dragon totem! ".

The ancient myth of the dragon is not sacrosanct, Nvwa smelt the stone to mend the sky, "kill the black dragon to JiZhou". The dragon became a symbol of imperial power after the Han Dynasty. The emperor wore a dragon robe, sat in a dragon chair, rode a dragon boat, sat in a dragon carriage, the emperor died called the dragon harnessed Bintian. The Qing Dynasty dragon robe with nine gold dragons together "nine five", the Forbidden City in Beijing, the dragon pattern countless. Hundreds of people use the dragon pattern will be disastrous.

The dragon is the god of clouds and rain. The Huainanzi, said Lin training, "drought is to repair the earth dragon", "on the balance - chaotic dragon chapter," said, "the earth tiger can not cause the wind, the earth dragon can cause rain". Since the Song Dynasty, almost every village has a temple of the Dragon King, and whenever there are droughts or floods, people have to offer sacrifices to the Dragon King, so that it can control the rain and pray for good weather. It is also said that the dragon can not decide on its own rain, "Journey to the West" in the Jinghe Dragon King for violating the Jade Emperor's will to rain and be beheaded.

Dragons symbolize the emergence of the extraordinary. Confucius praised Laozi, "the dragon rides on the wind and clouds and goes up to the nine heavens"; Zhuge Liang is called "Mr. Crouching Dragon", Cai Yong is often drunk in the street and is known as "Drunken Dragon", and parents expect their children to be dragons. ......

The dragon and phoenix motifs were widely spread after the Tang Dynasty, not only symbolizing the authority of the emperor and the queen, but also symbolizing the perfect union of husband and wife, but also symbolizing the spiritual and material harmony between yin and yang. The dragon and phoenix motif is the most representative image of the Chinese nation.

Snake

Snake mostly appears as a negative image. "The heart is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant" describes the snake's greed; "The Farmer and the Snake" describes the snake's cunning and cold-bloodedness; and the vicious person is described as "snake and scorpion heart".

Snakes are often images of sorcery ghosts and monsters. The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" of the Ba Snake "eating elephants, three years old and out of the bone", Chaisang flying snake. The hook snake "in the wood is folded, in the person is harmful"; "Gezhi Jingyuan" in the human snake "people standing and walking, encountering people often laugh, laugh has been turned to devour"; "Youyang Miscellany Chamfer" Sun Shu Ao beheading a two-headed snake; Qing Dynasty Chen Ding in the Snake Spectrum in the human snake, the respondents "Although go dozens of miles away from the snake will come"; Liang Shaoren's measurement of human snakes; "Shen Yi Jing" in the rate of the snake ......

Ancient Chinese myths of Nvwa and Fuxi are human head and snake body, "Lu Lingguang Temple Fugue" depicts " Fuxi scale body, Nvwa snake body", "Emperor's Century", "Road History", "Gleanings", "Historical Records, Supplement to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors" also recorded. Henan Nanyang Military Tent Camp early Eastern Han Dynasty tomb portrait stone, Fu scorn holding a rule, Nuwa holding a rule, with the upper body clothed and the lower part revealing a snake's tail, standing opposite to each other.

Horse

As the first of the six animals, the horse, in addition to being used as a means of transportation, or powerful equipment. Warring States to "ten thousand by the country", "thousand by the country" and other horse-drawn chariots 'number to describe the strength of the country.

Successive kings and generals have been proud to have horses. King Mu of Zhou owned eight steeds. Han Wu Di for the acquisition of Dawan sweat blood BMW two expeditions to Dawan. Tang Taizong loved the "six steeds", Zaru purple, fist Maoqiu, green piebald, Shivaji, Teller Hussar, white hooves, engraved in the mausoleum of Zhao in recognition of the war. There are also Qin Shi Huang's "chasing the wind", "white rabbit", Xiang Yu's "piebald horse", Liu Bei's "Lu", Guan Yu's red rabbit, and so on. The first is the "Pure Puppy", the "Pure Puppy", and the "Pure Puppy".

As thousands of miles of horses were hard to come by, horse-reading became an important profession. According to legend, famous horse-reading experts included Bole (Sun Yang) and Fang Jiujiu (方九堙), who were servants of the Duke of Qin Mu, and Post Wu Shi (邮无恤), who was a servant of Zhao Jianzi (赵簡子), and so on. It is said that "a thousand li horse is often found, but Bole is not often found", and people often use a thousand li horse as a metaphor for talent.

The nomadic people of the north are especially fond of horses. Bao'an ethnic group passed down the myth of "snow-white horse god"; Daur ethnic group said the god of the horse for the "Winku", the god of the horse is not allowed to women to ride; Manchu also have the custom of enshrining the god of the horse. The Classic of Mountains and Seas described the heavenly horse, "its shape like a white dog and black head, see people fly".

Sheep

Ancient people regarded sheep as a "moral animal", good group, good benevolence, dead righteousness, and know how to be polite. Good flock, sheep like to gather. Good benevolence refers to the sheep goodness, have horns but not good fighting. Deadly righteousness refers to the quietness of sheep when they are slaughtered, and they regard death as a home away from home, hence the story of King Xuan's "Sheep for Cattle". The story of King Xuan's "exchange of sheep for oxen" is also a symbol of filial piety.

"Shuowen Jiezi" said: "beauty, sweet also, from the sheep, from the big", "sheep big for the beauty". Scribe Li Xiaoding in the "Oracle Bone Character Collection and Interpretation" of the "beauty" explained as "suspected of resembling a person decorated with the shape of the head of the sheep". No matter which interpretation, sheep as a symbol of beauty is beyond doubt.

"Zhouyi Tai Gua" to ten - month for the Gua Fu, a Yang born under; December for the Gua Lin, two Yang born under the first month for the Gua Tai, three Yang born under the first month. Winter and spring, the yin disappears and the yang grows. At the beginning of the year with "three yang Kai Tai" symbolizes good luck and peace, the folk changed to "three sheep Kai Tai" to depict the three big sheep in Chinese New Year's Eve paper cutouts and other prayers for the country's prosperity and people's peace.

In ancient mythology, the one-horned god Xiezhi was an assistant to Gaotao, the god of justice. Wang Chong's "Lun Heng" (论衡-是应)："Gao Tao ruled the prisons, and when his crime was in doubt, he made the sheep touch it. If he is guilty, he touches it; if he is innocent, he does not touch it." And "Miscellaneous five lines of the book": "County (hanging) on the door of the sheep's head, in addition to thieves and robbers. Xiezhi is also the Ming Xiaoling Shinto Road one of the six pre-tomb beasts.

Monkey

"Monkey is the ancestor of man" legend is quite a lot. The Classic of Mountains and Seas, "the shape of the Yu and the arms, panther and tiger and good throw, the name is to lift the father", visible Kwa Fu (that is, to lift the father) image is actually a monkey. Chengdu region myths believe that Pangu opened up the world, the monkeys in the Fuxi Nuwa reproduced human beings. Ancient Tubo in the "Wangtongji" recorded that their ancestors were monkeys from a sinking ship. In the Qiang myth, Ran Biwa burned off his monkey hair and became a beautiful man.

"Journey to the West" of the Great Sage Sun Wukong is a glorious representative of the monkey image. The prototype of the Monkey King, said to be taken from the Indian monkey Hanuman; also thought to be a mythological image of Wu Zhi Qi. The Song Dynasty "Taiping Guangji" depicts Wu Zhi Qi, "good coping language ...... shape like apes and monkeys ...... golden eyes and snow teeth, neck stretches a hundred feet, more than nine elephants, wrestling squatting sprinting," and the Monkey King's martial arts The Wukong's martial arts skills are similar to those of Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong was named Buti Ma Wen, from the ancients that monkeys can "avoid the horse plague", in the stables to raise monkeys can be found in time to spread the sick horse, Shaanxi Weinan a lot of tethering stone stakes on the stone monkeys are also carved.

Monkey and "Hou" homophonic, the monkey riding a horse means immediately marquis; monkey to the maple tree hanging seal means marquis hanging seal; a monkey riding on the back of another monkey means generations of marquis. Monkeys love to eat peaches, peaches symbolize longevity, folk paper-cutting is also common "Monkey Peach Ruishou" pattern, take the meaning of longevity.

Chicken

"Han Shi Wai Zhuan" summarizes the chicken's "five virtues", "head wearing a crown, Wen also; foot wrestling distance, martial arts; see the enemy dared to do, courage, and see the food to call out, righteousness, and watch the night without losing time, the letter is also". ". Therefore, the chicken has the elegant name of moral bird.

Jade Rabbit and the moon, the Golden Crow and the sun are often compared. The Huainanzi - Spirit" said "the sun in the stirrups of the crow", that is, three-legged crows: the sun crow, the golden crow, the golden crow. The Ming Dynasty Yang Shen's "art forests and mountains" said "the sun in the golden chicken", the sun and the moon, the sun belongs to the east of the chicken is located in the west; the moon belongs to the west of the rabbit but resides in the east, the reason is that "the sun and moon yin and yang mutual hiding its house also". Li Bai's "sleepwalking to Tianmu Yin Liubie" in the chant "half wall see the sea, the air heard the sky chicken."

In ancient times, timekeeping was simple, and the rooster became the order of the day. In the Classic of Poetry, "the woman said that the rooster is crowing, and the scholar said that it is not clear", and "the rooster is crowing, and the morning is full" to urge the king of the country to go to the imperial court. Meng Chang Jun was trapped in the Hangu Pass, the doorkeeper learned the cock crowing to cheat the door. Zu Ti of the Eastern Jin Dynasty "heard the deserted chicken in the middle of the night, said 'this is not an evil sound', because of the dance in the court", angry to serve the country.

The phoenix is a glorified deification of the pheasant. The Classic of Mountains and Seas recorded "there is a bird, the shape of the chicken, five picks and text, the name is Feng Huang". The Guihai Bird Records, "Wu Feng", "neck hair like a male chicken". Common saying often associated with the chicken and the phoenix, such as "phoenix fall frame as chicken".

Dog

"Book of Han", the emperor Gaoxin's dog named Discus, take the head of General Wu of the Injun Rong was given to the young girl, "with the discus up to the South Mountain to give birth to a child, men and women twelve, and after the prosperous also". The book "Searching for God" expanded that Pan gourd is the queen's ear jumped out of the gold worm into. Miao, She, Yao, Li, Dong, Zhuang, Wa and other ethnic groups in the southwest, also legendary Pan gourd is the originator of the community. Ethnic minorities also have the legend of the dog to take the grain seed, the Hani people believe that the daughter of the God of Heaven to bring the five grains to earth, was relegated to the dog.

Ancient people believe that the eclipse of the sun and moon is swallowed by the sky dog. Ningbo has a proverb, "the dog eats the moon, the underground firecrackers", Huaihua people say "the dog eats the moon, the face of the basin to knock the lack of", trying to scare off the sound of the dog. Tengu also causes sterility in women. Women worship "Zhang Xian," who holds a slingshot in his hand and aims it at the sky, supposedly to kill the Tengu.

The dog is the god of wind. The oracle bone inscriptions contained "Yu Di Shi wind two dogs"; "Classic of Mountains and Seas" has black and white dog sacrificed to the wind god. Ancient people believe that the dog can stop the wind, "Customs", "the god of the 11th for the wind uncle, so the day of the sacrifice in the northwest of the Cixu". Dogs can also raise the wind, "Mozi" in the "burning black dog skin to raise the ash wind that is up".

The loyalty of the dog, legends and reality abound. The book of "Description of differences", the Wei Jin Lu Ji's "yellow ears", the master of the letter delivery, died of exhaustion. The Black Dragon Dog in the Book of Soothsayers survived a fire by drenching its drunken owner with water.

Pigs

Pigs are known as "wu jin", and during the period of patrilineal communes, pigs were a symbol of wealth, and the tomb at Dahozhuang in Linxia had thirty-six pig bones buried with it. The pig is the sacrifice of the common people below the common people, with the pig as the, Chen boar in the room, the joint family and sacrifice, that is, the word "family".

Animal husbandry households worshiped the god of the boar and the god of the pen. The god of boar is the god of toilet, and the toilet and pigsty in the southern countryside are often combined into one, so the god of toilet is mostly a part-time god of the circle. The god of the toilet is the god of the Purple Nun, or Mrs. Qi of the Western Han Dynasty, who died in the toilet. Pig Pen God is Jiang Taigong, when the gods Jiang Taigong reserved for their own Dongyue God let to Huang Feihu, their own when the pig pen God. West Zhejiang area often posted yellow paper in the pigsty, "Jiang Taigong here, no taboo".

The pig's fat head is a symbol of good fortune. Laozi's last name is Li and his first name is Dan. The "Shuowen" cloud "Dan, ear Man also", Duan Wang cut note "ear Man, ear as a guide and large". In "The Long Song", Lefu said, "The immortal rides from the cave, and his hair is short and his ears are long." In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei has two ears hanging over his shoulders and two hands over his knees.

It is believed that pigs can foretell rain. The "cast barren miscellany" said Lei Gong "boar head scale body". Journey to the West" of the pig "was the water god of the canopy", "Royal Marshal tube Tianhe, the Governor of the water army called Xianjie", the canopy is one of the four generals of the Taoist Ziwei North Pole Emperor, fully embodies the pig worship and the relationship between the gods of rain and clouds.

Knowledge of the Chinese zodiac 2

The Chinese zodiac is also known as the twelve beasts of the year. In the Chinese calendar, there are twelve beasts of the year in turn on duty, so the Chinese year there is a rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and pig applied to the calendar. That is, it is often said: Zi rat, ugly cattle, c tiger, d rabbit, c dragon, snakes, afternoon horse, ungoat, Shen monkey, You chicken, Hundred Days Dog, Ohio pig,

Details

Zi (zǐ) rat: the sky is open in the son, not consumed by the gas is not open. The rat is also a consuming insect. So the night is not yet central, is the rat to get the order of the waiting, so the son of the rat. The two instruments are Yang, and the five elements are water.

Chǒu (丑)牛 (牛): The earth is opened up in Chǒu (丑), and the ox is the thing that opens up the earth, so Chǒu belongs to the ox. The two instruments are yin, and the five elements are earth.

寅（yín）虎：人生于寅，有生则有杀。 The killer is the tiger, and the 寅 is the fear of the tiger. There is nothing more fearful than a tiger, so c is a tiger. The two instruments are yang, and the five elements are wood.

Mao (mǎo) rabbit: Mao, the sunrise. The Japanese are away from the body and contain the essence of the Jade Rabbit, so dao belongs to the rabbit. Two meters for the Yin, the five elements of wood.

Tatsumi (chén) Dragon: Tatsumi, the trigram of March, is a group of dragons in the rain, so Tatsumi is a dragon. The two instruments are Yang, the five elements are earth.

Sì (sì) Snake: Sì (sì) is the hexagram of April, when the grass is thick, and the snake has its place. Also, the snake is not on the road at six o'clock, so it is a snake. The two instruments are yin, and the five elements are fire.

Wu (wǔ) Ma: Wu, Yang pole and a Yin just born. Horse, the most healthy and not away from the ground, Yin category, so the afternoon of the horse. The two instruments for the Yang, the five elements of fire.

Not (wèi) Sheep: Sheep eroding the grass and thrive in the unseason, so not of the sheep. The two instruments are yin, and the five elements are earth.

Shen (shēn) monkeys: Shen time, sunset, and the ape cries, and stretching the arm, such as the number of qi, will be chaotic, then the wild work of the horizontal, so Shen is a monkey. The two instruments are Yang, and the five elements are gold.

You (yǒu) chicken: when the moon comes out, the moon is a kan body, containing the essence of the golden chicken, so it belongs to chicken. The two instruments are yin, and the five elements are gold.

Xu (xū) dog: the night of the eleventh hour, and the dog is also the thing of the night, so the eleventh hour belongs to the dog. The two instruments are Yang, and the five elements are earth.

Hài (hài) pig: Hài time, the pig is not known outside the diet, so Hài is a pig. The two instruments are yin, and the five elements are water.

Zodiac related knowledge 3

1, why there is no cat in the Chinese zodiac

The reason why there is no cat in the Chinese zodiac is because cats are produced in Egypt, in the row of twelve Chinese zodiac signs when the cat has not yet joined the Chinese, so there is no cat in the Chinese zodiac. I wonder which animal would have been replaced if the cat had been added?

2. Countries with the Chinese Zodiac

In addition to China, the Chinese Zodiac is also very popular in many countries, such as India, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, and other countries have this saying, but each place has a greater or lesser difference in the Chinese Zodiac: for example, the Ancient Babylonian Chinese Zodiac is: bull, goat, lion, donkey, dung beetle, snake, dung beetle, snake and other animals. Donkey, dung beetle, snake, dog, cat, crocodile, flamingo, ape, eagle, and Vietnam's zodiac is a cat, replaced by a cat is a rabbit,

3, the order of the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac

So do you know that the twelve branches of China's earthly branches are in accordance with the Zi Mouse, the ugly ox, Yin Hu, Mao Rabbit, the chenlong, has been the snake, the afternoon horse, Ungoat, Shen Monkey, You chicken, Hundred Days Dog, Ohio Pig to row?

Zi Rat: Zi Shi, it is the time of frequent activities of rats. Ugly cow: ugly time, farmers often feed cattle at this time. c tiger: c time, at this time the tiger is the most ferocious. Rabbit: At dao time, rabbits are just coming out of their nests and like to eat grass with dew. Cinnabar Dragon: Cinnabar time, this time is generally easy to fog, legend has it that the dragon likes to ride the clouds. Snake: Si time, this time the snake out of the hole began to forage for food. Noon horse: noon, this time the nature of the horse for the day's strongest time not goat: not time, this is a good time to herd sheep. Shen Monkey: Shen time, monkeys like to crow at this time. You chicken: You time, this time the chicken will be in front of the nest circle. Ohio pig: Ohio time, this time late at night, you can hear the sound of the pig arching food.