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There are rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs. The Zodiac, also known as the Zodiac, is twelve an

What zodiac signs are there in Xiaodu?

There are rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs. The Zodiac, also known as the Zodiac, is twelve an

What zodiac signs are there in Xiaodu?

There are rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs. The Zodiac, also known as the Zodiac, is twelve animals that are matched with the twelve earthly branches in China according to the year of birth. The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship. According to the Qin bamboo slips unearthed in Yunmeng Shuihudi, Hubei Province and Fangmatan, Tianshui, Gansu Province, there was a relatively complete zodiac system in the pre-Qin period.

The earliest handed down document that recorded the same Chinese zodiac as the modern one was Lun Heng written by Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The zodiac is an intuitive representation of the twelve earthly branches. With the development of history, it has gradually integrated into the concept of folk beliefs, which is reflected in marriage, life, annual luck and so on. Each zodiac has rich legends, forming a conceptual interpretation system and becoming an image philosophy in folk culture, such as the zodiac in marriage, praying for blessings in temple fairs, and the year of the animal.