What is the Chinese Zodiac?

Zi Mouse ugly cattle Yin Hu Mao Rabbit Chen Long Si Snake Wu Horse Un sheep Shen Monkey You Chicken Hundred Dogs Oh Hog

The origin of the Chinese Zodiac flow Wooden carving Zodiac

There is a myth and legend: Xuanyuan emperor to choose twelve animals to serve as a palace guards, cats to rats to enrollment, rats forget, the results of the cat was not selected, and since then and the rat knotted up enemies. Elephants also came to participate in the race, was a mouse into the nose, to drive away, the rest of the animals, originally pushed the cow as the first, but the mouse scurried to the back of the cow, the pig also followed the coaxing, so the mouse ranked the first, the pig ranked last. The tiger and the dragon did not obey, was named king of the mountain and the king of the sea, ranked behind the rat and the ox. The rabbit, again not satisfied, raced with the dragon and ended up in front of the dragon. The dog, again not satisfied, bit the rabbit in a fit of pique, and was penalized for this by being placed in the penultimate position. Snake, horse, goat, monkey, chicken also after a fight, one by one to line up the position, and finally formed a mouse, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, chicken, dog, pig order.