Are the twelve signs of the zodiac a traditional Chinese culture or a foreign culture?

In ancient times, in order to make it easier to identify the position and observe the sky when sailing, the stars scattered in the sky were linked together by imagination. Half of the constellations were named in ancient times, and were named according to the myths and shapes of the ancient civilizations (including Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and Greek myths and epics). The other half (mostly in the southern hemisphere's night sky) are more recent, often named after nautical instruments.

In ancient times the stars were viewed differently because of geographical differences! Now the world has been unified according to the constellation map will be divided into eighty-eight regions of the sky eighty-eight constellations.

We generally talk about the "constellations" (Sign), refers to the "sun constellations" (Sunsign); that is, the center of the people on the Earth, at the same time to see the sun running to the orbit (Greek Zodiac: that is, animals), and also known as the sun. Around the circle, also known as the "ecliptic") on which the position of the constellation, it is said that the person is what sign.

More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek astronomer Hipparchus (190-120 B.C.E.), in order to indicate the position of the Sun in the ecliptic, divided the ecliptic into twelve zones, with the equinoxes at 0°, and counting from the equinoxes (i.e., the zero degree of the ecliptic), every 30° for a house, and named the major constellations contained in the palaces in the order they were named at that time as Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Gemini, Chiron, and Aries. The houses of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Lion, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, etc., are called the 12 houses of the ecliptic, totaling twelve star groups. Babies born at the time of the Earth's revolution into each of these houses (star groups) will always grow up with a number of similar characteristics, including behavioral traits, personality traits, etc. These associations (rich in imagination and creativity) were linked together to crystallize the humanity of these star clusters; and with the addition of mythology, they became an important part of culture (mainly Greek and Roman mythology).

These twelve constellations represent the evolution of this numerology, which has been passed down for at least 5,000 years. But these constellations do not mean a particular "star", they can only be seen as "a representative symbol with the same name". So the constellations are a foreign culture