The Year of the Goat is here, and they say three goats are the best, so why not two goats or four goats? What is the rationale?

The word "Sheep" in "Three Sheep Kaitei" is actually a harmonic of "Yang". It is correctly written as "San Yang Kai Tai", which comes from the ancient Chinese traditional cultural text, the I Ching, and roughly means "the coming of winter and the coming of spring".

Zhouyi 64 hexagrams in one of the hexagrams - Tai Gua. "Tai" is a good hexagram, so there is the idiom of "the extreme is the best of all possible worlds". "Yang" and "sheep" have the same sound and tone, sheep in ancient China was also taken as a spirit animal and good luck. As we can see from the ancient artifacts, many of the "auspicious" inscriptions are written as "auspicious sheep". In the ancient Chinese language, the word "sheep" is used as a synonym for the word "auspicious". The Shuowen Jiezi says: "Sheep, auspicious." The word "Sanyang" means the beginning of spring, indicating the end of winter

Spring is coming, yin and yang are changing, and everything is recovering. The word "Kaitai" means "good luck" and is also known as "Sanyang Jiaotai", which means that good luck is coming.

The Dictionary of Chinese Idioms explains: "The I Ching uses eleven months

as the Fuxingua, with a Yang born underneath; twelve months as the Lin Gua, with two Yangs born underneath; and the first month as the Tai Gua, with three Yangs born underneath. It is a symbol of good fortune that the winter is over and the spring is coming, and that the yin is disappearing and the yang is growing. Later, it was used as a toast to the beginning of the New Year."

To put it in layman's terms, the I Ching uses the first month of the lunar year as a time for Tai Gua, which the ancients regarded as the gradual removal of yin and the birth of yang. The winter solstice in November of the lunar calendar day is the shortest, and then the day gradually longer, so that the winter solstice is considered "a Yang Sheng", December is "two Yang

Sheng", the first month is "three Yang Kai Tai! ". Sanyangkaitai, traditional Han Chinese auspicious words and auspicious patterns. "Zhouyi" said lines even for the Yang Gua, broken for the yin lines, the first month for the Tai Gua, three yang was born in summer; winter to spring, yin and yang long, there is a good heng of the image. Often used to praise the first of the year or symbolize good luck.

Ancient China, Yang and sheep homophonic, sheep is Yang. "According to the literal analysis, the interpretation of the three suns is more intuitive, that is, the morning sun, the sun, the evening sun. The sunrise is bright, and its platform is fluorescent; the sun is in the

heaven, and its platform is clear; the setting sun shines, and its platform shoots up. All of them contain the meaning of vigor and vitality.

"Tai" is the name of the hexagram, dry down and up, heaven and earth and all things. We see "Tai", always good luck. Kai Tai to "seek wealth" to divination, is to open up the road to wealth; to "marriage" to divination, is to open up the door of love.

Sheep, that is, Xiang also. In ancient times, the court in the small car called sheep car, that is, take the meaning of good luck. People often say "three sheep" for one of the auspicious words. For example, a smooth sailing, two dragons flying, three sheep, four seasons of peace, five blessings in the door, six six big luck, seven stars high light, eight parties to the wealth, nine nine concentric, ten perfect, a hundred things, a thousand things auspicious, everything is as it should be, and so on. Sheep, in Chinese folklore, "auspicious" is often written as "lucky sheep". Sheep, elegant and gentle, tender and affectionate, since ancient times has been with the Chinese pioneers of the companion of the night and day, loved by the people. In the ancient Chinese oracle bone inscriptions, the character for "beauty", which is in the shape of a sheep with a big horn on its head, is a symbol of goodness.