China'sChinese zodiacWhat is the origin

Zodiac rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog, pig, in turn, allocate the twelve earthly branches, is a Chinese folk method of age calculation, is also a kind of ancient law.To calendar, when, JiRi or ji ji month have, is called the twelve beast calendar.Chinese zodiac (beast calendar) is widely popular in Asia and eastern Europe and north Africa countries of a nation.Mentioned in the literature and the Chinese zodiac in early today version is slightly different (such as the dragon does not exist, its position by insect instead).Ancient literature earliest and widely circulated in the Chinese zodiac cycle is complete the "on" by wang chong of the eastern han dynasty, in order to: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog, and pig.Each zodiac is corresponding to an earthly branches (child, ugly, Yin, sockets, Chen, have, and before noon, shen, unitary, and hai).For example the son inBelong to the rat, the ugly in personBelong to cowAnd so on.Every person born in the year with an animal as the Chinese zodiac.

Legend has it that the jade emperor in order to facilitate the people of earth time, summoned wenwu officials to discuss together, too white Venus to suggest a way: "the human animal is a lot of more phyletic, might as well make them the duty to record time, human can easily record time, and also let sentient beings have something, so don't happy."The jade emperor to this big, regards immediately report according to the time sequence to select the Chinese zodiac.The cat andThe mouseAppointment are neighbors, the second day of the night to get up on to the heaven.Mice was very excited, less than two more call with cats, but the cat is lazy, don't wake up, his mouse.Mice is the first to get to heaven animals, women is second.The rest of the animal is diligent degree according to oneself, have to report to heaven, in turn, is a tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog, pig, known as the "Chinese zodiac".People in this order to record the year, known as the year of the rat, the year of the ox, twelve years a reincarnation.When the cat got up, the Chinese zodiac rankings have been confirmed ok, so the mice and cat also became friends.