New Year Animals Chinese
Based on a 12 year cycle the sheng xiao birth likeness is represented by 12 different animals and calculated according to the.
New year animals chinese. The order of the chinese zodiac animals according to a chinese legend was determined by a race sanctioned by the jade emperor 玉皇大帝 yù huáng dà dì. This is a year of metal ox starting from the 2021 chinese new year on feb. We ll also tell you what the stars say about your personality.
Rat ox tiger rabbit dragon snake horse goat monkey rooster dog pig. This is as follows. The order of the chinese new year animals.
So if you were born in 1990 you re sign is the horse that s the year of the horse in the chinese lunar calendar. The good the bad and the ugly 01 of 12. 12 and lasting to 2022 lunar new year s eve on jan.
As it happens this upcoming chinese new year 2014 celebrates the year of the horse. Do you know how this came about. These animals include the tiger the rat the rabbit the sheep the dragon the pig the ox the horse the dog the monkey the snake and the rooster.
The first of the twelve chinese new year animals is the rat followed by ox tiger rabbit dragon snake horse sheep monkey rooster dog and pig. This is the story of the chinese zodiac 生肖 shēng xiào and how the order came to be. Each year getting linked to different animals got different traits of these twelve animals.
The zodiac is based on chinese astrology. The beginning of a new year in china is marked with elaborate celebrations as people usher in the start of a new year animal. There are many interesting myths relating to the 12 zodiac and where they came from my favourite being the race between the animals which gives us the order of the zodiac.