From the 12 zodiac songs we are most familiar with, we can know the order of the 12 zodiac signs, namely the 12 animals of rat, cow, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog, and pig.
The zodiac is no stranger to us, and we also know something about it from the bedtime stories we have come into contact with since childhood. The animals we talk about most, such as mice, cattle, dragons and so on, are also on the list of the 12 zodiac signs. Do you know the order of the 12 zodiac signs?
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In ancient times, people used the method of “Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches” to count. “Ten Heavenly Stems” refer to A, B, C, D, Wu, Ji, Yu, Xin, Ren, and Gui. “Twelve Earthly Branches” refer to Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai. 12 The first zodiac sign is a rat, with a clever, psychic, lively characteristics, but also a symbol of strong vitality. There are three main reasons why rats rank top of the zodiac. One is because of the folk zodiac legend, two is because of the calculation of the sky dry and the earth branch, with the combination of twelve hours, three is according to the Chinese belief in Yin and Yang, the 12 zodiac is divided into two categories of Yin and Yang, in the animal is the corresponding is odd and odd, because the rat is the front foot four, the back foot five. Odd-even is the same, and rare is the most expensive, so it ranks first.
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The second of the 12 zodiac signs is the ox. Chinese people have a deep affection for the ox. Some excellent qualities such as hard work, honesty, patience, and no return are added to the ox. Mr. Lu Xun also has a famous saying “bow your head and be willing to be a ox”. .
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The third of the 12 zodiac signs is the tiger, the tiger is the king of all beasts, with a kind, chivalrous and respected characteristics. In Chinese folklore, the tiger is best known as the White Tiger God and the Queen Mother of the West. In the 28 astrological constellations, the four sacred beasts are “East Green Dragon, West White Tiger, South Vermilion Bird and North Xuanwu”.
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The fourth place in the zodiac is rabbit. The introduction we heard about rabbit is from the fairy tale the Goddess Chang’e flying to the moon. The moon represents rabbit, and Chang ‘e is in the moon with the jade rabbit.
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The fifth sign of the Chinese zodiac is the dragon. There are many theories about the origin of the dragon. The dragon is the god of cloud and rain, so since the Song Dynasty, the Dragon King Temple has been set up in every village to pray for the Dragon King to control Rain Water and pray for good weather.
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Snake is the sixth animal in the 12th Chinese zodiac. When it comes to snakes, most of them appear in negative images. For example, the fable “The Farmer and the Viper,” which describes the snake as cunning and cold-blooded, describes the malevolence of the human heart as “A snake with a vicious heart.”.
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The seventh place in the 12 zodiac signs is the horse, the head of the six animals. In China’s ancient wars, horses were the most important military equipment, and successive kings were proud of horses, such as Qin Shi Huang’s “chasing the wind”, Guan Yu’s “red rabbit”, and Xiang Yu’s “black horse”.
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The eighth of the 12 zodiac signs is sheep, and people who belong to sheep have a docile personality. The ancients regarded sheep as “moral animals”, with the characteristics of good group, benevolence, death righteousness, and courtesy. Good group means that sheep like to gather together, good benevolence means that sheep are kind, horned but not easy to fight, and death means that there is no resistance when the sheep is slaughtered, very quiet. Knowing courtesy means that the sheep knows gratitude and knows how to repay gratitude, which symbolizes filial piety.
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The ninth of the 12 Chinese zodiac signs is monkey. Monkey people are humorous and popular, but they value fame and wealth and are possessive. The most representative is “Journey to the West”, the The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra. In pronunciation, “monkey” and “hou” are homophonic. Monkey riding on a horse means being granted the marquis at once. In folk paper-cut, most of the patterns are very common, “monkey peach is propiti
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12 zodiac tenth for chicken, chicken has praised in the han poetry gaiden to allow, poultry, and chicken is corresponds to the order of the phoenix, it is pheasant apotheosis, they often took the chicken and phoenix contact together, such as “pheasant which can deserve to go up the phoenix”.
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The eleventh place of the 12 zodiac signs is the dog, the dog is the god of the wind, the ancient text of the Jia contains “the two dogs of the wind in the history of the emperor”, and the “Classic of Mountains and Seas” has black and white dogs to worship the wind god.Dog loyalty, legends and reality abound.
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The twelfth and final place of the 12 zodiac signs is the pig. The pig has the name “Ugin”, which symbolizes wealth, and the pig’s fat head and big ears are a symbol of blessing.
