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Hey Mark, thanks for the wishes...I hope to mail to you some fortune cookies and pineapple tarts too!To our forum members, particularly anemone, I wish to extend best wishes during the celebration of the Chinese New Year!
I hope this new year brings you what you wish for!![]()
Also if you run out animals to assosiate, do you start making up cool animals, like a ziger(a tiger with a coat colored like a zebra).Sounds yummy!
Hey, I know it is Chinese tradition to associate certain animals with a particular year...what animal is associated with this new year? What does this signify for the upcoming year?
Since there are a finite number (I think 14?) of calendars, I think the animals are cycled. So, no ligers or tiglons.Also if you run out animals to assosiate, do you start making up cool animals, like a ziger(a tiger with a coat colored like a zebra).
Sounds yummy!
Hey, I know it is Chinese tradition to associate certain animals with a particular year...what animal is associated with this new year? What does this signify for the upcoming year?
Hi jakncoke,Also if you run out animals to assosiate, do you start making up cool animals, like a ziger(a tiger with a coat colored like a zebra).
modular arithmetic in 206, hows that gauss?Hi jakncoke,
The Chinese Zodiac, known as Sheng Xiao in Chinese, is based on a twelve year cycle, each year in that cycle related to an animal sign. These animal signs are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. It is calculated according to Chinese lunar calendar.
The selection and order of the animals that influence people's lives very much was originated in the Han Dynasty (206 – 220) and based upon each animal's character and living habits. The old time division was mostly related to number 12: one ji equals 12 years, one year has 12 months, one day has 12 time periods called shi chen. Ancient people observe that there are 12 full moons within one year. So, its origin is associated with astronomy. Each animal sign is usually related with an earthly branch, so the animal years were called zi rabbit, chou ox, yin tiger, mao rabbit, chen dragon, si snack, wu horse, wei sheep, shen monkey, you rooster, xu dog and hai pig.
To answer to your question, we don't encounter the problem of lacking of animals to deal with because we always have a fixed and enough 12 animals to associate with.
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anemone