Chinese Zodiac - Page 9

生肖鼠(sheng xiao shu), Rats steal food, which proves that "hamsters have surplus food", indicating that the family is rich, and more rats in the family symbolize wealth.

The Chinese Zodiac not only integrates ordinary creatures into Chinese life, but its natural habits are endowed with many cultural meanings, from animals to gods, and receive respect and worship. Only the combination of natural creatures and cultural gods can form a complete impression of zodiac animals. Let’s go to learn more about Sheep生肖羊(sheng xiao yang).

The Chinese zodiac, also known as the zodiac, is one of the 12 animals in China that match the twelve Branches of the earth with the year of birth, including rats, cattle, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs.

Bronze statue of the animal head of the twelve zodiac animals in Yuanmingyuan were designed by Lang shining, a foreign court painter during the Qianlong period, and Jiang Anren, a French missionary, integrating Chinese and western animal images of the Chinese zodiac.

The zodiac takes twelve, which coincides with the ancient people's inductive understanding of natural phenomena.