Chinese Zodiac
Chinese Zodiac posts cover the twelve animals of the lunar zodiac and the sixty-year cycle that pairs them with the five elements. Articles look at the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig, the personality traits associated with each sign, the compatibility tables that fortune tellers still use for matchmaking, and the way the year of your birth animal is considered unlucky and should be guarded against with red underwear. There is also a piece on how the cycle is read together with the heavenly stems.
Chinese zodiac signs place every person born on Earth
A farmer at dawn walking behind an Ox through rice
Starbucks rolled out Year of the Dog cups in January
Chinese New Year dinners across every region of the
Albert Einstein and Confucius share a zodiac animal.
Oracle-bone inscriptions at the Shang royal archives
Muhammad Ali stepped into the ring for the 1974 Rumble
Birth rates across mainland China climbed 5 percent
Japanese birth rates dropped 25 percent in 1966.
Journey to the West, the 16th-century Ming novel widely
Quick-thinking, resourceful, and watchful people tend
Chinese villages for centuries set their morning routines
Northern Chinese pastoral regions, from Inner Mongolia
Chinese zodiac compatibility grew out of a matchmaking
Chinese zodiac elements sit under the Wu Xing (五行)
Chinese zodiac history stretches back at least 3,500 years.
Chinese zodiac hours, called shichen (时辰) in Mandarin