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To reward the
animals,
the King named a year for each animal. |
The
Chinese Horoscope
中国的十二生肖
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作者：Unknown |
来源：www.englishfree.com.cn
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日期：2008-4-5 |
责编：Emma |
The Chinese calendar contains
cycles of twelve years. A different animal represents each year.
The first year of the cycle is the year of the rat. After that
comes the year of the ox, the year of the tiger, the rabbit, the
dragon, the snake, the horse, the goat, the monkey, the rooster,
the dog and the pig. After the pig the cycle begins again.
No one actually knows why the
Chinese named the years in honor of these animals but there are
several interesting legends which explain the cycle of animals.
One story is that once, long ago, a Chinese King invited all the
animals to his palace to celebrate the New Year. Only twelve
animals accepted the invitation and came to the party. The first
animal to arrive was the rat and the next was the ox. The other
ten animals came soon after. To reward the animals, the King
named a year for each animal.
Now many people say that if a
person is born in the year of a certain animal he or she is like
that animal. Find the year of your birth on the illustration and
then read about the animal your year is named for.
Don't be angry if your year is a
snake or a horse or a pig. In the Chinese horoscope all the
animals are wise and important. No animal of the horoscope is
considered dumb or ugly or evil. The Chinese symbols or
characters in the center of the illustration mean "birth" and
"alike". They are pronounced "sheng" and "hsiao" in Chinese.
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