Nealy all people know Chinese has its Zodiac, there are twelve animals represent the years. That is poeple who born in the same year ( lunar year) blongs to the same animal. For there is only twelve animals, we can easily know someone share the same zodiac maj be the same age or 12, 14, 36 years younger or older!
Anyway here is the short story of how these 12 animals are picked as the symbol!
The story stars with The Jade Emperor wanted to select 12 animals to be his guards. Who arrived Heavenly Gate earlier would be picked. The rat got up earlier, so it set off first. When it arrived the river back and found out it's impossible for itself to across. Clever as it, seeing an ox was acrossing the river, it jumped on the ox's back, and when they readg the other sides of the river, it jumped on and got the finishing line. Therefore the rat become the first Zodiac and the Ox becomes the second.
Most of us haven't heard the stories about the other 10 animals, but all of us can name out 12 animals in order!
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