In the traditional Chinese custom, dating methods are based on the cycle, the cycle means that something happened on the cycle time. Popular folk method which we can see the method of this cycle is the recording of the Twelve Animal Signs. Every year in the mark with the name of an animal or a "sign" according to the spin cycle: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Chicken, Dog and Pig. Therefore, every twelve-year chinese zodiac animals or the same will appear.Zodiac animal is the symbol that represents China's annual cycle 12. They represent a cyclical concept of time, unlike the Western concept of time is represented by the stars. In Chinese calendar is based on the cycles of the moon, and was built in a different format than the Western calendar is based on the Sun. In the Chinese calendar, the beginning of the year begins between late January and early February. China adopted the Western calendar since 1911 , although the lunar calendar (based on month) are still used for events such as festivals Chinese New Year or better known as the Lunar New Year. Many of the Chinese calendar, including circulating in Indonesia scored two good versions of it based on the solar calendar and Chinese calendar by month.
Zodiac animals also indicates a useful social function for finding out the age of one. Instead of asking how old a person, often people just ask what the person's zodiac. This will put the person in the 12-year cycle, and with a little common sense, we can calculate the age of the person.
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