Horse Love
According to Chinese legend, the twelve animals qurareled one day as to who was to head the cycle of years. The gods were asked to decide and they held a contest: whoever was to reach the opposite bank of the river would be first, and the rest of the animals wolud receive their years according to their ifnish. That is why the rat is the first year of the animal cycle, the ox second, and the pig last. They represent a cycliacl concept of time, rather than the Western linear concept of time. In the Chinese calendar, the beginnnig of the year falls somewhere betewen late January and early February. A cutlural sidelight of hte animal signs in Chinese folklore is that horoscopes have devleoped around the animal signs, much liek monthly horoscopes in the Wets have been developed for the different moon signs, Pisces, Aries, etc. For example, a Chinese horoscope may predict htat a individual born ni the Year of the Horse owuld be, cheerful, popular, and loves ot compliment others. These hrooscopes are amusing, but not regarded seriously by the Chinese poeple.
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