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6 unusual facts about Chinese zodiac


Chinese zodiac

To get to the meeting called by the Jade Emperor, they had to cross a river to reach the meeting place.

Dance Dance Dragon

As Lunar New Year 2012 marks the year of the Dragon, the film explores the Chinese's age-old obsession with the Dragon and having children on a "Dragon year" (see Chinese zodiac).

Dog in Chinese mythology

This twelve-year cycle which may be referred to as the "Chinese zodiac" associates each year in turn with a certain creature, in a fixed order of twelve animals, after which it returns to the first in the order, the Rat.

Hagane: The Final Conflict

The Fuma clan is split into factions based on the Chinese zodiac.

Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger

The Eto Rangers are anthropomorphic animals, each representing one of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals (and The Twelve Branches in Buddhism).

The Eto Rangers are based on the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac.


Haw Par Villa

Other major attractions include dioramas of scenes from Journey to the West, Fengshen Bang, The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, Legend of the White Snake, Romance of the Three Kingdoms; statues of mythological figures such as the Laughing Buddha and Guanyin, and historical personages such as Jiang Ziya, Su Wu and Lin Zexu; the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac, and others.

Shuhei Fujioka

Also, other product lines were introduced under the Precious Memory brand that touched on common Asian cultures, like the Chinese zodiacs.


see also

Tai Sui

In the Chinese zodiac, there are sixty (originally 12 corresponding to the Earthly stems, later popularly believed to be 60, one for each stem-branch combination) heavenly generals (:zh:六十甲子神列表) who assist the Jade Emperor in taking charge of the well-being of the Mortal World.