| Title: The Origin and Story of Chinese Zodiac |
| Short words: For Chinese. Chinese Zodiac is already in our mind since small. We often listened to the elder talking about them and get influenced. |
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| Title: Zodiac Signs of the Chinese |
| Short words: The Chinese zodiac has twelve signs. Originally. these signs did not have animals associated with them but were signs used to record dates. They were called the 12 Earthly Branches and 10 Celestial Stems and their use went back to the Shang dynasty. |
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| Title: Chinese Zodiac Stories |
| Short words:A long. long time ago. the Cat and the Rat were the best of friends. They accompanied each other everywhere they went and they shared their food. One day. the Cat learnt that the Jade Emperor was going to elect twelve animals to represent the twelve calendar years. |
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| Title: The Story of the 12 animal Zodiac in China |
| Short words:One day, Tian Di (The God Above) wanted to manage all animals on earth. He took out 12 chairs and told the cat to tell 11 other animals to go to the sky palace. When the cat told the ox about it, the rat overheard the news. The rat was very angry and he ran as fast as he could to the palace. |
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| Title: Chinese Zodiac and some famous people |
| Short words: More than 30,000 years ago, Chinese ancestors invented the 10 Tian Gan(or heavenly stems)and 12 Di Zhi(or 12 earthly branches for chronological purpose. |
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| Title: Chinese Zodiac |
| Short words:In the Chinese zodiac, twelve animals are used to denote the year of a person's birth: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. This is called a person's shengxiao (sheng means the year of birth, xiao means resemblance) or shuxiang. |
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