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Chinese Zodiac by Kelsey L

The Chinese Zodiac consists on twelve animals. The animals are the tiger, the bunny, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the ram, the monkey, the chicken, the dog, the pig, the mouse, and the ox. These animals have different years to celebrate each one. The order that is listed was the correct schedule. This year it is the tiger. Next year is the bunny. You may celebrate these animals every year. But every celebration can be different. Like some people, they celebrate three days. Some celebrate one and some don't celebrate at all. If you read this you might find something you will like about the Chinese Zodiac. Each animal has traits. Some are noble, some are artistic, some are moody but these are some of the good traits. See, the animals aren't as different as we are. They have personalities too. But they also have flaws. They are bad at some things but good at others. Take the dragon for example, it's very loyal but has a tendency to be very pushy or bossy. It means well. Also the tiger, it's very proud but can get strong headed. They are very good animals. Everyone has a animal. They are very different. Maybe your animal is like your personality. Every animal is different. Like every human is unique the animals are all different. Chinese Zodiacs came from Asia. Lots of languages in Asia have zodiacs. Some of them are different. The Korean one is exactly the same one as the Chinese Zodiac. It has all the same animals. The Japanese one is only a little different. The pig is a wild boar. That is the only little difference from the Chinese Zodiac. The Thai Zodiac replaced the dragon. For you naga fans the Thai Zodiac is recommended for you. The Thai Zodiac begins on New Year's Day not Chinese New Year's. Even if it's from the same Continent it doesn't mean they all do the same things. It depends on their culture. For every year your animal comes an attribute. They always start with either Yin or Yang and end with either wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. For every year you get each one your life style might change a little. Each attribute change will change depending on the attribute. Like take fire for an example, you might make a enemy or you have a big problem. Water might be like you made your enemy your friend. Each will depend on what you had before. It might only change when it is your animal's year. Each animal has a fixed element. The elements are the old elements. It's still wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. For the wood animals they are the tiger and the bunny. The fire animals are the snake and the horse. The earth elements are the dragon, the sheep, the dog and the ox. Metal animals are the monkey and the rooster. Lastly the water elements are the pig and the rat. Every animal has an attribute and it might mean something in your life. Maybe your calm. Maybe you can get angry really easily. Or maybe you are between those two. It depends on your attribute. But maybe you can try to do a couple of them. It would be hard but it couldn't hurt to try! During this time you have learned a lot. Maybe you learned more than you thought you did. But you might want to learn more about your animals. Here is some of the years of the animals that had for their years but they started at certain months too. Let's start with the rat. The years and the months are Feb. 5 1924-Jan. 23 1925; Jan 24, 1936 – Feb 10, 1937; Feb 10, 1948 – Jan 28, 1949; Jan 28, 1960 – Feb 14, 1961; Feb 15, 1972 – Feb 02, 1973; Feb 02, 1984-Feb 19, 1985; Feb 19, 1996- Feb 06, 1997; Feb 07, 2008- Jan 25, 2009. Those are all the rat years for now. Now we will begin the years of the ox. The years are Jan 24, 1925- Feb 12, 1926; Feb 11, 1937- Jan 30, 1938; Jan 29, 1949- Feb 16, 1950. There are so much more but listing it will take a little too long. Did you know all of these facts? These are all true so you know a little more than before. Know this, knowing this you are getting smarter in seconds. The source for a few sentence ideas are from Wikipedia.