Drawing tables refers to the zodiac chicken, the zodiac tiger and the zodiac snake. The drawing watch represents the dragon and sheep in the zodiac.

The Zodiac, also known as the Zodiac, is a group of animals in China that match the Zodiac with the year of birth, including rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs.

The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship. According to the Qin bamboo slips unearthed in Yunmeng Shuihudi, Hubei Province and Fangmatan, Tianshui, Gansu Province, there was a relatively complete zodiac system in the pre-Qin period. The earliest handed down document that recorded the same Chinese zodiac as the modern one was Lun Heng written by Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Zodiac is the image representative of the twelve earthly branches, that is, rat, ugly cow, silver tiger, hairy rabbit, dragon, snake, afternoon horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and sea pig. With the development of history, it has gradually merged into the folk belief concept of common prosperity and mutual suppression.

It is manifested in marriage, life, and annual luck. Each zodiac has rich legends, forming a conceptual interpretation system and becoming an image philosophy in folk culture, such as the zodiac in marriage, the blessing in temple fairs, the animal year and so on. In modern times, more people regard the zodiac as the mascot of the Spring Festival and become a symbol of entertainment and cultural activities.

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The zodiac is twelve, which coincides with the ancient people's inductive understanding of natural phenomena.

China ancestors felt the cycle of alternating cold and summer, and plants withered and flourished, which was called "one year old". The moon's profit and loss cycle is also related to "age" Twelve full moons are exactly one year old. With Jupiter as the annual cycle, the period of revolution of the "old star" happens to be twelve years. "Zhou Li Chun Guan von Shixiang" says: Ten palms are two years old, ten palms are in February, and ten palms are two days old. In addition to counting years and months, twelve palms are also used to measure hours.

Twelve is also often used in other aspects. "Zuo Zhuan's seven years of mourning for the public" says, "Zhou Wang did things right, but there were only twelve. I thought there were many days. " "Mandarin Yu Jin Si" records that "the Yellow Emperor has twenty-five sons, and fourteen sons have surnames, which are twelve surnames". "The Biography of Gou Shuang in the Later Han Dynasty" said: "Therefore, the son of heaven married twelve women, and the number of days was also. There is an equal difference below the princes. "