Which zodiac sign has a long history?

The genus is 12 kinds of animals, because every year there is a Xiao, the 12 animals correspond to the 12 earth branches in the stem branch, that is, the child rat.

Ugly Ox, Yin Tiger, Mao Rabbit, Chenlong, Si Snake, Wu Ma, Wei Yang, Shen Monkey, Rooster, Hu Dog, Hai Pig. According to historical records, China's cadre branch chronology.

As early as the legendary Yao Shun era, and the method of corresponding twelve animals and earthly branches as human physiognomy was first seen in Wang Chong's "Treatise on Balance" in the Eastern Han Dynasty

Above: "The fowl and mouse of the son, the beast and the rabbit of the mao", it can be seen that it is only more than 2,000 years old at most. There are three main theories about its origin.

The first theory is that there are 12 genera.

It is the product of the integration of the ancient Chinese nation and the ethnic minority chronology in China. According to historical records, the Central Plains of China before the Han Dynasty.

The Huaxia tribe has only twelve earthly branches.

There is no chronology of animals with land branches; The ethnic minorities living in the north and west of our country, because they have been engaged in nomadism for a long time, are accustomed to using animals to refer to many things, so they have created a method of using animals to date the year. The Xiongnu were attached to the Han Dynasty in Huhan, and lived together with the Han people in Wuyuan, and the culture was integrated, so the twelve genera were produced. The Tufan country established by the Tibetan compatriots in history also uses the "Twelve Chen" animal chronology, and the Tibetan calendar still uses the method of matching metal, wood, water, fire, earth and the twelve genera.

The second theory holds that the twelve phases were created by the Chinese people. It is influenced by the ancient animal totem worship, with some animal names to match the abstract twelve earthly branches. Some animals may also be ** in ancient literature, the ancients divided the sky near the ecliptic (the annual orbit of the sun) into twelve equal divisions (twelve chens), from east to west with the names of the twelve earthly branches, and there are giant snakes, scorpions, pegasus and other constellation names, so they are applied to the twelve genera.

The third theory is that it came from India. Because India also has twelve genera, and they are arranged in the same order, the difference is that the third genus is the lion in India, and the tenth is the goldfinch in India. But tigers and lions are all animals, and chickens and birds are birds, which are very similar.

The horoscope is estimated to be in ancient Greece.

It's time to appear.

In ancient Chinese civilization, there was a definition of constellations, but it did not express the meaning that we ordinary people understand now.

It should be a little farther away.

It is obvious that the constellation is early, the rat, the ugly cow, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the sheep, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, and the pig. The twelve animals correspond to the twelve earthly branches of the trunk branches.

Never mind! In fact, the constellation is European, and the genus is Chinese. It doesn't matter at all.