Who are the 12 zodiac signs?????

Another theory is that the selection and arrangement of the zodiac signs is determined according to the time of activity of the animal every day. At the latest, since the Han Dynasty, China has adopted the twelve hours of the day in the twelve earthly branch record books, each hour is equivalent to two sides and three knife hours, and the night is from eleven o'clock to one o'clock in the morning, when the rats are most active. From one to three o'clock in the morning, when it is ugly, the cows are ruminating.

From three o'clock to five o'clock, it is the time of yin, when the tigers roam around in search of food, and they are the most ferocious. From five o'clock to seven o'clock, when the sun has not yet risen, the moon is still hanging in the sky, and the jade rabbit is busy pounding medicine at this time. From 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., it is a good time for the dragon to rain.

From nine to eleven o'clock, the serpent began to come alive. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the sun is in full swing, and it is noon, which is the time when the imagination is in full swing. From one o'clock to three o'clock in the afternoon, it is the end of the day, when the sheep graze and grow stronger.

From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., the monkeys come alive. From five o'clock to seven o'clock, it is unitary time, and night falls, and the chickens begin to return to their nests. From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., the dogs began their vigil.

From 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., when everything was silent, the pigs were snoring.

There are also various legends about the arrangement of the zodiac, such stories, or jokes that seem to be happy and relieve boredom, or fables that depreciate evil and promote good, have a strong literary component. However, the arrangement of the zodiac seats is by no means overnight, nor can it be completed by one generation. At first, it was not necessarily a nomination of twelve at a time, maybe only four or five, maybe there was an excess situation, and then the survival of the fittest, the quota and positioning, has been passed down to this day.

Probably Zhou Yi or I Ching or something.

The 12 zodiac signs are composed of 12 animals that originate from nature, namely the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig and the legendary Dragon.

The 12 zodiac signs are the figurative representatives of the twelve earthly branches, namely Zi (Rat), Chou (Ox), Yin (Tiger), Mao (Rabbit), Chen (Dragon), Si (Snake), Wu (Horse), Wei (Sheep), Shen (Monkey), You (Rooster), 戌 (Dog), Hai (Pig), with the development of history gradually integrated into the concept of folk beliefs, manifested in marriage, life, New Year, etc., each zodiac has a rich legend.

Extended information: Many historical documents in China have not officially explained the reason for the ordering of the 12 zodiac signs, but there are different theories among the people.

The most widely influential is that the selection and arrangement of the 12 zodiac signs are based on the correspondence between animal habits and the time. In ancient times, the twelve hours of a day were recorded with twelve earthly branches, that is, Zichou Yin Mao Chen Si Wu Wei Shen Youxu Hai. Between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m., rats are found to be most active; Between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m., when the cow is regurgitating; Between 3 and 5 o'clock, the tiger begins to roam around in search of food, and ...... most ferociousAt the same time, the earthly branch matches the celestial stem, which was used in the old days to indicate the order of the years.

Therefore, the twelve earthly branches correspond to rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, and pigs.

1. The 12 zodiac signs, also known as the zodiac, are 12 kinds of animals in China that match the 12 earthly branches with the year of birth, including rats, oxes, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, and pigs;

2. The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship. According to the Qin Jian unearthed in Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land in Hubei Province and Fangmatan in Tianshui in Gansu Province, it can be seen that there was a relatively complete zodiac system in the pre-Qin period;

3. The zodiac is a figurative representative of the twelve earthly branches, namely the rat, the ugly cow, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the sheep, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, the pig, with the development of history gradually integrated into the concept of folk beliefs, manifested in marriage, life, fortune, etc., each zodiac has a rich legend, and forms a concept interpretation system, becoming the image philosophy in folk culture;

4. As a long-standing symbol of folk culture, the zodiac has left a large number of poems, spring couplets, paintings, calligraphy and paintings and folk crafts depicting the image and symbolism of the zodiac in the past dynasties. In addition to China, many countries around the world issue Chinese zodiac stamps during the Spring Festival as a way to express their wishes for the Chinese New Year.

The Chinese zodiac is a combination of 12 animals with the year of birth of a person with the 12 earthly branches, including rats, oxen, 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 Jian unearthed in Yunzhou, Hubei Province and Fangmatan in Tianshui, Gansu Province, it can be seen that there was a more complete zodiac system than trouser traces in the pre-Qin period. The earliest hand-me-down document that records the same 12 zodiac signs as in modern times is Wang Chong's "On Balance" in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The zodiac signs Chinese are: Rat, Wai, Dragon, Horse, Sheep, Rooster, and Pig.

Wu Xiao has: cows, tigers, snakes, monkeys, dogs.

Xi Xiao has: dragons, snakes, horses.

The 12 zodiac signs are arranged according to the month as follows: January is the month of the Tiger, February is the month of the Rabbit, March is called the month of the Dragon, April is called the month of the Snake, May is called the month of the Horse, June is called the month of the Goat, July is called the month of the Monkey, August is called the month of the Rooster, September is called the month of the dog, October is called the month of the pig, November is called the month of the Rat, and December is called the month of the ox.