Zodiac sequence diagram

How did the order of the zodiac come from? It is said that there is a story? The origin of the zodiac

It is said that one day, the Jade Emperor called all the heavenly soldiers, generals and ministers of civil and military affairs to a meeting.

The Jade Emperor said: I want to divide time into twelve-year cycles. what do you think?

Ministers replied: Your Majesty is wise.

Then the jade emperor said, but I have a question. I'm going to use animals to distinguish these twelve years and divide them into twelve zodiac signs, but I don't know what animals to use, so I want to listen to your family's opinions. I wonder which one has a good proposal.

After a silence, Prince Taibai spoke: The holy family does not hold animal races. It is a great honor to stipulate that 12 people who first arrived in Kunlun Mountain can be listed as the zodiac. I believe many animals will participate.

Hearing this, the Jade Emperor thought the suggestion was very good and decided to adopt it. Then the jade emperor immediately asked the messenger to convey the news of the game to all the animals on the earth.

When the cat and the mouse got the news, they set off for the competition together (at this time, the cat and the mouse are very good friends). But on the morning of the game, the mouse had a bad heart. He added sleeping pills to the milk for the cat. The cat fell asleep after drinking, and the mouse set off alone. The mouse thought, I started so early and the cat fell asleep again. Then the champion must be mine.

The mouse thought and ran, and suddenly found the cow in front. It turns out that cows are also very diligent animals, so they set off early in the morning. The mouse wants to say: anyway, the cow is so big that he won't find me hiding on him, so I can easily reach the finish line.

So the mouse hid on the cow. After a while, I finally arrived at Kunlun Mountain. Before I reached the finish line, the mouse saw the opportunity, so I jumped forward and reached the finish line first, winning the first place, and the cow won the second place.

However, after this incident, cats and mice became sworn enemies. Every time a cat sees a mouse, it will catch up and take revenge. The mouse often hides in the dark, fearing that the cat will find him.

Next, I will talk about why the tiger won the third place. Because the cat and the tiger are relatives, after the cat was cheated, he was very angry and went to the tiger, hoping that the tiger could avenge him. Tiger is a loyal person. As soon as he heard the cat's request, he agreed, and he flew like a kite. He rushed to Kunlun Mountain to avenge the cat.

Because the tiger ran very fast, he reached Kunlun Mountain before other animals arrived, so the jade emperor awarded him the third place, but the tiger didn't come for a purpose. He looked for the whereabouts of the mouse everywhere on the mountain, but he couldn't find it, so the tiger said to everyone, whoever meets the mouse in the future will give him a hit.

Because the tiger is too fierce, no one dares to go against his words, so from now on, as long as anyone sees the mouse, they will chase it. This is the origin of the mouse crossing the street and everyone shouting.

Then the rabbit. Before taking part in this competition, the rabbit took part in a tortoise-hare race, which delayed a little time and lost. When he reached the finish line at a fast speed, he asked the Jade Emperor: Am I the first one? But the jade emperor said, no, the mouse comes first. The rabbit cried and said sadly, I didn't expect to run so hard and only ran second. The Jade Emperor said again: No, cows are second. The rabbit cried again and said, why did I win the third place? I'm really unwilling. The Jade Emperor said: No, you came fourth, and the tiger came third. The rabbit can't help crying again, which is why the rabbit's eyes are always red. And the origin of the idiom "a sly rabbit cries three times".

Then there are dragons and snakes. Because they are very similar, they became sworn brothers and participated in the competition together, and they reached the finish line almost at the same time. However, due to the large size of the dragon, they blocked the small snake, so the jade emperor saw the dragon first and then the snake, so he decided that the dragon was the fifth and the snake was the sixth.

Just after they crossed the finish line, the dragon accidentally slipped and hit the snake, so they got entangled and rolled down the hillside. Because of their tangled appearance, they look messy. > & gt

Zodiac animals are arranged in order: 1 mouse, 2 cows, 3 tigers, 4 rabbits, 5 dragons, 6 snakes, 7 horses, 8 sheep, 9 monkeys, 1 chicken,1dog and 12 pig.

The animal worship of primitive people is also manifested in primitive dances such as Nuo dance, which was produced around the Zhou Dynasty, and the protagonist in Nuo instrument is Fang and twelve beasts. Twelve kinds of animals are selected in Exorcism Dance, which is a manifestation of primitive people's reverence for animals. The twelve beasts (or the Twelve Gods) selected at the ceremony are to take care of the twelve months of the year, to drive away plagues and ghosts from all directions and to take care of the twelve directions for the safety of each month. Of course, the care of the twelve directions involves twelve branches, so it is linked with the zodiac, and the zodiac has been well used in the exorcism ceremony. It can be seen that the twelve animals and the zodiac are in the same strain, and their common source is primitive animal worship.

Mr. Liu Yaohan, a ethnologist, believes that the dates of the zodiac and the "Zodiac" are related to the "October Calendar" method of the Yi people. Yi people living in Daliangshan area of Sichuan have a calendar with twelve kinds of animals as the date of the year. They use twelve kinds of animals as the date of the year. Today is the Year of the Rat and tomorrow is the Year of the Ox. By analogy, three rounds is a month, 36 days, a month is 36 days, and a year is ten months. This is the later "October calendar" method. Mr. Liu Yaohan believes that the October calendar, which marks the dates according to the Chinese zodiac, came into being in the Xia and Yu Dynasties (see Liu Yaohan's Collection of Social and Historical Investigation of Yi People), which is related to the primitive totem worship. The zodiac was influenced by the October calendar, and the Yi zodiac calendar later developed into the zodiac.

When we talk about the origin of the zodiac, we must associate it with heavenly stems and earthly branches. The oldest existing branch table in China unearthed from the Yin Ruins in Anyang in modern times shows that the date of branches in the Yin and Shang Dynasties has been mastered. Later, with the passage of time, the functions of the branches gradually diversified. As a label as a time unit, on the one hand, it is extended and used in chronology; On the one hand, it reduces the time (twelve hours a day). According to historical records and textual research, the zodiac appeared after the establishment of the "branch chronology" Twelve kinds of animals correspond to the twelve earthly branches one by one, and animals are the signs of earthly branches. People born in the same year all have their own animals, so twelve kinds of animals are used to date the year and calculate each person's zodiac. It can be seen that the zodiac and the twelve earthly branches are inseparable. For a long time, scholars have found that the ancient Chinese characters of the zodiac contain the information of the zodiac. They compared the ancient Chinese characters of the Chinese zodiac with those of the Chinese zodiac, and found that the ancient Chinese characters of the Chinese zodiac were related to twelve kinds of animals. Careful observation shows that there are some similarities and some differences. In Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the word "Ji" was described as a pictographic character of a snake, as well as "Hai" and "tapir". People nearby have also verified that there are similarities between the characters of the earthly branches in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the inscriptions on bronze inscriptions and the characters of the zodiac, which makes people wonder whether the zodiac is the pictographic characters of the animals of the zodiac. Because the ugly shade and ugly hair of the twelve earthly branches are easy to remember, people use twelve kinds of animals instead, and animals instead of ordinal symbols to match the earthly branches, which has become the symbol system of the year. Although the above conjecture has certain credibility, if you think about it carefully, you can still judge that the zodiac can't be pictographs of the zodiac, because as mentioned earlier, the zodiac was skillfully used in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, while the zodiac was only produced in the Spring and Autumn Period and came from different sources. If the earthly branches are related to the zodiac when creating characters, wouldn't the zodiac be produced at the same time as the earthly branches?

To sum up, the author thinks that the zodiac appeared later than the twelve earthly branches, but it is closely related to the twelve earthly branches. The zodiac is an appendage of the twelve earthly branches. Choosing twelve animals as symbols instead of the twelve earthly branches stems from the animal worship psychology of the ancients.

2. Selection and arrangement of the zodiac

The choice of the zodiac is not complicated, but it is close to the daily life and social life of the Han people, which can be guessed. Zodiac animals can be roughly divided into three categories: one is the "six animals" domesticated by human beings, namely cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, dogs and chickens. Animals domesticated by human beings for economic or other purposes account for half of the Zodiac animals. "Six Livestock" is an important concept in China agricultural culture with a long history. In the traditional concept of China people, "Six Livestock Flourishing" represents the prosperity, auspiciousness and beauty of the family. During the Spring Festival, people usually talk about "the prosperity of six animals", so it is inevitable that these six animals will become the zodiac. The second category is well-known wild animals, which are closely related to people's daily and social life. They are tigers, rabbits, monkeys, rats and snakes, and some of them participate in human life with awe, such as tigers and snakes. There are also rodents that people hate and taboo, but they rely on human beings to survive; More popular ... >>

What is the order of the zodiac? 1, the origin of the zodiac

As an ancient folk cultural phenomenon, scholars have different opinions about the origin of the zodiac. Some people think that the zodiac and earthly branches are homologous and can be traced back to prehistoric legend times. In Historical Records, the Yellow Emperor's statements of "building Jiazi for life" and "making every effort to cure Jiazi" are the embodiment of this statement, and scholars believe that Jiazi here refers to the zodiac. Zhao Yi, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, believed that the zodiac originated from nomadic people in northern China. He said in "An Examination of Jade Congkao": "At first, there was no such thing as ugliness on the 12th day, but in the next year, it spread to China, and it was worthy of your ears." (see Qing? Zhao Yi's Language Congkao). Some scholars even think that the zodiac was introduced to China from Babylon. The representative of this view is Guo Moruo, who wrote in The Study of Oracle Characters? Shi Zhigan said: "Twelve Xiaoxiangs are found in Babylon, Egypt and India, but they are not very old, and they did not come from the Western Dynasty 100 years ago. The original intention is that this was made in the Western countries during the Han Dynasty, imitating the Babylonian zodiac and then spreading to the surrounding areas. " It is believed that the Chinese Zodiac was formulated by Middle Eastern residents imitating the Babylonian Zodiac, and was introduced to China when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty communicated with the western regions. The above viewpoints are different, so I dare not judge right or wrong subjectively. However, it is proved by a large number of documents that the Chinese zodiac really originated in China, and it is the crystallization of animal worship, totem worship and early astronomy of China ancestors.

The Book of Songs is the earliest record of the zodiac in the existing literature. The Book of Songs? Xiaoya? There are eight words for "auspicious day", which means auspicious day, and it is a good day for prancing hunting. This is an example of a horse in the afternoon. It can be seen that the corresponding relationship between earthly branches and twelve kinds of animals has been established and spread around the Spring and Autumn Period. The bamboo slips 1975 unearthed from tomb1in Shuihudi, Yunmeng County, Hubei Province, further proved that the zodiac had existed before and after the Spring and Autumn Period. There is a chapter on "Thief" in the bamboo slips unearthed in Japan, which talks about the appearance characteristics of thieves, and records: "Son, mouse, thief wants his mouth, ... ugly, cow, thief with big nose and long neck, ... yin, tiger, thief, if he wants his beard, his face is black." Hair, rabbits, thieves are big. Chen, [the original leaked] the thief is a man, green and red ... already, insects are also, thieves grow black. At noon, the deer is also a thief with a long neck and a small Q, and his body is incomplete. ..... No, horse, thieves have ears. ",ring also, thief round face ..."

The zodiac recorded in Japanese books is roughly the same as the popular saying now. According to textual research, the tomb of Shuihudi 1 1 was in the 30th year of Qin Shihuang (2 17 BC), so the appearance of the zodiac can be traced back to at least the Spring and Autumn Period before Qin Dynasty. Scholars believe that this is the earliest and most systematic record of the zodiac found in China so far.

Exactly the same as today's popular zodiac is the record of Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Wang Chong's On Balance? Material potential "includes:

"Yin, wood, its bird, tiger. Soil, its birds and dogs are also. ..... At noon, the horse also arrived. Son, mouse, unitary, chicken. Hair, rabbits, too. ..... hey, tapir. No, so are sheep. Ugly, cattle also. ..... already, the snake also. Shen, Qitian also. "

In the above text, there are eleven kinds of animals in the zodiac, but the dragon is gone. The book Poison says:

"Chen is a dragon, a snake. Chen and Ji are in the southeast. "

In this way, the zodiac is complete, exactly the same as the popular zodiac. This is indeed the earliest and most complete record of the zodiac in ancient literature. .

By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the zodiac had been widely used. There have been specific records in the Five Elements Annals. According to the year of birth, people belong to an animal. Southern dynasties? Chen? The poet Shen Jiong once wrote a poem about the zodiac, which said:

"In the case of mice and dust, cattle and sheep fall at dusk.

Tigers sit in empty valleys for food, and rabbits open windows to the moon.

The dragon ridge is far green, and the snake willow lingers near.

Ma Lanfang is far away and breeds sheep in spring.

The monkey chestnut shames the fragrant fruit, and the chicken anvil leads to a clear cup.

A dog cares about things, but a pig is carefree. "

This poem of the zodiac is obviously written in the order of animals assigned by the twelve branches, which shows that people at that time were already very familiar with the zodiac.

It is clear from the above documents that the origin of Zodiac culture is in China. According to the foreign zodiac, the zodiac was introduced to China from the Middle East in the Han Dynasty, which was similar to the time when Buddhism was introduced. From the above documents, we prove that there were records about the zodiac in China as early as the Spring and Autumn Period (The Book of Heaven and the Book of Songs), indicating that the birth of the zodiac and the collocation of the zodiac and the earthly branches had been produced as early as the Han Dynasty, so it can be agreed that ...

How to specify the order of the zodiac? 1 mouse 2 cows 3 tigers 4 rabbits 5 dragons 6 snakes 7 horses 8 sheep 9 monkeys 10 chicken1/dog 12 pig.

The animal worship of primitive people is also manifested in primitive dances such as Nuo dance, which was produced around the Zhou Dynasty, and the protagonist in Nuo instrument is Fang and twelve beasts. Twelve kinds of animals are selected in Exorcism Dance, which is a manifestation of primitive people's reverence for animals. The twelve beasts (or the Twelve Gods) selected at the ceremony are to take care of the twelve months of the year, to drive away plagues and ghosts from all directions and to take care of the twelve directions for the safety of each month. Of course, the care of the twelve directions involves twelve branches, so it is linked with the zodiac, and the zodiac has been well used in the exorcism ceremony. It can be seen that the twelve animals and the zodiac are in the same strain, and their common source is primitive animal worship.

Mr. Liu Yaohan, a ethnologist, believes that the dates of the zodiac and the "Zodiac" are related to the "October Calendar" method of the Yi people. Yi people living in Daliangshan area of Sichuan have a calendar with twelve kinds of animals as the date of the year. They use twelve kinds of animals as the date of the year. Today is the Year of the Rat and tomorrow is the Year of the Ox. By analogy, three rounds is a month, 36 days, a month is 36 days, and a year is ten months. This is the later "October calendar" method. Mr. Liu Yaohan believes that the October calendar, which marks the dates according to the Chinese zodiac, came into being in the Xia and Yu Dynasties (see Liu Yaohan's Collection of Social and Historical Investigation of Yi People), which is related to the primitive totem worship. The zodiac was influenced by the October calendar, and the Yi zodiac calendar later developed into the zodiac.

When we talk about the origin of the zodiac, we must associate it with heavenly stems and earthly branches. The oldest existing branch table in China unearthed from the Yin Ruins in Anyang in modern times shows that the date of branches in the Yin and Shang Dynasties has been mastered. Later, with the passage of time, the functions of the branches gradually diversified. As a label as a time unit, on the one hand, it is extended and used in chronology; On the one hand, it reduces the time (twelve hours a day). According to historical records and textual research, the zodiac appeared after the establishment of the "branch chronology" Twelve kinds of animals correspond to the twelve earthly branches one by one, and animals are the signs of earthly branches. People born in the same year all have their own animals, so twelve kinds of animals are used to date the year and calculate each person's zodiac. It can be seen that the zodiac and the twelve earthly branches are inseparable. For a long time, scholars have found that the ancient Chinese characters of the zodiac contain the information of the zodiac. They compared the ancient Chinese characters of the Chinese zodiac with those of the Chinese zodiac, and found that the ancient Chinese characters of the Chinese zodiac were related to twelve kinds of animals. Careful observation shows that there are some similarities and some differences. In Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the word "Ji" was described as a pictographic character of a snake, as well as "Hai" and "tapir". People nearby have also verified that there are similarities between the characters of the earthly branches in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the inscriptions on bronze inscriptions and the characters of the zodiac, which makes people wonder whether the zodiac is the pictographic characters of the animals of the zodiac. Because the ugly shade and ugly hair of the twelve earthly branches are easy to remember, people use twelve kinds of animals instead, and animals instead of ordinal symbols to match the earthly branches, which has become the symbol system of the year. Although the above conjecture has certain credibility, if you think about it carefully, you can still judge that the zodiac can't be pictographs of the zodiac, because as mentioned earlier, the zodiac was skillfully used in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, while the zodiac was only produced in the Spring and Autumn Period and came from different sources. If the earthly branches are related to the zodiac when creating characters, wouldn't the zodiac be produced at the same time as the earthly branches?

To sum up, the author thinks that the zodiac appeared later than the twelve earthly branches, but it is closely related to the twelve earthly branches. The zodiac is an appendage of the twelve earthly branches. Choosing twelve animals as symbols instead of the twelve earthly branches stems from the animal worship psychology of the ancients.

2. Selection and arrangement of the zodiac

The choice of the zodiac is not complicated, but it is close to the daily life and social life of the Han people, which can be guessed. Zodiac animals can be roughly divided into three categories: one is the "six animals" domesticated by human beings, namely cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, dogs and chickens. Animals domesticated by human beings for economic or other purposes account for half of the Zodiac animals. "Six Livestock" is an important concept in China agricultural culture with a long history. In the traditional concept of China people, "Six Livestock Flourishing" represents the prosperity, auspiciousness and beauty of the family. During the Spring Festival, people usually talk about "the prosperity of six animals", so it is inevitable that these six animals will become the zodiac. The second category is well-known wild animals, which are closely related to people's daily and social life. They are tigers, rabbits, monkeys, rats and snakes, and some of them participate in human life with awe, such as tigers and snakes. There are also people who are disgusted and taboo, but they value human life ... >>

What is 20 16? The order of the zodiac is the Year of the Monkey. There are monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs, rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses and sheep.

12 How to make a fool of the Chinese zodiac? At noon, Tatsumi and Shen You guard the sea.

Corresponding: mouse, cow, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and pig.

Hand, hope to adopt.

20 15 12 Zodiac Numbering Order 20 15 Zodiac Fortune Ranking \ r \ nFirst place: people who belong to dogs \ r \ nBirth year of people who belong to dogs: 1946, 1958,/kloc. \ r \ n 2065 438+05 Overall fortune of dog people: People who belong to the dog in the zodiac are very lucky this year, because there are lucky stars in the life palace, so although there will be quarrels, they can all turn around Gan Kun. 20 15 There are many personnel disputes, but as long as you don't haggle over every ounce, you can live in peace. And the lawsuit can be avoided, because the loss outweighs the gain. \ r \ nSecond place: Rat \ r \ nWhat year of rat: 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972,1984,65438+. \ r \ n 2065 438+05 The overall fortune of people who belong to the rat: People who belong to the rat in the zodiac have a good fortune this year, much better than last year, especially in career development, so as not to miss the opportunity. \ r \ nThird place: people who belong to monkeys \ r \ nWhat year are people who belong to monkeys: 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2002. \r\n20 15 overall fortune of people who belong to the monkey: People who belong to the monkey in the zodiac have a good fortune this year, but they must pay attention to their health and don't overwork, otherwise they may lose more than they gain.

What is the order of the size of the zodiac? One mouse and two cows, three tigers and four rabbits, five dragons and six snakes, seven horses and eight sheep, nine monkeys and ten chickens, eleven yellow dogs and twelve pig heads.

What zodiac signs are there in the original order? Rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs.