Is the story of the zodiac mentioned in the Japanese anime Fruit Basket true?

This is not true. This is a Japanese story based on the China Zodiac.

The zodiac represents the astronomical phenomena and geography, not human character.

In real life, different people in the same year have completely different personalities, not to mention many people with different personalities in the same year; Different lifestyles; Different hobbies; Different origins; Different academic qualifications; Different life experiences; Different moral concepts; Different ways of speaking; Different judgment ability; Different endurance; Different psychological qualities, and so on. In real life, there are many people born in one year, but their personalities show many differences. Once again, it is proved that the "Zodiac" is not a representative, and the year has nothing to do with people's personality. The zodiac in the earthly branch cooperates with the ten-day trunk, recording the laws of the daily, monthly and earth movements.

origin

The origin of the zodiac is very early. At the end of the Warring States period, twelve animals with branches have appeared in the Qin bamboo slips Sleeping Tiger Land and the Japanese Book of Letting Horse Beach. Their names and branches are similar to those of the later zodiac, and their usage and divination logic are also similar to those of the later zodiac. Therefore, it can be inferred that the zodiac signs appearing in Qin bamboo slips of Sleeping Tiger Land and Japanese Fangmatan Book are the embryonic forms of the later zodiac signs. [1] The year of the zodiac began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. A letter written by Yuwen Hu's mother is recorded in the Biography of Northern History Yuwen Hu, which says: "Your brother was born in Wuchuan Town. The first one is a mouse, the second one is a rabbit, and you are a snake." Explain the folk usage of 12 zodiac at that time.

According to our ancient records, in the ancient Central Plains, the "chronology of branches and stems" was originally used, that is, 10 heavenly stems symbols (A, B, C, D, E (wù), Ji, Geng (gēng), Xin, Ren (rén) and Gui (guǐ). At the same time, there are also twelve kinds of animals that simply determine the year. By the Sui Dynasty, the calendar of the Central Plains had spread to the nomadic people in the northwest of China, and they only absorbed twelve kinds of animal chronologies. Therefore, it is recorded in the Book of the Tang Dynasty: "Tuoba Sinian is bounded by twelve things. If the year is cloudy, it is called the year of the tiger. "

In addition, the History of the Song Dynasty, The Biography of Tubo, also records that when the Tubo leaders narrate, they take events as a chronology. As the saying goes, "Twelve old things belong to Japan, the Year of the Rabbit and the Year of the Horse". As Zhao Yi pointed out in the Qing Dynasty's "Examination of Jade Cong", "The ugliness of ugly children, at the beginning of the custom of covering the north, doesn't matter whether it is ugly or not, but in the next year, it was spread in China, so it didn't waste its ears." This explanation about the origin of 12 zodiac has been recognized by many people.

In addition, the story about the origin of 12 is as follows: Hong Xun's Miscellanies of Yanggu says that the odd-numbered earthly branches of 12 are also equipped with odd-numbered fingers or hooves of animals. If the child is in the first place, the matching mouse is 5 fingers, and if the ground branch is even, the name is even, such as cow, ugly and so on. Ye Shijie explained the origin of Cao Zhong 12 Zodiac as follows: the painter matched 12 with 12, and each Xiao had its own shortcomings, such as toothless mice, toothless cows, toothless tigers, toothless rabbits, toothless dragons, legless snakes, gutless horses, eyeless sheep and legless monkeys.

There are other kinds of sayings. For example, the Yellow Emperor should choose 12 kinds of animals to be on duty in the sky on time. Through the competition, rats, cows, tigers and other 12 animals were selected. 12 Zodiac originated from the totem worship of some clans in primitive society, and was divided according to the strength of each tribe at a meeting; 12 Zodiac may have been introduced by Tianzhu; Or 28 stars are distributed in a week or so, and the value is 12 hours. Each star is named after an animal. Choose a common animal on duty every hour as an agent for a certain year, and so on.

Although people can't determine the exact origin of the 12 zodiac, it has been used to this day because of its popularity, convenience and interest, and has become a valuable legacy with practical value left by the ancients.

One legend is that ...

The origin of the zodiac

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