What is the next sheep in the zodiac?

The monkey ranks ninth in the zodiac, and it is associated with the twelve branches, so the "divine hour" at twelve o'clock in the day-from three to five in the afternoon is also called "monkey hour".

The zodiac is an intuitive representation of the twelve earthly branches, namely, Zi (mouse), Ugly (ox), Yin (tiger), Mao (rabbit), Chen (dragon), Si (snake), Wu (horse), Wei (sheep), Shen (monkey), You (chicken) and Xu (chicken).

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The origin of the zodiac is very early. At the end of the Warring States period, the twelve zodiac signs have appeared in Qin bamboo slips of Sleeping Tiger Land and Fangmatan, which are similar to the later zodiac signs in terms of animal names and branch arrangement, and their usage methods and divination logic are also similar to those of the later zodiac signs.

Therefore, it can be inferred that the Zodiac with branches appearing in the Qin bamboo slips "Tianshu" of Shuihudi and Fangmatan should be the embryonic form of the Zodiac in later generations. The zodiac calendar 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.

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