| Chinese Zodiac has a big relationship with Chinese Era | | | | • 23:00 – 01:00: 子 (Chinese Pin Yin: Zi) |
| which is the combination of the Heavenly Stems and | | | | rat |
| Earthly Branches. The Heavenly Stems(Chinese: | | | | • 01:00 – 03:00: 丑(Chinese Pin Yin: |
| 天甘Tian Gan) contain ten | | | | Chou) ox |
| and Earthly Branches (Chinese: 地支Di Zhi) | | | | • 03:00 – 05:00: 寅(Chinese Pin Yin: Yin) |
| contain twelve parts | | | | tiger |
| ,亥). The ancient people created this intelligent | | | | • 05:00 – 07:00: 卯(Chinese Pin Yin: |
| method to mark and divide years, months, days and | | | | Mao) rabbit |
| hours with Chinese Zodiac and Chinese Era. And if | | | | • 07:00 – 09:00: 辰(Chinese Pin Yin: |
| people could know exactly about all these information | | | | Chen) dragon |
| about yourself, you may forecast your own future | | | | • 09:00 – 11:00: 巳(Chinese Pin Yin: Si) |
| and understand your personality character according | | | | snake |
| to the Chinese astrology. | | | | • 11:00 – 13:00: 午(Chinese Pin Yin: Wu) |
| Actually, Chinese Zodiac has certain similarities with | | | | horse |
| the Western Zodiac, both of them have rotating | | | | • 13:00 – 15:00: 未(Chinese Pin Yin: |
| cycles divided into 12 parts, and both imply the | | | | Wei) goat |
| influence of each sign on a person's personality. | | | | • 15:00 – 17:00: 申(Chinese Pin Yin: |
| Maybe the difference between them is that Chinese | | | | Shen) monkey |
| Zodiac which is not associated with constellations | | | | • 17:00 – 19:00: 酉(Chinese Pin Yin: |
| mainly associates with the years and the dividing of | | | | You) rooster |
| Western Zodiac bases on the months' changing. | | | | • 19:00 – 21:00: 戌(Chinese Pin Yin: |
| However, maybe it is a common misconception that | | | | Xu) dog |
| there are only the singular animals assigned by year. | | | | • 21:00 – 23:00: 亥(Chinese Pin Yin: Hai) |
| Many western descriptions of Chinese astrology | | | | pig |
| descriptions draw solely on this system. In fact, there | | | | Therefore, if one person was born on Heavenly |
| are also animal signs assigned by month and hours of | | | | Stem 丙 and Earthly Branch 寅, we could know |
| the day. | | | | he was born under Tiger year of 1986 or 1926...; on |
| For example, the label-hour of day with 12 animals | | | | the contrary, if we know the person who were born |
| correspond are as follows. The 24 hours are divided | | | | in 1986 or 1926, we could calculate his Heavenly |
| by these zodiac in a two-hour period and you will | | | | Stem and Earthly Branch. |
| know which period belong to you if knowing what | | | | If you want to know more information of the |
| time you were born of a day. The first symbol is the | | | | interesting knowledge on Chinese Zodiac related, you |
| time period, and the second symbol is the Earthly | | | | can find and explore them from the Internet or buy |
| Branches character specifically used in astrology to | | | | a book for yourself. |
| denote the animal sign. | | | | |