Chinese Zodiac and Chinese Era - What's the Relationship Between Them?

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 andrat
Earthly Branches. The Heavenly Stems(Chinese: •    01:00 – 03:00: 丑(Chinese Pin Yin:
天甘Tian Gan) contain tenChou) ox
and Earthly Branches (Chinese: 地支Di Zhi)•    03:00 – 05:00: 寅(Chinese Pin Yin: Yin)
contain twelve partstiger
,亥). The ancient people created this intelligent•    05:00 – 07:00: 卯(Chinese Pin Yin:
method to mark and divide years, months, days andMao) 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 informationChen) dragon
about yourself, you may forecast your own future•    09:00 – 11:00: 巳(Chinese Pin Yin: Si)
and understand your personality character accordingsnake
to the Chinese astrology.•    11:00 – 13:00: 午(Chinese Pin Yin: Wu)
Actually, Chinese Zodiac has certain similarities withhorse
the Western Zodiac, both of them have rotating•    13:00 – 15:00: 未(Chinese Pin Yin:
cycles divided into 12 parts, and both imply theWei) 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 ChineseShen) monkey
Zodiac which is not associated with constellations•    17:00 – 19:00: 酉(Chinese Pin Yin:
mainly associates with the years and the dividing ofYou) rooster
Western Zodiac bases on the months' changing.•    19:00 – 21:00: 戌(Chinese Pin Yin:
However, maybe it is a common misconception thatXu) dog
there are only the singular animals assigned by year.•    21:00 – 23:00: 亥(Chinese Pin Yin: Hai)
Many western descriptions of Chinese astrologypig
descriptions draw solely on this system. In fact, thereTherefore, if one person was born on Heavenly
are also animal signs assigned by month and hours ofStem 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 animalsthe contrary, if we know the person who were born
correspond are as follows. The 24 hours are dividedin 1986 or 1926, we could calculate his Heavenly
by these zodiac in a two-hour period and you willStem and Earthly Branch.
know which period belong to you if knowing whatIf you want to know more information of the
time you were born of a day. The first symbol is theinteresting knowledge on Chinese Zodiac related, you
time period, and the second symbol is the Earthlycan find and explore them from the Internet or buy
Branches character specifically used in astrology toa book for yourself.
denote the animal sign.