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At the end of the Year of the Ox, it's time to rotate in the Year of the Tiger. How did the zodiac change hands?

In fact, the order of the zodiac is fixed, namely, the Year of Rat, the Year of Ox, the Year of Tiger, the Year of Rabbit, the Year of the Loong, year of the snake, the Year of Horse, the Year of Sheep, the Year of Monkey, the Year of Rooster, the Year of Dog and the Year of Pig.

First of all, many people don't know what order the zodiac is. This is mainly because modern people look at time according to the 12 hour system or the 24-hour system, while the ancients look at time according to time, and the zodiac signs are sorted according to their activity time.

First of all, rats usually move at night, that is, from 23:00 to the next morning 1, so they are also called offspring rats, while cows usually eat grass at 1- 3: 00 in the middle of the night to go to bed, so they are called? Ugly cow? . And from 3 am to 5 am, it is usually the stage when tigers come out for food, so it is called? Yin Hu? .

Rabbits usually go to courtship from five to seven in the morning, even if they can't open their eyes at this time, that's how hairy rabbits come. At that time, dragons are usually active, so they are called dragons and three snakes because snakes are active at this time.

Secondly, in ancient times, horses would run and bray everywhere at noon, so everyone called it the afternoon horse. In ancient times, the time for herding sheep was usually from/kloc-0 to 3 o'clock, so this stage was called sheep and goats, while monkeys usually went out for activities and foraging from 3 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, so people decided to apply for time as monkeys. From 5 to 7 o'clock in the afternoon, farmers would drive chickens, ducks and geese back to their cages, so the unified time represented.

Finally, dogs raised by the ancients were generally energetic and vigilant at night, so they represented dogs at noon, while pigs slept at 9: 00 p.m. 1 1 p.m., so Shihai represented pigs, and the order of the zodiac was from offspring to pigs, which was the same as their activity time.