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The Dog ( 狗) is eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the
The Dog ( 狗) is eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac
The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the lunar calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle. Originating from China, the zodiac and its variations remai ...
related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Dog is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 戌. The character 狗, also refers to the actual animal while 戌, also refers to the zodiac animal.
Years and the Five Elements
People born within these date ranges can be said to have been born in the "Year of the Dog", while also bearing the following elemental sign:
Basic astrology elements
2018
In thesexagenary cycle
The sexagenary cycle, also known as the Stems-and-Branches or ganzhi ( zh, 干支, gānzhī), is a cycle of sixty terms, each corresponding to one year, thus a total of sixty years for one cycle, historically used for recording time in China and t ...
, 2018 (16 February 2018–4 February 2019, and every 60-year multiple before and after), is the Celestial stem
The ten Heavenly Stems or Celestial Stems () are a Chinese system of ordinals that first appear during the Shang dynasty, c. 1250 BC, as the names of the ten days of the week. They were also used in Shang-period ritual as names for dead family mem ...
/ Earthly Branch year indicated by the characters 戊戌. For the 2018 Year of the Dog, many countries and regions issued lunar new year stamps. These included countries where the holiday is traditionally observed as well as countries in the Americas, Africa, Europe and Oceania. The U.S.-China Institute at USC created a web collection of more than 100 of these stamps.
See also
* Dog * Dog in Chinese mythology * Animal worshipReferences
Further reading
*External links
* {{Chinese Zodiac Chinese astrological signs Vietnamese astrological signs Mythological dogs Dogs in religion de:Chinesische Astrologie#Zählung ab Jahresbeginn