The Rooster () is the tenth of the 12-year cycle of
animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Kingdom (biology), biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals Heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, are Motilit ...
s 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 remain ...
related to the
Chinese calendar
The traditional Chinese calendar (also known as the Agricultural Calendar ž˛ć; ĺĺ; ''NĂłnglĂŹ''; 'farming calendar' Former Calendar ć; ć§ĺ; ''JiĂšlĂŹ'' Traditional Calendar ć; čĺ; ''LÇolĂŹ'', is a lunisolar calendar ...
. The Year of the Rooster is represented by the
Earthly Branch
The twelve Earthly Branches or Terrestrial Branches are a Chinese ordering system used throughout East Asia in various contexts, including its ancient dating system, astrological traditions, zodiac and ordinals.
Origin
This system was buil ...
symbol
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In the
Tibetan zodiac and the
Gurung zodiac, the bird is in place of the
Rooster
The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult m ...
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Years and the five elements
People born within these date ranges can be said to have been born in the "Year of the Rooster", while bearing the following
elemental
An elemental is a mythic being that is described in occult and alchemical works from around the time of the European Renaissance, and particularly elaborated in the 16th century works of Paracelsus. According to Paracelsus and his subsequent fo ...
signs:
Basic astrology elements
See also
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Rooster
The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult m ...
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Birds in Chinese mythology
Birds in Chinese mythology and legend are of numerous types and very important in this regard. Some of them are obviously based on real birds, other ones obviously not, and some in-between. The crane is an example of a real type of bird with my ...
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Fenghuang
''Fènghuång'' (, ) are mythological birds found in Sinospheric mythology that reign over all other birds. The males were originally called ''fèng'' and the females ''huång'', but such a distinction of gender is often no longer made and ...
References
Further reading
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Chinese astrological signs
Vietnamese astrological signs
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Birds in mythology
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