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The Rooster () is the tenth of the 12-year cycle of
The Rooster () is the tenth of the 12-year cycle of animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in ...
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 remai ...
related to the Chinese calendar
The traditional Chinese calendar (also known as the Agricultural Calendar ��曆; 农历; ''Nónglì''; 'farming calendar' Former Calendar ��曆; 旧历; ''Jiùlì'' Traditional Calendar ��曆; 老历; ''Lǎolì'', 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 built ...
symbol 酉.
In the Tibetan zodiac and the Gurung zodiac, the bird is in place of the Rooster.
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 signs:Basic astrology elements
See also
* Rooster *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 ...
*Fenghuang
''Fènghuáng'' (, ) are mythological birds found in Sinospheric mythology that reign over all other birds. The males were originally called ''fèng'' and the females ''huáng'', but such a distinction of gender is often no longer made and ...
References
Further reading
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* {{Chinese Zodiac Mythological and legendary Chinese birds Chinese astrological signs Vietnamese astrological signs Legendary birds Birds in mythology de:Chinesische Astrologie#Zählung ab Jahresbeginn