All Verdens Eventry: KINA
Just as you have 12 zodiac signs, we have 12 animal signs. The system is similar to the zodiac system, as they both go in circle. The difference is that our animals cycle in twelve years instead of 12 months. It means that everyone who’s born in the same year share the same animal sign. The twelve animals are: rat/mouse, ox/buffalo, tiger, rabbit/hare, dragon, snake, horse, sheep/goat, monkey, hen/rooster, dog, and pig. We have so many / not because in China we could tell the difference between sheep and goat or rabbit and hare, and so on. It’s because in Chinese we have a shared name for the animals in the same family. F.eg. sheep and goats have a shared name called 羊 (Yang)，and sheep are 绵羊 (Mian Yang) which means 羊 with wool, and goat 山羊 (Shan Yang) which means 羊 in the mountains.
Feel free to use the patterns here to clip your own paper cuttings of Chinese animal signs. :)
