The Jade emperor told the animals tomorrow there will be a river crossing race, and the first twelve animals to reach the finish line will become the zodiac animals. The news excited all the animals, and they hoped to become one of the twelve zodiac animals. 玉皇大帝告诉动物们,明天将有一...
The story of the Chinese Zodiac Animal Race determines the 12 Chinese zodiac animals and their orders.
Through a deep consideration, the Jade Emperor decided to hold an animal crossing race on his birthday and take the first twelve animals as the zodiac to calculate years. When the news got around, all the animals were riveted and eager to find a place in the twelve zodiac signs. Among the...
Story of Chinese Zodiac - The Great Race Long ago, in very ancient China, there were no years, or days, or hours. The sun rose and fell without anyone knowing how much time had passed, as there was no way of telling. One day, the Jade Emperor realized that he did not know how ol...
Beside the tricks that rat played in the great race story of the Chinese zodiac, there are other legends about its priority in those animals. In Chinese mythology about the origin of world, the universe was in dark without form like an egg before the earth and heaven was separated. It was...
As the story goes, Yù Dì, or Jade Emperor, Ruler of the Heavens, wanted to devise a way to measure time, so he organized a race. The first twelve animals to make it across the river would earn a spot on the zodiac calendar in the order they arrived. The rat rose with the sun ...
"Be that as it may," said the Emperor, "the twelfth and final year will be the year of the pig." "The Great Race is over!" said the Emperor. "Let us celebrate." But just then, there came a terrible howling from the reeds. ...
Do you know how we get the Chinese Zodiac( 生肖)?Well, this is the story of the great race.Long ago, the Jade Emperor(玉皇大帝)invited all the animals to a race across a great river. The Emperor wanted to name the years after the first twelve animals to finish the race.On the ...
Speaking of the rabbit as a Chinese zodiac sign, there is an interesting folk legend about Rabbit-Ox Race. In the race, the rabbit only got the fourth position after the rat, the ox and the tiger.
Why is the cat not in the Chinese zodiac(生肖)?There is a famous Chinese folk(民间) story about this. The Jade Emperor(玉皇大帝) invited allanimals to take part in a race. The first 12 animals to finish the race would become part of the zodiac.At that time, the cat and the rat ...