Do you mean Zodiacs? Zodiacs are for years.
Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Chicken, Dog, Pig
Zodiacs were placed in order by order. There is this myth that they had a race. So the rat won.
The Chinese lunar calendar does not use months, rather divisions. The Chinese lunar calendar has 24 divisions in a year.
The Chinese Zodiac is based on years, not months.
There are 12 months in the Chinese calendar. They are, the rat, the ox, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the sheep, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, and the pig.The above are the animals of the zodiac, not the months. There are twelve months in the Chinese calendar though, and a leap year has thirteen.
because the months
A syrian hamster can have babies from 3 months old Chinese from 6 months and roberski and Russian from 7 months.
because anmials were important to them
Two months for dwarfs and syrians, three for chinese, and four for roborovski.
Well Aries is a sign in the Greek zodiac. There is a sign in the Chinese one that is the Ram, but the Chinese zodiac is sorted by years, the Greek one by months.
they symbolize the 12 months of the year
I went online and read some of the rules of the Chinese calendar. To me, it seemsvery complicated, and I'm not sure I understand it.This is what I think it says about the beginning of the year:-- Chinese months are not related to the Gregorian months. Each Chinese monthstarts at the time of a New Moon.-- The Chinese year has sometimes 12 months and sometimes 13 months.-- The "Winter Solstice" ... the first day of Winter, usually on December 21 or 22 or 23 ...is always in the Chinese month #11. So the Chinese New Year will start on the secondNew Moon after that.-- The Chinese New Year in 2013 starts on February 10th. (New Moon).
The animals on the Chinese zodiac don't stand for months. They stand for years. The year 2013 is the Year of the Snake.
i heard that it was around 3 months from somewhere