Chinese New Year Zodiac Race
The race for the chinese zodiac is an enchanting book written by gabrielle wang and illustrated by sally rippin.
Chinese new year zodiac race. The tiger had some trouble crossing the river. Following rat ox are tiger rabbit dragon snake horse sheep monkey rooster dog pig. Many years ago in china the jade emperor wanted to measure time to work out how old he was.
Each sign is named after an animal and each animal has its own unique characteristics. The first year in the chinese zodiac calendar is therefore named the year of the rat after the cunning rat and the second year is the year of the ox. Rat ox tiger rabbit dragon snake horse goat monkey rooster dog and pig.
Hence the rat was the first to arrive followed by the ox. Two main variations of the myth exist. Then what is the 12 animals of chinese zodiac in order.
It tells the tale of the chinese new year s zodiac and how it came to be when the jade emperor of china held a great race between the animals. The story of chinese new year. In one variation the jade emperor the ruler of all gods within chinese.
Thirteen animals competed for twelve places on the zodiac. The rat and the cat jumped up and were very excited when the ox took the lead. The position each animal came in the race would decide which year was named after them.
Just as the ox was about to win the race the rat leapt on his head and on to the bank to finish first. They had almost reached the other bank when the rat pushed the cat into the water leaving him to struggle. There exists a story in chinese mythology of a great race that decided which animals made it into the zodiac and in what order.