Animal not in chinese zodiac: 60 Photos
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Cat and Rat were the best of friends. Cat liked to sleep late so on the morning of registration, Rat had agreed to wake him up. But, when the day came, Rat forgot all about his promise. And without his friend's alarm call Cat overslept, missing his chance to sign up, which is why there's no cat in the lunar calendar.
The cat was too late to be included in the zodiac and, according to the Chinese, is still chasing rats and mice to this day. In the Lunar calendar and Chinese astrology, the years are named for different animals in a 12 year sequence.
The Giraffe is not in the Chinese zodiac calendar.
These ancient zodiac signs probably weren't based on real animal species. For most of them, except the dragon, we refer to the animals in a more general sense,” says linguistics professor Zhichang Xu of Monash University in Australia, who is also an expert on Chinese culture.
In the Chinese version, the lion was replaced by the tiger. It was perhaps because there was no lion in Chinese soil. The fact is, after King Asoka of the Maurya Dynasty unified part of Indian areas, he held grand conferences to debate the Buddhist scriptures to promote Buddhism nationwide.