Chinese New Year 2014

By Dave Tu
Published: Jan 29, 2014 06:16 PM GMT / 
Updated: Jan 29, 2014 06:16 PM GMT

This year's Chinese new year is Friday January 31st, and will be the year of horse. More specifically, the year of green / wood horse. (青馬 / 木馬).

Chinese year are based on Luna cycle, and there are 12 zodiac, in the following order

  1. Rat
  2. Ox
  3. Tiger
  4. Rabbit
  5. Dragon
  6. Snake
  7. Horse
  8. Goat
  9. Monkey
  10. Rooster
  11. Dog
  12. Pig

With each year there is also an element associated with it out of the five element

  1. Metal
  2. Wood
  3. Water
  4. Fire
  5. Earth

And of course, there is also Yin and Yan, and each element also has a color associated with it.

There is also another more fine categorization of the Chinese zodiac, which breaks it down to 36 zodiac, which I will not get into right now.

In any case, no matter if you are born on the year of horse or not, happy almost new year.

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