Thousands of years Thousands of years ago, the Chinese ago, the Chinese

divided the years into divided the years into twelves and gave twelves and gave

each year the name of each year the name of an animal. They an animal. They

believed that each believed that each animal made people animal made people born in each year act born in each year act

differently.differently.

OX

TIGER

RAT

MONKEY

ROOSTER

SNAKE

SHEEP

RABBIT

BOAR

HORSE

DRAGON

DOG

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