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As the legend goes, more than five hundred years ago, the great Buddha invited all of the animals of creation to come and join him for the New Year.

Only twelve species came at his invitation and to reward them, the divine wise man offered to name a year after each animal. From then on any person born in a year associated with that animal would share that animal's qualities. Those Animals were: the RAT, the OX, the TIGER, the RABBIT, the DRAGON, the SNAKE, the HORSE, the GOAT, the MONKEY, the ROOSTER, the DOG and the PIG. This was symboloised by the ordering in which they came, the Rat was first, followed by the Ox, and so on.

Other traditions replace the Ox with the Buffalo, the Rabbit with the Cat or the Hare, the Goat with the Sheep or the Ram and the Pig with the Boar.

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Any Chinese year invariably begins with the second new-moon day after the winter solstice (or looking at it the other way, the Chinese year ends on the first new moon of the following year!). The Chinese New Year's day, therefore, is movable  just as Easter Day, which is also tributary of the moon  and takes place somewhere between 21 January and 20 February according to astronomic circumstances.

Chinese years also evolve in cycles of ten years each. Every set of two consecutive years is governed by a Chinese cosmic element. There are five elements in all: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood.