Lunar New Year Zodiac Signs

A feast of luck boosting foods including date cake peanuts sticky rice balls lotus seeds and vegetable and raw fish salad is said to set the tone for the lunar new year.

Lunar new year zodiac signs. You probably know there are 12 chinese zodiac animals used to represent years 2021 is the year of the ox zodiac signs play an integral part in chinese culture and can be used to determine your fortune for the year marriage compatability career fit best times to have a baby and so much more. This is a year of metal ox starting from the 2021 chinese new year on feb. Rat ox tiger rabbit dragon snake horse sheep monkey rooster dog and pig.

The chinese zodiac known as sheng xiao or shu xiang features 12 animal signs in this order. Most chinese people use lunar new year as the start of the zodiac year. The pig is the twelfth of the 12 year cycle of animals which appear in chinese zodiac in relation to the chinese calendar and system of horology and paralleling the system of ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches although the term zodiac etymologically referring to a circle of little animals is used in the phrase chinese zodiac there is a major difference between the.

Start of spring day 1 of the solar year the first day of the first solar term in the traditional chinese solar calendar which falls in the period february 3 5.