The present is the 77h of the Go-year cycles, 1999 being its 16th year. The accompanying table, covering a period of 96 years, shows the animal representing each year ax far back as 1852 and forward to 1947, well as giving the symbolical significance of wadi of the twelve animals. People are supposed. to possess the attributes of the animal of the year of their birth, while, according to their year, there are various things they should or should not do, Taking the present year as the 16th of the 77th cycle, it may be reckoned that the frst year of Chinese chronology was 2637 B.C., which was about the middle of the Age of the Five Rulers, extending from 2953 {0 2430 before the beginning of the Christian era, This system of chronology is supposed to have been invented by Huang Ti, the Yellow Emperor, but actually the uso of the twelve animals by the Chiness does not date back further than the Han period (206 Bi and is believed to have been the Hsiung Nu, or Huns, Tue Twatve Teameeriaat Uraneuies ANIMAL OF tie TWELVE-YEAN Grout Or rue Cinwiae Cimoxonouseat Syria!
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