Chinese New Year of the Ox

According to chinahighlights.com, Chinese New Year is an annual holiday determined by the lunar calendar, a system based around the monthly moon cycles that many people follow.

The day is considered to be China’s most important festival, a time when families spend time together and have a week of an official public holiday. In the Chinese culture, the year begins on the Lunar New Year instead of January 1. While this year, it will be celebrated on Friday, February 12. The date changes every year on our Gregorian calendar.

The holiday falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice on December 2 of the previous year, typically between January 21 and February 20.

Not only does the date vary, but so does the zodiac animal for the year. As part of Chinese culture and history, the Chinese zodiac is a repeating cycle that takes 12 years. Each year is represented by an animal that is thought to have traditional attributes. These are often believed to influence personality, relational compatibility, fortune, and more for the people born in that given year.

The year 2021’s zodiac animal is the Ox, which will be the representative creature through January 31. In China, the ox is considered a symbol of strength associated with harvests and fertility for a good spring season.

2020 was the Year of the Rat, and 2022 will be the Tiger.

Based on the story, the 12 Chinese horoscope animals are Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig (in that order).

You can find what your Chinese zodiac animal is by following your birth year. Use this as an example, those born in after February 1, 2003, are part of the Year of the Goat. Try searching for what traits your zodiac animal represents on the internet and compare what it says to how you see yourself.

From chinahighlights.com, anyone with the monkey zodiac, such as from 2004, has the personality traits of being sharp, smart, and curious!