In Chinese culture, the zodiac system is a cycle of animal signs that repeats every 12 years. As the legend goes, every animal that appear in the zodiac cycle collectively participated in a race, ...

When it comes to the Chinese Zodiac, each sign comes with an animal, number and element. Learn more about your sign and its ...

By: Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture and Sports Editor My family has always celebrated the New Year with confetti and candy at the turn of midnight. At the end of January or the start of February, ...

As a reward for this sacrifice, the snake was named the sixth sign in the Chinese zodiac. Another ancient folk tale describes a great race to determine the order of the zodiac, with the snake wrapping ...

The year of the Wood Snake is upon us, and with it, the invitation to slither into the spirit of the dead-shedding totem of ...

The Chinese zodiac system works in a different way to its Western counterpart, with a variety of alternate signs, and another method of working out which one you are. The story goes that, centuries ...

Characteristics of the Chinese zodiac don’t just pertain to yearly forecasts—they also apply to people and how they act ...

According to Chinese superstition, doing any of these on Feb 29 – the day Chinese New Year falls in 2025 – will lead to bad ...

Unlike Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac doesn’t correspond to months and has no link to constellations. Instead, it’s a 12-year cycle labelled with animals and can be traced back more than 2000 ...

Thousands of years later, each lunar year is still said to possess certain characteristics of its animal namesake, and those ...