Chinese Calendar Animals Years. Add it to your collection of short bedtime stories for kids. Rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep (goat), monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
As the lunar calendar does not agree perfectly with the gregorian calendar, the chinese zodiac year is a little different from the gregorian year. Rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. With a twelve year circle in the chinese calendar, the main trait of the chinese new year is that it names each of those twelve years after an animal.
The chinese zodiac, known as sheng xiao or shu xiang, features 12 animal signs in this order:
Animal years each year in the chinese calendar is named after an animal. Traditionally, the chinese zodiac always starts with the rat, so the right order of the zodiac is: Tiger is ranked third in all 12 chinese zodiac signs. The chinese calendar features 12 months.