What Kind Of Animal Is A Snake

Sign of the Chinese zodiac

Ophidian
"Serpent" in regular Chinese characters
Chinese	蛇
Transcriptions Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin shé Wade–Giles shê2 IPA [ʂɤ̌] Hakka Romanization sà Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization sèh Jyutping se4 IPA [sɛ̏ː] Southern Min Hokkien POJ chôa Old Chinese Baxter (1992) *ljAj Baxter–Sagart (2014) *Cə.lAj

Zodiac snake, showing the shé (蛇) grapheme for snake

The snake (蛇) is the sixth of the twelve-year bike of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Twelvemonth of the Serpent is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 巳.^[1]

According to i legend, there is a reason for the order of the animals in the cycle. The story goes that a race was held to cross a great river, and the lodge of the animals in the bike was based upon their order in finishing the race. In this story, the serpent compensated for not beingness the all-time swimmer by hitching a hidden ride on the Horse's hoof, and when the horse was just virtually to cross the terminate line, jumping out, scaring the equus caballus, and thus edging it out for sixth place.

The same twelve animals are also used to symbolize the cycle of hours in the twenty-four hour period, each being associated with a ii-hour time period. The 60 minutes of the serpent is 9:00 to 11:00 a.thousand., the fourth dimension when the Sunday warms upwards the Globe, and snakes are said to slither out of their holes. The month of the snake is the quaternary month of the Chinese lunar calendar and it unremarkably falls within the months of May through June depending on the Chinese to Gregorian calendar conversion. The reason the animal signs are referred to as zodiacal is that one's personality is said to be influenced past the animal signs ruling the time of nascence, together with elemental aspects of the animal signs within the sexagenary cycle. Similarly, the year governed by a detail animal sign is supposed to be characterized by it, with the effects particularly stiff for people who were born in whatsoever year governed by the aforementioned animal sign.

In Chinese symbology, snakes are regarded equally intelligent, with a tendency to lack scruples.^[ii]

Years and elements [edit]

People born within these appointment ranges can be said to take been born in the "Year of the Ophidian", while also begetting the following elemental sign:

Start appointment	Cease date	Heavenly branch
10 February 1929	29 January 1930	Globe Snake
27 January 1941	14 February 1942	Metal Snake
fourteen Feb 1953	2 February 1954	Water Ophidian
2 Feb 1965	20 January 1966	Woods Snake
18 February 1977	half dozen February 1978	Fire Snake
6 February 1989	26 January 1990	Earth Snake
24 January 2001	11 February 2002	Metal Serpent
10 February 2013	thirty Jan 2014	Water Serpent
29 Jan 2025	16 February 2026	Wood Snake
15 February 2037	three Feb 2038	Fire Snake
2 February 2049	22 Jan 2050	World Ophidian
21 January 2061	8 Feb 2062	Metal Serpent
seven February 2073	26 January 2074	Water Ophidian
26 January 2085	xiii February 2086	Forest Serpent
12 February 2097	31 January 2098	Fire Snake

In Japan, the new sign of the zodiac starts on 1 January, while in China it starts, co-ordinate to the traditional Chinese calendar, at the new moon that falls between 21 January and 20 February, and so that persons born in January or February may have two unlike signs in the two countries, but persons born in late February (i.e. on or later on 20 Feb) automatically have one sign in both countries.

Basic astrological associations [edit]

Earthly branch:	Si
Element:	Fire
Planet:	Mars
Yin Yang:	Yin
Lunar month:	Quaternary
Lucky numbers:	2, eight, 9
Lucky flowers:	Orchid, cactus
Lucky colors:	Red, light yellow, black; Avert: white, golden, brown[3]
Flavour:	Summer

The snake is the sixth of the twelve signs and belongs to the 2nd trine, with the ox (2d sign, 牛, Earthly branch: 丑) and the rooster (tenth sign, 雞/鷄 [simplified Chinese: 鸡], Earthly branch: 酉), with which it is most uniform. The pig is the most incompatible.

Gallery [edit]

Depictions of zodiacal snakes, alone or with the other eleven signs, show how they have been imagined in the calendrical context.

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  Detail of higher up, showing the Snake designated by its Earthly Branch sign (forepart, heart right)

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See too [edit]

• Serpent
• Snakes in Chinese mythology
• Snakes in mythology
• Serpent (symbolism)

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Snake Horoscope Information Archived 2013-02-17 at archive.today Retrieved 28 August 2012.
2. ^ Eberhard, sub "Serpent (She)", p. 268.
3. ^ "Chinese Zodiac – Snake". Your Chinese Astrology. Retrieved 14 March 2018.

References [edit]

• Eberhard, Wolfram (2003 [1986 (German version 1983)]), A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought. London, New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-00228-1
• Vietnam Veterans for Factual History. Indochina in the Year of the Snake, 1965. p. 288. ISBN9781929932658.

External links [edit]

• Media related to Snake (zodiac) at Wikimedia Eatables

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(zodiac)

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