{"id":22975,"date":"2017-01-20T21:31:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T02:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=22975"},"modified":"2017-02-12T21:23:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T02:23:23","slug":"%e3%80%8achinese-tales-for-everyone-myths-and-legends_10-%e7%94%9f%e8%82%96%e3%80%8bkong-shiu-loon-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=22975","title":{"rendered":"\u300aChinese Tales for Everyone: Myths and Legends_10-\u751f\u8096\u300bKong Shiu Loon (53)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Myths and Legends<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ChineseZodiac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-22976\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ChineseZodiac-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ChineseZodiac-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ChineseZodiac.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n(10) The Rat and the Ox<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ancient Chinese astrology was a mathematical estimation of cosmic events based on the moon calendar and time. It began in the Han Dynasty about 200 BC. By coincidence, the 12-year Zodiac Cycle (<\/span><span lang=\"ZH-TW\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u751f\u8096<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">) <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">is an approximation of the 11.86-year cycle of Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To enable convenient and interesting calculation, the ancient Immortal Sage decided to attach an animal to each of the 12-year cycle. A person born of a particular year, say, the year of the dragon, will have the dragon as his\/her zodiac sign.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Immortal Sage had chosen the 12 animals. He began to place them in positions when he heard the rat and the ox argued loudly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wykontario.org\/index.php\/featured-articles\/2377-chinese-tales-for-everyone-mayths-and-legends-10-kong-shiu-loon-53\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myths and Legends (10) The Rat and the Ox\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ancient Chinese astrology was a mathematical estimation of cosmic events based on the moon calendar and time. It began in the Han Dynasty about 200 BC. By coincidence, the 12-year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=22975\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-22975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-tales","tag-sl-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22979,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22975\/revisions\/22979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}