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By this logic, babies born in 2022 will take on the characteristics of the tiger – the third in the 12-animal Chinese zodiac cycle. Tigers also were born in 2010, 1998, 1986, 1974, 1962, 1950 ...
Suiko, from the encyclopedia Wakan Sansai Zue (1712) compiled by Terajima Ryōan []. Suiko, from one of Toriyama Sekien's illustrated series, Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki. [a]A shuihu or shui hu (Chinese: 水虎; Wade–Giles: shui-hu; Japanese pronunciation: suiko; lit. 'water tiger'), [b] is a legendary creature said to have inhabited river systems in what is now Hubei Province in China.
Each of the creatures is most closely associated with a cardinal direction and a color, but also additionally represents other aspects, including a season of the year, an emotion, virtue, and one of the Chinese "five elements" (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water). Each has been given its own individual traits, origin story and a reason for being.
[citation needed] The person's age can also be easily deduced from their sign, the current sign of the year, and the person's generational disposition (teens, mid-20s, and so on). For example, a person born a Tiger is 12, 24, 36, (etc.) years old in the year of the Tiger (2022); in the year of the Rabbit (2023), that person is one year older.
2022's Lunar New Year (Feb. 1) brings the Year of the Tiger, third in the 12-animal Chinese zodiac cycle. Tigers were born in 2010, 1998, 1986, 1974, 1962, 1950 and so on.
Because there are five Chinese zodiac elements—Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood—a Water Tiger year occurs every 60 years. The last one was in 1962, and now 2022 will be a Water Tiger year ...
Fire Tiger 2 February 1878 21 January 1879 Earth Tiger 21 January 1890 8 February 1891 Metal Tiger 8 February 1902 28 January 1903 Water Tiger 26 January 1914 13 February 1915 Wood Tiger 13 February 1926: 1 February 1927: Fire Tiger 31 January 1938: 18 February 1939: Earth Tiger 17 February 1950: 5 February 1951: Metal Tiger 5 February 1962: 24 ...
Tiger bone glue is the prevailing tiger product purchased for medicinal purposes in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. [188] "Tiger farm" facilities in China and Southeast Asia breed tigers for their parts, but these appear to make the threat to wild populations worse by increasing the demand for tiger products. [189]