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Here grew plants and the white rat (白鼠) weighing several catties, with hair 3 cun long, immune to burning. The mountain's flowers, bark, and rodent hair yielded 3 types of fireproof cloth (huo huan bu). [f] [20] [21] [5] [17] The fire rat resided in the Rinan commandery in present-day Vietnam, according to the Wu li (呉録 "Record of Wu").
Years of the rat are cyclically differentiated by correlation to the Heavenly Stems cycle, resulting in a repeating cycle of five years of the rat (over a sixty-year period), each rat year also being associated with one of the Chinese wu xing, also known as the "five elements", or "phases": the "Five Phases" being Fire (火 huǒ), Water (水 ...
The Rat or Mouse is the first of the repeating 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac, constituting part of the Chinese calendar system (with similar systems in use elsewhere). The Year of the Rat in standard Chinese is Chinese : 鼠年 ; pinyin : shǔnián .
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The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle. [1] The zodiac is very important in traditional Chinese culture and exists as a reflection of Chinese philosophy and culture . [ 2 ]
Fire is included in the 10 heavenly stems (the five elements in their yin and yang forms), which combine with the 12 Earthly Branches (or Chinese signs of the zodiac), to form the 60 year cycle. Yang Fire years end in 6 (e.g. 1976). (Yang years end in an even number.) Yin Fire years end in 7 (e.g. 1977). (Yin years end in an odd number.) Fire ...
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Vietnamese Cat zodiac Cat zodiac statue in Suối Tiên park. The Cat is the 4th animal symbol in the 12-year cycle of the Vietnamese zodiac, and Gurung zodiac, taking place of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac. [1] As such, the traits associated with the Rabbit are attributed to the Cat. Cats are in conflict with the Rat.