zodiaque chinois

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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 (or duodenary) cycle. The zodiac is very important in Chinese culture as a reflection of traditional Chinese philosophy. Chinese folkways held that one's personality is related to the attributes of their zodiac animal. Originating from China, the zodiac and its variations remain popular in many East Asian, Central Asian and Southeast Asian countries, such as Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Turkey, and Singapore, and among immigrants from these countries. Identifying this scheme as a "zodiac" reflects superficial similarities to the Western zodiac: both divide time cycles into twelve parts, label the majority of those parts with animals, and are used to ascribe a person's personality or events in their life to the person's particular relationship to the cycle. The 12 Chinese zodiac animals in the cycle are not only used to represent years in China but are also believed to influence people's personalities, careers, compatibility, marriages, and fortunes. For the starting date of a zodiac year, there are two schools of thought in Chinese astrology: Chinese New Year or the start of spring.