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The year of the cock is coming, different 'cocks' are expected to become hot sale items in Guangzhou markets.
Golden cocks on goods shelf
Paper-cuts 'Cock Crowing at Dawn'
More than 30,000 years ago, Chinese ancestors invented the 10 Tian Gan (or heavenly stems) and 12 Di Zhi (or 12 earthly branches for chronological purpose. Later, people used 12 animals to symbolize the 12 earthly branches in order to make things easier to memorize and the animals in order are the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Cock, Dog and Boar.
Editor: Donald
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