未时骄阳艳 羊岁淑景新 羊年说羊

Overview of Goat in the Year of Goat

红火热闹的甲午年已过去,我们迎来了沐浴着宁和安详气息的乙未羊年,在这辞旧迎新的时刻,让我们回顾一下中国历史上的有关羊这一生肖的趣事,增添一点节日的洋洋喜气。古代中国人用十天干,十二地支搭配纪年,六十年一个轮回,又用鼠,牛,虎等十二种动物和十二地支相对应,形成十二生肖,以此纪人年龄。这种习俗确切从何时开始,现在已无法确知,但根据前蜀人冯鉴的《续事始》认为,十二生肖起源于华夏始祖轩辕氏黄帝的创造，又从东汉王充的《论衡》知道,在西汉时,生肖习俗已经很盛行了。

Goat is one of the earliest animals hunted and domesticated by humans,which played a very important role in the economic life of primitive society.Therefore,goat is worshipped by original people in many parts of the world.In the Chinese archaeological remains of the Stone Age.there are many traces of goat as a type of totem.