Why are the oxen looking at the sky?
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Because he like to wathing sky
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With the arrival of the Chinese Year of the Ox, Félix Valdivieso takes a look at the history of the Chinese zodiac and offers insight into what the ancient horoscope suggests the next 12 months have in store.
All great civilizations, including China, have based their progress on observation and philosophical thought. The realization that even with the vastness of the universe, humankind might very well be singular (within a reasonable distance) likely led to the assumption that life is governed by the same laws that rule the planets and stars of the firmament. Omens arose from the coincidences that sprung up between these laws and observations made regarding the celestial dome and earthly phenomena, and this is what embarked the Egyptians, Greeks, Hindus, and Chinese civilizations on the long process we now call scientification. In looking to the heavens, these civilizations each first created astrology and then eventually astronomy, the founding member of the natural sciences.
This same evolution occurred with the rationalization of myth. As facts and data accumulated to disprove those fabulous stories of the gods and goddesses that societies had employed to explain the birth of the world, the sunsets, and the flat horizon of the seas, the transition from mythical thinking to rational thinking began.
Yet, the allure holds and we remain fascinated by the great myths of the East and West. We still make references to the Greek god Zeus, for example, or to the Chinese Pangu (盤古), whose birth from a cosmic egg created the Earth. The award-winning poet Kit Fan described this creation story in “Genesis” (As Slow As Possible):