The Origin And Develop Histroy Of Shengxiao

The importance and great station of the Chinese Zodiac in Chinese traditional culture is out of question.However, its origin and the development course is a very important yet unsettled problem. Through this essay, I try to get some clue from the vast literature, and unearthed historical culture relics, by means of the dual evidence.The year in which it origined is antiquities. It effected our country and the peripheral nation's culture , therefore numerous researchers apeared .The study of it's origin could be divided into 2 groups: exotic or native.And the native group composed meanly by totem-origin and others. It experienced inevitably some long and winding process. It's formation and the consummation were in certain social environment, and under the impetus of many factors, gradually come into being and developed. Therefore, this article advocated the multi-origins .There was no unified view about the problem of when did the Chinese Zodiac origin in the academic circles at present .Through the history documents and historical relics,we found out that it lasted a long time to come into form.It's development has experienced the following process: It origined at Shang dynasty,develped at Zhou and Qin dynasty,come into being at Han dynasty and circulated at Sui and Tang dynasty, and become more and more popular later.It is still very populer till now, and still used today.The course of it's being is so long that some data was lost,and we could only rely on our logic to draw the conclusion.A great deal of people thought that the mystical numeral "12" was taken from the astronomy or calendar aspect. 12 is "the big number of heaven".It gradually melts into people's daily life along with the development of the Chinese Zodiac..