The 12 Chinese zodiac animals II
The Author: ShangNing from http://shangning.net/blog/
Chinese people believed that there were 12 animals for telling fortunes as like as the twelve horoscope signs. And, a pair of lovers could divination their loves from their luckly animals. So, do you want to know your Chinese lucky animal? Everyone's luck animal is defined by their birthday, but the date not Gregorian calendar, but rather Chinese traditional calendar.
Do you want to know your Chinese zodiac? Here is a web-tool to help you find your Chinese zodiac. Click here to find out your Chinese zodiac now. And there's another article about the Chinese Zodiac Animals I wroted: The 12 Chinese zodiac animals.
The 12 animals are: rat, cow, tiger, rabbit, loong, snake, horse, sheep, money, chilken, dog, pig. Different with the horoscopes, each Chinese animal be assigned to whole year, not be assigned to a month. For example, this year is 2010, and all the year's luckly animal is tiger, we can call it Tiger-Year.
The Chinese zodiac follows the Chinese calendar, the switch over date is the Chinese New Year, not January 1 as in the Gregorian calendar. Therefore, a person who was born in January or early February has the sign of the previous year.
For example, if a person was born in January 1970, his or her element would still be Yin Earth, not Yang Metal. Similarly, although 1990 was called the year of the horse, anyone born from January 1 to January 26, 1990 was in fact born in the Year of the Snake (the sign of the previous year), because the 1990 Year of the Horse did not begin until January 27, 1990.
For this reason, many online sign calculators (and Chinese restaurant place mats) will give a person the wrong sign if he/she was born in January or early February.
The start of a new Zodiac is also celebrated on Chinese New Year along with many other customs.

1948-01-31(Pig): Chinese year animal for born on 31st january 1948
1959-04-01(Pig): april 1 1959 Chinese animal
1960-05-12(Rat): may 12 1960 Chinese birth animal
1961-04-12(Ox): april 12 1961 in Chinese zodiac
1961-09-11(Ox): sept 11,1961 Chinese zodiac
1965-12-24(Snake): Chinese animal sign+december 24, 1965
1969-03-02(Rooster): the zodiac animal for march 2 1969
1970-09-04(Dog): Chinese zodiac 1970 sept 4th
1970-12-01(Dog): Chinese zodiac december 1 1970
1973-01-10(Rat): what is my Chines zodiac jan,10 1973
1973-03-12(Ox): 12 march 1973 Chinese zodiac
1973-12-24(Ox): Chinese zodiac, december 24 1973
1974-11-08(Tiger): Chinese zodiac born 8th november 1974
1977-08-30(Snake): Chinese animal for the 30 august 1977
1978-05-05(Horse): I was born on may 5 1978, what is my zodiac animal?
1978-09-30(Horse): september 30th 1978 Chinese zodiac
1982-12-11(Dog): Chinese zodiac, december 11 1981
1983-09-24(Pig): Chinese zodiac 24 september 1983
1983-12-12(Pig): 12 dec 1983 + Chinese zodiac
1984-12-12(Rat): zodiac december 12 1984
1985-01-02(Rat): what is my Chinese zodiac for january 2nd 1985
1986-04-04(Tiger): april,4th,1986 Chinese zodiac
1986-07-04(Tiger): july 4th 1986 Chinese zodiac
1986-08-11(Tiger): august 11, 1986 Chinese zodiac
1986-08-15(Tiger): august 15th 1986 Chinese zodiac
1987-03-02(Rabbit): march 12, 1987 - Chinese zodiac
1987-12-30(Rabbit): december 30th 1987 Chinese zodiac
1988-12-12(Dragon): what Chinese zodiac is decemeber 12 1988
1988-12-15(Dragon): Chinese zodiac december 15 1988
1990-03-12(Horse): Chinese zodiac march 12 1990
1990-07-04(Horse): Chinese zodiac 4th of july 1990
1990-12-02(Horse): 1990 december 2 Chinese zodiac
1991-01-04(Horse): january 4th 1991 Chinese animal
1992-04-08(Monkey): Chinese zodiac april 8th 1992
1993-03-15(Rooster): Chinese zodiac march 15 1993
1993-07-08(Rooster): what is my Chinese zodiac sign? july 8th 1993
1996-12-04(Rat): Chinese zodiac december 4th 1996
2007-12-24(Pig): Chinese zodiac dec 24th, 2007
2012-12-12(Dragon): Chinese zodiac on december 12 2012