{"id":45,"date":"2009-01-24T08:16:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T12:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=45"},"modified":"2009-01-24T08:16:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T12:16:19","slug":"chinese-zodiac-the-ox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-zodiac-the-ox\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Zodiac: The Ox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Readers!<\/p>\n<p>With Chinese new year coming up, now&#8217;s a better time than ever to review the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac!\u00a0 Today&#8217;s topic (and this year&#8217;s animal)\u00a0is the Ox.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll find out later about how the Mouse is actually the first animal of the Chinese zodiac, but like other people who were born in the Year of the Ox, I can be a bit <strong>\u56fa\u6267<\/strong>(stubborn).<\/p>\n<p>So who are the oxen?<\/p>\n<p>People born in the year of the <strong>\u4e11<\/strong>(ox) are known to be <strong>\u52aa\u529b<\/strong> (hardworking) and <strong>\u52e4\u52c9<\/strong> (diligent) and have <strong>\u7a33\u5b9a<\/strong> (stable) <strong>\u6027\u683c<\/strong> (personalities).\u00a0 Moreover, they have a strong <strong>\u8d23\u4efb\u611f<\/strong> (sense of responsibility), they are also <strong>\u8e0f\u5b9e<\/strong>(practical).\u00a0 People born in this year are also said to have their biggest success in their <strong>\u665a\u5e74<\/strong>(late years), but that&#8217;s not a dealbreaker because oxen are known to be <strong>\u8010\u5fc3<\/strong> (patient) as well.\u00a0 So who is a famous example of an Ox?\u00a0 For one, Barack Obama!<\/p>\n<p>Check to see if you were born in the year of the Ox:<\/p>\n<p>1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, or 2021[for the time travellers among us]<\/p>\n<p>Remember that if your birthday is in January or February that you may actually have been born in the previous zodiac year.\u00a0 Next topic: the Tiger!<\/p>\n<p>\u4e11 chou3 ox<br \/>\n\u56fa\u6267 gu4zhi2 stubborn<br \/>\n\u52aa\u529b nu2li4 hardworking<br \/>\n\u8d23\u4efb\u611fze2ren4gan3 sense of responsibility<br \/>\n\u7a33\u5b9awen3ding4 stable, stability<br \/>\n\u6027\u683c xing4ge2 personality<br \/>\n\u665a\u5e74 wan3nian2 late years<br \/>\n\u52e4\u52c9 qin2mian3 diligent<br \/>\n\u8e0f\u5b9e ta4shi2 practical<br \/>\n\u8010\u5fc3 nai4xin1 patient<\/p>\n<p>For more info: check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ylnet.com.cn\/xlcs1\/sxjx\/sx_2.htm\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Readers! With Chinese new year coming up, now&#8217;s a better time than ever to review the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac!\u00a0 Today&#8217;s topic (and this year&#8217;s animal)\u00a0is the Ox.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll find out later about how the Mouse is actually the first animal of the Chinese zodiac, but like other people who were born&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-zodiac-the-ox\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[378679],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}