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Twelve animals on a twelve-year cycle, paired with five phases across a sixty-year round.

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The sixty-year mechanism, the disputed year boundary and the evidence behind the animals.

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Why sixty yearsTen stems and twelve branches advance together; only sixty ordered pairs occur.
When the year changesLunar new year and Li Chun answer different calendrical questions.
Text, object, legendWhat Han texts and Tang objects establish—and what the Great Race story does not.

Bodhastra documents what astrological traditions have said, and when they started saying it. It is presented as cultural history and entertainment. Nothing here is medical, psychological, financial or predictive advice, and nothing here is a claim about what will happen to you.

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