The Chinese Zodiac🐉 is based on the Lunar calendar📅, and there are 12 different animals that are associated with different years of the calendar.
You probably already knew that 😉, but did you know that there's a reason and a story to explain the order of these animals?
Not only that, but there are 5 nature elements (wood, earth, fire, water and metal {gold}) and Yin/Yang ☯︎ (color/gender) elements assigned to each year as well!
1) First, watch this video to learn more about the Chinese Zodiac and the story of THE GREAT RACE:
2) Then, participate in our story writing challenge, and author a new story YOU create for 2024📜!
It could be anything:
- a new 'race' story;
- an adventure about a green, wood dragon🐲;
- a tale about you and your 'sign/animal';
- a fable involving all of the 'signs/animals' together;
- a narrative describing the appearance of a NEW sign/animal.
- or anything else you can CONJURE up!
Try to make your story compelling with use of outstanding IMAGERY 🏞️, DESCRIPTION ✍ and EMOTION🥹!
So, grab your pens (and or keyboards!) and reach for the stars! Or moon, actually! 🌕
As the Jade Empire was born many animals were playing and guarding the Jade Empire. The rat, , tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog then last it was the pig. The rabbit, horse, sheep and monkey did circus in front of the Jade Empire. The rat and the pig were getting food for him. And the others were guarding the Jade Empire from any danger. The pig was so hungry that it almost ate all the Jade Empire’s food. Which made Jade Empire cry. The animals stared at the pig like a creature that had starved for a long day looking at the food. Which gave the pig nightmares and stress, the pig tried to make the stress go away by eating, which made the pig fat, but the pig doesn’t get to fat. After 35 years, the Jade Empire was bored, he called all gods and angels in heaven and decided to make a game for the 12 animals that took care of him. The Jade Empire and the others discussed what game they should play and what the prize was. And they finally chose to play ‘Don’t look down’ in real life and the prize was to be written in the famous book called ‘Life’ which will be published to the earth and all creatures in the universe will know them. It wasn’t fair that they weren’t starting at the same time. The ox, who was a hard-working animal, started to climb first and actually the rat was inside the ox fur. Then the tiger’s clock rang making every animal wake except the pig. The rabbit was a high jumper but it was small. The dragon could have gone directly up, but he wanted to be fifth, because he liked the number 5. The animals went up the mountain. All the animal was going up okay except the chicken, it twisted its ankle and couldn’t climb any more. The sheep and the monkey decided to help the chicken. The dog was too fashionable to go up quickly. It got hotter when the dog climbed. Which made him rest for an hour. The pig woke up after about 2 hours when the rat reached the end line. It went up slow until the pig reached the end which took him about a week. The reason he was going late is that the pig thinks that the animals will glare with anger. When the Jade Empire watched everything for a week with no rest. He immediately fainted when the pig stepped in. And now nobody knows if the Jade Empire is alive yet.