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What’s your sign? In Western astrology, it’s a constellation determined by when your birthday fails in the calendar. But according to the Chinese , or shengxiao, it’s your shuxiang, meaning the animals signed to your birth year. And of the many myths explaining these animal signs and their . The most enduring one is that of the Great Race. As the story goes, YuDi, or Jade Emperor, of the Heavens, wanted to devise a way to measure time, so he a race. The first twelve animals to make it across the river would earn a on the zodiac calendar in the order they arrived. The rat rose with the sun to get an early start. But on the way to the river, he met the horse, the tiger, and the ox. Because the rat was small and couldn’t swim very well, he asked the bigger animals for help. While the tiger and horse refused, theox agreed to carry the rat across. Yet, just as they were about to reach the other side, the rat jumped off the ox’s head and first place. The ox came in second with the powerful tiger right behind him. The rabbit, too small to battle the current, namely hopped across stones and logs to come in fourth. Next came the , who could have flown directly across, but stopped to help some creatures she had on the way. After her came the horse, galloping across the river. But just as she got across, the snake slithered by. The horse reared back, letting the snake sneak into sixth place. The Jade Emperor looked out at the river and spotted the sheep, the monkey, and the rooster all atop a raft, working together to push it through the weeds. When they made it across, the trio agreed to give eighth place to the sheep, who had been the most comforting and of them, followed by the monkey and the rooster. Next came the dog, scrambing onto the shore. He was a great swimmer, but frolicked in the water for so long that he only managed to come in eleventh. The final spot was by the pig, who had gotten hungry and stopped to eat and before finally waddling across the finish line. And so, each year is associated with one of the animals in this order, with the starting over every 60 years. Why 60 and not twelve ? Well, the traditional Chinese calendar is made up of two overlapping systems. The animals of the zodiac are associated with what’s called the Twelve Earthly Branches, or shi’erdizhi. Another system, the Ten Heavenly Stems, or shitiangan, is linked with the five classical of metal, (jin), wood (mu), water(shui), fire (huo), and earth (tu). Each element is assigned yin or yang, creating a ten-year cycle. When the twelve animals of the Earthly Branches are with the five elements, plus the yin or the yang of the Heavenly Stems, it creates 60 years of different combinations, known as a sexagenary cycle, or ganzhi. So someone born in 1980 would have the sign of yang metal monkey, while someone born in 2007 would be yin fire pig. In fact, you can also have an inner animal based on your birth month, a true animal based on your birth , and a secret animal based on your birth hour. It was the great race that supposedly determined which animals were in the Chinese zodiac, but as the system spread through Asia, other cultures made changes to reflect their communities. So if you consult the Vietnamese zodiac, you may discover that you’re a cat, not a rabbit. And if you’re in Thailand, a mythical snake called a Naga the dragon. So whether or not you place stock in what the zodiac says about you as an individual. It certainly much about the culture it comes from.

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The story of China’s reform and opening upIn the history of science and technology,China has many firsts. Great 1 which powered the modern world. Printing, paper, gunpowder, the magnetic compass. The Chinese people throughout their history have been endlessly 2 . In the middle of the departure hall at Beijing airport is a huge bronze sculpture. It’s a 3 of a water clock designed by a Chinese scientist nearly 2000 years ago. It’s a reminder of the importance that Chinese 4 always gave to science and technology. In modern times, it fell behind the west in that and especially in the period of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 70s. But 40 years ago the movement began to 5 science and technology in China. And now it’s gathering pace every day.Today China is investing huge 6 to get back to the top in technology and science.and there’s no more public symbol of that than the 7 train. China has the world’s largest high-speed network. Trains taking you almost 8 across this vast country in just a few hours. And this all started 40 years ago at a time when China was still in its first 9 age. It was the dream of China’s new leader then Deng Xiaoping. In 1978, Deng went to Japan and saw how far China had fallen behind. Deng’s fact-finding trip to Japan 10 him that bettering the lives of Chinese people could only be brought about through the latest technology.Through the 1990s, technological development in China moved 11 from installing mainframe computers to rocket science. But at the heart of China’s technology 12 in the 1980s and 90s was electronics. And the center was the fast-growing 13 of Shenzhen. The electronics market here as soon the largest in China. But China’s developing high-tech industry was based on 14 technology and parts and cheap local labour doing the processing and assembling for export. But in 2002,they shifted the focus to a smaller cluster of technologies, and now they began to promote indigenous 15 .In 2014 the government widened its focus again, looking at the entire 16 process not just in the area of technology but also in modern services and in traditional industries like the railways. Made in China 2025 was born. So while China is aiming to be 17 in traditional technologies by 2025. The next goal is to be at the cutting 18 in the development of new technologies. And the 19 to achieving that is for the high-tech companies to form relationships with research institutes and universities like SUSTech, here in Shenzhen. And this is beginning to change the way China teaches science with the emphasis now on innovation and 20 .

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We live in a connected world. But we are more1 than ever. Airbnb had the vision to bring ustogether. “You see, for many people, travel is easy, but it’s notmagical. Welcome to the world trips.”On November 7th,Airbnb2 an app revolution “trips on Airbnb” including hundredsof unique Airbnb experiences hosted by real people in local3 . But how do you launch your product centered around the power of humanconnection? By connecting people,weare here4 transport peopleacross oceans and boarders to 6 unique Airbnbexperiences around the world on Facebook over the course of 24 hours. We went live using the first person point of view, so you could5 real time as if you were actually there.In each film, your comments were magically incorporated into the actual live Airbnb experiences, a brand new way to engage with the content. We went to Paris where our host asked her guest to write down fears on paper butterflies as a part of her performance art experience.As you joined in via comments,we wrote your fearsdown too. So when the butterflies were6 in the Parisian sky, you’ve got to experience your fears floating away. A few hours later, you meet each other, feel fabulous in Tokyo, literarily surrounded in the middle ofthe guests with the world-words of7. You went to another underground dance battling in Seoul and high teach others rock. You made a record in shared stories, family and food in Miami. You8 to protect the ocean in Cape Town. And you went out of your comfortable zone and surfed in LosAngeles. You supported each other.More than 6 million people joined these Airbnb experiences in the first 24 hours. Those exposed9 had a 7-point lift in favorability and a 22-point lift in ad recall. But this wasn’t about big start, it was aboutcreating a meaningful shared experience. And on this day, we experienced the10 of human connection.

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Can you list more Chinese cuisines?

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