From the birth ,every Chinese people has his own ShengXiao .Chinese ShengXiao are composed of twelve animals (those are rat, cattle, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and pig.), which developed from the olden and special noting year's way ----Earthly Branches.In order to be convenient for remembrance, onetime Chinese people related the twelve ordinary animals and Earthly Branches, which made a cycle for twelve years.
Beging a kind of typical national culture, ShengXiao has been used in some fields which include painting, sculpture, architecture, workmanship, china and so on at the ancient time. So ShengXiao has become a vividly popular image that implies good luck and nice bless. As yet ,ShengXiao has spread more than two thousands years so now , as a wealthy national culture property, it not only affects every Chinese people ,but has expanded to many especially other counties.