Astrological sign of Cancer and so on. So the Chinese 12-year calendar is a solar-lunar-jovian calendar. The following table shows the twelve signs and their attributes. In Chinese astrology, the zodiac of twelve animal sign represents twelve different types of personality. The zodiac traditionally begins with the sign of the Rat, and there are many stories about the Origins of the Chinese Zodiac which explain why this is so. When the twelve zodiac signs are part of the 60-year calendar in combination with the four elements, they are traditionally called the twelve Earthly Branches. The Chinese zodiac follows the lunisolar Chinese calendar
The Golden Crab The Golden Crab The Golden Crab is a Greek fairy tale collected as "Prinz Krebs" by Bernhard Schmidt in his "Griechische Märchen, Sagen and Volkslieder". Andrew Lang included it in "The Yellow Fairy Book". Georgios A. Megas collected a variant, The Crab, in "Folktales of Greece". It is Aarne-Thompson type 425D, Vanished Husband learned of by keeping inn. One day a fisherman, who had a wife and three children, caught a golden crab with the rest of his fish. He took it home, and the crab told his wife, who was cleaning the other fish, to let down her skirt,