Chinese horoscope has been in use in the Orient for thousands of years, and it is still consulted by millions of people on a daily basis.
It's twelve animal signs are similar to the twelve signs of the Western Zodiac, but are determined by the year you were born rather than the month. The Chinese zodiac is based on the lunar cycle, which takes twelve years to complete.
Each year in this twelve-year cycle now had a symbolic animal, whose characteristics were said to influence the world events, personality and fate of everything and everyone born in that year.