Where did 12 Giap come from?

Have you ever wondered why there are 12 animals? If not, please see the article below to know the origin and how to deal with these 12 animals.

The origin of 12 Armor

Many people still mistakenly believe that 12 animals are from China . However, recently, in a research project on Vietnamese ancient language - Linguist linguist Nguyen Cung Thong discovered the origin of 12 animals originating from Vietnam.

Language is the ancestral 'talisman'

According to Eastern culture, the calendar is established according to the regular cycle of the Moon . Therefore 12 animals correspond to 12 hours of the day, 12 months of the year, 12 years in an armor - these are important foundations for calculating the calendar and a sign to guess the fate of each person according to the Zodiac. .

Historically, Vietnam and China had a period of cultural exchange for at least 2000 years. Cultural exchanges continue to overlap and overlap, making it difficult to recognize the identity of each ethnic group. In addition, the old documents are not much, if only in the ancient Han bibliography, the research is very complicated and complicated. It is this urging language researcher Nguyen Cung Thong to work hard to find out the mysteries of the ancestors' language that, according to him, are 'talismans ' that their children need to find solutions.

12 children bordering Vietnam in the Zodiac

Mr. Thong said, he started his Vietnamese studies in the early 1970s in Australia . In a study of the origin of 12 animals to find the source of Vietnamese language, he discovered some ancient Vietnamese words that Vietnamese people used to refer to 12 long-standing animals before 12 animals were exported. currently in China. On the last days of the year of the buffalo, at the Vietnamese Institute in the city of Westminster (California, USA), he gave a presentation on his interesting discoveries with the theme 'Traces of ancient Vietnamese in Chinese'.

' Learning about the origin of the twelve names is an opportunity to find out about the Vietnamese origin. The names of 12 animals are Ty / Tu, Suu, Dan, Mao / Tip, Thin / God, Ty, Ngo, Mui / Vi, Than / Khoi, Rooster, Tuat, Hoi. At first glance, the upper two seem to originate from China because of the Sino-Vietnamese words, but when separating the Vietnamese, and seeing there are differences, I compare in the borrowed language system the truth not so, ' Mr. Thong said.

According to Mr. Thong, the names of 12 children if they are read in Beijing and by phonetic transcription (pinyin): zi, chou, yín, măo, cup, sì, wè, wèi, shy, sweet, ruffled, funny . It has absolutely nothing to do with the way of calling 12 animals in Chinese today. Even when recovering the Chinese Ancient period , it is still not similar to previous animal names. Thus, if a certain nation uses the name of 12 animals similar to the name of 12 animals today, that nation must have a very close relationship with the origin of the 12 animals.

From this, the beginning of the study of his search for the reason for the 12 Chinese armor, the Cat was replaced by the Rabbit.'Chinese people use rabbits instead of cats (the symbol of the Cat / Tip) because in Chinese culture, rabbits are a very important animal and are often written in hieroglyphics, Xu, Beijing accent, which is the word written in a human without words to indicate cats. Virtually all Vietnamese people use cats for the Chihuahua: vowel e or ie are the older forms of a person like a man / a fake, a drawing / painting, a car / a remote, showing off / a science, summer / summer, tea / tea, glue / delivery, leopard / leopard . So cat is also an animal present in Vietnamese life more often " - Mr. Thong explained.

Why doesn't Vietnam keep 'brand'?

In fact, there have been many works of many authors trying to prove that Chinese culture originated from Vietnamese culture such as the author Le Manh Mat through the book "Vietnam Music History - from the Hung Vuong era to the period of Ly Nam De ' or author Nguyen Thieu Dung with the book ' The Origin of the Changes ' . Most of these books show that the way to borrow culture is from the South in the ancient times, not the from North to South (as well as surrounding countries) into Han dynasties, the road when Chinese culture flourished. However, none of the authors mentioned the origin of the 12 animals, and rarely used the structure of Chinese and Chinese characters and the variations in explanation.

According to Mr. Thong, besides the two genera Tý / Tu / mouse, Mao / Tip / cat is most noticeable, the remaining limbs when compared in phonetic correlation, semantics also give quite unexpected results.

For example, the case of the Body is the 9th genus in the Zodiac map . If you see how to write the word 'Body' with a filler with a longer center with the way of writing Khôn (a basic of the I Ching from the Ancient period), then you see the earth with the body of the comedy. This is a direct contact between Than and Khon, but the ancient Vietnamese has the word "monkey" (the Hue or Nghe people now still has some catchphrases that say "face to face" to refer to those people who are useless, do not do anything so empty). So, the main body is monkey, ancient Vietnamese though th-kh variation is very rare in Vietnamese today but it still has traces of couple words like: close-close-close, kidney-careful (cautious , Careful).

Similar to the case of the Dragon. Formerly, many people still believe that dragons are an animal representing the royal authority of the North and then it was chosen as one of 12 animals present in 12 animals of the Zodiac. But few people know that dragons are really the owners of ancient Vietnamese people and in the past Vietnamese people had their own words to talk about beautiful dragons. The Dragon / God remains in the Beijing accent now only the cup - this sound can correspond to the sound, deep, god of the Sino-Vietnamese. However, according to researcher Nguyen Cung Thong, if recovering the ancient sound of Thin / Spirit is tlan (Ancient Vietnamese - the sound is changed to l) and python, eel (sound ts - lost), snake, process (species eel-like fish), dragon / long (vowel o instead of a nôm / male, capital / version .) and monosyllabic tendency to produce forms of lump-like graft - lizard, tlian - gong thread . shows traces of dragons in Southern languages.

Explaining the cause of being "confused" about the origins of 12 animals, Mr. Thong said that ' With the important influence of Chinese culture, from Han Dynasty and then Tang, Tong . with the pressure of the ruling class from the North named 12 nest animals were slowly replaced by human images, bearing more Chinese cultural colors. From the specific nature of neighboring animals, 12 animals have become abstract and also affect human life (divination). However, the glamorous shell of Chinese characters and Han Vietnamese cannot change the popular culture (Vietnamese language) in Vietnamese people's life.

This new discovery proves the development of the old Vietnamese in the way of calculating the calendar and creating a brilliant rice-rice civilization in southern Southeast Asia.

How to calculate the time according to the generosity of the old tools

The ancient people conceived Thien as the basic root, the top is the branch. Establishing the old Can Thien who took the Yang number of Ha Do (odd number) is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, taking the number 5 in the middle to double up to cover the sound (Ất, Đinh, Kỷ, Tân, Quarter) and also the grand piano (Giap, Binh, Mau, Canh, Nham), all 10 cans in the order of Giap, An, Binh, Dinh, Mau, Ky, Canh, Tan, Nham, Quy.

The number of places taking negative numbers (even numbers) is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Taking the number 6 in the middle multiplies twice to form 12 genera: Rat, Ox, Dan, Rabbit, Thin, Snake, Horse, Odor , Body, Rooster, Tuat, Hoi including Chi Duong (Ty, Dan, Thin, Ngo, Than, Tuat) and Chi chi (Suu, Mao, Ty, Mui, Rooster, Hoi).

In ancient times, the sun was the root. " The sun rises and goes to work, the sun sets and then rests ." When the day was over, the sun didn't see the sun, I didn't know what to rely on. Legend has it that a man named Dai Nhi set up the Cross and the Ten Children to calculate the time.

The Cross and the Cross together work together to produce the Sixth Flower Armor (the 60-year cycle called Ngên). Politeness only in 3 generations Ha, Thuong, Chu (Chinese side) are not the same. Currently using the French calendar of life, immediately taking the month of the beginning of the year.

The calculation of time according to the genus is also somewhat related to the behavior of animals.

Ty (23-1 hours): When the mouse is active.

Ox (1-3 hours): When the buffalo is chewing, prepare to plow.

Dull (3-5 hours): Tiger's most aggressive time.

Crowns (5-7 hours): Vietnam calls cats, but China calls rabbits, when the moon (pearl rabbit) is still shining.

Thin (7-9 hours): At the time when the dragon is in the rain (dancing pants). Dragons are just animals imagined by humans, not real.

Snake (9-11 hours): When snake does not harm people.

Horse (11-13 hours): High positive horse.

Smell (13-15 hours): The time when goats eat grass does not affect the growth of plants.

Body (15-17 hours): When the monkey likes to howl.

Rooster (17-19 hours): When the chicken started to go to the barn.

Tuat (19-21 hours): When the dog must be awake to watch the house.

Pig (21-23 hours): The time when the pig slept the most.