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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Snake_%28Chinese_characters%29.svg/80px-Snake_%28Chinese_characters%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="69" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Snake_%28Chinese_characters%29.svg/120px-Snake_%28Chinese_characters%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Snake_%28Chinese_characters%29.svg/160px-Snake_%28Chinese_characters%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="244" data-file-height="209" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">"Snake" in <a href="/wiki/Regular_script" title="Regular script">regular</a> Chinese characters</div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hani" style="font-size: 1rem;">蛇</span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="display:inline-table; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Mandarin</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanyu Pinyin">Hanyu Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">shé</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles" title="Wade–Giles">Wade–Giles</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">shê<sup>2</sup></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn"><span class="IPA" lang="cmn-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">[ʂɤ̌]</a></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Hakka_Chinese" title="Hakka Chinese">Hakka</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Romanization#Hakka" title="Guangdong Romanization">Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Hakka-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="hak-Latn">sà</span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Cantonese" title="Cantonese">Yue: Cantonese</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Cantonese" title="Yale romanization of Cantonese">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">sèh</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jyutping" title="Jyutping">Jyutping</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">se4</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn"><span class="IPA" lang="yue-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">[sɛ˩]</a></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Min" title="Southern Min">Southern Min</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hokkien" title="Hokkien">Hokkien</a> <a href="/wiki/Pe%CC%8Dh-%C5%8De-j%C4%AB" title="Pe̍h-ōe-jī">POJ</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Min Nan Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="nan-Latn">chôa</span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Old_Chinese" title="Old Chinese">Old Chinese</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Reconstructions_of_Old_Chinese#Baxter_(1992)" title="Reconstructions of Old Chinese">Baxter (1992)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Old Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="och-Latn">*<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">ljAj</span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Reconstructions_of_Old_Chinese#Baxter–Sagart_(2014)" title="Reconstructions of Old Chinese">Baxter–Sagart (2014)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Old Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="och-Latn">*<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">Cə.lAj</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:OMBRE_CHINOISE_SERPENT.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/OMBRE_CHINOISE_SERPENT.jpg/220px-OMBRE_CHINOISE_SERPENT.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/OMBRE_CHINOISE_SERPENT.jpg/330px-OMBRE_CHINOISE_SERPENT.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/OMBRE_CHINOISE_SERPENT.jpg/440px-OMBRE_CHINOISE_SERPENT.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Zodiac snake, showing the <i>shé</i> (蛇) character for snake</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>snake</b> (<b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%9B%87" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:蛇">蛇</a></b>) is the sixth of the twelve-year cycle of <a href="/wiki/Animal" title="Animal">animals</a> which appear in the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_zodiac" title="Chinese zodiac">Chinese zodiac</a> related to the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_calendar" title="Chinese calendar">Chinese calendar</a>. The <b>Year of the Snake</b> is associated with the <a href="/wiki/Earthly_Branches" title="Earthly Branches">Earthly Branch</a> <a href="/wiki/Symbol" title="Symbol">symbol</a> <b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B7%B3" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:巳">巳</a></b>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to one <a href="/wiki/Chinese_mythology" title="Chinese mythology">legend</a>, there is a reason for the order of the animals in the cycle. A race was held to cross a great river, and the order of the animals in the cycle was based upon their order in finishing the race. In this story, the <a href="/wiki/Snake" title="Snake">snake</a> compensated for not being the best swimmer by hitching a hidden ride on the <a href="/wiki/Horse_(zodiac)" title="Horse (zodiac)">Horse's</a> hoof. When the horse was about to cross the finish line, the snake jumped out, scaring the horse, and thus edging it out for sixth place. </p><p>The same twelve animals are also used to symbolize the cycle of hours in the day, each being associated with a two-hour time period. The hour of the snake is 9:00 to 11:00 a.m., the time when the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a> warms up the Earth, and snakes are said to slither out of their holes. The month of the snake is the 4th month of the Chinese lunar calendar and it usually falls within the months of May through June depending on the Chinese to Gregorian calendar conversion. The reason the animal signs are referred to as <a href="/wiki/Zodiac" title="Zodiac">zodiacal</a> is that one's personality is said to be influenced by the animal signs ruling the time of birth, together with <a href="/wiki/Wuxing_(Chinese_philosophy)" title="Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)">elemental</a> aspects of the animal signs within the <a href="/wiki/Sexagenary_cycle" title="Sexagenary cycle">sexagenary cycle</a>. Similarly, the year governed by a particular animal sign is supposed to be <a href="/wiki/Chinese_characters" title="Chinese characters">characterized</a> by it, with the effects particularly strong for people who were born in any year governed by the same animal sign. </p><p>In Chinese symbology, snakes are regarded as intelligent, with a tendency to lack scruples.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Years_and_elements">Years and elements</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Snake_(zodiac)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Years and elements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>People born within these date ranges can be said to have been born in the "Year of the Snake", while also bearing the following elemental sign: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Start date</th> <th>End date</th> <th>Heavenly branch </th></tr> <tr> <td>10 February 1929</td> <td>29 January 1930</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Earth_(wuxing)" title="Earth (wuxing)">Earth</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>27 January 1941</td> <td>14 February 1942</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Metal_(wuxing)" title="Metal (wuxing)">Metal</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>14 February 1953</td> <td>2 February 1954</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Water_(wuxing)" title="Water (wuxing)">Water</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 February 1965</td> <td>20 January 1966</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wood_(wuxing)" title="Wood (wuxing)">Wood</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>18 February 1977</td> <td>6 February 1978</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fire_(wuxing)" title="Fire (wuxing)">Fire</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 February 1989</td> <td>26 January 1990</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Earth_(wuxing)" title="Earth (wuxing)">Earth</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>24 January 2001</td> <td>11 February 2002</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Metal_(wuxing)" title="Metal (wuxing)">Metal</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>10 February 2013</td> <td>30 January 2014</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Water_(wuxing)" title="Water (wuxing)">Water</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>29 January 2025</td> <td>16 February 2026</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wood_(wuxing)" title="Wood (wuxing)">Wood</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>15 February 2037</td> <td>3 February 2038</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fire_(wuxing)" title="Fire (wuxing)">Fire</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 February 2049</td> <td>22 January 2050</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Earth_(wuxing)" title="Earth (wuxing)">Earth</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>21 January 2061</td> <td>8 February 2062</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Metal_(wuxing)" title="Metal (wuxing)">Metal</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 February 2073</td> <td>26 January 2074</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Water_(wuxing)" title="Water (wuxing)">Water</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>26 January 2085</td> <td>13 February 2086</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wood_(wuxing)" title="Wood (wuxing)">Wood</a> Snake </td></tr> <tr> <td>12 February 2097</td> <td>31 January 2098</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fire_(wuxing)" title="Fire (wuxing)">Fire</a> Snake </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, the new sign of the zodiac starts on 1 January, while in <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> it starts, according to the traditional Chinese calendar, at the <a href="/wiki/New_moon" title="New moon">new moon</a> that falls between 21 January and 20 February, so that persons born in January or February may have two different signs in the two countries, but persons born in late February (i.e. on or after 20 February) automatically have one sign in both countries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Basic_astrological_associations">Basic astrological associations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Snake_(zodiac)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Basic astrological associations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <td>Earthly branch:</td> <td>Si </td></tr> <tr> <td>Element:</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fire_(wuxing)" title="Fire (wuxing)">Fire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Planet:</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Yin Yang:</td> <td>Yin </td></tr> <tr> <td>Lunar month:</td> <td>Fourth </td></tr> <tr> <td>Lucky numbers:</td> <td>2, 8, 9 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Lucky flowers:</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Orchidaceae" class="mw-redirect" title="Orchidaceae">Orchid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cactus" title="Cactus">cactus</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Lucky colors:</td> <td>Red, light yellow, black; Avoid: white, golden, brown<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Season:</td> <td>Summer </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The snake is the sixth of the twelve signs and belongs to the second trine, with the <b><a href="/wiki/Ox_(zodiac)" title="Ox (zodiac)">ox</a></b> (second sign, 牛, Earthly branch: 丑) and the <b><a href="/wiki/Rooster_(zodiac)" title="Rooster (zodiac)">rooster</a></b> (tenth sign, 雞/鷄 [simplified Chinese: 鸡], Earthly branch: 酉), with which it is most compatible. The pig is the most incompatible.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cultural_notes">Cultural notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Snake_(zodiac)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cultural notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A Snake Year is sometimes referred to as a Little Dragon Year to assuage possible feelings of inadequacy among people born during a Snake Year.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Snake_(zodiac)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Depictions of zodiacal snakes, alone or with the other eleven signs, show how they have been imagined in the calendrical context. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Old_Town_of_Lijiang_UNESCO_zodiac_circle.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Old Town of Lijiang zodiac circle: a stone circle inscribed with symbols of the Chinese zodiac near the entrance to the Old Town of Lijiang, Yunnan"><img alt="Old Town of Lijiang zodiac circle: a stone circle inscribed with symbols of the Chinese zodiac near the entrance to the Old Town of Lijiang, Yunnan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Old_Town_of_Lijiang_UNESCO_zodiac_circle.JPG/120px-Old_Town_of_Lijiang_UNESCO_zodiac_circle.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Old_Town_of_Lijiang_UNESCO_zodiac_circle.JPG/180px-Old_Town_of_Lijiang_UNESCO_zodiac_circle.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Old_Town_of_Lijiang_UNESCO_zodiac_circle.JPG/240px-Old_Town_of_Lijiang_UNESCO_zodiac_circle.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Old_Town_of_Lijiang" title="Old Town of Lijiang">Old Town of Lijiang</a> <a href="/wiki/Zodiac" title="Zodiac">zodiac</a> circle: a stone circle inscribed with <a href="/wiki/Symbol" title="Symbol">symbols</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_zodiac" title="Chinese zodiac">Chinese zodiac</a> near the entrance to the <a href="/wiki/Old_Town_of_Lijiang" title="Old Town of Lijiang">Old Town of Lijiang</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yunnan" title="Yunnan">Yunnan</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Old_Town_of_Lijiang_UNESCO_zodiac_circle_detail.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Detail of above, showing the Snake designated by its Earthly Branch sign (front, center right)"><img alt="Detail of above, showing the Snake designated by its Earthly Branch sign (front, center right)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Old_Town_of_Lijiang_UNESCO_zodiac_circle_detail.JPG/120px-Old_Town_of_Lijiang_UNESCO_zodiac_circle_detail.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Old_Town_of_Lijiang_UNESCO_zodiac_circle_detail.JPG/180px-Old_Town_of_Lijiang_UNESCO_zodiac_circle_detail.JPG 1.5x, 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_135.jpg/120px-Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_135.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_135.jpg/160px-Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_135.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Terracotta" title="Terracotta">Terracotta</a> <a href="/wiki/Astrological_sign" title="Astrological sign">zodiacal</a> Snake from the <a href="/wiki/Sui_dynasty" title="Sui dynasty">Sui dynasty</a> (581-618).</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:KCityParkSnake.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="The Snake statue is one of the 12 Chinese zodiac portrayed in the Kowloon Walled City Park in Kowloon City, Hong Kong"><img alt="The Snake statue is one of the 12 Chinese zodiac portrayed in the Kowloon Walled City Park in Kowloon City, Hong Kong" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/KCityParkSnake.JPG/120px-KCityParkSnake.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/KCityParkSnake.JPG/180px-KCityParkSnake.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/KCityParkSnake.JPG/240px-KCityParkSnake.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Snake statue is one of the 12 <a href="/wiki/Chinese_zodiac" title="Chinese zodiac">Chinese zodiac</a> portrayed in the <a href="/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City" title="Kowloon Walled City">Kowloon Walled City Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kowloon_City" title="Kowloon City">Kowloon City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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