Blog:Letters and Blogs
The problem with animals of the zodiac
Being a Mouse in ghd the Chinese zodiac and a Virgo in the Western one, I don’t know what problems I could encounter this year with, say, Gemini-Tigers or Scorpio-Tigers. Horoscopes are a form of superstition, but everybody will agree they are not so noxious to society, because they are generally read in a superficial way only by white-collar workers, and used innocently as a simple means to find some comfort on sad days, MBT or an inspiring source when one feels really optimistic.
Animals in the Chinese zodiac, even the elusive Dragon, which is a hybrid of reptiles, birds, are down to earth, which do not pose complicated and embarrassing problems with supernatural creatures created by human fantasy such as Virgo confronting Sagittarius.
The Chinese zodiac is evidently derived from a society when memories of primitive hunters were still fresh in people’s minds. In contrast to the ghd hair straighteners conflicting members in the Western zodiac, all the 12 Chinese creatures always seem happily destined to a comfortable co-existence with each other. Indeed, they are even capable of transcending their obvious differences, that is, between the domesticated and the wild.
In fact, it has been scientifically proven that there is no relation between the movement of celestial bodies and those of terrestrial ones, humans included. But that doesn’t mean mythical remembrances are useless or absurd. ghd hair straighteners Pigs, Roosters, and Goats were the first to be reared as sources of animal protein and have become the most indispensable for humans. Horses and Oxen (rather bulls) have helped humans with transport and agriculture. Dogs are the best friends of human beings, because they have to their credit a past of sledge movers, shepherds, home guards and even combatants. They are irreplaceable despite the best technological modern devices ghd straighteners that are available today in finding explosives and drugs, rescuing victims of disasters or guiding the vision impaired.
The untamed Chinese zodiac creatures – Rats, Snakes, Dragons, Monkeys, Tigers and Rabbits – may have some dangerous and anti-human traits, but they are equally surrounded with an atmosphere of nobility and empathy. That brings us back to my initial quest: Though imposing and sweet smiling, how will a powerful Tiger behave towards a minuscule ghd and ordinary Mouse?
Claudio Cervini
via Email
Readers’ comments are welcome. Please send mail to Letters to the Editor, China Daily, 15 Huixin Dongjie, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029 China. Send faxes to (86-10) 6491-8377. Send e-mail to opinion@chinadaily.com.cn or letters@chinadaily.com.cn or to the individual columnists. China Daily reserves the right to edit all letters. Thank you. ghd straighteners
