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Constellation was not decided from the beginning to be a well-known constellation today. What was used in each country and region was integrated into one to form what is today’s constellation.

The origin of today’s constellations is Western European constellations, which originated in the Semitic nomadic Chardians who lived in the Babylonian region around thousands BC. They started to build constellations after looking up at the night sky and connecting bright stars to animals while keeping livestock and moving along the blue vegetation. Twelve constellations, including sheep, bulls, twins, crabs, lions, virgins, scales, scorpions, goats, water turtles, and Pisces, along the ecliptic, which is the path through which the sun and planets pass, are recorded in the area’s landmark around B.C. 3000.

People assign constellations to the month and day of birth.
The following table shows it.

Chinese zodiac 12띠

Historical relics and records show the origin of twelve-year-old animals, which are different from folk tales. The Chinese zodiac signs were represented by imitating the shape of stars to observe natural cycles such as constellations and seasonal changes. The twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac are based on the state in which everything changes from spring to winter depending on the season. The twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac were widely used in the Yin Dynasty in China, and in the middle of the Han Dynasty, the twelve signs of the zodiac were connected in terms of time and defense.

We can write these as ‘the year of (the) ~’.
ex) 2015 was the year of sheep.

60Gapja 60갑자

Sixty-thousand characters refer to 60 ganji made by combining Cheongan and Jiwon. There are 60 from Gapja to Gyehae. This is why in Korea, we celebrate when one become 61 years old and 60 years old in Korean age.

The 60s are deeply related to ancient Babylonian Sumerian mathematics, which is recognized as the first civilization of mankind. Sixty characters are the number of 60 cases in which ten chapters and twelve chapters meet. Scholars estimate that the decimal system has the origin of ten fingers of a person, and the decimal system is a cycle of twelve months a year.