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The Year of the Goat has arrived, and Chinese families are celebrating the New Year. Chinese people are all over the world, and of course foreigners will report on the Chinese New Year. So the question is, Chinese which kind of sheep does the year of the sheep refer to? As a result, the question of which horned ram, goat and sheep should be used has been fiercely discussed in foreign media circles.
It doesn't matter which sheep it is practical, maybe even Chinese has never thought about what kind of sheep is the year. All we want is an atmosphere of New Year's joy and family reunion. Some scholars have pointed out that Chinese use twelve animals to represent the year, "sheep" is the eighth zodiac animal; when there is no definite word modification, this Chinese character can represent any of the above three ruminants. So there is no need to dwell too much on what kind of sheep it is.
However, if you want to distinguish between these three kinds of sheep, in addition to checking various encyclopedias, looking at the photos of these foreign big guys playing with sheep will also impress you.
The sheep family.
On 27 April 2010, Queen Elizabeth II of Wales received a goat as a gift.
On April 18, 2014, in Sydney, Australia, Prince William and Princess Kate of the United Kingdom participated in the Royal Easter event, and Princess Kate teased the horned ram like a child.
On November 8, 2012, in Tasmania, Australia, Prince William of the United Kingdom held a sheep in his arms.
On June 10, 2014, in London, England, Prince Harry was interested in Goat, the mascot of the Royal Welsh Regiment, on the 50th anniversary of the release of the movie Zulu War.
On October 12, 2008, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the 10th Russian Golden Autumn Agricultural Exhibition at the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow, looking at the goat in front of him in a daze.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks at sheep in Auckland, New Zealand, July 7, 2014. Where Abe is, find out for yourself.
French President Sarkozy and First Lady Bruny and Goat interact intimately in Paris, France, on May 24, 2010.
On January 26, 2008, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited a livestock farm and lovingly teased the sheep (Goat).
On 8 July 2010, in Lopoham, Belgium, Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium fed sheep with princess Mathilde and children.
On January 6, 2014, on the outskirts of Rome, Italy, Pope Francis, as "God's Shepherd," placed a small lamb (Goat) on his shoulder as a "shepherd of God" inspected a simulated nativity scene at a church.