Are you an Ox? Or a Horse? Or a Boar?

Long before Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac helped organize years, beliefs, and social life. Here’s how the system of 12 animals evolved over the centuries.

This is the first of a two-part series on traditional Chinese zodiac. When archaeologists back in 2017 discovered that semicircle-enclosed crab and ram-horn motifs had appeared on bronze mirrors ...