FYI?Chinese astrology also incorporated the planetary dating into their system after some cultural exchange with India at Tong Dynasty (maybe between 800-1000AD) Most knowledge were exchanged by books only because of long distance travel. Some astrological knowledge may be passed along from Perssia ...

Chinese first associated animals (real and mythical) to the 28 constellations. Then, they used only 12 of them to represent the 12 signs. Believe or not, most explanations were reverse-engineered because the origin of Chinese Zodiac was not well documented, such as the odd/even digits explanation. S...