Chinese New Year of the Tiger is on February 14 in the year 4707.
The Chinese believe that their first king of China was the Yellow King (he was not the first emperor of China). The Yellow King became king in 2697 B.C.(2697+2010 = 4707). China will enter their4707th year on February 4th, 2010. The Chinese Year uses the cycle of 60 Stem-Branch counting systems and the Metal Tiger is the 27th Stem-Branch in the cycle. Since (60 *78) + 27 = 4707, therefore 2010 is the Metal Tiger year, hence the 4707th Chinese Year. This is some very interesting stuff.
The formal Chinese Character of Tiger is 
, which is pronounced Hu. The formal Chinese Character of Metal is 
, which is pronounced Jin.
Chinese Calendar is a calendar that combines Solar, Lunar and the Stem-Branch cycles.
Chinese New Year uses the Chinese Lunar Calendar system.
Chinese Astrology Year uses the Jie-Chi (solar segment) and the Stem-Branch system
Stem-Branch system is where we get the animal names.
More on China Year of Tiger.
The Tiger has the potential to become vigorous, ferocious and cruel. So the Tiger is a symbol of power and authority. This personality is good for leadership and has both inflexible and destructive personalities.
Tiger has very poor people relationship, especially, with family members.
In traditional customary, a Chinese family will not invite those born in year of Tiger to become apart of a private wedding ceremony.
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