It seems to be a BUG in the translation, as there is NO Cat in the Chines signs.
The Cat should be a Rooster
Fødselsdag: 01. Jan 1964
Stjernetegn: Stenbuk
Kinesisk stjernetegn: Katten
From a Asian member on my forum:
There is no cat among them.
According to chinese legend,one day the Gods gathered all the animals to
hold a contest.They said:"Tomorrow whoever wins the contest the first 12
animals will be animal signs."
Because the cat and the rat had been good friends.So the night before the
contest,they made a promise that who gets up first will wake up the other
one next morning.
But the rat is so bad that he woke up earlier and went to the contest
without waking up the cat.
That's why there is no cat in the zodiac animal signs,and why cat and rat
become into enemy since then.^_^
Actually,the use of 12-year animal cycles for recording the years in china
date back to 100 AD.It corresponds to 12 Earthly
Branches labeled by the ancient Daoists.Like the branches of a tree
reaching out to the sky,showing off their part in the drama of
existence,so are the 12 commands know as the 12 Earthly Branches.
The Earthly Branch method is so difficult that even chinese people
,including me , are not very clear of it.
On the other hand,In traditional China, dating methods were cyclical,
cyclical meaning something that is repeated time after time
according to a pattern. A popular folk method which reflected this
cyclical method of recording years are the Twelve
Animal Signs. Every year is assigned an animal name or "sign" according
to a repeating cycle: Rat, Ox, Tiger,
Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Boar.
Therefore, every twelve years the same animal
name or "sign" would reappear.
A cultural sidelight of the animal signs in Chinese folklore is that
horoscopes have developed around the animal
signs, much like monthly horoscopes in the West have been developed for
the different moon signs, Pisces, Aries,
etc. For example, a Chinese horoscope may predict that a person born in
the Year of the Horse would be, "cheerful,
popular, and loves to compliment others". These horoscopes are amusing,
but not regarded seriously by the Chinese
people.
The animal signs also serve a useful social function for finding out
people's ages. Instead of asking directly how
old a person is, people often ask what is his or her animal sign. This
would place that person's age within a
cycle of 12 years, and with a bit of common sense, we can deduce the exact
age. More often, though, people ask for
animal signs not to compute a person's exact numerical age, but to simply
know who is older among friends and
acquaintances.
Wich also confirmed here:
http://www.netspirit.dk/od/k_astrologi/beregn.html
http://www.glemsom.dk/kalender/kinesiske_aarsdyr.htm
A Danish thread here:
http://phpbb2.dk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=37146
