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Ti-yong Essence-Function

The Ten Celestial (Heavenly) Stems - 天干 tiāngān
The literal meaning of the characters was roughly as follows:

The Twelve Earthly Branches - 地支 dìzhī
Arctic Side

Some cultures assign different animals: Vietnam replaces the Ox and Rabbit with the water buffalo and cat respectively; Japan replaces the Pig (豚) with the boar (猪) as the character 猪 means Pig in Chinese but "boar" in Japanese; Tibet replaces the Rooster with the bird. In the traditional Kazakh version of the 12-year animal cycle (, müşel), the Dragon is substituted by a snail (, ulw), and the Tiger appears as a leopard (, barıs).

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This is explained by Fuxi in the following way:

Dasgupta
Dasgupta