Chinese Proverbs
January 28, 2006 Saturday 3PM CT
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Many Chinese proverbs are actually stories told in the fewest possible words. This hour on Here on Earth, join Jean Feraca and her guest for the stories behind some of the best known Chinese proverbs.
Guest
- Adeline Yen Mah, author of "A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs"
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Chinese Zodiac Animals
The Chinese animal signs are a 12-year cycle used for dating the years. They represent a cyclical concept of time, rather than the Western linear concept of time. Find out the animal sign of your birth year:
| Sign |
Birth Year |
Famous People With This Sign |
| Rat |
1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996 |
Wolfgang Mozart, William Shakespeare, George Washington, Ron Moody, Marlon Brando, Burt Reynolds, Ursula Andress, Englebert Humperdinck, Charlotte Bronte, Truman Capote, Catherine I, Mata Hari |
| Ox |
1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997 |
Walt Disney, Vincent Van Gogh, Napoleon Bonaparte, Richard Nixon, Jack Lemmon, Tony Benn, Charlie Drake, Shirley Bassey, Jack Nicholson, Clark Gable, Rosa arks, Sylvia Porter |
| Tiger |
1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998 |
Marco Polo, Tom Cruise, David Bailey, Michael Ball, Stanley Baxter, Chuck Berry, Richard Branson, Mel Brooks, Jodie Foster, Elliot Gould, Harriet Harman, Timothy Mo, Bruce Oldfield, Lord David Owen, Jonathan Porrit, Oliver Reed, John Schlesinger, Pam Shriver, Pamela Stephenson, Judy Blume, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Isadora Duncan, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mary Harris (Mother) Jones, Barbara McClintock, Marilyn Monroe, Beatrix Potter |
| Rabbit |
1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999 |
Francis Ford Coppola, Germaine Greer, Neil Sedaka, Nanette Newman |
| Dragon |
1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000 |
Theodore Seuss Geisel, John Lennon, Joan of Arc, Pearl Buck, Sigmund Freud, Vidal Sassoon, Fats Domino, Bob Monkhouse, Jimmy Tarbuck, Al Pacino, Susan B. Anthony, Florence Nightingale, Pat Schroeder, Mae West |
| Snake |
1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001 |
Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Anne Frank, Mahatma Gandhi, Jean Simmons, Val Doonican, Sir Roger Banister, Burt Bacharach, Neil Diamond, Paddy Ashdown, Vivienne Westwood, Bob Dylan, Clara Barton, Liz Claiborne, Charles Darwin, Mary Baker Eddy, Elizabeth I, Fannie Farmer, Ellen Goodman, Carole King, Edgar Allen Poe |
| Horse |
1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 |
Clint Eastwood, Barbara Streisand, , Rembrandt, Teddy Roosevelt, Ian Cuthbertson, Robert Wagner, Rolf Harris, Helmit Kohl, John Thaw, Aretha Franklin, Chopin, Davy Crockett, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Sheep |
1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003 |
Michelangelo, Mark Twain, Gene Hackman, Mikhail Gorbachev, Leonard Nimoy, Prunella Scales, John Major, George Harrison, Rachel Carson, Rudolph Valentino, Barbara Walters, Orville Wright |
| Monkey |
1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004 |
George Lucas, Julius Caesar, Elizabeth Taylor, Harry S. Truman, Leonardo da Vinci, Bette Davis, Sacha Distel, Omar Sherif, Jimmy Page, Roger Daltrey, Annie Oakley, Eleanor Roosevelt, Betsy Ross, Diana Ross, Alice Walker |
| Rooster |
1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005 |
Catherine the Great, Michael Aspel, Yoko Ono, Rod Stewart, Mia Farrow, Eric Clapton, Virginia Apgar, Amelia Earhart, Rudyard Kipling, Groucho Marx, Peter Ustinov |
| Dog |
1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006 |
Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Clinton, Shirley MacLain, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Socrates, Henry Cooper, Slyvia Sims, Dolly Parton, Liza Minelli, Jane Asher, Cher, Dorothea Dix, George Gershwin, Jane Goodall, Herbert Hoover, Golda Meir |
| Boar |
1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007 |
Ernest Hemingway, Elton John, Bamber Gascoigne, Dudley Moore, David Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Lucille Ball, Mahalia Jackson, Albert Schweitzer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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