十二生肖作为一种古老的民俗文化事象,在现有的文献资料记载中以西周时期的《诗经》为最早,《诗经·小雅·吉日》有“吉日庚午,即差我马”的字句,意思是庚午吉日时辰好,是跃马出猎的好日子,这是将“午”与“马”相对应的一个例子。1975年在湖北云梦睡虎地墓地发掘的秦墓中发现了内容丰富的竹简,在竹简《日书》里有一章节 As an ancient folk culture, the zodiac signifies the earliest “Book of Songs” in the Western Zhou Dynasty as recorded in the existing literatures. “The Book of Songs Xiaoya Jiri” The phrase, meaning Geng-Chih-Gi-Oh, is a good day for a hunting horse, which is the “noon” and “horse” as an example. In 1975 found in the tomb of Yunmeng sleeping tiger in the Qin tombs found in the content-rich bamboo, bamboo slips, “a book” in a chapter