Esempi dal corpus di testo per Year of the horse
1. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao – who were both born in 1'42, the Year of the Horse according to Chinese astrology.
2. In "The Unfertilized Egg" by Junko Hasegawa, a single woman facing a dead–end affair with her married boss, sinks into bizarre dreams as she nears her 36th birthday, which she sees as her last chance to have a "B–[blood] type girl in the Year of the Horse" and carry on a three–generation family legacy.
3. Bad year: Astrological conjunctions have been blamed for the Sichuan earthquake and, below, protests in Tibet and on the Olympic torch relay in Delhi, for example Star gazer: Chinese astrologist Raymond Lo "So if you are born in the Year of the Horse, because of the clash against the rat you will have a turbulent year." Mr Lo said horse people like the President and the Premier should carry an ox pendant to help ward off problems, because the ox is seen as a friend of the rat.