Li Mao-hsien, secretary of the Chinese Folk Arts Foundation, describes how friends of his born in the year of the ox do not eat beef, and those born "sheep" refuse lamb, "because they believe that they are reincarnations of oxen and sheep."
中華民俗藝術基金會執行秘書林茂賢就表示，他有些屬牛的朋友不吃牛肉、屬羊的朋友不吃羊肉… …「因為自認為是牛、羊投胎轉世的。」