Juan Chang-jui, head of the Anthropology Section at the Provincial Museum, explains: "The Chinese zodiac animals are a kind of totem, and also a kind of year god. Ancient Egypt, Babylon and Africa also had similar systems of twelve zodiac animals."
省立博物館人類學組長阮昌銳表示：「生肖是一種圖騰獸，也是一種年神，古埃及、巴比倫、非洲等地，都有跟中國類似的十二肖獸。」