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Year of the Tiger

The Chinese lunar new year begins February 1, 2022, and starts the Spring Festival season that ends fifteen days later on the evening of the Lantern Festival. 2022 is the Year of the Water Tiger. The Chinese zodiac rotates through a 12-year cycle of animals and the traditional five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. The tiger ushers in the third year of the 12-year cycle, following the Year of the Ox. 

  • 32c Year of the Tiger single
  • Tiger near rocks
  • 44c Year of the Tiger single
  • Tile with zodiac figure of tiger
  • Sumatran Tiger
  • Year of the Tiger
  • Tiger and Bamboo
  • Tiger's Head
  • Bell (bo) with mask (taotie), birds, and tigers
  • Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright
  • Tiger
  • 44c+11c Save Vanishing Species single
  • A Recumbent tiger
  • Disk with tiger
  • Tiger and new moon
  • Water holder: tiger
  • Rawat Jaswant Singh Hunting
  • Tiger Under Snowy Pines
  • Yawning Tiger
  • One of a pair of tigers, possibly the base supports for a bell stand
  • Luohan, Attendant, and Tiger
  • Tiger
  • Tiger (Tora): Kashiwade no Omi Hatebe, from the series Bravery Matched with the Twelve Animals of the Zodiac (Buyū mitate jūnishi) 「かしわで 寅」 『武勇見立十二支』
  • Tiger
  • Maharao Umed Singh hunting tigers
  • Sumatran Tiger
  • Fighting a tiger in snow
  • A Tiger crouching on rocks
  • Figure of a tiger
  • Tally in the form of a tger (hu fu), fragment
  • Seated tiger

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