What are the next 5 years??(help)?

Question

in the chinese calendar,each year is named as an animal.for example,1978 was the year of the horse.during a 12-year period,each year is named with a different animal(rat,ox,tiger,rabbit,dragon,snake,... pig).then the animals are used over again for the next 12 years in the same order.after 1978,What are the next five years of the horse?describe the pattern you used to answer the question.

Answer 1

The chinese calender has 12 terrestrial branches.

1. zi, rat               2. chou, ox

3. yin, tiger           4. mao, rabbit

5.chen, dragon      6. si, snake

7.wu, horse          8. wei, sheep

9. shen, monkey   10, you, rooster

11. xu, dog           12 hai, pig

These 12 years rotate. From 1978 the next five Years of the Horse would be 1990,2002,2014,2026, 2038