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Geng (Geng) noon (noon), 2008 is one of the years of China's trunk and branch, and the years of trunk and branch cycle once every 60 years, which is called "A Jiazi". The calendar year of the dry branch belongs to the circular calendar year; Heavenly stems and earthly branches is used to arrange 60 earthly branches according to certain rules, and the chronology is repeated repeatedly.

Trunks and branches cycle every sixty years, so they are called jiazi. Sixty years old is called sixty years old.

Overview of heavenly stems and earthly branches

There are ten in heaven.

There are ten kinds of heavenly stems: A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Man and Ghost.

There are twelve earthly branches: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai.

The chronology of cadres and branches starts from beginning of spring in the twenty-four solar terms, because the chronology of cadres and branches is the chronology of the calendar of cadres and branches. The same is true of the official almanac (that is, the Yellow Calendar). There is no doubt that the lunar calendar only uses branches to mark the year, which ranges from the first day of the first month to New Year's Eve. Lunar calendar and trunk calendar are two different calendars, which are different in the starting point of a year, the division rules of months and the number of days in a year. Due to the use of the Gregorian calendar after the Republic of China, many people, including a few so-called experts, lack calendar knowledge, so the two are often confused.

The trunk calendar is a calendar marked with 60 different heavenly stems and earthly branches, which is a unique solar calendar in China. It takes beginning of spring as the beginning of the year and divides the year into twelve months and twenty-four solar terms. Every month contains two solar terms, and there is no leap month. The dry calendar is related to the periodic movement of the earth around the sun, which can reflect the climate change in a year. Since ancient times, the trunk and branch calendars have been widely recognized by the government and people, and have been applied to astronomy, geomantic omen, numerology, choice and traditional Chinese medicine, and recorded in the official almanac of past dynasties (that is, the yellow calendar).

Taking Qing Dynasty official history book Qing Shi Lu as an example, the official years in the book are divided into beginning of spring: for example, Zhonghua Book Company photocopied Book 17 of Qing Shi Lu, Book 9 of Qianlong Shi Lu, with 573 pages, beginning of spring, 20071February 22 (Geng Xu), and Record is recorded as "Geng Xu. This is the beginning of last spring. " See also the ninety-fifth chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty: "beginning of spring on December 18th, Jiayin year, beginning of spring on December 19th, silver moon year". It is clearly pointed out here that the transition point of the dry calendar is in the year.

The twelve earthly branches are combined with twelve kinds of animals: rats, ugly cows, yinhu, maotu, dragons, snakes, afternoon horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs. Because there has been such a correspondence between the zodiac and the earthly branches since ancient times, the zodiac is also counted from beginning of spring.

Every year, a group is regarded as the zodiac of that year, and everyone born in that year takes this zodiac as their own animal sign. It circulates every twelve years. Wu Gengnian is the year of the horse, and people born in this year belong to the horse.

References:

Wu Gengnian's Baidu Encyclopedia