How does the zodiac count as the beginning of spring or new year?

In fact, the zodiac is sorted according to the Gregorian calendar, and it is defined by the solar terms of beginning of spring in the twenty-four solar terms, not by 65438+ 10/0 in the solar calendar, nor by the first day of the first month. In China's old yellow calendar, beginning of spring was chosen as the zodiac, while in Liu Jianian, the heavenly stems were ten and the earthly branches were twelve, that is, Zi Chou Yin Mao and Tatsumi Shen You Xu Hai at noon. It's a bit complicated to record, so the ancients used animals to represent the earthly branches, that is, the zodiac, so the order of the zodiac should be counted from the day of beginning of spring.

Do you think the zodiac is based on beginning of spring or Spring Festival?

According to reports, the method of taking beginning of spring as the standard of the zodiac began in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. At present, the folklore used by the people, such as traditional numerology and divination, also takes the "beginning of spring" solar terms as the basis for calculating the zodiac. For example, if numerology depends on a person's date of birth, it must strictly start from spring.

Researchers pointed out that China used heavenly stems and earthly branches to record the year, month and day in ancient times. The zodiac, including the concept of twelve o'clock, is unique in the heavenly stems and earthly branches Chronology, which is a different system from the lunar calendar. The chronology of the trunk and branch is based on the sun, and heavenly stems and earthly branches alternately starts from beginning of spring every year. For example, the year of the horse is Wu Jianian, and the year of the sheep is B. According to the chronology of trunks and branches, the length of each year is about 365.25 days.