Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Almanac inquiry - Is the twelfth lunar month 1998 a cow or a tiger? I don't know the zodiac and the lunar calendar.

Is the twelfth lunar month 1998 a cow or a tiger? I don't know the zodiac and the lunar calendar.

Lunar calendar 1998 twelfth lunar month is a rabbit. Namely: Year of the Rabbit (Year of the Rabbit), Month, Day of the Sea.

Lunar New Year Algorithm China Huangli uses beginning of spring to determine the zodiac.

The "lunar calendar" is the lunar calendar that began to be used in the Han Dynasty. The New Year is bounded by beginning of spring, beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms, and the zodiac is based on beginning of spring.

There are 10 stems and 12 earthly branches in the middle of Liujiaji, that is, Zichou Yin Mao and Tatsumi Shen You Xu Hai at noon. This is a bit complicated, so the ancients thought of using animals to represent earthly branches, that is, the zodiac. Rats, ugly cows, silver tigers, hairy rabbits, dragons, snakes, afternoon horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs. The zodiac is unique in Liu Jianian, China, and it should be counted from beginning of spring.

Traditional numerology and divination are based on "beginning of spring". Including the current folk fortune tellers, have always followed the traditional zodiac formula. Because the zodiac is the same as the earthly branch, it can't be determined by the current Spring Festival.