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What year is this year?

The last three years are 1869, 1929 and 1989, and the next year is 2049.

Chronology is a method of expressing years composed of heavenly stems and earthly branches, which was widely used in ancient China. Every 60 years is a cycle, and the time sequence is the sixth in heavenly stems and earthly branches, the former is Chen Wu and the latter is Wu Geng. The last three years are 1869, 1929 and 1989, and the next year is 2049.

Extended data:

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. Because there is a corresponding relationship between the zodiac and the earthly branches, the zodiac is also calculated from beginning of spring.

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