What does the Year of the Rat mean?

The year of the Rat of Gengzi is the year of the lunar calendar in 2020. In those days, heavenly stems and earthly branches was called "boxer" and the five elements read "dirt on the wall", so it was also called "boxer rat". The year of the rat of Gengzi is 1960, 2020, 2080 and so on.

Gengzi is one of the main branches, with a rank of 37. The former is Ji Hai, and the latter is Xin Chou. On Yin-Yang and Five Elements (the birthday is auspicious), the Geng of heavenly stem belongs to Yang Jin, and the son of earthly branch belongs to Yang Shui, which is the coexistence of gold and water.

There are ten heavenly stems, namely A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui, and twelve earthly branches, namely Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. The ancients matched Jia Zi, Yi Ugly and Bing Yin in order ... without repetition, sixty pairs from Jia Zi to Gui Hai were called Jia Zi.

The ancient Chinese used these 60 pairs of branches to represent the serial numbers of year, month, day and time, and this is the chronological method of branches. In 2020, the Gregorian calendar is a leap year, ***366 days and 53 weeks. The Year of the Rat is in April in the lunar calendar.