Why is the Year of the Ox called the Ugly Year?

This is the result of the connection between the zodiac and the twelve earthly branches.

The Year of the Ox is a method for calculating years in China calendar. All years when the remainder of 5 is divided by AD 12 are the Year of the Ox. Cattle is one of the China 12 Zodiacs, ranking second.

The corresponding Gregorian calendar years are: 190 1 year, 19 13 years, 1925, 1937, 1949,/kloc-.

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Cattle is one of the China 12 Zodiacs, ranking second. The Year of the Ox is the year when the AD number is divided by 12 and the remainder is 5.

The formula is: the number of years in AD ÷ 12= a quotient, and the remainder is 5.

For example: 1997÷ 12= quotient 166, and the remainder is 5. So, 1997 is the Year of the Ox.

Note that the above is only a rough correspondence, because the Gregorian calendar and the elephant trunk calendar in China, which are widely used in the world, are two different calendars. Gregorian calendar starts from 65438+ 10/month 1, while lunar calendar starts from the date when beginning of spring built silver moon. Generally speaking, that day in beginning of spring is equivalent to February 4th or 5th of the Gregorian calendar every year.