The Relationship between Chinese Zodiac and beginning of spring

The zodiac has nothing to do with beginning of spring, but is allocated to each year in turn according to the zodiac.

The zodiac signs in China are judged according to the order of the twelve earthly branches. Each earthly branch of Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai corresponds to a different zodiac, and Zi represents the zodiac mouse. According to the calculation of the China lunar calendar, that is, the lunar calendar, in the Spring Festival of 2020, it is 1.

The Chinese zodiac is twelve animals that match the birth year of human beings, including rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs.

The origin of the zodiac

The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship. From the Qin bamboo slips unearthed in Yunmeng Crouching Tiger Land in Hubei Province and Fangmatan in Tianshui, Gansu Province, we can see that there was a relatively complete zodiac system in the pre-Qin period. Wang Chong's Lun Heng in the Eastern Han Dynasty is the earliest record of the modern zodiac.

The zodiac is the image representative of the twelve earthly branches, namely Zi (mouse), Ugly (ox), Yin (tiger), Mao (rabbit), Chen (dragon), Si (snake), Wu (horse), Wei (sheep), Shen (monkey), You (chicken) and Xu (chicken).

With the development of history, they have gradually merged into the mutual beliefs of the people, which are manifested in marriage, life, annual luck and so on. All kinds of zodiac signs have rich legends, forming a conceptual interpretation system and becoming an image philosophy in folk culture.