What do you say about the year of Guimao?

It's the Year of the Rabbit, and the so-called "Guimao" is a way to date the years of the cadres and branches. The ancestors matched the ten heavenly stems with the twelve earthly branches in order, with the heavenly stems in the front and the earthly branches in the back, thus taking sixty as a cycle and repeating it.

In addition to marking the year with tree trunks and branches, we also use the "Zodiac Chronology". Our ancestors matched the twelve earthly branches with twelve kinds of animals, and every year one kind of animal was in charge, which is what we call the zodiac.

Every sixty years, there are five identical earthly branches and five identical zodiac signs. Although the zodiac signs are the same, in the 60-year cycle, the heavenly stems matched by each earthly branch zodiac sign are different.

Take the Year of the Rabbit as an example.

There are five kinds: Ding Mao, Ji Mao, Xin Mao, Gui Mao and Yi Mao. Because of the different attributes of the five elements, these five different rabbit years have also been given different attributes of the five elements, namely fire, earth, gold, water and wood. Therefore, the Year of the Rabbit in 2023 is the Year of the Water Rabbit.

In traditional culture, the five elements will be matched with five colors: golden white, fiery red, khaki, wood blue and water black. Therefore, the Year of the Water Rabbit is also regarded as the Year of the Black Rabbit.