What is the zodiac in the early twenties?

The Chinese Zodiac, also known as the Chinese Zodiac, is twelve kinds of animals in China that match the twelve earthly branches according to the year of birth, including rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs.

The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship. According to the records of Qin bamboo slips unearthed in Yunmeng Shuihudi, Hubei Province and Fangmatan, Tianshui, Gansu Province, there was a relatively complete zodiac system in the pre-Qin period. The earliest handed down document that recorded the China Zodiac, which is the same as modern times, was Lun Heng written by Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The zodiac is an intuitive representation 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). In modern times, more people regard the zodiac as the mascot of the Spring Festival and become a symbol of entertainment and cultural activities.

As a long-standing symbol of folk culture, the zodiac has left a large number of poems, Spring Festival couplets, paintings, calligraphy and paintings and folk arts and crafts that depict the image and symbolic significance of the zodiac. Apart from China, many countries in the world issue stamps of the zodiac during the Spring Festival to express their wishes for the New Year in China.

What does the zodiac mean? Is it a lunar calendar or a solar calendar?

China Zodiac Paper-cut

Is the zodiac a lunar calendar or a solar calendar?

12 according to the lunar calendar, the zodiac begins in the beginning of spring, not on the first day of the first lunar month.

Purple Mountain Observatory of China Academy of Sciences is a modern calendar editing unit. It supports the first day of the first month as the beginning of the year, that is, the lunar calendar. Many folk customs all over the country take the first day of the first month as the starting point of the zodiac year. For example, the custom of wearing red rope and "red underwear" has been handed down since midnight on New Year's Eve.

According to the China calendar, this genus is divided into beginning of spring. The division of the two zodiac signs is not based on the Gregorian calendar's 65438+ 10/,nor on the first day of the first lunar month, but on the beginning of spring solar terms in the twenty-four solar terms. For example, beginning of spring in 20 12 falls on February 4th, so the Spring Festival in 20 12 is still the Year of the Rabbit, and it will not be the Year of the Loong until February 4th.

China's zodiac is determined by beginning of spring, the lunar calendar is used in the Han Dynasty, the New Year is bounded by beginning of spring, beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms, and the zodiac is based on beginning of spring.