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What is 1966.2.23?

Year of the Horse [Nian]

Words and phrases

This entry is a polysemous word with three senses.

Traditionally in China, a year is marked by dry branches, and "dry" refers to ten days of dry: A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui, and "dry" refers to twelve dry: Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Shen, You and Gui. Ten-day stems are matched with twelve earthly branches (single and double) in turn, namely Jiazi, Obo, Bingyin, Dingmao and Guihai, followed by Jiazi, Obo, 12 and 10. The least common multiple is 60, so 10 and 65438+. This is a bit complicated and hard to remember, so the ancients thought of using animals to represent complex earthly branches, that is, the zodiac. Rats, ugly cows, silver tigers, hairy rabbits, dragons, snakes, afternoon horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and porcupines. The chronology of the zodiac is a common folk calendar method, which cooperates with the earthly branches in the zodiac year.

Shiquan is an auspicious confluence that China people cherish very much. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty named himself "The Old Man in Shiquan" and wrote "The Story of Shiquan". Huang Zunxian said in Xinjiapo's Miscellaneous Poems: "Far expand the east and west poles, and do your best in virtue and discipline."

Ma Zhejun believes that "Gu Jun" refers to a person with outstanding talents, also known as "gifted scholar", which means "perfect". It is also in harmony with "Gu Jun", which can be described as "the year of Dafeng".

One book is profitable, two people are one, three yuan is harmonious, the four seasons are safe, the grain is abundant, the six are in the same spring, the seven sons are reunited, the eight immortals live long, the nine sons live the same life, everything is rich and prosperous.

Chinese name

Year of the Horse

Foreign name

Year of the Horse

Festival time

The noon year is a year of the dry calendar.

Festival type

traditional festival

affected area

Chinese communities in East Asia, Southeast Asia and the world

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Introduction to the method of judging the origin of the zodiac, said by TA, a celebrity in the Year of the Horse.

brief introduction

Zodiac is inherent in China, and the chronology of zodiac is attached to the chronology of trunk and branch, which is the chronology method of trunk and branch calendar. The official calendar is a calendar that marks the year, month, day and time with 60 different groups of heavenly stems and earthly branches. It takes beginning of spring as the beginning of the year, and it is divided into twelve months with twenty-four solar terms, and there is no leap month. This is a unique solar calendar in China. Every zodiac year begins in spring. Therefore, the zodiac year belongs to the dry calendar (it is another matter for the Japanese to change it to the solar calendar after the "Westernization" of the Meiji Restoration), and it must be based on the dry calendar of China. The year of the ecliptic is different from the year of the sun (AD digital year).

Gregorian calendar: It was calculated and published by Qin in ancient times, and can't be reproduced without the approval of the royal family. However, under the attraction of paying attention to profits, and because some remote areas can't get the official calendar in time, the emergence of private calendars has not been banned. It was not until the sixteenth year of Qing Qianlong that the people were allowed to engrave the official seal of the Yellow Calendar. When we open any imperial calendar, we can see that the change of the year of dry support is not on the first day of the first month, but on the day when the shadow is established in beginning of spring.

The book "Ancient Calendar of China", a national key book publishing planning project in the 11th Five-Year Plan, points out that the calendar year of the main branch is a part of the calendar year of the main branch, starting from beginning of spring! It is also clearly pointed out that for more than two thousand years, the dry calendar and the lunar calendar (chronological order) have "cooperated with each other and formed their own system"! The meaning is clear. Since ancient times, the China lunar calendar has used dry branches to record the years. However, the lunar calendar starts from the first day of the first month, which cannot change the principle that cadres and cadres' calendar years start from beginning of spring. This provides an important basis for the zodiac to start from beginning of spring.

Therefore, in fact, the dry calendar belongs to the solar calendar, which is essentially different from the traditional lunar calendar (yin and yang calendar).

The year of the horse in the Ganzhi calendar [1] is one of the twelve zodiac signs, that is, the year of noon, that is, the years of Wu Jia, Bingwu, Wuwu, Wu Geng and Renwu.

The approximate corresponding solar year is as follows:

(it is roughly corresponding, not equivalent! )

Wu Jia year: 1894, 1954, 20 14, 2074. ...

Bingwu Year: 1906, 1966, 2026, 2086 ...

Wuwu Year: 19 18, 1978, 2038, 2098. ...

Gengwu Year: 1870, 1930,1990,2050. ...

Non-lunar year: 1882, 1942, 2002, 2062. ...

Judgment method

Zodiac year belongs to the dry calendar, which is not equal to the calendar year, but roughly corresponds to a Gregorian calendar year (AD digital year).

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Gregorian calendar 10 year roughly corresponds to the year of the horse in the trunk calendar, so:

The year of the horse is the corresponding year when the AD number is divided by 12 and the remainder is 10.