What year is 1979?

A.D. 1979, one year in the Gregorian calendar, with a total of 365 days and 53 weeks. The lunar calendar is not the year of the sheep, but in June, with a total of 384 days.

The ancients regarded sheep as "virtuous animals", being kind to others, being kind and courteous. Good herd, sheep like to live in groups. Kindness means that sheep are kind and angular but not good at fighting. Death means that the sheep are quiet when they are slaughtered, so there is a story of Wang Xuan's "exchanging sheep for cattle". Courtesy is the sheep's gratitude, and the lamb kneels and suckles to symbolize filial piety.

Shuo Wen Jie Zi says: "Beauty is fragrant, from sheep, from big" and "sheep is great beauty". In Oracle Bone Inscriptions's annotation, linguist Li Xiaoding interprets "beauty" as "the shape of a suspected elephant decorating a sheep's head". Whatever the explanation, there is no doubt that sheep is a symbol of beauty.

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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).

With the development of history, it has gradually integrated into the concept of folk belief, which is manifested in marriage, life, annual luck and so on. Each zodiac has rich legends, which form a conceptual interpretation system and become an image philosophy in folk culture, such as the zodiac in marriage, temple prayers, the Year of the Animal and so on.

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