What year is Ding Mao?

Ding Maonian is one of the cadres and branches in the calendar for sixty years. Ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches are matched to form sixty earthy branches, and the cycle is repeated. When sixty branches are reincarnated once, they are also called Jiazi.

The chronology of cadres and branches starts from beginning of spring in the twenty-four solar terms, because the chronology of cadres and branches is the chronology of the calendar of cadres and branches. The same is true of the official almanac (that is, the Yellow Calendar).

There are ten kinds of heavenly stems: A, B, C, D, E, G, Xin, G and G.

There are twelve earthly branches: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai.

There are 60 heavenly stems and earthly branches branches, followed by Jiazi, Yechou, Bingyin ... and 60 pairs from Jiazi to Guihai. Each overground stem is equipped with six ground branches, each ground dominates five overground stems, and sixty overground stems are repeated in turn. So 60 years is called a Jiazi.