1993 What are the Zodiac and Five Elements?

The year of the rooster is when the AD number is divided by 12 and the remainder is 1.

The formula is: the number of years in AD ÷ 12= a quotient and the remainder is 1.

For example: 20 17÷ 12= the quotient is 168, and the remainder is 1. Then, 20 17 is the year of the rooster.

The Year of the Rooster is counted from beginning of spring in the twenty-four solar terms, because the year of the Zodiac is the year of the dry branch, and the year of the dry branch is the year of the dry branch. The same is true of the official almanac (that is, the Yellow Calendar). The lunar calendar only records the years with branches and branches. The branches and branches calendars are two different calendars, which are different in the starting point of a year, the rules for dividing months and the number of days in a year.

Extended data

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).

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 animal sign in marriage, the prayer in temple fairs, the year of birth and so on.

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