What is the significance of the year of widowhood?

Widowed year, also known as slick year. Folklore experts say that it is absurd to say that the "widowed year" is not suitable for marriage, and there is no scientific basis at all. The "Widowhood Year" circulating in the society means that there is no year of beginning of spring in the whole lunar year. Take the Year of the Rooster in 2005 as an example. In beginning of spring, the Spring Festival falls on February 4th, and the Spring Festival falls on February 9th, while the Spring Festival in 2006 comes before beginning of spring, so there is no beginning of spring Day in 2005 (that is, from the last Spring Festival-February 9th, 2005 to the next Spring Festival-February 9th, 2006), and 2005 is called "Widowed Year". Widowhood year is just a coincidence between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar. Whether there is beginning of spring or not is only caused by the time difference of different calendars, which can't affect the cycle of the four seasons, let alone personal life. The reason for "widowed year" is that there is no "beginning of spring" in the lunar calendar, which is called "blind year" in the south and "widowed year" in the north. How did this name come from? The ancients believed in yin and yang. In a year, according to the technology of landscape observation, the summer solstice with the longest sunshine time and the winter solstice with the shortest sunshine time are divided. People think that "summer" is the peak of yang, while "winter" is the peak of yin. A year begins from the solstice of winter, "a new sun rises", and the yang slowly rises, reaching its peak in summer, and then the yin slowly increases, reaching its peak in winter, year after year, and so on. Yin ascending is smooth, while Yin nourishing is reverse. Folk Art still operates according to this principle. Gregorian calendar [1]

Yin and Yang are not only "Qi", but also gods, creators and human ancestors. "Huainanzi. Spirituality says that when heaven and earth are in chaos, "your god has a mixed life, and the camp is in heaven;" Confucius knew nothing about its ultimate goal, nor did he know anything about the period; So don't be yin and yang, let it be octupole; Combining rigidity with softness, everything is shaped; Boredom is a bug, essence is a person. "

In the concept of the ancients, Yang is a sky and a person; Yin is the earth, not a woman. Throughout the year, yin and yang are matched, with less yang in spring, less yin in summer, less yin in autumn and old yin in winter in Lao Yang. People are boys, fathers, girls and mothers. The cultivation of everything in heaven and earth is similar to copulation between men and women. Spring, like the harmony between men and women, is the season of fertility. In Historical Records, there is a saying that "life is divided into the west and China, and the family is ruined, and the valley is said". Yin Bin is away from home. He works in the East. In Japan and China, the star bird is Yin Zhongchun. The analysis of human beings is also the paradox of birds and beasts. "These words show that our ancestors observed the reproductive laws of nature thousands of years ago and recorded them as canon and passed them on to future generations. Spring represents mating and fertility. The concept of "spring breeds in summer, autumn harvests in winter storage" has a long history. The year without "beginning of spring" is called "widowed year", which is related to the above understanding of the ancients.

Beginning of spring is the beginning of spring. On this important day, the ancients had to do two things: one was to send away the cold winter, make it into a native cow and whip it. The soil is cloudy, the cow is ugly, the ugly in December, and the yin is the heaviest. Whipping a cow is like driving away the cold. The second is to know Chunyang, a boy. "Sacrifice to the Later Han Dynasty" records the ceremony of welcoming the spring in counties and cities: "On the day of beginning of spring, all people are green and welcome the spring outside Dongguo. Let a boy wear a green scarf and coat, first in Dongguo outfield. Those who arrive in the spring go out in the wild, and those who welcome them will worship and return. " The appearance of boys symbolizes the east and the sun, and represents the coming of spring.

There is no "beginning of spring" in a year, that is, there is no sun be the spirit arrival. Without yang, you are lonely and yin, and you are not born. In people, there is no yang, that is, there is no male match, and naturally it is a widow. The so-called "widow's year" came from this.

We already know that there is no "beginning of spring" in a certain year. This is not a heavenly way, but an artificial arrangement in the calendar, which was placed in the previous year. The idea of "widowhood year" is purely additive. What is there to be afraid of? The so-called "dumb year" in widowed years, also known as "blind spring" and "widowed year", means that there is no "beginning of spring" in the whole year of the lunar calendar, and beginning of spring appears at the end of the twelfth month of the previous year and the beginning of the first month of the next year, such as 2002, 2005, 2008, 20 10.

China uses the international Gregorian calendar and the traditional lunar calendar. Solar terms are determined according to the solar calendar, that is, the earth's orbit around the sun is divided into 24 equal parts. The solar calendar has two solar terms every month, and the dates are basically fixed. The lunar calendar is a combination of yin and yang, and the number of months and days in each year is not fixed, and the number of days in the whole year is less than that in the solar calendar 1 1 day. In order to adapt to the changes of cold and summer, and keep consistent with the solar calendar, the lunar calendar adopts 19 July leap month method, and seven years 13 months (383. This makes the year with leap month in the lunar calendar about 18 more days than that in the solar calendar, so there are 25 solar terms in a year in the lunar calendar, which means there will be two "beginning of spring", while the year without leap month in the lunar calendar has only 354 days or 355 days. Once the length of this year is between two "beginning of spring", you will not meet the "beginning of spring" in the solar year at the beginning of the year and reach the solar calendar at the end of the year.

The saying of "widowhood year" comes from "blind spring"

In the Lunar New Year, there are two beginning of spring named "Er Quan" or "Er Quan"; In some years, beginning of spring happens to be the first day of the Lunar New Year, which is called "the same spring". These situations are to solve the difference between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, which is in line with the method of "three years and nineteen years" in the lunar calendar. Due to the passage of two calendar times, blind springs, two springs and the same spring have appeared.

The existence of this phenomenon is only the need of calendar, which has no influence on natural climate and seasons, and will not have a special influence on people's life and production. Some people call it "dumb year" and "widowed year", saying that children born can't talk, and it is easy for their husbands to die young and their wives to be widowed, which is even more far-fetched, and violates the fundamental principles of the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements.

In numerology, it is determined that the calendar does not start with the first day of the first lunar month or the first lunar month 1 day of the solar calendar, but takes the day of beginning of spring and the day from beginning of spring to the day before beginning of spring in the following year as a whole year. For example, you were born in the late twelfth lunar month, but after beginning of spring, your constellation should use the branch of the second year as the annual column; If you were born on the first day of the first month, but haven't arrived in beginning of spring yet, you should use the eight-character column as the trunk of last year. There is no beginning of spring or double spring year, which plays a great role in determining a person's real zodiac sign, and is conducive to the correct arrangement of the eight characters, without any particularly good or bad influence.

The situation in beginning of spring in recent years is as follows:

2005 (Year of the Rooster): No spring, widowed year.

2006 (Year of the Dog): Shuangchun, so many people get married.

2007 (Year of the Pig): Single Spring

2008 (Year of the Rat): No spring, widowed year.

2009 (Year of the Ox): Double Spring

20 10 (Year of the Tiger): No spring, widowed year.

20 1 1 Year of the Rabbit: Single Spring

20 12 (the Year of the Loong): Double Spring

20 13 (year of the snake): No spring, few years.

20 14 (Year of the Horse): Double Spring

20 15 (Year of the Sheep): The appearance of single spring From an astronomical point of view, the existence of beginning of spring is only caused by the "solar quirk" between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar. The solar calendar is based on the law that the earth revolves around the sun. The earth rotates once a year, which is 365.24 days. The lunar calendar is formulated according to the law of the moon's profit and loss, which is divided into flat years and leap years. A normal year has 354 or 355 days.

China had the method of "seven leap months in nineteen years" more than two thousand years ago, that is, seven leap months were inserted into 19, so that the leap year of the lunar calendar had 383 or 384 days, about 19 days more than the solar calendar.

The solar terms in beginning of spring are basically set on February 4th of each solar year, so there are two beginning of spring in the leap month of the lunar calendar, and there are no beginning of spring in some normal years. The law of single spring also follows the period of 19.

That is to say, there will be no beginning of spring for 7 years out of every 19 years, with an average of once every two or three years. 19 has seven "double spring years" and five "single spring years".

There are 20 10 in the "widowed year" and 2009 in the "double spring year". Scientifically speaking, "beginning of spring has no beginning" is just a coincidence between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, which is caused by the time difference between different calendars. It is impossible to affect the four seasons cycle, let alone personal life. Widowed years' is an inevitable reflection of the law of natural operation, and has no necessary connection with personnel. This is an unscientific statement. Peng Jinshan, director of the Chinese Folklore Society and deputy director of the Agricultural Folklore Research Committee of the Chinese Folklore Society, said that in ancient times, when some phenomena and events at that time could not be explained, many people took the "Widowhood Year" as a rhetoric and spread it within a certain range, forming a psychological identity; Moreover, many people have herd mentality, which leads to the spread of this statement.

"No spring" is just a normal calendar evolution, which has nothing to do with good or bad luck, and it is even less likely to affect the happiness of marriage. Choosing an auspicious day to get married is the embodiment of faith and desire. Young people of school age should let nature take its course when choosing a wedding date. There is no need to rush into it, and there is no need to be confused by some unscientific statements.