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Born in 1984, what is the zodiac?

1984 February 1 is New Year's Eve, so the person born on this day is still a pig, and the person born on New Year's Day is really 84 years old and belongs to a mouse.

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).

It is manifested in marriage, life, and annual luck. Each zodiac has rich legends, forming a conceptual interpretation system and becoming an image philosophy in folk culture, such as the zodiac in marriage, the blessing in temple fairs, the animal year and so on. In modern times, more people regard the zodiac as the mascot of the Spring Festival and become a symbol of entertainment and cultural activities.

As a long-standing symbol of folk culture, the zodiac has left a lot of poems, Spring Festival couplets, paintings, calligraphy and paintings and folk arts and crafts that depict the image and symbolic meaning of the zodiac. Apart from China, many countries in the world issue stamps of the zodiac during the Spring Festival to express their wishes for the New Year in China.

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Pig correlation

Every time the Han people make a major sacrifice, they use a pig's head, and the pig's head is the most important, commonly known as "the pig's head and three beasts". Today, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces still reserve salted pig heads in the twelfth lunar month as new year's goods. Cantonese people in Tomb-Sweeping Day like to burn pigs to worship their ancestors. As the saying goes, "Too much pork, everyone has a share", which describes that after the sacrifice, the whole family shares the sacrifice together.

Wedding custom of sending pig's trotters in Shaanxi. The day before the wedding, the man will give four Jin of pork and a pair of pig's trotters, which is called "gift hanging", and the woman will return the pig's trotters. On the second day after the wedding, the husband and wife will go back to their parents' home with double dried noodles and pig's trotters, commonly known as "hoofs come and go".

The Han nationality and Manchu nationality in the northeast also have marriage "leaving the mother's meat". At the Bulang wedding in Xishuangbanna, men and women strung pork with bamboo poles and distributed it to families as a sign of "intimacy".

In the past, whenever Sichuan suffered a disease disaster, the elders in the family would put incense tables to beat the sow ghost and offer sacrifices to exorcise evil spirits, thinking that "killing a sow ghost can exorcise evil spirits." Sacrifice, choose the auspicious day of the ecliptic, kill the old sow, put the internal organs in the first room, and eat after the sacrifice.