What year is 20 17?

You Chicken is the Year of the Rooster (Ding You Year in lunar calendar, Gregorian calendar 20 17/October 28-201February 8 15).

Chicken ranks 10th in the Chinese Zodiac. The year of your chicken is 1909, 192 1, 1933, 1945, 1957,1957. Once every 12 years.

Judgment method

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.

Please note that the above is only a rough correspondence, because the Gregorian calendar and the trunk calendar in China, which are widely used in the world, are two different calendars. The Gregorian calendar begins with 65438+1 October1,while the dry calendar begins with the date when beginning of spring built silver moon. Generally speaking, this day in beginning of spring is equivalent to February 4th or 5th of the Gregorian calendar every year.

The Origin of Chicken Zodiac

King Chicken is a competitive guy, always making trouble and fighting. When the jade emperor named the zodiac, he considered whether animals contributed to human beings, and of course, the king of chickens could not be ranked.

One day, King Chicken saw that the horse that was sealed with the zodiac was loved by people, and he was very envious. So he stepped forward and asked, "Brother Ma, what did you get for your honor today?" Ma replied: "I usually plow and carry things, and I made great contributions to mankind in wartime." Of course, I should be loved. "

Ma Yun said: "It is not difficult to win people's love, as long as you can give full play to your advantages and do something for people. Take animals that have been sealed with the zodiac as an example. Cattle can plow the fields, dogs can watch the door, pigs can feed people, dragons can rain, and you were born with a golden voice, which may be helpful to mankind. "

When the chicken king came home, he thought about it, and finally thought of waking up the sleeping people with his golden voice. So every day at dawn, the chicken king gets up early and sings loudly to wake people up from their sleep. People are very grateful to the King Chicken for his contribution, and decided to ask the Jade Emperor to regard the chicken as the zodiac.

However, at that time, the standard for the Jade Emperor to seal the zodiac was that as long as the animals were not birds, horses, cows, sheep and dogs were all involved in the six animals, but there was no chicken, which made the chicken king very anxious. He shouted his neck with red eyes, but in vain.

One night, the chicken king couldn't figure it out and couldn't sleep. A wisp of ghosts flew directly to the Heavenly Palace, came to the temple of the Jade Emperor and cried to the Jade Emperor. He wakes up all beings every morning and makes great contributions, but he is not allowed to be selected as one of the 12 Zodiacs, which is really incomprehensible. With that, tears came down.

The Jade Emperor thought that the contribution of the Chicken King was really great, and the standard of choosing the zodiac was really wrong, so he picked a flower in front of the temple and put it on the head of the Chicken King as a reward.

When the chicken king woke up, he found that there was really a red flower on his head, so he wore it to see the four heavenly kings. The four heavenly kings recognized that it was the jade emperor's "royal furnace red flower" and knew that the jade emperor valued the chicken king, so they made an exception and let the chicken king participate in the zodiac competition. On the day of competing for the zodiac, the chicken and the dog got up at the same time and walked together. When approaching the Heavenly Palace, the chicken is afraid that the dog will be caught first and even fly to the front.

The dog hurried to catch up, but never caught up. Therefore, it is behind the chicken. Since then, the dog has no affection for chickens, and it chases them when it sees them. Until today, the phenomenon of "dogs driving chickens away" is still visible. As for the chicken, it still blushes every morning and wears a beautiful big red flower on its head.