What does tiger rest day mean?

Tiger day-that is, cloudy day (rats, ugly cows, silver tigers, hairy rabbits, dragons, snakes, afternoon horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and porcupines). In the past calendars, years, months, days and hours were all represented by heavenly stems and earthly branches, and the Year of the Tiger was the corresponding day.

Definition of cloudy day

In ancient China, the date of the year was recorded by the chronology of the stem and branch, that is, the cooperation of heavenly stems and earthly branches was taken as sixty flowers. Yin is one of the twelve earthly branches, and a cloudy day is the day when the earthly branches are cloudy. There are five * * *, take turns on duty.

Yin-yang circulation

There is a cloudy day every 12 days. Of course, the weather is different. And there will be one day in heavenly stems and earthly branches every 60 days, so there will be five or six same days every year.

The content of silver day

Because the sky is different, there are five kinds of cloudy days: C Yin, Five Yin, Geng Yin, Human Yin and Jia Yin.