According to the heavenly stems and earthly branches Chronology Law, what year should 1997 be?

According to the heavenly stems and earthly branches Chronology Law, 1997 should be the year of Ding Chou. The chronology of cadres and branches is an ancient chronology used in the history of China. The trunk is heavenly stems and earthly branches's floor. The order of matching branches and branches is exactly 60 a week, and records are repeated, which is commonly known as "branch table". The calendar year of cadres and party branches is changed to beginning of spring every year.

The ten symbols of A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Man and Ghost are called heavenly stems; The twelve symbols of Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai are called earthly branches.

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Heavenly stems and earthly branches Chronology began in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, and people used Ganzhi Chronology in the period of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu. It was extended to the Ganzhi calendar year in the second year of Emperor Han and Yuan (AD 85), and was promulgated in the form of a government order throughout the country. Later, all dynasties and generations adopted the year number and the dry branch method as the year, but it was not abolished along the line.

For thousands of years, China's traditional calendar, the Han calendar (Lunar Calendar), has adopted the method of counting the years from the first month of the new year (New Year's Day), just like the year of the emperor.

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