When you were a dog, you were born in the year of the dog.

Zodiac Dog Stamps of the Reform Movement of 1898 in 2022

Did the zodiac start in beginning of spring?

Whether the zodiac starts from the first day of the first lunar month or from beginning of spring has always been controversial.

Folklorists believe that the zodiac should begin on the first day of the first month of the Yellow calendar, that is, after 24: 00 on New Year's Eve, and enter the Year of the Dog at 0: 00 on the first day of the first month (February 16, 2022).

However, numerologists believe that the zodiac should follow the solar terms. From beginning of spring, that is, at 05: 28 on February 4, 2022, this beginning of spring time belongs to the punctual node of Sanyang Kaitai in the Central Plains, and children born after this time node belong to dogs.

The hound map of Xuanzong in Ming Dynasty; Harbin Art Museum, USA

The first month of every dynasty in history is not fixed. In ancient China, some people changed "Zhengshuo" to refer to the first month of a year, and "New Moon" refers to the first day of January. Changing "Zhengshuo" means that every time a dynasty changes, in order to show the legitimacy of imperial power, the new dynasty will re-establish "Zhengshuo". "Book of Rites": "Weight, test, correctness, easy to wear color, different emblem, different equipment, different clothes, this income is also related to the civil reform."

In the Xia Dynasty, the second month to the day after beginning of winter was the first month, and the calendar year of the main branch was the "Yin" month, which was equivalent to the first month of the current yellow calendar. Shang dynasty revised the new moon and pushed the previous month, that is, the "ugly" month; The Zhou dynasty revised the new moon and pushed forward the previous month, that is, the "sub-month"; Qin Shihuang revised the new moon and changed the first month to "Hai" month, which is equivalent to 10 month in the current yellow calendar; Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered the promulgation of a new calendar, namely "Li Han", also known as "taichu calendar", and changed it to the Xia calendar, which is still in use today.

Twenty-four solar terms are natural seasons, which are a series of astronomical phenological changes according to the different angles and times of receiving sunlight when the earth revolves around the sun.

The zodiac should start in beginning of spring. Because the zodiac belongs to the eight-character system, it is calculated according to each node of the 24 solar terms. On the first day of the first month, the judgment point of a person's zodiac is inaccurate. Only when the judgment point is clearly determined can the whole system run completely. Then, when the sun reaches beginning of spring 3 15, one of 24 solar terms, the climate and five elements begin to change at this node, so the zodiac should start from beginning of spring.

Therefore, children born after "beginning of spring" at 05: 28 on February 4, 2022 should belong to dogs.

The above is about the year when the dog was born, and it is about the sharing of the zodiac. After reading the year of the dog, I hope this will help everyone!