Experts have different opinions on whether the replacement standard of the zodiac is beginning of spring or Spring Festival.

As for the replacement standard of the zodiac, all previous dynasties officially adopted the year of the zodiac (trunk and branch) from the first day of the first month. The various viewpoints and arguments of beginning of spring School are specious, mostly out of subjective attachment and imagination, and misinterpret history according to personal preferences, which simply cannot stand scrutiny.

First of all, the modern official legal standard is the first day of the first month.

In 20 17, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the National Standards Committee approved the publication of Compilation and Promulgation of Lunar Calendar.

Full text of standard: national standard |GB/T 3366 1-20 17.

State Administration for Standardization

Second, as the ancient national standard, the Yellow Calendar and official history also started from the first day of the first month. The focus of the beginning of spring School is that the traditional yellow calendar started in beginning of spring, but they just quoted the messy so-called yellow calendar written by modern people and found on fortune-telling websites. These "yellow calendars" are often not even discovered by the author himself, so they are not authoritative at all. Let's take a look at the real ancient yellow calendar. In fact, no ancient almanac or paper almanac based on beginning of spring theory has been published in Hongkong and Taiwan Province.