What year is Ding Chou?

The Gregorian calendar years corresponding to Ding Chou Year are 1877, 1937, 1997, 2057 (60-year cycle).

Calculation method: In the year of AD, the number of years divided by more than 60 17, or the number of years divided by 10, the remainder is 7, and the remainder divided by 12 is 5. All the years from beginning of spring to beginning of spring in the following year are "Ding Ugly Years".

There are ten heavenly stems, namely A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui, and twelve earthly branches, namely Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. The ancients put them together in the order of Jiazi, Ugly B and Bingyin (that is, the sky turns six times and the earth turns five times, which is just a cycle), from Jiazi to Guihai * * * 60 pairs.

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Calculation method of ugly year:

The Year of the Ox is the year when the AD number is divided by 12 and the remainder is 5.

The formula is: the number of years in AD ÷ 12= a quotient, and the remainder is 5.

For example: 1997÷ 12= quotient 166, and the remainder is 5. So, 1997 is the Year of the Ox.

Note that the above is only a rough correspondence, because the Gregorian calendar and the elephant trunk calendar in China, which are widely used in the world, are two different calendars. Gregorian calendar starts from 65438+ 10/month 1, while lunar calendar starts from the date when beginning of spring built silver moon. Generally speaking, that day in beginning of spring is equivalent to February 4th or 5th of the Gregorian calendar every year.