Is the zodiac based on the lunar calendar or the solar calendar?

traditional Chinese calendar

The zodiac is calculated according to the lunar calendar. There is a great controversy between folk and folk experts as to whether the zodiac starts from beginning of spring or from the first day of the first month. Traditional numerology and divination use "beginning of spring" as the basis for calculating the zodiac.

The zodiac, also known as the zodiac, is a dozen animals used by some ethnic groups in China and East Asia to indicate the year and the year of birth. The cycle of the zodiac is 12 years. Everyone has an animal as the year of his birth. The twelve zodiac signs, namely, rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and pig, are distributed in the twelve earthly branches in turn. This is a folk method of calculating age in China, and it is also an ancient chronology, also known as the twelve zodiac signs.

The zodiac is calculated according to the lunar calendar, and the official history takes the first day of the first month of the Spring King as the starting day of the New Year. Many folk customs all over the country take the first day of the first month as the starting point of the zodiac year. For example, the custom of "wearing red rope and red underwear" has been circulating since midnight on New Year's Eve. In China, beginning of spring is the beginning of the Year of the Zodiac.

According to the China calendar, this genus is divided into beginning of spring. The division of the two zodiac signs is not based on the Gregorian calendar's 65438+ 10/,nor on the first day of the first lunar month, but on the beginning of spring solar terms in the twenty-four solar terms. For example, beginning of spring in 20 12 falls on February 4th, so the Spring Festival in 20 12 is still the Year of the Rabbit, and it will not be the Year of the Loong until February 4th.