Is the Year of the Ox an Ugly Year? What year of the ox is 2022?

Poster: Fang Jinyang

12 On the first day of the first month, the Lunar New Year officially arrives in 2022. People meet and wish each other "Happy New Year", "Happy New Year" and "Good luck in the Year of the Ox". So, why is this lunar year called "Year of the Ox"?

Shi Zhicheng, a member of the Chinese Astronomical Society and director of the Tianjin Astronomical Society, said that the ancient Gregorian calendar year in China was called "the calendar year of trunk and branch", which was established on the basis of "ten days trunk" and "twelve earthly branches". The "ten-day stem" is composed of "A, B, C, D, E, Ji, Ke, Xin, Ren and Gui", and the "twelve earthly branches" are composed of "Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai".

The ancients corresponded a word in the heavenly stems with a word in the earthly branches, with the heavenly stems above representing Yang and the earthly branches below representing Yin. The heavenly stem begins with "A" and the earthly branch begins with "Zi". Jiazi is one year, ugly for two years, and yin for three years ... Ren Xu is 59 years, until Guihai, and another week is 60 years, which is the so-called "60 Jiazi". Then start with Jiazi and go back and forth.

Shi Zhicheng said that you can know the number of years in AD and find out the trunk and branches of a year. The details are as follows: the positive remainder obtained by subtracting 3 from the number of AD years and dividing it by 60 is the serial number of the year. If the remainder is 1, the serial number of the trunk and branch of this year is 1, and it can be known from the sixty trunk and branch table that this year is Jiazi year; By analogy, if the remainder is 2, then this year is an ugly year; If the remainder is 59, this year is Ren Xunian. If the remainder is 0, the year is the year of Guihai.

Take 2022 as an example. Subtract 3 from 2022 and divide it by 60, and you can calculate that the quotient is 33 and the remainder is 38, which is the serial number of 2022. From the list of 60 years, it can be concluded that this year is an ugly year.

Because the calculation of the "year of cadres and branches" is complicated and easy to be confused, and the ancient education is not popular and few people can read, it is difficult to remember a person's birth year with cadres and branches. In order to remember and calculate the year easily, people use twelve kinds of animals to match with the "Twelve Earthly Branches", and one kind of animal is used as the year zodiac every year, which is also known as "mouse, ugly cow, silver tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, afternoon horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and pig". In this way, things are simplified. People no longer call it the Year of the Boxer Rebellion or the Year of Ugliness, but simply the Year of the Rat or the Year of the Ox.

According to the astronomical calendar, the Year of the Ugly Ox in the 2022 lunar calendar begins at 12 in February 2022 and ends at 65438+3 1 in October 2022, with a total of 354 days. (Reporter Zhou Runjian)

The above is about whether the Year of the Ox is a year of happiness and ugliness, and it is about the sharing of happiness and ugliness. After reading the Year of the Ox in 2022, I hope this will help everyone!