Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Lucky day inquiry - What do you mean by a dog pouncing on a dragon?

What do you mean by a dog pouncing on a dragon?

This is unique to Japan, and it is also commonly known as the name of auspicious day and underworld evil day.

"Chong" generally refers to the collision between the zodiac, that is, six reds. The Chinese zodiac animals are rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs. They collide with each other, namely, rats and horses, cows and sheep, tigers and monkeys, dragons and dogs, snakes and pigs, rabbits and chickens.

Zodiac is the twelve animals used by some ethnic groups in China and East Asia to represent the year. They are collectively called the Zodiac, that is, mouse, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and pig. They are connected with the twelve earthly branches (Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen and Shen) in turn. Everyone takes the symbolic animal of his birth year as the zodiac, so people in China often use the zodiac to calculate their age. Cycle once for a round.

Besides China's zodiac signs, China also uses twelve corresponding dates, the moon, the day and the hour. The zodiac (animal calendar) is also popular in Asian countries and some countries in Eastern Europe and North Africa.

The division of the zodiac year is controversial. On the one hand, the Lunar New Year is the first day of the first month, and on the other hand, beginning of spring is the official New Year.

The earliest and widely circulated complete 12 zodiac cycle in historical documents was put forward by Wang Chong (27-97 BC) in Lun Heng written in 1 century BC. In turn: rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs.