When is the year of GUI Chou?

The year of guichou is one of the first years of the lunar calendar, such as19131973 2033 (60-year cycle), which means that trunks and branches are literally equivalent to trunks and branches. In ancient China, the sky was dominant and the earth was subordinate. The connection between heaven and stem is called heavenly stem, and the connection between earth and stem is called earthly branch. Together, it is called heavenly stems and earthly branches, or "dry branch" for short.

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). Sixty pairs from Jiazi to Guihai are called Jiazi.

A long time ago, there was a monster named "Xi", which came out to hurt people every year. Even the Kitchen God, who protected the common people, could do nothing, so the Kitchen God invited a prodigy named Nian, who was very powerful and wiped out the beast with red silk and bamboo poles crackling in the fire.

This day happens to be the last day of the twelfth lunar month. In order to thank and commemorate the New Year, people call the last day of the lunar calendar "New Year's Eve" and the first day "New Year's Day". People hope that every household has red silk and firecrackers, so the red silk and bamboo poles burned in the fire gradually evolved into red couplets and firecrackers that every household has in the New Year. This legend about the New Year can be said to be clear and orderly.

The next day was the first day of the first month, and the people who came back from refuge were very surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, the old woman suddenly realized and quickly told the villagers the promise of begging for the elderly.

The villagers flocked to the old woman's house together, only to see red paper on her mother-in-law's door, a pile of unburned bamboo still exploding in the yard, and a few red candles still glowing in the house ... The ecstatic villagers put on their clothes and hats to celebrate the auspicious arrival, and went to relatives and friends' homes to congratulate and say hello. The story soon spread in the surrounding villages, and people all knew the way to drive away the "Nian" beast.