Why are there two beginning of spring in the Year of the Dog?

Are there two "beginning of spring" in the Year of the Dog?

Last year, it was said that the Year of the Rooster was a year of widowhood, because last year's summer calendar did not contain "beginning of spring". This year is "Two beginning of spring in the Year of the Dog"? It's unlucky to be widowed. Has beginning of spring been prosperous in the past two years? These words are confidential and have no scientific reason, so let's not talk about them for the time being. What I want to say is that from the perspective of calendar, is the Year of the Rooster a year without spring? Is the Year of the Dog two years in beginning of spring?

First of all, we must understand the origin of the Year of the Rooster and the Year of the Dog. The Year of the Rooster comes from the "Yiyou" year of the year of the trunk branch, which is one of the twelve branches. The twelve earthly branches were originally used to calculate twelve o'clock a day. The ancients used the behavioral characteristics of twelve animals in the twelve hours to represent these twelve hours. When a chicken is unitary, it has to go into the nest, so unitary is a chicken. When it's dark, the dog is on duty to look after the house, so it represents the dog. Later, trunks and branches were used to mark the year. The unitary year was called the Year of the Rooster and the Qi year was called the Year of the Dog. Branches are also used to indicate the twelve odd-numbered solar terms starting from beginning of spring, also known as the twelve solar terms, which are equivalent to December in the Gregorian calendar. The twelfth section is, of course, from the twelve odd solar terms of beginning of spring, Jing Zhe, Qingming, Long Summer, Mangzhong, Xiaoshu, beginning of autumn, Bailu, Cold Dew, beginning of winter, Heavy Snow and Slight Cold. Branches are also used to count days. Years, festivals and days, together, have produced the traditional branch solar calendar in China. This solar calendar is named after the zodiac, which forms the zodiac in folk customs.

What needs to be clear is that the year of the solar calendar is different from that of the summer calendar. The solar calendar of the main branch is the solar calendar, with the year from beginning of spring to beginning of spring, ***365, or 366, and beginning of spring as its New Year's Day. From this day on, we entered a new year of the zodiac. Last year, for example, we entered the Year of the Rooster from beginning of spring. This year is the year of the dog, because of beginning of spring. However, the summer calendar is based on the lunar calendar and combines yin and yang. Its year is divided into1February or1March, and New Year's Day is the first day of the first month. The first day of the first month of this month is about half a month before and after beginning of spring. If it was before beginning of spring, in the summer calendar year, and beginning of spring hasn't arrived yet, even after the summer calendar year, you still won't get a new zodiac. For example, this year, after the summer calendar year, it will still be the Year of the Rooster, and it will take several days to get to beginning of spring and enter the Year of the Dog. Therefore, according to the solar calendar, there is no "beginning without spring" or "beginning without spring". Every year is New Year's Day, which is the only beginning of spring.

It is a misunderstanding to put the zodiac on the head of the summer calendar. The chronology of cadres and branches can only use the solar calendar of cadres and branches, but not the summer calendar dominated by the yin-yang calendar. Putting the calendar years of cadres and party branches on the summer calendar will turn them into monsters who are neither donkey nor horse. "Spring year without beginning" and "Spring year with double beginning" are the wrong results of this mistake.

"Why are there two beginning of spring in the Year of the Dog" (People's Daily, 5th edition, 2006, 65438+ 15) was forwarded by users of Radish Head to answer the following questions:

Q: beginning of spring is on the seventh day of the first month of the Year of the Dog, and beginning of spring is on the seventeenth day of the twelfth month. How can there be two beginning of spring in a year?

Jilin Lishan

A: The lunar calendar we use is commonly known as the "lunar calendar" in society. In fact, it is not a pure lunar calendar, but a "yin and yang calendar". The lunar calendar not only takes care of the "month" when the moon is full (that is, the month of the lunar calendar), but also takes care of the "year" when the four seasons change (that is, the twenty-four solar terms). 1February in the lunar calendar is 354 or 355 days, which is about 10 days less than 365 days in the four seasons. Therefore, according to the Gregorian calendar, the Spring Festival is about 10 days earlier every year. In this way, after three years, the lunar calendar will be 1 month earlier than the Gregorian calendar, and a "leap month" must be inserted into the lunar calendar to keep roughly in sync with the Gregorian calendar. After the leap month is inserted, the year of the lunar calendar will become 383-384 days, which will of course include two beginning of spring cities separated by 365 days.

Generally speaking, when the Spring Festival is moved to the end of the solar calendar 1, a leap month will be inserted (of course, there are more precise rules), and beginning of spring is always in the beginning of February in the solar calendar, so there must be beginning of spring at the beginning of the lunar calendar and beginning of spring at the end of the year. This year's Year of the Dog is exactly the case. Gregorian calendar 65438+1October 29th is the Spring Festival, February 4th is beginning of spring, and the lunar calendar leap in July, so it includes February 4th, 2007 in beginning of spring.

If there is a leap month in the lunar calendar this year, there are basically two beginning of spring. The approximate interval between leap months in the lunar calendar is "a leap every three years, a leap every five years, ... a leap in nineteen years." It can be seen that there will be two years of beginning of spring in the seven years of 19.

Dr. Wang Yumin, Ancient Observatory of Beijing Planetarium

People's Daily (5th edition, 2006, 0 17) Source: People's Daily-People's Daily.

Source: People's Daily-People's Daily (Editor: Wang Dan)

The question asked by this respondent is that the boundary of "Year of the Dog" is not clear. The year of the dog (that is, the year of Xu Bing) is the year number of the solar calendar, and its first day is the beginning of spring, not the first day of the first month of the summer calendar. The year from the first day of the first month to the first day of the first month of the following year (excluding the first day of the first month of the following year) in the summer calendar cannot be completely equivalent to the year of the dog. We can't equate the Gregorian calendar year 2006 with the Year of the Dog.

At the beginning, the question "beginning of spring is on the seventh day of the first month of the Year of the Dog" was wrong. "The seventh day of the first month of the summer calendar this year is the beginning of spring." It cannot be said that "the seventh day of the first month of the Year of the Dog is beginning of spring". Because the year of the dog refers to the year of Xu Bing. "Xu Bingnian" is the solar calendar year number of the solar terms, not the summer calendar year number.

Dr. Wang Yumin's answer explains why there are two spring beginnings in this year's summer calendar, and the Year of the Dog is not mentioned. In fact, Dr. Wang regards the Year of the Dog and the Summer Calendar as the same thing.

Because the chronology of cadres and branches says that the mistake of summer calendar year has been circulated for many years, and it is difficult to correct it from one mistake to another. Of course, it is understandable that Dr. Wang thinks so. The author of this article may be criticized instead. However, from the perspective of discussing the right and wrong of the calendar, it is better to distinguish between donkeys and horses to avoid some unwarranted calendar misunderstandings in the future. So I still want to bring it up, because experts and scholars.

Whenever we talk about "year, month and day", we should associate it with a calendar and find out which calendar is "year, month and day". Otherwise, an error will occur.

Gregorian calendar year 2006 can't be called "Year of the Dog", it only includes the beginning of spring, that is, February 4th.

The traditional solar calendar is the Year of the Dog, which contains only one beginning of spring, that is, the first day of the Spring Festival.

The traditional summer calendar can't be called "Year of the Dog" in general, because its beginning and end are different from the Year of the Dog. There are two beginning of spring days in it, one is the seventh day of the first month and the other is the seventeenth day of December.

The natural calendar scheme can be called "Year of the Dog" this year, because its beginning and end coincide with the Year of the Dog. There are no mistakes this year. The general error is at most one day. It only contains a beginning similar to spring, and every year is New Year's Day. There is a maximum error of one day between the approximate beginning of spring Day and the real beginning of spring Day. There are no mistakes this year. The natural calendar is actually the transparency of the solar calendar. It not only makes the beginning of the year, solar terms (months with Gregorian calendar) and solar terms transparent, but also makes the structure of years, festivals and days the simplest. 12 30 days, only 6 days plus 5 days. Each part is a multiple of 5. People can calculate the number of days in detail. (Please refer to the author's Introduction to Natural Calendar Scheme (1 ~ 1 1).

Other people's calendar reform plans can be called "Year of the Dog" this year, and readers can compare them.