What about the yellow calendar?

First of all, tell you: the "Yi" and "taboo" in the yellow calendar are not credible! Everyone's fortune is related to their own horoscope. The "yi" and "taboo" in the yellow calendar are not suitable for everyone. As for "Daily Fetal God Domination" and "Peng Zu 100 Taboo", there is no need to delve into it. The appropriateness and inappropriateness in the Gregorian calendar are calculated according to the punishment between heavenly stems and earthly branches in the year, month and day, and the heavenly stems are A, B, B, D, Huo, Wuji (earth), Geng Xin (gold) and Fei (water); The earthly branch is the child (water) ugly (earth) yin (wood) Mao (wood) Chen (earth) has (fire) noon (fire) not (earth) Shen (gold) unitary (gold) Xu (earth) Hai (water).

How to understand Gregorian calendar

1. What is the Gregorian calendar?

According to david duncan, a western scholar, the lunar calendar in China was created by Emperor Yao. Measured by the interval between the full moon and the lack of the moon, it is divided into 24 solar terms. Its main purpose is to provide farmers with the basis for sowing and harvesting. However, China is not the only country that has a farmer's calendar. Other countries also have different farmers' calendars or calendars. Regardless of the east or the west, farmers' calendars provide practical life information. Basically, farmers' calendars not only provide people with information about the quality of the day, marriage, moving ..., but also often have some eight-character analysis or next year's zodiac fortune, as well as different versions printed with farm calendars, with some constellations and life tips ... at the same time, they also reflect the wishes, expectations and blessings of Chinese and Western people for future life. Roach, Min 90.

But in China, it is generally said that the Yellow Calendar is called the Yellow Calendar because the calendar created by the Yellow Emperor is the abbreviation of the Yellow Emperor Calendar. Some people call it civil calendar, calendar, calendar with notes, etc. Because it formulates the rules of four seasons and twenty-four solar terms, it is mainly to cooperate with the sowing and harvesting of ancient farmers, so it is also called farmer calendar. As for the saying of choosing to avoid in the Yellow Calendar, although it has existed since the Qin and Han Dynasties, it is mainly after the Tang Dynasty that a lot of content about good or bad behavior has been circulated in the Yellow Calendar.

Second, the comparison of solar calendar, lunar calendar, yellow calendar and lunar calendar

We often say that the new calendar is a solar calendar and the old calendar is a lunar calendar and a lunar calendar. People seem to believe this statement. In fact, the new calendar is solar calendar, but it is debatable that the old calendar method is often called lunar calendar or lunar calendar.

1. Gregorian calendar → is a calendar based on the period of the earth's orbit around the sun.

The earth rotates once a day.

The earth goes around the sun once a year, with 365 and 1/4 days in a year.

At present, the so-called solar calendar has 365 or 366 days in a year (leap year).

A year 12 is divided into 12 months, and a month has 30 or 3 1 day (except February).

2. Lunar calendar → is a calendar based on the cycle of the moon orbiting the earth.

The earth rotates once a day.

The moon goes around the earth for one month, which is equal to 29 or 30 days.

At present, the so-called lunar calendar has 12 months and 354 days in a year, or 13 months and 383-384 days (leap month).

3. The Yellow Calendar → is a calendar promulgated by the Qing Dynasty, including the lunar calendar and the twenty-four solar terms, to guide people in farming.

The so-called old calendar is actually the yellow calendar, commonly known as the "lunar calendar" or "peasant calendar";

But what is really related to farming is the "twenty-four solar terms" in the yellow calendar.

Third, an overview of yearbook publication.

Although almanac is not a best seller on the list of major bookstores-because it is a "non-mainstream publication" in the form of books, I believe many people will have an almanac of that year at home, or even more than one. Especially at the end of the year, many families must have received the yellow calendars printed and donated by some institutions.

Many people refer to the Gregorian calendar when choosing the date of wedding, funeral, celebration, building and even election registration. In fact, it restricts many activities in society to a certain extent, and its influence on us is self-evident. If you look at the current almanac, you will find that it is more like a small encyclopedia of life except the almanac part. The content may include some parts related to the number of skills, such as zodiac, horoscope, weight calculation, palm reading, secret recipes for boys and girls, good or bad names, strokes and so on. It also includes some common sense of life, such as telephone area code, postal code, simple first aid methods and so on. The content is all-encompassing, and there are even some advertisements, which actually have the characteristics of magazines.

As mentioned earlier, the almanac has a profound influence on China people. However, although bookstores still sell them now, a copy is about 100 yuan, but today most people get almanac from gifts. But this was definitely not the case in ancient times.

Since calendar-making was the symbol of the highest political power in ancient times, it can bring rich benefits, so it can be said that it has become a "state-owned publishing enterprise" since the Tang Dynasty, published by astronomical institutions in various dynasties, such as Qin, Si, Si Tiantai and Taishi Bureau.

Long-term sales of almanac have been common since ancient times. For example, in the first year of Yuan Wenzong calendar, there were more than 3 million copies of official seal almanac sold nationwide in that year, with an average of one copy for every four households, and the government's income from selling calendars was as high as five thousandths of the national currency.

Fourth, how to understand the Gregorian calendar (starting from understanding the main branches)

Stem and branch: it is "heavenly stem" and "earthly branch". Take justice from the dry branches, dry and dry; Branch, branch also.

1. Ten days' work

The so-called "heavenly stem" is the arrangement symbol of ten orders, such as nail, B, C, D, E, self, G, Xin, Ren and Gui, which means the order between heaven and earth. There are ten "heavenly stems", so it is also called "ten-day stems". In ancient times, "ten-day work" was used to record the days, and later it evolved into the order of certain things, such as: A, B, C, D, A, B, C, D in academic performance, A and B in physical examination. At this time, A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui are equal to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 of Arabic numerals or A, B, C, D, E and F of English letters.

2. Twelve Earthly Branches

The so-called "earthly branch" is to arrange twelve symbols such as Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai in order. These twelve symbols also imply the order between heaven and earth. There are twelve earthly branches, so it is also called "Twelve Earthly Branches". In ancient times, the twelve earthly branches were used to record the months. At present, it is rarely used except almanac.

3. Sixty jiazi

Later, the ancients found that it was not enough to record the sun and the moon with only ten days of dry and twelve earthly branches, which was easy to be confused, so they arranged and combined the ten days of dry and twelve earthly branches. That is, the "A" of heavenly stems matches the "Zi" of earthly branches to become "Jia Zi"; The ugly ground branch matches the "B" of heavenly stem and becomes the "B ugly"; The "C" of heavenly stems matches the "Yin" of earthly branches to become "C Yin", and so on, and finally the following sixty sequence symbols are obtained. They are Jia Zi, Yi Chou, Bing Yin, Ding Mao, Chen Wu, Keith, Geng Wu, Xin Wei, Ren Shen, Gui You, Jia Xu, Yi Hai, Bing Zi, Ding Chou, Wu Yin, Ji Mao, Chen Geng, Xin Si, Ren Wu, Gui Wei, Shen Jia, Yi You and Ding Chou. These sixty symbols, from Jiazi to Guihai in turn, are called "Sixty Jiazi" and are used to calculate time and year. It is often called sixty years, and it also comes from this.

4. Annual, monthly, daily and hourly branches

In the Gregorian calendar, years, months, days and hours are all represented by sixty branches. According to the records in Time Spectrum, the Yellow Emperor was founded in 2698 BC (that is, the first year of the Yellow Emperor), and fought with the rebel Chiyou in the land of Zhuolu, bleeding for hundreds of miles, but still unable to quell the chaos. So the Yellow Emperor fasted and worshipped heaven, and heaven was the main branch. The Yellow Emperor used ten dry circles to make a picture of the sky and twelve squares to make a picture of the ground, killing Chiyou and Zhu. The Yellow Emperor took the wind behind him as the phase and the shepherd as the general. In 2696 BC (the third year of the Yellow Emperor), he was ordered to make a calendar.

As can be seen from the above, in 2696 BC, the main branch was Jiazi, once every 60 years, repeatedly. 1984 (seventy-three years of the Republic of China) is seventy-nine years of Jiazi, arranged in the order of sixty Jiazi, and 200 1 year (ninety years of the Republic of China) is of course the year of Xinsi, so there will be the word "Xinsi" on the cover of the 90-year yellow calendar.

The annual main branch circulates once every 60 years, and the monthly main branch circulates once every 60 months, with a round of 5 years. The monthly expenditure is now in the first line of each month in the yellow calendar. Take the Gregorian calendar of 1990 as an example. Under 1 month of the 90-year national calendar, you will find the words "ugly month", which is the continuation of1February of the 89-year national calendar. Of course, "February of the 90 th National Calendar" is "Geng". The monthly trunk and branch cycles are once every 60 months,

Daily trunk and branch cycle once every 60 days. Take the Gregorian calendar of 1990 as an example. The national calendar 1 month/day (1 February 7) is Jiazi Day, which is 1989 national calendar1February 3 1 day (1February 6). Jiazi Day is followed by Ugly Day, so 1 2nd of the month in the 90-year national calendar is Ugly Day, and so on, once every 60 days. Daily trunk and branches circulate once every 60 days,

The trunk and branches cycle every 60 hours. There are twelve hours in a day, so the trunk and branches cycle every sixty hours, that is, every five days. There are twenty-four hours in a day, and every two hours is an hour. From eleven o'clock in the evening, change the hours every two hours.

1 1- 1 by time period; 1-3 ugly; 3-5 Yin Shi; 5-7 is Shi Mao; 7-9 is the time of day; 9- 1 1; 1 1- 13 is noon; 13- 15 is out of date; 15- 17 application; 17- 19 unitary time; 19-2 1 hour; 2 1-23 Hz.