What year is Ding Mao?

Ding Maonian is one of the sixty years in the calendar of cadres and branches. Ten days of dry and twelve branches of the earth are matched into sixty branches, and the cycle is repeated. Sixty branches are reincarnated once, also called Jiazi.

The chronology of cadres and branches starts from beginning of spring in the twenty-four solar terms, because it is the chronology method of the calendar of cadres and branches. The same is true of the official almanac of past dynasties (that is, the Yellow Calendar).

There are ten days of work: A, B, C, D, E, G, G, Xin, people and ghosts.

There are twelve branches: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches is 60 branches, followed by Jiazi, Emei, Bingyin ... Jiazi to Guihai 60 pairs. Each overground stem is equipped with six ground branches, each ground dominates five overground stems, and sixty overground stems are repeated in turn. So sixty years is called a Jiazi.