What does Xin Chou mean?

Xin Chou is one of the main branches, and the order is 38. The former is a boxer and the latter is a non-yin. On yin and yang and five elements, the sweetness of heaven's dryness belongs to yin's gold, and the ugliness of earth's branches belongs to yin's soil, and gold is born.

Xin Chou year

The 38th year of the lunar calendar in China is called "the year of happiness and ugliness". In the following lunar year, the number of years divided by more than 60 is 4 1, or the number of years is subtracted by 3, the remainder divided by 10 is 8, and the remainder divided by 12 is 2. The years from the first day of the first month of that year to New Year's Eve of the following year were "ugly years".

Lunar calendar is a dry calendar, and solar terms are used to guide agricultural production. Branches and branches are not divided into solar terms, regardless of traditional habits or official calendars (see the perpetual calendar compiled by Purple Mountain Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences for details).

Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches

Referred to as the main branch, it originated from the observation of astronomical phenomena in ancient China. Ten dry words: encounter, enlightenment, gentleness, firmness, harmony, Tu Youyou, shangzhang, heavy light, mystery and sunshine. Twelve branches: Quinton, Chi Fenruo, She Tige,,, Luo,, Qi Tan, Zuo Meng, and Da Yuanxian.

Simplified heavenly stems and earthly branches: "A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren, Gui" is called ten heavenly stems, and "Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai" is called twelve earthly branches.

Ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches are matched in turn to form sixty basic units, and they cooperate with each other in a fixed order to form the chronology of the stems and branches. Heavenly stems and earthly branches's invention had a far-reaching impact, and heavenly stems and earthly branches still uses it today, which is used in calendar, art, calculation, naming and so on.