Does beginning of spring have anything to do with the zodiac?

As mentioned in the Compilation and Promulgation of the Lunar Calendar approved by the authoritative National Standards Committee of China, the change of the zodiac is based on the first day of the first lunar month, that is, the Spring Festival. The calendar years of the main branch and the zodiac are the marks of the lunar year, which is suitable for the traditional old imperial calendar to calculate the zodiac from the first day of the first month, and the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month is also the starting day of the zodiac alternation.

The zodiac signs in China are judged according to the order of the twelve earthly branches. Each earthly branch of Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai corresponds to a different zodiac, and Zi represents the zodiac mouse. According to the calculation of the China lunar calendar, that is, the lunar calendar, the Spring Festival in 2020, is 1.

The so-called beginning of spring view means that the lunar calendar is the basis of Chinese lunar calendar, and the calculation of the month is based on the lunar calendar, but the change of the earthly branch of the month is based on the solar terms. For example, the Spring Festival in 2020 is the year of boxer, but the month is still the month of 1898 (which is the earthly branch of the twelfth lunar month), not silver moon (the earthly branch of the first month), but silver moon after beginning of spring, but this has nothing to do with the Chinese zodiac. This kind of trip is due to the error between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar. Because there will be a leap month in 2020, the leap month only appears to balance the error of the lunar calendar.

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What is the zodiac before the Chinese New Year in 2020?

The Spring Festival in 2020 is 65438+1October 25th, which is also the first day of the first lunar month. Before the first day of the first lunar month, it is still the Year of the Sea, and it belongs to a pig, so the baby born before 24: 00 on New Year's Eve in 2020 is still a pig baby.

The zodiac signs in China are judged according to the order of the twelve earthly branches. On the first day of the first month of the Spring Festival, it has entered the year of Gengzi in the lunar calendar, and the zodiac is a mouse in the second year. So the baby born from the Spring Festival on June 25th, 65438 is a mouse.