What does Wu Geng mean?

It should be that the year from beginning of spring to beginning of spring in the following year is "the year of Wu Geng", and the month in beginning of spring is different in the same month (unless beginning of spring is the first day of the first month).

Wu Geng is one of the main branches, and this order is the seventh. The first one is Keith. Pronounced "roadside soil". Geng is the seventh in heavenly stem, and the seventh in earthly branch at noon, belonging to a horse. On the five elements of Yin and Yang, the Geng in the sky belongs to Yang's gold, and the noon in the earth belongs to Yang's fire, which means fire is like gold.

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1, year of Wu Geng.

The seventh year of a cycle in China's traditional calendar year is called "Wu Geng Year". In the following calendar years, the number of years over 60 is divided by 10, or the number of years is reduced by 3, and the remainder of division by 10 is 7, and the remainder of division by 12 is 7. The years from the first day of the first month to New Year's Eve were "the Year of Wu Geng".

2. Geng Wuyue

In the Lunar New Year, the heavenly stems are the first and second, and the fifth month of the Lunar New Year is Geng Wuyue. If it is a leap month, it is not a branch month, and its branches are the same as last month.

Numerology adopts the method of solar terms divided into months. Correspondingly, the mantissas of the Gregorian calendar year are 4 and 9, and the month between Mangzhong and beginning of autumn is Gengwuyue.

These two algorithms have their own scope of application. The former, known as "building a shadow in the first month", has been confirmed since the Xia Dynasty and has continued to this day, becoming a part of traditional calendar culture. [4] Numerology algorithms are generally only used in folk horoscope testing and divination activities, and should not be confused. It is worth noting that although the perpetual calendar circulating on the Internet adopts the method of dividing solar terms, the orthodox algorithm is "building the shade in the first month".

Wu Geng _ Baidu encyclopedia