About the zodiac

Take beginning of spring as an example.

1. See Rixo calendar. It was written by a professor of Huazhong Agricultural University for the National Time Service Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences, with the solar terms in beginning of spring in the lunar calendar as the dividing line of the year. For example, in 2009, the days before beginning of spring were marked as "Wuzi", and after beginning of spring, they were marked as "self-ugliness".

2. See Baidu Encyclopedia "Zodiac", the original words are as follows: "Zodiac is calculated according to the beginning of spring of the lunar calendar. As long as beginning of spring fails in the Lunar New Year, it will be regarded as one year, and beginning of spring in the Lunar New Year will be regarded as the next year.

For example:

Beginning of spring, 4 February 2008, 2008128 February.

Based on this date, people born on February 3, 2008 before February 27, 2008 (including February 3) are all born in 2007.

If you were born after February 4, 2008, including people born on February 4, 2008, it is the 2008 Zodiac-Rat. "