The origin of the year of the pig

In ancient times, there was a gentleman who was rich and prolific and had no children under his knees. Who knows that when I was near the flower, I got a son. The family is happy, relatives and friends * * *, and there is a big banquet outside to celebrate the successors.

On the occasion of the holidays, a fortune teller came to see the child. When he saw the child's forehead was wide, his face was big, his ears were wide, his wheels were round, his heaven was full, and he was fat in vain. He asserted that the child must be a rich man.

The fat child was endowed with life and happiness. From an early age, he only knew how to reach for clothes and eat with his mouth open. He never practiced martial arts or did farm work. He just idles around, thinking that his fate is set and he is extremely rich, so he doesn't have to work hard. I didn't know that when children grew up, their parents died, their wealth declined, their land was sold, and their servants were scattered. The fat boy still lived a luxurious life and finally starved to death in his room.

The fat man lingered after his death and went to the underworld to complain that he was born rich and could not die so sadly. Yan took the ghost to the jade emperor in heaven and asked him to judge.

The Jade Emperor summoned the Kitchen God and asked the rich-looking man how he starved to death in his room. Kitchen God told the fat boy that he didn't study, didn't farm, and sat in the open space wasting money. The Jade Emperor was furious. He told the police officer to obey the law and told the fat boy to be at his disposal.

The Jade Emperor said, "Although you are lucky, you are lazy. Now you are punished as a pig and eat coarse chaff. " This period of time coincides with the selection of the zodiac in the Heavenly Palace. The poor officials in this Heavenly Palace heard that "eating coarse chaff" is "being a zodiac". Bring this fat man to reality at once. From then on, the fat man became a pig, eating coarse chaff, and became the zodiac.

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Calculation method

When the AD number is divided by 12, the year with the remainder of 3 is the year of the pig.

The formula is: the number of years in AD ÷ 12= a quotient, and the remainder is 3.

For example: 2007÷ 12= quotient 167, and the remainder is 3. So 2007 is the year of the pig.

The Year of the Pig is counted from beginning of spring in the twenty-four solar terms, because the zodiac year is attached to the calendar year of the trunk and branch, and the calendar year of the trunk and branch is the calendar year method of the trunk and branch. The same is true of the official almanac of past dynasties (that is, the Yellow Calendar).

There is no doubt that the lunar calendar only uses branches to mark the year, which ranges from the first day of the first month to New Year's Eve. Lunar calendar and trunk calendar are two different calendars, which are different in the starting point of a year, the division rules of months and the number of days in each year. Due to the use of the Gregorian calendar after the Republic of China, many people, including a few so-called experts, lack calendar knowledge, so the two are often confused.

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