What year is this year?

This year, 2020 is the Year of Rat and the Year of Gengzi.

The Gregorian calendar begins on June 25th, 2020 and ends on February 25th, 20021year.

The year of the Rat is counted from beginning of spring in the twenty-four solar terms, because the year of the Zodiac is attached to the calendar year of the main branch, and the calendar year of the main branch is the calendar year method of the main 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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2008 is the Year of Rat, which is the Year of Wuzi in China. The mouse is the first of the 12 Zodiacs, which coincides with the twelve earthly branches, so it is called the mouse. There is a folk custom of worshipping the son god, and mice can give birth. The ancients prayed for life to multiply and their descendants to prosper, so the birth concept of worshipping mice came into being.

In India, rats are regarded as gods. Among the guardians of the temple, there is a great god with a mouse in his hand, named Duowen Tianwang. There is a mouse temple in India, and believers firmly believe in the reincarnation of "people die and become mice, and mice die and become people". Therefore, the waiter certainly won't kill the mouse. Admirably, India is more of a snake temple, a shrine dedicated to cobras. The belief in animism makes its creatures diverse.

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