1993 should the child born on the third day of the first month be a chicken or a monkey?

The correct division of genera is the solar term in beginning of spring that day. The Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month) is just a popular algorithm among the people today. For example, on February 4, 20 12 Gregorian calendar 18: 40, the beginning of spring solar terms in the 24 solar terms are handed over at this moment, so the division of the zodiac is based on this time point. People born before this moment are rabbits of 20 1 1 year, and people born after this moment are rabbits of 20 12 years.

There were two calendars in ancient China. One is to calculate the length of January according to the "lunar calendar" of the moon movement, now called lunar calendar or lunar calendar, and according to the changing process of the full cycle and short cycle of the moon; The other is based on the movement of the sun, which is the ancient "solar calendar". The 24 solar terms in China are determined according to the running time of the sun. Beginning of spring is the first day of the New Year in the ancient solar calendar, and the zodiac is determined accordingly, which has nothing to do with the lunar calendar.

In addition, in a year, in addition to the zodiac (earthly branch), there are also corresponding zodiac (earthly branch) in the month, day and hour (it should be noted that this "month" is also defined according to the 24 solar terms, not the lunar month). For example, beginning of spring and Jingzhe belong to silver moon (Tiger), Jingzhe and Qingming belong to Uzuki (Rabbit). They are called Zishi (Rat) from eleven o'clock in the evening to one o'clock in the morning and Ugly (Bull) from one o'clock to three o'clock in the morning.

So everyone actually has four zodiac signs: year, month, day and hour!

Year, month, day and time (Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao ...) will have corresponding heavenly stems to match the calendar (* * * Ten heavenly stems: A, B, C, D ...), so that everyone will have eight characters, which is the origin of ancient "birth".

Also, we should know that today's Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month) was called "New Year's Day" before the Republic of China. It was Yuan Shikai who changed "New Year's Day" to Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day, and renamed the first day of the first lunar month as "Spring Festival", while the ancient Spring Festival specifically referred to that day in beginning of spring, and beginning of spring and Spring Festival were the same day before the Republic of China. It can also be said that the ancient Spring Festival was divided by the cycle of the earth's revolution, and now the Spring Festival is divided by the cycle of the moon.

Therefore, after the Republic of China, China people inherited the Gregorian calendar as the calendar year of the Republic of China, including major changes in the Spring Festival and New Year's Day. In the past hundred years, the algorithm of the zodiac has been completely confused. Today, perhaps only the older generation and those who know birthdays know the correct algorithm of the zodiac.

If beginning of spring was born that day, the first step is to find out on the calendar when beginning of spring celebrated the solar term that day. For example, the handover time in beginning of spring this year is18: 40; The second step is to know your birthplace and exact time of birth. The above two items can be converted into the real solar time when you were born on some websites (originally only Beijing time); The third step is to compare it twice. The year before the solar term is the Chinese zodiac, and vice versa.

As a China person who knows something about this, he has an obligation to help the post-80s, post-90s and even post-00s. I hope everyone will forward, forward and forward the above content to answer everyone who comes to Baidu or other websites to ask similar questions. I hope that friends born around the Spring Festival can correctly calculate their birth year.