The specific division of the Chinese zodiac.

The correct delineation of the Chinese zodiac is the moment when the festival is handed over on the day of the first day of spring. The Spring Festival (the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar) is just a popular algorithm in today's folklore.

There are two ancient calendars in China, one based on the moon's orbit, which is the "lunar calendar", and the other based on the sun's orbit, which is the ancient "solar calendar". The twenty-four solar terms are based on the operation of the sun, spring is the first day of a new year in the ancient solar calendar, the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac (known as the twelve branches of the earth in ancient times) are followed by this, and has nothing to do with the lunar calendar.

In addition, in addition to the year has the Chinese zodiac (Earth Branch), month, day, hour, have the corresponding Chinese zodiac (Earth Branch), (it should be noted that this "month" is also based on the 24 seasons delineation, not the lunar calendar month). (It should be noted that this "month" is also based on the 24 solar terms, not the lunar month.) For example, the period from spring to hibernation is called the month of the Yin (Tiger), and the period from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. is called the Zi (Rat).

So each person actually has a year, month, day, hour four zodiac signs!

Year, month, day, hour of each Earthly Branches (Zi, U, Yin, Mao ....) According to the calendar there will be a corresponding Heavenly Stem to match (***Ten Heavenly Stems: A, B, C, D ....) This way, each person will have eight characters, which is the origin of the ancient "eight characters of the birth date".

Also, we should know that today's Spring Festival (the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar) in the Republic of China before called "New Year's Day", is Yuan Shikai "New Year's Day" to January 1 of the calendar, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar renamed "Spring Festival", the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. "Spring Festival", and the ancient Spring Festival refers exclusively to the day of spring, spring and Spring Festival in the Republic of China before the same day.

So after the changes during the Republic of China, to the People's Republic of China **** and the State inherited the Republic of China to the Western calendar (Gregorian calendar) as the chronology, including the Spring Festival, New Year's Day, after the big changes, the algorithm of the phases of the last hundred years, it is also completely confused. Nowadays, perhaps only the older generation and those who know the knowledge of the eight characters of the birthdate know the correct algorithm of the phases of the genus.

If you were born on the day of Lichun, the first step is to check on the almanac to the point of time when you were born on the day of Lichun in the year of your birth; the second step is to know the place of your birth and the time of your birth accurate to the minute, the above two can be converted to the true solar time of your birth on some websites (the original is only Beijing time); the third step is to compare the two times, earlier than the time of the delivery of the festival is the previous year's Zodiac sign, and vice versa is the year after the Zodiac sign. .... It's so complicated!

Being a Chinese who knows some knowledge in this area, and is obliged to be literate for the majority of the 80s, 90s and even 00s, I hope that everyone will forward the above, forward, forward, and then forward, to answer every person who comes to Baidu or other websites to ask similar questions. I hope that friends born before and after the Chinese New Year will be able to correctly calculate the phases of their birth year.

The Man of Grass and Wood in the Winter of the Year of the Hexagram