Lunar calendar year 2018 is the year of the dog according to the celestial stems and branches of the earth

Lunar 2018 is the Year of the Dog according to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. In fact, any year in which the AD year number is divided by 12 and the remainder is 2 is the Year of the Dog.

The Year of the Dog, one of the twelve Chinese Zodiac years, the dog in the twelve Earthly Branches in the 'Hundred Days' as a representative of the month of Hundred Days in the year is the month of September, a collection of the season, at this time, the mountains and fields of a withering loneliness, is a view before winter. The direction is west-northwest and belongs to the Dry Palace. In a day, the eleventh hour refers to 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., it is the time when the darkness spreads and the lights come on.

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The Branch Calendar is a calendar that marks the year, month, day, and hour with 60 different sets of heavenly stems and earthly branches, and is a solar calendar unique to China. It starts the year with the beginning of spring and divides the twelve months into twenty-four seasons, each containing two seasons, with no leap months. The calendar is related to the cyclical movement of the earth around the sun, and it reflects the climatic changes of the seasons of the year.

Since ancient times, the Stem and Branch Calendar has been commonly recognized by both the official and the private sectors, applied to the disciplines of astronomy, feng shui, fortune-telling, selective arts and Chinese medicine, and recorded in the official calendars (i.e., the Yellow Calendar) of the successive dynasties. The Qing dynasty official history book "qing shilu" as an example, the book of the stem and branch of the year are to the spring as a split point: such as the Chinese bookstore photocopy of the "qing shilu" of the seventeenth book, the qianlong shilu of the ninth book, p. 573, qianlong twenty-seven years on December 22nd (gengxu) spring, the "shilu" is recorded as follows: "gengxu. Is the day of the decree of the year spring."