What year is 2022?

2022 is the year of the tiger. In 2022, a ***365 days, 53 weeks, is the Lunar New Year. In the zodiac, the tiger ranks third, corresponding to the third "Yin" of the twelve earthly branches, so the year of the tiger is also called "Yin Tiger". The year of the tiger is divided by 12, and the remainder is 6. Other Chinese zodiac signs are mouse, ox, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and pig.

The year of the tiger is 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 20 10, etc. The next year of the tiger is 2022 AD. The Year of the Tiger is determined according to the traditional calendar of China. The "tiger" in the zodiac corresponds to the yin in the twelve branches, and every twelve years is a cycle. Zodiac is divided according to the "beginning of spring" of the China lunar calendar every year, not the "Spring Festival" (New Year's Day). The so-called solar calendar is also called Gregorian calendar.

The zodiac is an intuitive representation of the twelve earthly branches, namely, Zi (mouse), Ugly (ox), Yin (tiger), Mao (rabbit), Chen (dragon), Si (snake), Wu (horse), Wei (sheep), Shen (monkey), You (chicken) and Xu (chicken).

Each zodiac has rich legends, forming a conceptual interpretation system and becoming an image philosophy in folk culture, such as the zodiac in marriage, the blessing in temple fairs, the animal year and so on. In modern times, more people regard the zodiac as the mascot of the Spring Festival and become a symbol of entertainment and cultural activities.