What year is the Year of the Monkey?

The monkey is the ninth animal in the China Zodiac, and its corresponding branch is Shen. In the China lunar calendar, the year of supporting cadres is Renshen, Shen Jia, Shen Bing, Wushen and Gengshen, which is also commonly known as the Year of the Monkey. The corresponding Gregorian calendar years in recent years are 1992, 2004, 20 16, 2028 and 2040.

The official use of the main branch can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, and the date of birth of the contact person who refers to the local branch with the zodiac can be traced back to the Northern and Southern Dynasties at the latest.

Astronomical experts said that the Year of the Monkey in Shen Bing is a normal year, including seven big months (30 days) and five small months (29 days), totaling 355 days.

Chronological origin of trunks and branches

Calendar is a system that combines time units such as year, month and day according to certain rules for long-term recording and calculation. China used the Yin and Yang calendars in all previous dynasties, which originated in the Xia Dynasty, so it is also called the "Summer Calendar". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the "summer calendar" was still used, but it was generally renamed as the "lunar calendar".

Heavenly stems and earthly branches, referred to as "dry branch", is also called "dry branch". Its original meaning is equivalent to the branches and leaves of the trunk, which are interdependent and cooperate with each other. There are ten days of work, also called ten days of work. They are: A, B, C, D, E, G, Xin, Ren and Gui. There are twelve earthly branches, also called twelve earthly branches. They are Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. According to the justice of the five elements, the inventor of the dry branch was a troublemaker in the ancient Xuanyuan period. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Yin Ruins, twelve earthly branches and ten heavenly stems are arranged in turn, namely "Sixty Jiazi". A complete periodic table of trunks and branches was also found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Sixty jiazi was originally used for dates, and later used for dates. Huai Nan Zi by Liu An in the Western Han Dynasty. Astronomical training said: "In the spring of the first year of Huainan, Taiyi was in Bingzi, and Taiyin established Jiayin." This is also a dry year. At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu stipulated that people should use the year of dry support. By the second year of Emperor Yuanhe of the Han and Yuan Dynasties (AD 85), the whole country had issued official records by decree. Later dynasties, in addition to the implementation of the year number, all used the dry branch method as an auxiliary means of chronology. After the Revolution of 1911, the year number was abolished, but the main branch year has been used to this day.

The chronological origin of the zodiac

The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship. According to Qin bamboo slips unearthed in Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land in Hubei Province and Fangmatan in Tianshui, Gansu Province, a relatively complete zodiac system existed as early as the pre-Qin period. The earliest handed down document that recorded the same Chinese zodiac as today was Lun Heng written by Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

"Northern history? The Biography of Yuwenhu records that Yuwenhu's mother sent a letter to Yuwenhu in qi zhou, which said: "When you left me, you were still young and had family affairs before, but you still didn't make up your mind. Yesterday, I gave birth to your brother in Wuchuan Town. The first is a mouse, the second is a rabbit, and you are a snake. According to the Records of Five Elements in the Southern Qi Dynasty, "Lierda is a pig and Cui is a horse" is indeed true. Dong Hunhou is a pig, Ma Zi is not detailed, Damon Liang is a dragon, and Xiao Ying is a tiger. "Cui died at the age of sixty-three.

Year of the Monkey

China Lunar New Year,1February 2, 908 ~190965438+1October 2 1.

The year of Geng Shen in China lunar calendar is from February 20th to February 7th. 1920.

The year of China's appointment as Shen was1February 6, 932 ~ 19331October 25.

The year of Shen Jianian in China lunar calendar is1944 65438+1October 25th ~1945 February 12.

The lunar year of China is 1956 February 12 ~ 1957 October 30th.

China Lunar New Year,196865438+1October 30th ~1969February 16.

The year of Geng Shen in China lunar calendar is 1980 February16 ~198/kloc-0 February 4th.

The year of China's application was1February 4, 992 ~ 19931October 22.

China Shen Jianian, 65438+20041October 22nd to February 8th, 2005.

The year of Shen Bing in China lunar calendar is from February 8, 20 16 to June 27, 20 17.

The year of China Lunar New Year is 65438+20281October 26th ~ 65438+February 2nd, 2029.

The year of Geng Shen in China lunar calendar is from February 2040 12 to 204 1, and from 20401October 3 1.

The year of China Lunar New Year is from 1 in February 2052 to 18 in February 2053.

The year of Shen Jianian in China lunar calendar is from February 17, 1964 to February 4, 1965.

The year of Shen Bing in China lunar calendar is from February 5, 1976 to June 23, 1977.

China Lunar Year of Wushen, 65438+20881October 24th to February 9th, 2089.

The year of Geng Shen in China lunar calendar is 2100 ~ 21kloc-0/,65438+1October 28th.

The method of judging the year of the monkey by the year is: the year ÷ 12= a quotient, and there is no remainder. For example: 20 16÷ 12= quotient 168, then 20 16 is the year of the monkey.

Another way of saying this is that the Year of the Monkey should start from the first day of the first lunar month, but from the festival time in beginning of spring (February 3rd or 4th in Gregorian calendar). Han Shuo, director of Beijing Folk Association, Ye Chunsheng, a folklorist of Sun Yat-sen University, etc. Holding this view is also adopted by traditional eight-character numerology.