What are the Year of the Monkey?

The years of monkeys are: 1992, 2004, 20 16, 2028, 2040, etc.

The monkey is the ninth animal in the China Zodiac, and its corresponding branch is Shen. In the lunar calendar of China, the year of dry support, also known as the Year of the Monkey, was adopted.

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.

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There is a saying that the zodiac is determined according to the activity time of the zodiac. Among them, at the time of God (15 ~ 17), when the sun sets, monkeys like to crow, so they are called "the queen of God".

The ancients saw that monkeys often helped each other drink water in deep streams, so they were called Ashe monkeys. In Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Han Dynasty: "Shenwei is like a monkey." This is another solution. In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen, a great physician in Ming Dynasty, quoted the words of White Tiger Yi Tong written by Ban Gu in Han Dynasty: "The monkey is waiting for you. Seeing someone setting an ambush machine, you can climb high and look far, and be good at waiting. " It is also more reasonable to name monkeys according to their symptoms.

According to Li Changqing in Ming Dynasty, the twelve earthly branches are related to the characters of twelve animals. His explanation of applying for a monkey in Seven Manuscripts is that "it is a pity to apply for a monkey as a three-yin, but it is a pity to be negative, and the monkey is matched with it, and the monkey's nature is also a pity". He believes that the monkey's clever and cunning character makes it the zodiac at sunset and at "Sanyin".

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