Is the Zodiac beginning of spring or Spring Festival?

The zodiac is calculated according to the beginning of spring.

In other words, beginning of spring is the beginning of the zodiac, not the first day of the first month as most people think. The reason for this algorithm is that the zodiac is a derivative of the twelve earthly branches, the year of the trunk branch is the solar calendar, and the demarcation point is in beginning of spring, so every year happens to be 365.25 days, so the replacement of the zodiac should also take beginning of spring as the boundary.

The zodiac signs correspond to the twelve earthly branches, and ugly eggs correspond to rats, cows, tigers and rabbits. For example, the year after birth is the year of rat, Shen Nian is the year of monkey, year of the snake is the year after birth, the Year of the Loong is the year after birth, and so on. The dividing line of the year of dry support is beginning of spring, and the Lunar New Year should begin in beginning of spring.

The origin of the zodiac;

The Zodiac, also known as the Zodiac, is a group of 12 animals that match the Zodiac with the year of birth in China, including rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs.

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

With the development of history, it has gradually merged into the concept of folk belief, which is manifested in marriage, life, annual luck and so on. Each zodiac has rich legends, forming a conceptual interpretation system and becoming an image philosophy in folk culture, such as the zodiac in marriage, temple fairs and animal year.

In modern times, more people regard the zodiac as the mascot of the Spring Festival and become a symbol of entertainment and cultural activities.