What is the Year of the Ox? What does this mean?

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2022 is the year of the ugly ox.

Starting from February 12, 2022

It will end on June 3, 20221.

A total of 354 days

besides

The year of the ox is different.

Spring-free year

Beginning of spring corresponds to the twelfth lunar month in 2022.

It's the Lunar New Year in a week.

In 2022, beginning of spring was on February 4th.

Equivalent to the fourth day of the first lunar month.

Three days have passed since the Spring Festival.

this means

The Year of the Ox was perfectly staggered twice, and spring began.

It has become a lunar new year without the beginning of spring.

Keep looking at the calendar.

In 2023

In other words, the Year of the Tiger will have a spring beginning.

The lunar calendar and the twenty-four solar terms are both traditional calendars in China.

Why is the relationship so complicated?

Today we will talk about it in detail.

What are the 24 solar terms?

Twenty-four solar terms are a set of achievements summarized by ancient China people when observing the astronomical phenomena and climate phenology changes.

But as we all know, the Gregorian calendar we are using now was introduced after the demise of the Qing Dynasty.

Then why do the 24 solar terms often correspond well with the Gregorian calendar?

Usually, beginning of spring is almost always around February 4th, while Qingming is usually around April 5th. This is because the earth goes around the sun once a year, which is 360. Divide 360 into 24 parts, then every 15 is a solar term. The setting of the Gregorian calendar should also refer to the period of the sun's revolution, so the two can often correspond.

In other words, our 24 solar terms and the Gregorian calendar are summaries of the laws of the earth's movement around the sun, and naturally there are some corresponding relationships.

Solar terms are like the endless revolution of the earth, and there is no such thing as either or.

In modern times, the length of time between two vernal equinoxes is called a solar year, which is about 365.2422 days. In ancient China, it was more about calculating the time between two winter solstices, and the result was similar. In history textbooks, the length of a year in the calendar of the Yuan Dynasty is 365.2425 days, which is an example.

Whether it is the vernal equinox or the winter solstice, it is only an artificial starting point to measure the speed of the earth's "running laps", and the natural results are not much different.

Of course, the time between beginning of spring is roughly the same.

Lunar calendar = lunar calendar?

Through the 24 solar terms, we can see that the ancients in China had a better understanding of the movement of the sun, but at the same time they also attached great importance to another celestial body-the moon.

The so-called full moon appears periodically, with an average of about 29.53 days, which is called the new moon cycle.

The new moon is the moment when the moon and the sun are equal, specifically, when we just can't see the moon; I hope it's a full moon in the middle of the month. Our ancestors used this period to define the length of a month. The new moon is the first day, and the full moon often appears on the 15th and 16th.

Then the concept of the moon, the concept of year and solar terms, combined with the two, is the embryonic form of the lunar calendar now in use.

One month or 29 days or 30 days, the arrangement is complicated, and the average period is about new moon. There are 12 such months in a typical year, which adds up to about 354 days.

So the problem arises. The complete period of a period of revolution or 24 solar terms is about 365.2422, which is ten days more than 354 days.

In order to shorten the difference between the two, the lunar calendar will have some leap years in the normal year 12 months. The leap year is 13 months and the length is about 384 days.

In this way, more than 60% lunar years have 12 months, of which less than 4 months become leap years. Therefore, the long-term average number of days in the lunar calendar is close to the length of the solar year.

In this way, the lunar calendar is a calendar that takes into account the laws of the sun and the moon at the same time, and the professional name should be "combined calendar" It is a practice to call it the lunar calendar on some occasions. Although it will not cause misunderstanding for many years, it is an inaccurate statement.

Why are there two years, beginning of spring and beginning of spring?

The interval between two beginning of spring is approximately equivalent to a solar year, that is, 365.422 days. The length of the lunar year is about 354 days and 384 days.

The average year of the lunar calendar is shorter than the length of the solar year, so as long as the Spring Festival is late, it is not difficult to miss beginning of spring at the beginning and end and become a year without beginning of spring.

The Year of the Ox is such an example, but beginning of spring, who missed the Year of the Ox, will not disappear, but was "robbed" by the Year of the Rat the previous year.

It is said that two years in beginning of spring are called "two-headed spring", which is a so-called "good year", while some years are called "deaf year" or "dumb year", which means ominous.

In fact, this statement is groundless. This change is only the result of the lunar calendar's efforts to reconcile the phase change of the moon with period of revolution, and it is purely a coincidence of normal mathematical arrangements.

In fact, it is very common that double-headed spring and spring without beginning appear alternately, but there are fewer years of single-headed spring.

Then some people may also ask: When did the Year of the Ox begin?

When did the Year of the Ox begin?

Of course, there is a saying that China's Zodiac should be bounded by beginning of spring.

Actually, it's not.

This is because these views are mainly based on the comments of some artists and "fortune tellers", who have rummaged through various historical books and ancient calendars. This view is groundless.

In the historical records, it is mentioned that four time points are actually related to the beginning of each year, namely, the solstice in winter, the first day of the twelfth lunar month tomorrow and beginning of spring.

The four have different meanings. As mentioned earlier, the length of the solar year was measured by the winter solstice in ancient China, which can be considered as the beginning of a year of astronomical calculation.

What can really be called the beginning of the year is the first day of the first month, that is, the first day of the first month, that is, the Spring Festival.

The first day is the new moon, so the Spring Festival is also called the new moon of the first month in ancient times, which is referred to as the new moon for short. Zhengshuo was highly regarded in ancient times, and even extended to the meaning of dynasty orthodoxy. This is unmatched by beginning of spring.

therefore

You got it?

2022 is a year without spring.

But don't blindly believe that the meaning is ominous and so on.

Expert in this paper: Shao Lin, popular science of ancient folk literature.

The above is related to the Year of the Ugly Ox and the sharing of the 24 solar terms. I read the meaning of "The Year of Love Ugliness", I hope this will help everyone!