Are the zodiac signs based on the lunar calendar or the solar calendar?

The zodiac is calculated according to the lunar calendar. As to whether the zodiac is counted from beginning of spring or the first day of the first month, there is a great controversy between folk and folk experts. Traditional numerology and divination are based on beginning of spring.

The Chinese Zodiac, also known as the Chinese Zodiac, is twelve animals used by some ethnic groups in China and East Asia to indicate the year and the year of birth. The cycle of the zodiac is 12 years. Everyone's animal year has a zodiac sign. Zodiac animals, that is, rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs, are distributed in the twelve branches in turn, which is a folk method for calculating age in China and an ancient chronology, also known as the Zodiac.

Zodiac is calculated according to the lunar calendar, and the official history takes the first day of the first month of the Spring King as the starting day of the New Year. Many folk customs all over the country take the first day of the first month as the starting point of the zodiac year. For example, the custom of wearing red rope and red underwear has been handed down since midnight on New Year's Eve. In China, beginning of spring is the beginning of a year.

According to the China calendar, this genus is divided into beginning of spring. The division of the two zodiac signs is not based on the Gregorian calendar's 65438+ 10/,nor on the first day of the first lunar month, but on the beginning of spring solar terms in the twenty-four solar terms. For example, beginning of spring in 20 12 was on February 4th, so the Spring Festival in 20 12 was still the Year of the Rabbit, and it was not until February 4th that it was the the Year of the Loong of the lunar calendar.