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Does the demarcation of the zodiac begin in spring or New Year's Day?

I've always been "wrong?" Zodiac is divided according to the first day of the Lunar New Year. Mainly when I watched the Spring Festival Gala as a child, the host would say, "After the bell rings, a year will pass and a year will come", which made me subconsciously think that the first day of the lunar new year is the dividing point of the zodiac. I estimate that many people have this idea. It happens that my birthday is the first day of the lunar new year, which makes me more confident that I am the oldest of the twelve zodiac animals. . . . . . . . . .

Then one day, I overheard someone say that the zodiac is actually defined by beginning of spring. I checked, and I didn't go to beginning of spring on the first day of the year I was born, which was too discordant. I am "one year older" for no reason. . . . .

According to international practice, I checked Google and Baidu online and found that there are still many people arguing, including many experts and scholars. However, I still agree that beginning of spring is the mainstream, and I feel that there is more cultural and historical basis for dividing the zodiac according to beginning of spring. I chose two representative articles to post:

How to calculate the zodiac? It is the first day for the imperial calendar to recognize the custom in beginning of spring.

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Yesterday, this newspaper published "Does the Zodiac Count from the First Day or beginning of spring? The article (see yesterday's A 1 version) has aroused the interest of many experts and readers. Does the Year of the Dog begin on the first day of the first lunar month or in beginning of spring? The reporter interviewed many experts and scholars in folklore and got two completely different answers.

The year of the dog begins in early spring.

You must look at beginning of spring to calculate the zodiac.

Professor Ye Chunsheng, who first proposed that the Year of the Dog began in the beginning of spring, is undoubtedly the focus of this debate. When the reporter called him last night, he had just finished an interview with another media, and the voice on the phone was a little tired.

"My point of view is clear. The Spring Festival begins on the first day of the first lunar month, but the zodiac must start in beginning of spring. " Ye Chunsheng said firmly, "In fact, this is not a new idea. If you open any imperial calendar, it is marked like this. "

Ye Chunsheng told reporters that the Spring Festival was set in modern times, on the first day of the first lunar month every year. "19 12, Dr. Sun Yat-sen announced the abolition of the old calendar and the adoption of the Gregorian calendar. 19 14, Yuan Shikai, then president of the Republic of China, issued a decree stipulating that the first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival every year. Prior to this, it was traditionally believed that beginning of spring was the beginning of a year. Earlier, the solstice in winter was the beginning of a year. "

"Therefore, the Year of the Dog should start in beginning of spring, because beginning of spring ranks first among the 24 solar terms, indicating the beginning of spring and marking the arrival of a new year." Ye Chunsheng said: "Because of this, beginning of spring is not only a solar term, but also a festival. Ancient emperors would hold sacrificial activities on this day to make the country prosperous and the people safe in the new year. In the lunar calendar, there are many solar terms and festivals like this, such as Qingming and winter solstice. "

There are three zodiac signs in a lunar year.

Because there is a leap in July, there are 385 days in the lunar calendar this year. In addition to beginning of spring at the beginning of the year, there is also a beginning of spring at the end of the twelfth lunar month (February 4, 2007). According to Ye Chunsheng's view, there will be an interesting phenomenon: children born this year in the lunar calendar have three zodiac signs-chickens before the seventh day of the first month, dogs from the seventh day of the first month to the sixteenth day of the twelfth month, and pigs after the seventeenth day of the twelfth month.

"Yes, this will happen in a year of" two springs "like this. This kind of situation is not uncommon in the lunar calendar, basically once every ten years. Ye Chunsheng said: "If you say more accurately, children born after 7: 25 on the first day of the first lunar month will be dogs, because beginning of spring is at that moment. "

"So everyone should also pay attention to the fact that at the end of the year, in addition to' chickens', a number of' piglets' were born." Chun-Ye Sheng laughed.

Some researchers agree.

As the authority of life science in China, Ye Chunsheng's views have been endorsed by some folklorists.

"The zodiac and the calendar are two systems, and the zodiac should start in beginning of spring," said Professor Xiao Fang from the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University.

Chen Yaokuan, honorary president of Singapore Yi Society, agrees with this view. He said that according to China's calendar, the calculation of the zodiac is related to heavenly stems and earthly branches, so in the case of "talking about heavenly stems and earthly branches, it counts as 24 qi", we must wait until the arrival of "beginning of spring" to count the beginning of the new zodiac.

Professor Sun Xun, Dean of the School of Humanities of Shanghai Normal University, told the reporter that from the perspective of fate, beginning of spring is indeed the beginning of next year, and from the perspective of people's habits, the first day of the first lunar month is the starting point, because it is convenient to remember. So the two are contradictory. For most people, this contradiction has little impact, but for some people who encounter "embarrassing" period, it is inevitable that there will be a little trouble.

Professor Sun knew such a friend who was born in 1972. That year, beginning of spring happened to be very early, earlier than the first day of the first month. This friend was born after beginning of spring and before the first day of the first month. The elders at home usually think that he belongs to a pig, but when it comes to his face, he becomes a mouse.

On the contrary, of course, the Year of the Dog begins from the first day of junior high school.

The two systems should not be confused.

"This is a misleading statement that confuses the two different systems of' Zodiac' and' Solar Term'." Professor Zhong Fulan, president of Shanghai Folk Culture Society and East China Normal University, said.

According to Professor Zhong, the zodiac signs are associated with the twelve earthly branches. In ancient China, there was a special method of chronology, that is, ten days to dry and twelve places to support chronology. Naturally, the corresponding zodiac signs should be used as the code of the year. Slowly, people think that the animal portrait born in one year, the mouse born in the next year, the cow born in the ugly year, and the zodiac are thus formed.

24 solar terms, on the other hand, has 24 stages in a year, showing climate change and farming season, which has nothing to do with chronology. Professor Zhong told the reporter: "The zodiac is based on the Gregorian calendar year, and the solar terms are based on the fact that the agricultural society conforms to the laws of agricultural time. According to the different coordinates, according to the folk tradition, we entered the first day of the first month of Xu Bingnian. The symbol of the zodiac is of course a dog, which has nothing to do with the solar terms in beginning of spring. "

"This will only cause confusion."

"The Year of the Dog begins on the first day of the first month, which is in line with the calendar and is also established." Professor Wu Bing 'an, vice president of the Chinese Folklore Society, told the reporter, "This is actually a special way for fortune tellers to look at beginning of spring when calculating the zodiac in the past, and it is not popular. If we use this method to determine the zodiac, it will only cause confusion. Because there is a time difference between the solar calendar and the lunar calendar. "

The lunar calendar is a "combined calendar of yin and yang". The month is determined by the cycle of the first month of the lunar calendar, and the average length of a year is close to the tropic year by setting leap months, which has the nature of yin and yang months.

"That's why there must be a full moon on the fifteenth day of each month in the lunar calendar, because it determines a month according to the profit and loss of the moon." However, because the lunar calendar takes1February as a year, ***354 days or 355 days, the difference between a year and the tropic year is 1 1 day. In order to make up for this difference, the lunar calendar is coordinated by inserting 7 leap months every 19 years.

Gregorian calendar is a kind of solar calendar. As the name implies, it is a calendar that changes according to the position of the sun. The difference between the solar calendar and the lunar calendar is that they use different reference objects.

"The so-called twenty-four solar terms are actually closer to the Gregorian calendar because it is determined by the orientation of the sun. You can notice that every year in beginning of spring, it is around February 4th, and in Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is around April 5th. Solar terms correspond to Gregorian calendar dates, but they are not fixed in the lunar calendar. To check the specific dates of these solar terms with the lunar calendar, you must rely on the almanac. "

"If beginning of spring is used to determine the zodiac, it will inevitably complicate the calculation of the whole date, which is unacceptable to ordinary people."

Focus link readers mostly support "beginning of spring" theory

"Zodiac is calculated from the first day or beginning of spring? The article also attracted readers' comments. The newspaper's 962288 news hotline received dozens of feedback calls overnight. To our surprise, most readers support Professor Ye Chunsheng's proposal that "the zodiac begins in the beginning of spring".

■ Xu Shoupeng, a 9 1 year-old man who lives in Shanxi North Road, called and said that the late famous scholar Professor Hong Pimo and his wife had written an ancient fortune-telling book in China, in which it was written that the zodiac should be counted from beginning of spring instead of the first day stipulated in the old society.

■ The Huang family who lives in Julu Road also pointed out that the zodiac is calculated according to the date of birth and should be calculated according to the solar terms. He thinks Professor Ye Chunsheng is right.

■ Sun Jiemin, who lives in Hua Yao Road, Pudong, said that the lunar calendar is based on the heavenly stems and earthly branches of the moon, and the zodiac should also be counted from the beginning of the year.

Being born on the first day of the year is not considered as a "dog baby", which should be counted from beginning of spring.

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On the first day of New Year's Day, the national media reported that the "baby dog" was born in the hospital. However, a few days ago, a folklorist pointed out that people's calculation method of the China Zodiac is wrong, and the Zodiac should be calculated from beginning of spring. Besides, people have many misunderstandings, including the beginning of a new year and a new day. Now the first day of the first month is regarded as the first day of the new year, but it was just a piece of paper "stipulated" during the Republic of China. According to the ancient chronological method, beginning of spring is the beginning of a new year!

The dividing line of a new day is eleven o'clock at midnight.

The countdown to twelve o'clock in the morning is the most important project of CCTV Spring Festival Evening every year, and people all over the country regard it as the beginning of a new year.

However, folklore experts point out that the traditional New Year in China is not on the first day of the first month, and the critical point of entering a new day is not twelve o'clock in the morning.

It is understood that in Chinese traditional culture, one day and night is divided into twelve hours, each hour is equivalent to the present two hours, and the twelve hours are named after twelve earthly branches, namely, Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai; Each hour is divided into three parts, namely initial time, timing time and last time; Every morning 1 1 till midnight 1, and so on. It can be seen that the traditional dividing line of a new day in China is eleven o'clock at midnight, instead of twelve o'clock (zero point) used in the current Gregorian calendar.

In the Republic of China, it is stipulated to celebrate the New Year on the first day of the first month.

Ye Chunsheng, a folklorist at Sun Yat-sen University, told the reporter that the current "lunar calendar" in China is actually the "lunar calendar" that began to be used in the Han Dynasty, which is based on the accurate calculation of the earth's rotation. The new year should be the beginning of spring. At present, we follow the tradition that the first day of the first month is the New Year, which was stipulated in the form of a document in the second year of the Republic of China (19 12).

According to the periodic law of climate change in ancient China, a year was divided into 24 solar terms. Beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms, so the ancient people celebrated the festival on the day of "beginning of spring", and the zodiac was determined based on beginning of spring, not the first day of the first month.

However, due to the chronology in ancient China, the average year is 12 months and 354 days, and the leap year is 13 months and 384 days, which leads to the inconsistency between 24 solar terms and the date. In other words, a day in beginning of spring is not a fixed day. There is no beginning of spring in some lunar years (from the first month to the twelfth month), and there are two beginning of spring in some years. In view of this situation, in the second year of the Republic of China, the "Spring Festival" was set on the first day of the first lunar month. In this way, there will be no phenomenon that some years have two Spring Festival holidays and some years have no Spring Festival holidays.

It's not a "dog baby" born on the first day of the New Year's Day.

Ye Chunsheng said that according to the calculation method of the lunar calendar, a person's zodiac should be based on the beginning of spring of the lunar calendar. Therefore, those born on the first day of this year are not "dog babies". This year, beginning of spring is the seventh day of the seventh grade, which happens to be 7: 25. Children born after this time are "dog babies". Children born before this time are chickens, not dogs. Ye Chunsheng said that the next beginning of spring will be on February 4th, 2007 13: 04. Dogs were born before, and pigs were born after. As the first day of the first month of next year is February 18, beginning of spring next year will be before the Spring Festival, on the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month. In addition, the seventh day of beginning of spring has passed, and there are two beginning of spring this year.