Are there many fortune tellers during the Spring Festival?

Is the annual Zodiac based on beginning of spring or Spring Festival?

The birthday zodiac is counted from the first day of the first month of each year.

Date of birth is the calendar date when a person is born; There are four pillars and branches on it, engraved with the year, month and day respectively, each with two words, a total of eight words. Birthday plays an important role in Chinese folk beliefs, and Taoist priests and astrologers in ancient China calculated people's fate accordingly. In the almanac, there are basically annual and daily branches, while monthly and hourly branches can be calculated according to the annual and daily branches.

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Genus is twelve kinds of animals in China that match the twelve branches, including rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs.

As a long-standing symbol of folk culture, the zodiac has left a lot of poems, Spring Festival couplets, paintings, calligraphy and paintings and folk arts and crafts that depict the image and symbolic meaning of the zodiac. Apart from China, many countries in the world issue stamps of the zodiac during the Spring Festival to express their wishes for the New Year in China.

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