Should the zodiac be based on the lunar calendar or the solar calendar?

Zodiac, also known as the zodiac, should be calculated according to the lunar calendar. There are twelve kinds of animals in China, including rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs.

The method of taking beginning of spring as the standard of the zodiac began in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. At present, folklores such as the Huangli calendar, traditional numerology and divination all use "beginning of spring" as the basis for calculating the zodiac. And from beginning of spring last year to beginning of spring next year, it is the basic rule of 365 days.

Taking New Year's Eve as the dividing point, that is, starting from the Lunar New Year (the first day of the first lunar month), the method of calculating the zodiac appeared relatively late, and the earliest record appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. Now many people agree with this. Gu, director of the Chinese Folklore Society and an expert in folklore, believes that the zodiac should not be counted according to the 24 solar terms. After all, the Spring Festival is the beginning of the Lunar New Year, and it is also the beginning of the Lunar New Year, so the zodiac naturally starts from the first day of the first month.

Beginning of spring is a solar term, which was used by ancient people in China to serve agricultural production. Although according to the Gregorian calendar, beginning of spring is basically fixed on February 3rd to 5th every year, in the traditional lunar calendar of China, there are two beginning of spring in some years and there may be no beginning of spring in the next year because of the leap month.

The Spring Festival is traditionally used to make a living, indicating the boundary between two years. So in modern society, we usually take the Lunar New Year as the boundary to calculate the year of birth.

The lunar calendar is 1987, and the seventh day of the first month is the year of Ding Mao.

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12 Chinese zodiac signs

Twelve kinds of animals include six kinds of animals, wild animals and a fictional animal-the dragon representing Qing Ji.

Among them, the first pair of mice, Wang Ding and Man Cang, ugly cow food, embodies the wheat and millet culture, and the mice have strong reproductive ability, which conforms to the greatest desire of the ancients to thrive, and the former residence is the first;

Cattle have a bumper harvest, ranking second; Roar in the tiger forest and panic in the grass, reflecting the fishing and hunting culture; Dragons fly in the sky and snakes hide in holes. The dragon snake represents the rice culture, and the dragon lives in five places, which coincides with the Ninth Five-Year Plan and is snake-shaped, which conforms to the meaning of "Great Harmony in June and June".

The last six articles are also closely related to people. Among them, monkeys are similar to people, ranking ninth, and pigs have the meaning of' fat pig arch', so it ends and completes an auspicious and festive cycle.

The selection of these twelve spiritual "animal spirits" as human animals reflects China's view of nature, which advocates harmony between man and nature, kindness to animals and harmonious coexistence.

The Chinese nation has been persistent in exploring the corresponding relationship between natural things and human life activities, which is very instructive for the future development of today's society and mankind. At the same time, twelve kinds of animals are relative, which shows that the dialectical thinking of the ancients has taken shape and become more and more detailed.

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