What is the boundary of the zodiac? Spring Festival or beginning of spring? I was born on1February 6, 997 (New Year's Eve).

What is the boundary of the zodiac? Spring Festival or beginning of spring? I was born on1February 6, 997 (New Year's Eve). 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. The reason for supporting the calculation of "beginning of spring" as the zodiac is: 1. The traditional Spring Festival refers to "beginning of spring", which has been circulated for thousands of years and has become an inseparable part of China's traditional culture. The first day of the first month is "New Year's Day". In the first year of the Republic of China (19 12), 65438+ 10/in Gregorian calendar was designated as "Spring Festival". Due to opposition from the people, Yuan Shikai adopted a transposition method and named the Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10 1 as "New Year's Day". 2. The period from "beginning of spring" to "beginning of spring" is 365 days, while the short period from "Spring Festival travel rush" to "Spring Festival" is only 354 days, and the long period is 384 days. 3. China's zodiac calendar, as well as traditional numerology, divination and other folklore, all take "beginning of spring" as the basis for calculating the zodiac. However, taking beginning of spring as the first year of life is only used for numerology. In recent years, with the expansion of the influence of numerology on the internet, and the folk still have the habit of reading old calendars, this statement has been widely spread. Professor Zhong Fulan, president of Shanghai Folk Culture Society and East China Normal University, said that the zodiac is associated with the twelve 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. " "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." The zodiac is a chronology based on branches and has nothing to do with beginning of spring. In ancient China, there were different ways to establish the New Year's month: Jianzi (in the month from winter to Sunday), Yin Jian (in the second month from winter to Sunday) and Jianchou (in the second month from winter to Sunday). No matter what kind of calendar, the first day and the first year of the month are based on the new moon, that is, the day when the moon can't be seen. The so-called "zhengshuo" in imperial power refers to the power to make the first day of the first month/calendar. In ancient times, there were many poems with the theme of the year of cadres and cadres, especially those written on New Year's Eve or New Year's Eve. These poems can prove that the branches and branches change on the first day of January every year. For example, Qian Yiqian wrote "Noon New Year's Eve" in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and wrote "Day of mourning" every other day, which is proof. There will be a saying that beginning of spring is the first year of the year, which mainly comes from numerology, with Ziping (eight-character) solar terms as the boundary, but the history of numerology is far shorter than that of China calendar, and it is only a small sideline of calendar application, so there is no reason to pretend to be the master. The reason why numerology adopts beginning of spring as the first year of a year is mainly for the convenience of calculation, because numerology is based on the operating rules of the sun, the moon and the stars, and only 24 solar terms, who belongs to the solar calendar category, can fix the dates of the sun, the moon and the stars in every year. However, the zodiac year is attached to the chronology of the trunk and branch, which is the method of the lunar calendar. The lunar calendar can only reflect the movement of the sun, the moon and the stars in a similar way, which is naturally inconvenient. It can be seen that the so-called zodiac year used in numerology started in beginning of spring, which is actually a completely different system from the lunar calendar used by the people. Yang Taijie, a professor of folklore at Liaoning University and executive vice president of the Liaoning Folklore Society, explained that it has always been the practice to take beginning of spring as the beginning of the Lunar New Year, but there are not many regions and the distribution is mixed. From the perspective of folklore, this is the difference of folk culture in the process of inheritance in different places, and it is a regional particularity. "The rule of national culture is based on universality, not on regional particularity, so the Lunar New Year begins at midnight on New Year's Eve." Professor Yang said. Therefore, online calendars all start with beginning of spring as the year of the Zodiac, which is wrong. But in fact, the official newspapers published in our country all change their lunar year based on the first day of the first month, and the zodiac year naturally begins on the first day of the first month, which also represents a more authoritative official attitude.

The traditional numerology is 1997.2.4 beginning of spring, and February 6th is New Year's Eve, which belongs to the ox, but now the perpetual calendar and the online calendar for choosing auspicious days are based on the Spring Festival, so you should belong to the mouse.