When did the zodiac originate? How do you reveal the zodiac?

Speaking of the origin of the zodiac, it is actually quite troublesome, because it involves many things. After all, this zodiac has inherited too many cultures and needs to be thoroughly studied. Recently, some people want to study the origin of this zodiac carefully. So what is the origin of this zodiac? Let's continue to study and see!

I often see people posting, what is that cows can't marry sheep, but pigs can't marry monkeys. Some people say that your family is too old to get married, so use a chicken.

If I say that this is superstition, some people will definitely refuse to accept it, then I will once again give full play to my ability to dig graves and talk about the origin of this zodiac in detail.

First of all, the Chinese zodiac starts from the hour. Then let's take a look at the people of this hour first. In fact, time is just two words, a time and a time. Time first, then time.

In hieroglyphics, Chen is the original word of Zhen, that is, a person holding a hoe in the morning, so Chen means morning. As I mentioned in my last article, the ancients determined the October calendar in real time and later improved it to the December calendar. With the expansion of territory and the change of lifestyle, it is obviously impossible to walk around with a sundial. The rough timing method can obviously use the full moon, but this method is not accurate enough, so people thought of a very good method, stargazing (the following is the knowledge point).

First of all, people use the trajectory of the town star (Saturn) in the sky to divide the meridian into 28 regions on average, which is 28 stars today. Then watch the stars rising on the horizon every morning. For example, the vernal equinox is the time of lodging, the summer solstice is the time of stars, the autumnal equinox is the time of Pleiades, and the east is the time of virtual nights. Because stars appear in the morning to determine the season, the stars in the sky are also called stars. Twenty-eight stars make twelve immortals.

Key points: Twenty-eight stars are a closed loop on the ecliptic, and twelve stars are twelve discontinuous line segments in this loop. Be sure to remember that there are eggs behind.

But science and technology need to be improved and methods need to be simple. Non-professionals can't remember the stars clearly. Is there an easier way? There must be, that is, with the Big Dipper.

The direction of the Big Dipper is different in different seasons. At midnight, the bucket handle of the Big Dipper refers to the east at the vernal equinox, the west at the summer solstice, the north at the autumnal equinox and the north at the winter solstice. So people use the earthly branches in December to represent the twelve directions, and the twelve days and the twelve earthly branches are finally unified.

Next, let's start talking about time. The Big Dipper can be used not only as a calendar, but also to see the time of day. Bucket handle of the Big Dipper is found to turn around overhead every day. That is to say, it takes112 days to turn the direction represented by a date, so people began to record the time with the Big Dipper and the date, so it was time (applause). Of course, people prefer to use more lively names to express time, that is, midnight, crow, flat light, sunrise, food time, corner, day and night, feeding time, sunset and dusk, which are up to people.

However, farmers' education level is limited, and they still can't remember such elegant words, so they sometimes use animals to express them. For example, when the mouse is active, when the dog starts to work. But at this time, the zodiac is incomplete.

Now, let's see what's in the zodiac. We often say that six animals make up six, including horses, cows, sheep, pigs, chickens and dogs. What about the rest? Besides dragons, tigers, rabbits, snakes, monkeys and rats are all representatives of dangerous theft. I'm sorry to write this letter. On the one hand, people talk about idioms such as snakes and rats, pigs and dogs are not as good as lambs to be slaughtered, on the other hand, they proudly claim that they belong to snakes, pigs and rats. Has anyone ever wondered why?

Now let's talk about a book for divination, one book a day. At present, many versions have been unearthed, such as Sleeping Tiger, Letting Horse Beach and Xihe River. There is an article "Thief" in the Japanese book, which is about the days corresponding to the twelve earthly branches. In case of theft, what should the thief look like?

Son, mouse, thief's pointed mouth, sparse beard, ... ugly, cow, thief's big nose and long neck, ... yin, tiger, thief-like, anxious, black face. Hair, rabbits, thieves are big. Chen, the thief is a man, green and red ... Third, the worm is also black. At noon, the deer is also a thief with a long neck and a small cut. ..... No, horse, thieves have ears. Shen, Huan, thief round ... you, water is ... Xu, this old sheep is ... sea, tapir also.

Look, the looks of these thieves correspond to animals, and these animals are the embryonic forms of the Chinese zodiac. But in a different order, there are deer, antelope, water and so on. Moreover, in all Japanese book versions found so far, Chen's position is either empty or expressed with bugs. This is easy to understand. After all, it describes the appearance of a thief. A man who looks like a dragon is an emperor. How can he be a thief? So we can be sure that the dragon at this time has not been included in the zodiac.

In addition, there is a saying that the toes of Chinese zodiac animals are separated by single and double intervals. For example, a mouse has five odd fingers, a cow's hoof has two toes, a tiger has five fingers and a rabbit has four toes. But in the animals mentioned above, there is no such rule.

Moreover, after the dragon is deducted, is it more vivid for zodiac animals to describe robbers and thieves?

People are getting smarter and technology is improving. After Liu Xin's three-calendar heavenly stems and earthly branches was applied to Nianzhu, these animals were naturally included in Nianzhu. It was the Han Dynasty, and Dong Zhongshu's sense of heaven and man was deeply rooted in people's hearts, so people began to myth star officials (you see, stars are all officials). Remember that little egg I told you about? Serve!

The East is called Qinglong: Jiaomujiao, Kang Jinlong, Nyctereute, Fangri Rabbit, Xinyue Fox, Tail Fire Tiger and Jishui Leopard;

The northern part is called Xuanwu: unicorn, Taurus, mother bat, rising sun rat, dangerous moon swallow, room fire pig, wall pheasant *;

In the west, white tigers are called: wood wolf, Lou Jin dog, stomach pheasant, chicken, bi, gun and fire monkey;

In the south, it is called Suzaku: Muan Jing, Ghost Golden Goat, Swertia liutu, Stellar Horse, Zhang Yuelu, Winged Fire Snake and Lumbricus.

In other words, 28 stars are equipped with an animal every night. Look carefully, the animals represented by the stars rising in the east in different months I mentioned earlier are just the animals corresponding to this month.

For example, in Uzuki, on the morning of the vernal equinox, the house rises from the east, and the house is a rabbit. On the morning of the autumnal equinox, the Pleiades, the Pleiades Chicken and the Unitary Chicken rise in the east. Next to the chicken is Wu, next to the monkey is an ape, and next to the dog is a wolf. So we can be sure that this animal is composed of some powerful and mysterious animals on the basis of the previous animal.

What is the purpose of doing this? I think this is in line with the concept of the connection between man and nature. According to my research, Chen used to be an earthworm, which should be an earthworm. Obviously, it is not strong enough. So, since Kang Su stayed in Qinglongsu, let's use a dragon instead. I guess Xu was inspired by this when he wrote the Romance of the Gods. )

Heaven and man are connected, and heaven and man correspond, and then the propaganda of the zodiac, slowly people accepted this fact, and the zodiac was born.

Then the problem is coming. According to my thinking, if a person is in LMNT, do you think it is useful to bring a big cock?