How to divide the beginning of spring before and after the zodiac?

The influence of solar terms is a kind of value that people respect and conform to nature. Facing different solar terms, people's lives will have different influences, and these influences are also very important. When the beginning of spring solar term comes, people can also learn about the division of genera together, which is very important for people's lives.

The former genus and the second genus of the vernal equinox

Since Shang and Zhou Dynasties, people have divided the zodiac according to beginning of spring. People born before beginning of spring belong to the previous year's Zodiac, while those born after beginning of spring belong to the new Zodiac, not the first day of the first lunar month. The zodiac is not divided according to New Year's Day in the solar calendar or Spring Festival in the lunar calendar, but according to beginning of spring in the 24 solar terms. Beginning of spring was the year before, and beginning of spring was the year after. Beginning of spring basically falls on February 4th or 5th of the solar calendar every year. If you happen to be born on these two days, you will release the exact second beginning of spring time to determine your exact zodiac sign. At present, beginning of spring is used as the basis for calculating the zodiac in folklore such as the Gregorian calendar, traditional numerology and divination.

A light diet nourishes the liver and stomach.

In the spring, because people's spleen and stomach transport function will be weak, therefore, in order to nourish liver qi, people with weak spleen and stomach should eat more yam, jujube and lotus seed porridge in spring to control excessive liver qi and prevent abdominal distension caused by chronic stomach diseases and chronic hepatitis from aggravating. After beginning of spring, people with poor spleen and stomach on weekdays must eat light and moderate food, especially hot food such as mutton or seafood. To bid farewell to the severe cold and enter beginning of spring, we should appropriately reduce the tonic and eat more warm food according to the seasonal changes.

Eat less sour and spicy food.

Due to the change of weather, people should eat less spicy and sour food, for example, eat less spicy hot pot, mutton barbecue and frying, and eat less too spicy food and fried and grilled food after spring. Different from winter, beginning of spring should eat less spicy hot pot and less mutton and dog meat, because these foods may lose yang and lead to excessive internal heat. After beginning of spring's diet, we should consider the birth of sun be the spirit in spring, and should eat products with divergent sweet taste, not sour taste and bitter taste. In the relationship between five zang-organs and five flavors, sour taste enters the liver and has astringent taste.