It’s 2021, and people are celebrating the New Year. At the same time in the New Year we all give themselves wish, hope that this year can be smooth, safe. It is true that the New Year always brings new hopes and expectations, but for 2021, it is the ugly year of the Ganzhi calendar.
Old people in rural areas often say, “If you meet an ox, you will look forward to spring without hope.” What does this mean?
The year of 2021 is coming. What’s the meaning of the saying “if a few years meet an ox, there will be no spring”?
In our life we often hear the rural old people say jiazi year, Boxer rebellion year, Sino-japanese Year, hundred days year, xin Chou year and so on, so how is the year here named? In fact, this is and China’s ancient has been continued until now the dry branch from the method.
In the past, people would combine 10 heavenly stems and 12 earthly branches in pairs, and eventually get 60 pairs of heavenly stems, each representing a year.
In this way, there is a 60-year one jiazi saying, that is, 60 years began to record the year with dry branches again, 60 years cycle, cycle, never stop…
The year of 2021 is coming. What’s the meaning of the saying “if a few years meet an ox, there will be no spring”?
The 10 heavenly stems are: A, B, C, D, E, Hexane, hexane, Azonium and Decane
The 12 branches are: Zi, Chou, Yin, MAO, Chen. “Si, noon, not, shen. You, Xu and Hai
The 60 pairs of trunk branches formed by the two pairs are shown in the figure below:
The year of 2021 is coming. What’s the meaning of the saying “if a few years meet an ox, there will be no spring”?
According to this calculation, last year was the year of the Boxer rat, and this year is the Year of the Ox. In fact, Chinese zodiac years correspond to different ganzhi years, among which the twelve zodiac animals are the image representatives of the twelve earthly branches. Each zodiac sign corresponds to a year, so that the zodiac year is a twelve-and-one cycle. For example, the zodiac signs corresponding to the twelve Gan Zhi are as follows:
The son is a rat, the ugly ox, the Tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the sheep, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, and the pig. The year 2020 will be the Year of the Boxer Rat, and this year will be the Year of the Ox. And cattle in the countryside more meaning for cattle, farming the main force of food.
The year of 2021 is coming. What’s the meaning of the saying “if a few years meet an ox, there will be no spring”?
If a cow does not grow old, she never grows old
The year of the Ox is the year of the widow. Even if there is no start of Spring, this year will not matter much. Food will still be abundant and people will still have something to live for. The widow’s year here is what we call a “year without spring.”
The Chinese yin-yang calendar records the dates together. The lunar calendar is based on the phases of the moon, while the Solar calendar is based on the law of the earth’s revolution around the sun. The lunar calendar actually has only 354-355 days in 12 months, compared with 365 days in the Gregorian calendar. That would put them about 11 days apart in time.
The year of 2021 is coming. What’s the meaning of the saying “if a few years meet an ox, there will be no spring”?
In order to make up for this gap, China has set 7 leap month years in 19 years. A leap month is an extra lunar month in a year, or 13 lunar years in a year. So for the start of Spring, there are two of the 13 lunar years. In the next year, we find that there are no start of Spring terms in the 12 lunar months. Such a year is called “No Spring year”.
Old people in rural areas believe that no spring is unable to conceive spring, this year is not suitable for marriage. Start of spring is the beginning of spring, is the sowing season, is a symbol of vitality. But it doesn’t matter, no spring met the hard-working cattle year of the ox, all the bad luck smoke fog dispersal.
The year of 2021 is coming. What’s the meaning of the saying “if a few years meet an ox, there will be no spring”?
In addition, there is also a popular saying in the countryside, “If a person is unlucky and has no spring, he or she will have five grains in a year.” That is to say, if the year without spring and the year of the Ox are combined together, the year of the five grains will be abundant, and the increase of grain output will make the farmers’ life happier. That was the claim of an older generation, but over time, there wasn’t much scientific evidence for that claim. It is just a folk culture handed down from the old generation in the countryside.
The Year of the Ox is coming, and people are hoping that the year of the Ox will turn things around, because last year was not easy, and 2021 will be.
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