What is the Chinese zodiac?

What is the Chinese zodiac?

Tiangandizhi is abbreviated as Ganzhi, a symbol used by the people of our country to record the year, month, day, and time. It is derived from the ancient calendar. It was later used as a time-space reference system by ancient science and culture. Chinese feng shui widely uses stems and branches to identify the direction, seek the harmony between heaven, earth and man in time and space, and avoid mutual restraint. Take the stem as the main and support as the supplement.

There are ten heavenly stems: A, B, C, Ding, Wuji, Geng, Xinrengui, and twelve of the earthly branches: Zi Chouyin Maochensi Wu did not Shen Youxuhai.

It is a unique method in our country to record the year, month and day by the zodiac. Its significance is that time is also a symbol of space. The least common multiple of ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches is sixty, forming a "sixty Jiazi". Sixty Jiazi originated from the astronomical encounter phenomenon of the three stars of Tushuimu. Jupiter orbits the sun for about 12 years, Saturn orbits the sun for about 30 years, and Mercury orbits the sun for about 0.25 years. The least common multiple between them is 60 years. In other words, the three stars of soil, water, and wood have met in about sixty years. The establishment of December comes from the lunar month, that is, during the period when the moon orbits the sun, the moon orbits the earth for about 12 weeks, that is, twelve months.

Counting from the Huangdi Era in 2697 BC, one hundred and eighty years have been pushed by three sixty Jiazi. It's called Sanyuan. The first Jiazi year is Shangyuan, the second Jiazi year is Zhongyuan, and the third Jiazi year is Xiayuan. This is the ternary luck theory of Fengshui. Chinese Fengshui requires the calculation of the person’s year, month, day and hour, the “eight characters”, and then the space-time relationship between heaven, earth and people, which is the cosmic frame of reference, can be calculated from this. When people are in the same position, due to different times, various celestial bodies are constantly moving, and the relative position and space of people in the universe have changed. This is the mystery that the birth date can predict the destiny of people. Yu Qiuyu said: "If the four great inventions are renewed In terms of ranking, the Chinese calendar should be ranked first, and Chinese medicine should be ranked second."

The zodiac is also called the twelve zodiac signs, the twelfth birthday. It corresponds to the twelve earthly branches, matching one by one, and repeats itself again and again. The arrangement of the zodiac is determined by the activity time of the zodiac , which is the growth sequence arranged in accordance with the natural law. It belongs to the relationship of mutual generation and mutual restraint compared to the natural world, and represents the coordinate system of the universe (time and space). It is really a clever move of the Chinese ancestors, which is easy to promote and conducive to memory. In Chinese Feng Shui, the order of the zodiac signs can also assist in judging the natural laws of mutual growth and restraint. The Tiangandizhi adopted by Chinese Fengshui is a cosmic coordinate system. It is not an absolute coordinate, but a relative coordinate. It reflects the relationship between heaven, earth and man. In fact, there is only a relative relationship between the celestial bodies in the universe, which are mutual references, and their characteristics have periodic laws. As Lenin said, the development of human society is spiraling upward.