What year is the Year of the Sheep?
Year B is one of the sixty years in the traditional calendar of China, and its earthly branch is Wei, which corresponds to the sheep in the zodiac, so it can also be called the Year of the Sheep.
In ancient China, heavenly stems and earthly branches was used as the method to calculate the year, month, day and time, that is, each heavenly stems and earthly branches was paired in a certain order and was not repeated, which was used as the code of the year, month, day and time. Put a word in the front "heavenly stems" and a word in the back "earthly branches", thus forming a pair of stems and branches.
brief introduction
Branches and branches are used for timing. We can think of the plane of the zodiac as the dial of a clock, with the earth as the center and the zodiac as the scale indicator. The sun, the moon and the five stars are equivalent to seven hands, running on the big dial of the zodiac, forming a huge clock. Among them, the sun is the "year" pointer, and it takes one year for the sun to go around the earth and return to the origin.
The moon is the "moon" pointer. It takes a month for the moon to go around the earth and return to the origin. As we said earlier, the 24 solar terms are directly related to the sun's passing through the palace, but have nothing to do with the movement of the moon, which causes the time difference between the last month of the calendar and the solar terms. Therefore, the month of our study is determined according to the solar terms, which is consistent with the sun crossing the palace.