1997 What is February 5th?

Accurately speaking, it belongs to rats before the Chinese New Year and cows after the Chinese New Year. Look up the perpetual calendar yourself. When will the Chinese New Year be?

Zi Chou Mao Yinchen has Shen You Xu Hai corresponding to noon.

Rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs.

The Year of Bingzi or the Year of Rat?

It should be the Spring Festival, and the twelve earthly branches correspond to the zodiac. There will be differences in beginning of spring. Generally, solar terms are related to the climate and are mostly used for farming. Of course, it is not excluded that there are local customs with beginning of spring as the boundary, but most of them should be Spring Festival.