![]() ![]() ![]() When someone responds ‘I am a pig’ it also imparts information about character, personality, preferences and compatibility with others as well as age. ![]() But zodiac signs tell you more than just when a person was born. To gage their age you have to look at them and judge how old they look and then pick the birth year of their sign that most closely matches their appearance. In China when you ask people how old they are it is not uncommon for them to respond with their a zodiac sign rather than their birth year. The year 2004 was the year the of the wood money, the previous wood-monkey year was in 1944 the next one is in 2064. The traditional Chinese calendar merges the 12-animal Chinese zodiac with the five basic elements (water, fire, metal, earth and wood) so that you can gave have a year of the metal rooster or fire pig that run on a 6 year cycle. The current 60-year cycle extends from 1996 to 2055. The years themselves are organized into 60-year calendar cycles: five times the 12-year Chinese zodiac cycle. The traditional Chinese "lunar" way of designating years, months, days and hours was to use a system of combining one of the 10 Heavenly Stems (Tian Gan) with one of the 12 Earthly Branches (Di Zhi) to form 60 unique pairs in a complete cycle. New Years Day is celebrated on January 1st. Japan doesn't use the Chinese lunar calendar. In Taiwan and Vietnam, the Chinese calendar is only used to set the days of holidays. The Chinese calendar was not formally abandoned by the state until 1912 and is still used by in the countryside and used nationwide to set the dates of holidays. to record the Chinese Lunar New Year.īoth Gregorian and Chinese calendars are used in China and Korea, both of which celebrate two New Years - one on January 1st and one on the Chinese New Year in February. According to legend it was devised by the legendary Yellow Emperor in in 2600 B.C. The origin of Chinese astrology and the lunar calendar is not known. So the seasons don't get out of wack, an extra month is inserted every three years or so according to strict rules. A year of 12 lunar months is 354 days long. The full moon ideally falls on the 15th day of the month but often doesn’t. The Chinese calendar is divided into 12 lunar months of 29 or 30 days (an astronomical lunar month is 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 5 seconds). ![]()
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