2024 is the Year of the Dragon, and dragons have a different place in our culture. China's traditional culture is broad and profound, and if you delve into 2024, you will find that there are 3 special points.
First, 2024 is the Year of the Green DragonSecond, 2024 is a spring-free year;Third, 2024 is a leap year.
Some friends may ask, what is the point of Qinglong encountering a springless year and a leap year?Is it good?There are also some proverbs circulating among the people about this. In this article, the author will talk about this matter in detail, and you will have the answer after reading it.
The 12 zodiac signs and the 12 earthly branches echo each other, and each zodiac corresponds to an earthly branch, specifically the rat, the ugly ox, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the afternoon horse, the sheep, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, and the pig. And the dragon corresponds to "Tatsu".
Combined with the ten heavenly stems (A, B, C, D, E, H, G, XIN, NON, and Dec), 60 combinations can be formed through the matching of yang and yang and yin and yin. Each year corresponds to one of the 60 combinations, and there is a cycle every 60 years.
In this way, among the 60 combinations, there are a total of 5 with "Chen", which are Wuchen, Gengchen, Renchen, Jiachen, and Bingchen, and they change every 12 years. And in 2024, it will happen to be the year of Jiachen, which is considered to be called the year of the dragon.
Why the "Green Dragon"?Here we also need to combine the five elements (gold, wood, water, fire, and earth), in the ten heavenly stems, each 2 corresponds to one of the gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, specifically: A and B belong to wood, C and Ding belong to fire, Wu Ji belongs to earth, Gengxin belongs to gold, and non decay belongs to water.
The gold, wood, water, fire and earth correspond to different colors, specifically: wood corresponds to cyan, fire corresponds to red, gold corresponds to white, water corresponds to black, and earth corresponds to yellow.
In this case, 2024 is the year of the Jiachen Dragon, and "Jia" belongs to wood, and the wood corresponds to cyan, so there is a saying that "Jiachen is the year of the dragon".
The year of no spring is determined according to the time of the lunar calendar, and "no spring" means that there is no spring solar term. From the perspective of lunar time (you can check the calendar), the beginning of spring in 2024 is the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month in 2023, and the beginning of spring in 2025 is the sixth day of the first lunar month.
This leads to the fact that there is no spring solar term in the lunar calendar in 2024, so there is a saying that 2024 is a "year without spring". It should be noted here that there is no spring year that cannot be seen according to the solar calendar time, which has 24 solar terms every year.
The algorithm for leap years is simple, if the year of the current year is a multiple of 4, it is a leap year. However, leap years are also divided into ordinary leap years and century leap years.
A year is a multiple of 4, not a multiple of 100, and is called an ordinary leap yearIf it is both a multiple of 4 and a multiple of 400, it is called a leap year of the century (say 2000).
And the year 2024 is a multiple of 4, but not a multiple of 400, therefore, 2024 is an ordinary leap year. It is also important to note here that leap years are not the same as leap months, and leap years do not necessarily have leap months.
The meaning of this proverb is that if the year of no spring meets the year of the green dragon, then the spring will be relatively cold, and the autumn will be relatively rainless, or there will be a drought.
From the perspective of agricultural planting, spring is the season of spring sowing and spring management, if the spring temperature is low, or even there is a "spring cold", it is not conducive to the growth of crops. Although autumn is the harvest season, if it is too dry in the period before harvest, it will also affect the grain filling of crops, which will reduce the yield.
In the case of wheat, in early spring, wheat in many places has begun to turn green, this is the period of weeding, watering and pest control, if the temperature is low, these management will be affected to a certain extent, and even pesticide damage will occur.
For spring-sown crops, after the seeds are sown, germination needs to reach a certain temperature, and if the temperature is low, the sowing time will be delayed, which will affect the subsequent series of growth. If sowing is forced in a hurry, the emergence rate will be reduced due to low temperatures.
The meaning of this agricultural proverb is obvious: if there is no spring and a leap year, then the crops may not grow well that year. There are many reasons for "scarce seedlings", the main reason is drought, which means that there is less rain and low soil moisture in the field, which leads to the shortage of effective seedlings.
For farmers, when planting in the past, there were no convenient irrigation conditions, often "relying on the sky to plant", if the wind and rain are smooth, there is more farm work, farmers will be busy, the busier, the more predicted the growth of crops will be better.
If the farmers are idle, it means that there is no farm work in the farmland, and there are not too many good ways to face the drought situation, so they can only wait for the rain to come, and then carry out a series of management work.
Based on the above, the 3 special points in 2024 are that the Year of the Green Dragon meets the Year of No Spring, and the Year of Leap Meets Leap Year. As for whether it is good or not?Judging from the meaning of the agricultural proverb alone, there may be a cold spring and a drought.
Ask everyone, about the Year of the Dragon in 2024, do you have these 3 special sayings in your local area?