What Is The Chinese Agricultural Calendar?
The Chinese agricultural calendar breaks from the lunisolar-based Chinese astrology calendar. While it also follows a blend of lunar and solar calendars (based upon the moon’s phases and the earth’s position around the sun, respectively), it splits the year into seasons. This is done for agricultural reasons. Within the past several years, many of the texts that reference Chinese astrology have begun to follow the agricultural calendar. This has had the effect of changing the point at which each Zodiac sign begins and ends. An Easy Way To Remember Most people who are devoted to the study of Chinese astrology don’t memorize the changes of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches during the Lunisolar calendar’s 60-year cycle. Instead, many of them rely on an easy method to remember them: the years that end with an even number (0, 2, 4, 6, or always reflect the Yang. Odd numbers are always the Yin. Enthusiasts use the Chinese astrology calendar to plan their decisions in light of where the
