After the beginning of winter, it means that winter is entering. Of course, this means that the pace of the Lunar New Year is getting closer. Leaving this year's "Year of Tiger" is about to usher in the "Year of Rabbit". The old saying believes that the Year of Rabbit in 2023 in the lunar calendar is "the rabbit comes out of the forest and meets the spring". What does this mean?
From the perspective of the five elements, is the Year of the Rabbit in 2023 in the lunar calendar "Year of the Black Rabbit" or the Year of the Golden Rabbit"?
According to the calendar, the lunar calendar is the "4720th year" in 2023. In addition, the ancients also often used the method of dynasty of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. The Heavenly Stems refer to the ten heavenly stems, namely "Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui". The earthly branches refer to the twelve earthly branches , which are "Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai". There are sixty arrangements of the ten heavenly stems and the twenty earthly branches, that is, sixty Jiazi. Therefore, the ancients believed that sixty years are a cycle.
Earthly branch corresponds to the zodiac sign and is fixed. 22 years are " Yin Tiger ", 23 years are "Mao Rabbit", and the heavenly stems are arranged in order every year. 22 years are Ren, and 23 years are Gui, so 23 years are Guimao Rabbit Year .
Year of the Rabbit In 60 Jiazi , there are Dingmao, Jimao, Xinmao, Guimao, and Yimao. The next year of the Rabbit is 60 years later in 2083. According to the records of the Ming Dynasty classic "Three Fate Huitong Theory", the year of the tiger in Renyin in 22 is the "tiger passing through the forest", and the year of the rabbit in Guimao in 22 is the "rabbit that comes out of the forest". All people born in in Guimao in are the "rabbit that comes out of the forest", which is the origin of this article "rabbit that comes out of the forest".
"The rabbit comes out of the forest and meets the double spring", so what is "seen the double spring"? It refers to " Double Spring Year ", also known as "Lonely Luan Year" or "Two-end Spring". In the entire lunar calendar, due to the additional " Leap February ", by accident, two Start of Spring solar terms will appear, which are located at the 14th day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar at the beginning of the year and the 25th day of the twelfth day of the lunar calendar at the end of the year.
So, if we look at the perspective of the five elements, what are the corresponding five elements in 2023? There are two statements.
One is to directly apply the five elements corresponding to the heavenly stems. The five elements corresponding to the heavenly stems of the Year of the Rabbit are "fire, earth, metal, water, and wood". It can be seen that only the heavenly stems are inferred that the five elements corresponding to the year of Guimao are water, and the corresponding attribute color of the five elements is black. Therefore, 2023 is called the "Black Rabbit Year"
Another theory believes that it is not advisable to directly apply the five elements corresponding to the heavenly stems, because the earthly branches also have corresponding five elements. For example, the five elements corresponding to Mao are wood, and the attribute color of the five elements is blue. If the earthly stem is applied, can't it also be called "Qingtu Year"? In order to integrate " Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches ", the concept of "Na Yin Five Elements" in ancient art was introduced.
According to the five elements of Na Yin, sixty Jiazi have corresponding five elements. The origin of the five elements of Na Yin has been fixed and the calculation is fixed. The five elements of Na Yin corresponding to "Guimao" are "Golden". Therefore, the year of 2023 in the lunar calendar is also called "Golden Year". Of course, the corresponding attribute color of the five elements gold is yellow, which can also be called "Yellow Rabbit Year", but because the "Year of the Golden Rabbit" sounds more auspicious and has better meaning, it is ultimately called "Year of the Golden Rabbit"
