When waiting, for things that require a long wait, we always like to say, "Do we have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse and the Moon to end?" And now, the Year of the Monkey and the Horse and the Moon are coming.
So, what is the origin of the Year of the Monkey and the Month of the Horse? What does the year of the monkey and the month of the horse mean? Let’s take a look!
The Horse Month in the Year of the Monkey is a Chinese idiom, which is a misinformation of "the leap twelfth month of the monkey year" or "the tenth month of the monkey year". It means that the prospects of certain things are not yet known, and it also means that the future results of things are unpredictable. Refers to the years to come.
The climate changes from cold to hot, and then from hot to cold. This cycle of change is a tropical year. In a tropical year, the moon waxes and wanes 12 times. Each waxing and waning of the moon is one month. Twelve waxing and waning times are 12 months, and 12 months are a year in the lunar calendar. In the 12 months of this year, there are sometimes 6 big months and 6 small months (the big month has 30 days and the small month has 29 days), which is 354 days.
Sometimes there are 7 big months and 5 small months, totaling 355 days. If there are 354 days in a year, it is more than 11 days shorter than the Year of Return; if there are 355 days in a year, it is more than 10 days shorter than the Year of Return. In this way, three years is shortened by more than 30 days. In order to be consistent with the climate change cycle, one month needs to be added, and the added month is called a leap month. A year with a leap month is called a leap year. This year has 383 days (6 big months and 7 small months) or 384 days (7 big months and 6 small months).
In fact, one month every year is the Horse Month. The corresponding zodiac animals from the first lunar month to the twelfth lunar month are: tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, pig, rat. ,ox.
According to the Ganzhi calendar, the Year of the Monkey is reincarnated in 12 years, and the Month of the Horse is also reincarnated in 12 months. The cycle of the "Horse Month in the Year of the Monkey" is 12 years. In this way, the Horse Month in the Year of the Monkey refers to the fifth lunar month in the Year of the Monkey, which occurs once every twelve years. The Horse Month in the Year of the Monkey is just around the corner. Logically speaking, anything that is said to have to wait until the Horse Month in the Monkey Year should be successful by this lunar month.
For example, 2004 (the year of the Jiashen in the lunar calendar) happens to be the Year of the Monkey. From June 5th to July 6th, it is the Gengwu Month, which happens to be the "Horse Month" in the "Year of the Monkey". A "Horse Month in the Year of the Monkey" is the Jiawu Month from June 5 (Earg Chong) to July 3 (Eve of Xiaoshu), 2016.
It is unknown where the term "Monkey Year, Horse Moon" originally came from.
One theory is that the "monkey" in this word should be "donkey". According to the explanation of the 6th edition of "Modern Chinese Dictionary", "the year of the donkey and the month of the horse" are used to refer to the unknowable years (that is, things are far away and cannot be realized). The lunar calendar uses the twelve zodiac animals representing the earthly branches to record the years, and there is no donkey in it. year, so it is also called "the year of the monkey and the month of the horse".
Experts in astronomy and ancient Chinese all believe that there is no way to verify the origin of the word "Monkey Year, Horse Moon". Professor Luo Yuming, a famous ancient Chinese expert in the Chinese Department of Fudan University, said after consulting relevant classics that this word is probably Proverbs from the folk.
There is no way to verify the origin of "Monkey year, horse month". The meaning of this word mostly comes from the dialectal miscommunication, and is a variant of the homophony of "what year, horse month". However, there is still no authoritative explanation for the origin of the Year of the Monkey and the Month of the Horse.
"Monkey Year, Horse Moon" has long been a daily expression used by people to hope that the things they want to achieve will come as soon as possible. Regarding the upcoming "Monkey Year and Horse Month" in 2016, some netizens said that they feel that many things they have been waiting for for a long time will come to fruition.