What is interesting about the eastern calendar? In that it differs from the Gregorian, where the New Year comes on January 1, and it is cyclical, consisting of sixty-year repetitions. The Wooden Rat (02/02/1984) begins the cycle, and the Water Pig (01/29/2044) finishes it. Twelve animals, changing each other, for 60 years pass through the four elements. The year 1993 was ruled by the Rooster.
New Years Eve
The day and month of the beginning of the year in the eastern calendar are tied to the lunar cycle. The first new moon on the New Year according to the Gregorian calendar indicates the start date of the year of the Eastern calendar. It turns out that the Eastern New Year comes on some of the days between January 21 and February 21. In China, the year of the Rooster in 1993 began on January 23.
The Chinese came up with a cyclic astrological system called Jikan Danshi, literally translated as a ten-barreled system with twelve branches. 10 trunks is an embodiment with the principles of yin-yang and vital elements: water, wood, fire, metal, and 12 branches are 12 terrestrial animals. The Eastern chronology was formed due to the development of astronomy and it is based on the lunar calendar. January 23, 1993 came 4691 year. People born on the days of January 23, 1993 and February 9, 1994 belong to the sign of the Water Rooster according to the Eastern Calendar.
Tradition of celebration
New Year in the countries of the East is called Chun Jie or in translation "holiday of spring". He is the longest of all celebrated. It used to be celebrated for a month, now it ends on the fifteenth day. Usually the festival of Chinese lanterns takes place on the last day of the holiday . Business life for this period also freezes. There is a good tradition in China: to be with the family on New Year's Eve. A beautiful name is given to the family holiday - "Family Reunion Day". Traditionally, the souls of dead people are present at the New Year's table, as is customary in China. This is their holiday.
Traditionally, Chinese people clean their homes, enabling favorable energy circulation. Unnecessary things accumulated during the year are thrown away. Chinese festive treats - dumplings. The houses are not decorated with spruce trees, as is customary in European countries, but with trays of tangerines and oranges. And the people themselves, dressed in elegant clothes whose color is red, gold or green, participate in festivities, masquerade processions, fairs.
New Year's gifts
On New Year's Eve, people go to visit, delivering gifts in red envelopes as a sign of wealth. This is done in the first five days of the New Year. Gifts must be paired, and also have a semantic character. Depending on the year 1993 according to the Eastern calendar, a present is necessarily associated with the iconic patron of this year. It can be souvenirs, amulets and charms with the image of the symbol of the coming year. Mandatory when giving a gift, as mentioned above, is one condition - pairing. For example, when visiting, the owner is given 2 tangerines, if there is a red envelope with money, there should be 2 notes, if this is a picture, something paired should be drawn on it. Gifts are given in private and given with two hands. That is the tradition!
Symbol of the year
The eastern calendar has in each year its patron animal, which is a symbol of the year. And he, in turn, is endowed with color and element. One patron of the year replaces another. And so once in 12 years. The element and color of the year change over a ten-year cycle. So in place of the Water Monkey came in 1993 the Black Water Rooster. This year was the second in a row under the element of a watermark. It was on January 23 that the Water Monkey handed over the reins of the sixty-year cycle to the Water Rooster. By the way, this is one of the most interesting symbols of the eastern calendar. According to the calendar, the element and color of the animal affect the events taking place this year for each person. So, if we talk about the varieties of the patron saint, the Rooster, like any other animal, goes through the following elements: metal, wood, fire, earth.
Beliefs
As one of the heroes of the film “Hot Desert Sun” said: “The East is a delicate matter,” and he was right. Eastern countries observe not only traditions, but follow superstitions. Moreover, this does not depend on the fact that 1993 is the Rooster, and before that was the year of the Monkey. The Chinese do not wash or wash anything in the first two days of the year. It is also not recommended to do needlework, any work with threads, so as not to confuse the lines of fate in the New Year (the threads represent them).
Beliefs include a ban on bad words (death, resentment, funeral ...), which have a negative connotation, it is not recommended to shop for shoes and cut hair before the New Year, as this can bring misfortune. And another equally interesting belief is that you don’t sleep at night before the New Year, thereby protecting yourself from troubles next year.
1993 Feature
The strengths of a person born in the year of the Rooster according to the Eastern calendar are: strong-willed character, responsibility, accuracy and integrity. They do not succumb to the merger of others and defend their point of view. They do not tolerate injustice, do not pretend to be someone else's. The main feature of people born under the sign of the year of the Rooster is nobility.
There is no man without weaknesses, since in nature everything should be harmonious and balanced. The weaknesses of people born in the year of the Rooster include a lack of tact and a poor command of diplomacy. Accurate and principled people who set as their goal to get a result are stubborn by nature and sometimes commit rash acts, going ahead. As a result, if something does not work out at the same time, they can become angry. People of the year of the Rooster are not happy about their temper, sometimes this trait of them leads to a breakdown in relations.
According to the horoscope
The astrological meaning of such concepts as “Rooster” and “money” is identical. Roosters have a flair for business people and are able to prudently relate to their income, making reserves. Sometimes they violate family budget items, demonstrating squandering. But this applies to male Roosters, more prone to squandering. Women born under this sign tend to carry money to the house. According to oriental astrology, the cock belongs to the female sign of Yin, therefore, whatever profession is chosen, that labor activity that is inherent in the female character will be the most successful and profitable.
Predictions
People are always interested in their future. Usually, before the New Year, the desire to look into the future, read horoscopes and predictions of magicians and astrologers is aggravated. The year 1993 was no exception. What is the sign of the horoscope and what it portends, as always, interested people, and especially those who were born in the year of the Rooster.
Among the predictions, one could find that the year of the Rooster always brings with it changes. Born in 1993, nature was rewarded with quick temper and a penchant for experiencing small things. Therefore, people who were born in the year of the Rooster, in 1993, thanks to the difficulties that fell to their lot, were able to appreciate the moments of true happiness. Great success was to be achieved by people who were able to learn how to work with their weaknesses and manage themselves. The recommendations included wearing the Year of the Rooster mascot made of topaz or ruby.
It is worth respecting the animal of the Eastern horoscope, whose year has not yet ended. It is worth remembering that the Gregorian New Year is in no way connected with the New Year according to the Eastern calendar, which arrives only at the end of January. Do not forget that "East is a delicate matter."