The origin of the year of Gengzi
In the middle of the dry branch adopted by the lunar calendar, the ancients took the heaven as the main thing, the earth as the subordinate, the heaven and the stem were connected as the heavenly stem, and the earth and the branch were connected as the earth branch, so there was the heaven and dry earth branch.
Regarding the rules of the Tiangandi Branch Chronicle, in the following figure, there are ten Tiangan and Twelve Earth Branches, and Jiazi and Yi ugly... For the order (six circles of heaven and dryness, five circles of earth branches) and so on and on without repeating, sixty years, for one nail.
The year of Gengzi is one of them.
Historical "Historical Facts" about the Year of Gengzi
As an ancient civilization with a long history, there are many major events that occurred in the year of Gengzi. For example, in 220, in the year of Gengzi, Cao Cao fell ill and died, Cao Pi forced Emperor Han to offer the throne and establish Wei; in 700, a generation of famous ministers Di Renjie died; in 880, Huang Chao finally "burst through Chang'an" and so on. Of course, these are not well known to ordinary people because of their long history.
On the other hand, if we talk about the year of Gengzi in modern history, it should be called the "year of disaster", both because people are familiar with "recent events" and reflect the "sensory gap" brought about by the strong contrast between China and the world.
The year of Gengzi in 1840 coincided with the twentieth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, and this year is often regarded as the beginning of modern Chinese history. When a decadent twilight dynasty collided with the emerging British Empire that had completed the Industrial Revolution, we now see the number of victories and losses clear. But for the Qing Dynasty, it was still immersed in the arrogance of "my heavenly kingdom and abundant products" with Magarni forty years ago, and the strong ship and cannon were only external, and the inside was this ancient civilization that was ahead of the world for thousands of years, and it was truly derailed from the world. In the end, the Treaty of Nanking was signed, and the humiliating chapter of modern history began.
In 1900, in the year of Gengzi, Empress Dowager Cixi, a woman who had helped the Qing Dynasty to falter for decades, showed us a more extreme "Waterloo". Under the Boxers' "sword and gun inadverts", they used their strength to declare war on the Eight-Nation Alliance, which in the eyes of Zhang Zhidong and others was tantamount to hitting a stone with a pebble, but Cixi still did it, which was short-sighted ignorance, and it was also the embodiment of the gap between the Qing Dynasty and the West at that time. The result was naturally that Emperor Cixi fled west with Guangxu, and the Treaty of Xinugu was signed. The cession of 450 million taels of silver, Taiwan Island and other places is even worse, and the term is appropriate.
In 1960, as we all know; in 2020, a new crown pneumonia also made the year of Gengzi and the "year of disaster" like a shadow, and it seems to be a real notoriety.
But is this true?
The first question that many people overlook is that as of today (2020/2/2) is the year of Gengzi in the lunar calendar? After the Xinhai Revolution, Yuan Shikai signed a decree to change the lunar calendar to the Gregorian calendar, and the Spring Festival was also equated with the New Year, which made the general public think that the Spring Festival was the beginning of the year, after all, even the twenty-four solar terms were also based on the Gregorian calendar.
But in the old system of the lunar calendar, Li Chun is the beginning of the year. This year's Spring Festival is at 17:03:12 on February 4, 2020. That is to say, in theory, it is still the Year of the Pig, and two days later it will be the new Year of Gengzi, if it is said that the year of disaster is not to blame for the Year of the Self-Hai.
At this point, the requirement that Vulcan Mountain Hospital be completed before Lichun should also have people's hopes for a new beginning in the new year and curb the epidemic.
The second is the real historical facts under the blinding eye of Mount Tai in a leaf. Due to the vast history, we will only take the Ming Dynasty as an example. The Ming Dynasty began with the establishment of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ming emperor, in 1368, and ended in 1644, when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, a total of 276 years of national rule. So how many natural disasters did the Ming Dynasty suffer? The so-called natural disasters include, but are not limited to: floods, droughts, locust plagues, earthquakes, etc.
Due to the different calibers of statistics, the statistics of various historians are biased. The data given by Mr. Ju Mingku is 5641 times, and these disasters are also extensive, as well as time uncertainty, including almost all time points of the Ming Dynasty. In particular, after the Chongzhen Emperor ascended to the throne at the end of the Ming Dynasty, including but not limited to the year of Gengzi, drought and locust plague in Shandong, Shanxi, and Shaanxi; pneumonic plague and other plagues in the Gyeonggi generation were frequent.
And it has to be said that in this long history, the subjective factors of human beings have brought about disasters. Whether it is the barbaric killing of Qin Zongquan, Huang Chao, Zhu Wen, Nurhaci, Dolgun and others, it will not change depending on the time point, whether it is the year of Gengzi or not.
In the face of disasters, the important reason why people are different from animals is the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. 2020 is no different from other years, but it is just an ordinary year. In the face of disasters, as long as we do not believe in rumors and rumors, and work hard with one heart, we will not be able to live in peace.