*19 Feb 2015*Year of sheep/goat* 2015 Chinese New Year 15-Day Festivals 2015 Chinese New Year Parade 2015 Chinese New Year 2015 Year of Green SheepThe first day of the 2015 Chinese New Year is on February 19, 2015 in Chinas time zone. This day is a new moon day, and is the first day of the first Chinese lunar month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar system. The exact new moon time is at 07:48 a.m. on 19-Feb-2015 in Chinas time zone. The Year 2015 is the 4712th Chinese year. The Chinese believe that the first king of China was the Yellow King (he was not the first emperor of China). The Yellow King became king in 2697 B.C., therefore China will enter the 4712th year on February 19, 2015. Also, the Chinese Year uses the cycle of 60 Stem-Branch counting systems and the Green Wood Sheep is the 32nd Stem-Branch in the cycle. Since (60 *78) + 32 = 4712, therefore 2015 is the Wooden Sheep year, which is the 4712th Chinese Year. 2015 is the year of Sheep. Some people say 2015 is a Green Sheep or Wooden Sheep year. This is because the Stem-Branch Calendar is connected to the Five Element theory. Chinese calendars used the Stem-Branch system to count the days, months and years. There are 10 Stems and 12 Branches in this system. Stems are named by the Yin-Yang and Five Elements (Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth). The Stem sequence order is Chinese Horoscopes Yang Wood, Yin Wood, Yang Fire, Yin Fire, Yang Earth, Yin Earth, Yang Metal, Yin Metal, Yang Water and Yin Water. Branches use animal names. The Branch sequence order is 12 Chinese Zodiac Sign Rat, Cow, Tiger, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Chicken, Dog and Pig. Stem and Branch are used together to form a cycle of 60 counting systems which begin with WoodenRatMale WoodMouseWooden Rat and end with Water Pig WaterPigWater Pig. You can see the entire sequence from the Chinese New Years page. From 1924 to 1983 is a complete cycle. Year 2015 is Female Wood Sheep WoodSheep YearFemale Wood2015 Sheepthe 32nd of the Stem-Branch in the system. Because Wood is connected to Tree or Greenin the Five-Element system, Year 2015 is also called the Green Sheepyear. A Sheep is a farmland animal. Sheep are herbivore and like to eat grass. Therefore, Sheep contains Earth and Wood in Chinese Five Element theory. The Sheep hour of Chinese Horoscopes is from 1 P.M. to 3 P.M. The ground has absorbed lots of heat at noon. July is connected to Sheep. July is still summer. Therefore, Sheep also contains Fire. Some Chinese eat lamb during the winter in order to keep warm. Sheep is one of Chinese lucky animals. Sheep doesnt have to do the farm work. Instead, all the farmland jobs go to the Ox. Therefore, Ox doesnt like Sheep. Sheep have freedom to look for any kind of grasses. They never worry about running out of grass. They have mild personality and are friendly to human. Chinese treat Sheep as an auspicious animal. 2015 Year of Sheep - Three Goats Start Fortune 3 Goats welcome 2015 Chinese New YearIn the Chinese New Year of Sheep, Chinese always mention San-Yang-Kai-Tai Three Sheep Auspicious Begin, which means Three Goats Start Fortune. Actually the term is from Three Yang Auspicious Begin, which means Three Yang Start Fortune. Chinese replace Chinese Yang Character by Chinese Sheep Character. Both Chinese Yang Character and Chinese Sheep Character are pronounced as Yang. Chinese Sheep Character is Sheep. Chinese Yang Character is Male and is the word from Chinese Yin Yang Character Yin Yang. Three Yang Auspicious Begin San-Yang-Kai-Tai is from I Ching, which is the most profound foundation of Chinese philosophy. It states the natural phenomena of our universe, then applies it on people relationships in the family, organization, government and the nation. The nature rule of the universe (Dao) is Yin and Yang. I Ching uses the symbol of broken bar Chinese Yin as Yin and the solid bar Chinese Yang as Yang. Yin is female, cold, earth or down. Yang is male, hot, sky or up. In the morning, sky is hot and ground is still cold; the Little Yang Little Yang is assigned. At noon, sky and ground are hot, which is Big Yang Big Old Yang. In the evening, sky is cold and ground is still hot, which is Little Yin Little Yin. At night, both sky and ground are cold, which is Big Old Yin is Big Yin. Human live between sky and ground. By adding the human layer with Yin and Yang on those four symbols, they become Eight Trigrams (Ba Kua), which are Sky Sky, Lake Lake, Fire Fire, Thunder Thunder, Wind Wind, Water Water, Mountain Mountain, Earth Earth. Thats natural phenomena in humans eyes. Combining two trigrams together, they become I Ching 64 Hexagrams. One hexagram has 6 bars. When applying Yin and Yang on them, we have 12 hexagrams standing for 12 months. December is the first Yang growing from the ground. January has two Yang on the ground. February has three Yang on the ground. Full six Yang is in the May. The first Yin grows in June. Full Yin is in the November. December January February March April May June July August September October November Earth-Thunder Earth-Lake Earth-Sky Thunder-Sk Lake-Sky Sky-Heaven Sky-Wind Sky-Mountain Sky-Earth Wind-Earth Mountain-Earth Earth-Ground Earth-Thunder Earth-Lake Earth-Sky Thunder-Sky Lake-Sky Sky-Heaven Sky-Wind Sky-Mountain Sky-Earth Wind-Earth Mountain-Earth Earth-Ground 1 Yang 2 Yang 3 Yang 4 Yang 5 Yang Full Yang 1 Yin 2 Yin 3 Yin 4 Yin 5 Yin Full Yin Rat Cow Tiger Rabbit Dragon Snake Horse Sheep Monkey Chicken Dog Pig Therefore, Three Yang Auspicious Begin San-Yang-Kai-Tai is from Earth-SkyEarth-Sky, which contains the meaning of peace, harmony and good fortune. The time is in Tiger Month, which starts around on February 4 each year. Chinese Lunar New Year usually is near on beginning date of Tiger month. Three Auspicious Sheep becomes auspicious phase for Chinese New Year. The Snake month is full of Yang. The Horse Month has five Yang. Sheep Month has four Yang. Yang is hot. In Chinese astrology, Snake, Horse and Sheep are in the Fire cycle. The Sheep is the last year of Fire cycle. 2016 will be Monkey Year, which is the Metal cycle. Therefore, 2015 is the turning point year. We need to review what we gained and lost in the past two years. In 2015, we need to prepare a new plan for 2016. More I-Ching interpretation...
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