Chinese Lunar new year—Year of the Tiger
Tigro metai nustatomi pagal tradicinį kinų kalendorių. "Tigras" zodiake atitinka yin dvylikoje žemiškųjų šakų. Tigro metai yra yin metai, o kas dvylika metų yra ciklas. Pavyzdžiui, 2022 metai Grigaliaus kalendoriuje iš esmės atitinka Tigro metus, tai yra Renyino metus.
Šešiasdešimties metų laikotarpiu dangaus stiebai yra: Jia,Yi,Bing,Ding,Wu,Ji,Geng,Xin,Ren,Gui ir 12 žemiškų šakų yra: Zi Chou Yin Mao Chen Si Wu Shen You Xu Hai. Išdėstyta iš Jiazi, Yichou, Bingyin, Dingmao ir kt., Tiksliai 60 eilučių užbaigia vieną ciklą. Tai šiek tiek sudėtinga ir sunku prisiminti, todėl senovės žmonės galvojo naudoti gyvūnus, kad išreikštų sudėtingas žemiškas šakas, kurios yra zodiakas. Zi žiurkė, bjaurusis jautis, Yin tigras, Mao triušis, Chen drakonas, Si gyvatė, Wu Ma, Wei avys, Shen beždžionė, tu gaidys, Xu šuo ir Hai kiaulė.

During the Spring Festival, there are various customs and cultural differences throughout the country. The celebrations during the Spring Festival are extremely rich and diverse, including lion dance, color floating, dragon dance, wandering gods, temple fairs, flower street shopping, flower lanterns, gongs and drums, vernier flags, fireworks burning, blessing, spring throwing, stilt walking, dry boat running, Yangko dancing and so on. During the Spring Festival, it can be seen everywhere, such as sticking New Year's red, keeping the new year's watch, eating reunion dinner and paying New Year's greetings. However, due to different local conditions and customs, the details have their own characteristics. With various forms and rich contents, the Spring Festival folk custom is a concentrated display of the essence of the life and culture of the Chinese nation. [38-41]
The Spring Festival is a day to get rid of the old and introduce the new. Although the Spring Festival is set on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the activities of the Spring Festival are not limited to the first day of the first month. From the end of the year, people began to "busy year": offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, purchasing new year goods, pasting New Year's red, washing hair and bathing, lighting lanterns and decorations, etc. all these activities have a common theme, that is, "leaving the old and welcoming the new". The Spring Festival is a festival of joy, harmony and family reunion. It is also a carnival and eternal spiritual pillar for people to express their longing for happiness and freedom. The Spring Festival is also a day for worshipping ancestors and praying for new years. Sacrifice is a kind of belief activity. It is a belief activity created by human survival activities in ancient times, hoping to live in harmony with nature
In the end,STARK hope you Happy year of the tiger, good health and good luck!