Year of the Tiger: Benming Year

About Benming Year
Benming years (one’s year of birth considered in relation to the 12 Terrestrial Branches) is twelve years – the event where the year of the Lunar Zodiac, commonly known as the Zodiac year. Example Monkey people born every year is their Benming Shin years. In the traditional custom, the Benming years is often considered an unlucky year. “Benming years, guilty of Tai Sui, Tai Sui take the lead to sit, there must be trouble-free hi” folk Benming years on the best portrayal of less auspicious. Therefore, people usually “Benming Year”, also known as “threshold child years”, that is, through the Benming years as a threshold into the same child. Benming every year, the Han Chinese all over the north, both children and adults have to buy a red belt fastened, commonly known as “rolling red” and the children would also like to wear red socks, red pants (commonly known as “Benming old 3-like”) that in order to avoid increasingly Kat fierce, avoid disasters. This custom is still around today, popular during the Spring Festival, the market for sale everywhere, “Lucky Belt” “good luck knot” red and yellow ribbons, Benming years, people will of the tied waist, wrist, so


that digestion can be scourge of fierce for Kyrgyzstan.
It is worth noting: Most people think that Chinese New Year’s Day in January is the beginning of the new year begin to Benming years is wrong, for the Lunar New Year, the 24 solar terms are subject to the beginning of spring.
My habit of mind that a person’s birth zodiac, the cycle of once every twelve years. If the child were born in Rat, Zaiyu child years, is this person’s Benming years.

Benming years, the origin of
“Benming Year” this statement as early as the Western Han Dynasty, there had originated in the Chinese Zodiac and the “worship red” psychological. In ancient China, people are using B, C Ding, Zi Chou Yin Mao and other combinations of attribution to remember the year born, in order to facilitate memory and projection, it is on the use of rat, cattle and other 12 kinds of animals to correspond with the 12 Earthly Branches of the methods, each using one of these animals as this year’s Zodiac. The Han nationality is the year of Benming released in accordance with the zodiac sign of the Zodiac iterative, and it is closely linked with the Chinese zodiac. A person born in what is the Chinese New Year that year, then each subsequent year of this sign of the Zodiac is the person’s Benming, thanks to the cycle of Chinese zodiac every 12 years, people must face their own Benming years, and this in turn introduction of life Benming years 12 years 24-year-old, 36-year-old, 48-year-old, 60-year-old … …. Many of our peoples have great importance to the elderly 60-year-old birthday custom, commonly known as “sixties”, his sixtieth for the first five Benming life, and also of a cycle of Ganzhi reign to be a good celebration, begging people to live longer as sustenance, health, good fortune愿望.

Benming-year taboo
Benming in private has a broad impact in the north and south folk, there are red evil hanging in the years to hide Benming disaster tradition. Benming every year so people on the special favorite of red. Benming years, stress should be derived from the red Chinese Han ethnic traditional culture of worship for the red. Red evil spirits, red good luck, this concept has existed as early as in primitive society, the red is the color of the sun, is the color of blood is the color of fire. With the changing times, this idea has not changed is still red, red paste New Year couplets, Han’s old-fashioned wedding wedding red wedding dress, red scarf, red candles, red table, and so the new section, regardless of when and where, It should be red to add festive. Han Chinese into the red as a happy, successful, Zhong-yong, and a symbol of justice, in particular, that the red and there is evil of body effect. So New Year’s Eve, people are early to wear red underwear, red belt, or tied, and some players also wear ornaments hung with red silk cord, to meet their own Benming years. Think that in order to avoid danger, avoid disasters. These evil spirits for years, the red belongings Benming what is often said, “Benming red.”
Every year there are people Benming worship “Benming God” customs, in order to life extension. Benming God’s claim comes from Taoism. Taoism absorbed a popular “Benming,” saying that “Benming Star”, “Benming Year”, “Natal Day” theory. Where I was born in the year 60 Jiazi Ganzhi called Natal. Yuan Chen, also known as Natal years. As a Chinese native religion, Taoism nature and the Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches, Chinese zodiac has a natural affinity and relationships. For the Tibetan Gods, and some place called “Benming Shou-life Xing Jun,” and some called “Benming Yuan-chen”, collectively referred to as 60 jiazi God. To Jiazi years led sixty people who were born in different years can find their own Tibetan Gods. Such as the national hero Yue Fei was born in the year 1103, traditional Chinese lunar calendar 癸未, his Benming Xing Jun as “癸未 Tai Sui Ren-2 Great General.” Accordance with the Taoist view, Xiuzhen Lian Xing must make efforts to Benming Yuan Chen, Benming years or normal years Sunday Benming Yuan-chen, will be fu misfortunes has become a popular practice so far.
Benming years, starting from the first month started this count. For the year 2010, over Benming big tigers are concerned, very fortunate that next year is a good Benming years, to take advantage of, everything will be smooth, and there will be new developments Oh. But while the Benming is down, the better not forget that not only have to wear red underwear, it is convenient but also wear red string may be based on personal preferences, habits tied wrist, neck, waist, and red rope is generally not take, and New Year’s Day the whole year until the arrival of a rope, jade ornaments can be hung or goldsmith. Particular, remember that the red underwear, underwear must be sent to someone else, because to say that if he bought, then would lose the effect of evil spirits. Also to be put on the red insole (foot to make the world villain), so good luck with the first step, the first step started!
The private sector have Benming year (Kaner years) married good argument, saying that the fate of a transported into a cycle of twelve years. After the spread so far from the end of Han, there is the “folic artemisiae,” put in dowry in to ward off evil, pray for happiness, peace, good luck, forever.

Benming years, other things
About “Benming years” there will not be unique to the Han people, in fact, some of China’s ethnic minorities also have a similar view. According to the old Tibetan saying, each have a fierce and auspicious day, which is calculated according to the birthday. One Lord, one Earthly Branches each end of the Tibetan calendar, the second at the beginning of the Earthly Branches, when a “Duo” (meaning threshold, that is, Xiongnian) so each person’s 13-year-old, 25-year-old, 37 years old (and so on) That year taboo to go out and contact with the Chow Sang Sang, it should only recite the sutras, put in more multi-Busch, in order to avoid disaster. For China’s Khitan ethnic minorities, too “Benming Year” of this practice was first born Khitan people to celebrate the beginning of a custom. In the Liao Dynasty, over “Benming Year” ceremony, also known as renewable or re-birth ceremony, due to the time of the Liao Dynasty in 12 Chinese Zodiac Calendar, Chinese Zodiac cycle of once every 12 years, to the Zodiac that belonging to each birth – year, will hold a ceremony to commemorate their own the origin of-sheng, repay the mother’s parenting of the TU.
Overall, Benming years blessing or a curse, or the majority of people believe it: Benming years, Yoshinori get things in motion, Hongyun face, irresistible; back is full of hurdles eyeful are threshold, bad luck to say home It is still uncertain. But what is certain is that Benming years Xiongnian this argument is no scientific basis. However, in Natal, the people are often not Suixin encounter many things, or do some ridiculous things that people find it very strange that this “Benming” phenomenon in the study of folklore is still a blank. Therefore, people tend to over Benming years is very worried about their good fortune this year, would like to use any way over that threshold is the majority of people the biggest thing Benming year. What is even more ironic is that, every year is approaching, businessmen took full advantage of the psychological characteristics of people to stay out of trouble, and vigorously promote “Benming Year” commodities – such as what the red underwear, red underwear and so on, to seize the business opportunities big money . Today’s Benming years have, and our traditional customs, like some other lost its inherent meaning, become a business of a beak head propaganda. Most of us will come to “prefer to believe them, not be trusted that it had no” ‘The attitude of conformity to such a trend, or when it is a new fashion. “Benming Year” wear red clothes, red belt system is not simply to “evil spirits”, which are becoming increasingly evolved into a popular trend.
In our country the Central Plains region, especially in the vicinity of the Songshan Shaolin Temple, Benming rookie year of marriage dowry must be put in a number of “folic artemisiae” to ward off evil and to pray for peace, luck, happiness, forever.

Astronomy Calendar and Benming Year
Ancient Chinese calendar, is to use a combination of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches to Annals of. Classical Literature, “Journey to the West,” the first chapter there is a saying, “not in the mountains Jiazi cold do not know years.” By “cycle of sixty years,” which entails the use Ganzhi Annals calendar. This means that, due to the mountains which there is no calendar, 24 solar terms in the Osamu, Dahan has passed, still do not know the coming New Year.
Ancient use of Ganzhi Annals of the method is very scientific, but at the time and, later, a long social process, can literate people, after all, a tiny minority. Use B, C Ding, Zi Chou Yin Mao and other combinations of attribution to remember the year born, which for the majority of illiterate people is very difficult. In order to facilitate memory and projection, it is on the use of mice, cows and other 12 kinds of animals to correspond with the 12 Earthly Branches ways in which an animal annually as the year of the Zodiac. OO by two years, such as Lunar New Year is the Year of Monkey, the sign of the Zodiac is the monkey. Remember Jiashen on-year comparison difficult, much easier to remember the year of the Monkey. Historically, people marry and have children later, not registered, against the civilian population for the child was born that year to remember remember Daoshi era name does not matter, remember that the child can be a sign of the Zodiac. Therefore, the sign of the Zodiac has played a role in strengthening memory. This kind of age, the memory of a special method to become one of China’s folk culture distinctive features. As the 10 Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches 12, so every over twelve years is a small cycles, each over six decades is a large cycle (a flower jiazi). This means that everyone will meet once every twelve years and he was born that year, the same sign of the Zodiac years, which is what people said Benming years.

Benming years of appeal
The ancients believed that person’s life, from the emperor down to the foot soldiers of the people, there will be seven-eight difficult disaster, civil generally agreed that Benming Xiongnian years, is human life course in a “threshold.” This metaphor shows people’s mental development will undoubtedly create a huge impact, so people stay out of trouble like the mentality of birth. Why do people have such fear of the Benming year mentality is this?
Benming years, why would the hearts of all mortal beings have a very strong appeal? If this is in large part by China’s traditional culture, then the impact of numerology theory is interesting is that in many books on numerology that has not found that the exposition, an astrologer the book of “Yuan-chen” is defined and Taoism are also varies greatly; If such a fear psychology is haunted by the words of feudal superstition, but life is actually someone who has encountered in years, more or less Benming not Suixin’s strange, some people think that Benming annual meeting to do some ridiculous things. Liu Xinwu in the “About Benming Year” a paper also says that people’s psychological development from the point of view, Benming in people’s lives in the process they often can be a big “shortcomings”, constitute a dangerous period.
For the Benming-year view, different opinions, merits and demerits of, it is difficult to determine conclusively. However, “Benming” The phenomenon is indeed a folk research of a blank spot.
Benming years, the origins of the Department of red belt
In the private sector, was that “Benming year” will encounter a lot of bad luck, asserting that only a solution, in order to resolve. Therefore, “Benming Year” in the Chinese lunar calendar 30 day, from sunset to sunrise the next day, should the Department of red belt, wear red clothes as a way to ward off evil drive evil, and pray for Geely. Now people still adhere to the “Benming years” to wear red clothes, the Department of red belt habits.
There is also a legend, every Benming years, when the Lunar New Year visit the patron saint of going to heaven, according to the present argument is to report on his work, there will be dinner, this time the protection of persons will be weakened, it will be filled Shung evil demons, red can be go to disaster evil spirits, which is “New Year” couplets, the origins of fireworks are associated with it, so people with wear red clothes, red belt to come and go the Department of Disaster evil spirits, and later carried forward by the people, and even underwear, socks should be red, but also To red insoles, to tread the villain, are driven to express people’s desire to ward off evil and disaster.

Benming Year customs
The so-called “Benming Year” is the twelve years – the event where the year of the Lunar Zodiac, commonly known as the Zodiac year. For example Monkey people born in 2004, is their Benming years. In the traditional custom, the Benming years is often considered an unlucky year. “Benming years, guilty of Tai Sui, Tai Sui take the lead to sit, there must be trouble-free hi” folk clerks Benming years on the best portrayal of less auspicious. Therefore, people usually “Benming Year”, also known as “threshold child years”, that is, through the Benming years as a threshold into the same child. Benming every year, the Han Chinese all over the north, both children and adults have to buy a red belt fastened, commonly known as “rolling red” and the children would also like to wear red vests, red pants, believing it to avoid danger, avoid disasters. This custom is still around today, popular during the Spring Festival, the market for sale everywhere, “Lucky Belt” “good luck knot” red and yellow ribbons, Benming years, people will of the tied waist, wrist, so that digestion can be scourge of fierce for Kyrgyzstan.
According to research, “Benming Year” this statement as early as the Western Han Dynasty, there had originated in the Chinese Zodiac and the “worship red” psychological. In ancient China, people are using B, C Ding, Zi Chou Yin Mao and other combinations of attribution to remember the year born, in order to facilitate memory and projection, it is on the use of rat, cattle and other 12 kinds of animals to correspond with the 12 Earthly Branches of the methods, each using one of these animals as this year’s Zodiac. The Han nationality is the year of Benming released in accordance with the zodiac sign of the Zodiac iterative, and it is closely linked with the Chinese zodiac. A person born in what is the Chinese New Year that year, then each subsequent year of this sign of the Zodiac is the person’s Benming, thanks to the cycle of Chinese zodiac every 12 years, people must face their own Benming years, and this in turn launch of the amount of years of life Benming 12 years, 24 years old, 36-year-old, 48-year-old, 60-year-old … …. Many of our peoples have great importance to the elderly 60-year-old birthday custom, commonly known as “sixties”, his sixtieth for the first five Benming life, and also of a cycle of Ganzhi reign to be a good celebration, begging people to live longer as sustenance, health, good fortune愿望.
“Benming” taboo, in civil society has a broad impact in the north and south folk, there are red evil hanging in the years to hide Benming disaster tradition. Benming every year so people on the special favorite of red. Benming years, stress should be derived from the red Chinese Han ethnic traditional culture of worship for the red. Red evil spirits, red good luck, this concept has existed as early as in primitive society, the red is the color of the sun, is the color of blood is the color of fire. With the changing times, this idea has not changed is still red, red paste New Year couplets, Han’s old-fashioned wedding wedding red wedding dress, red scarf, red candles, red table, and so the new section, regardless of when and where, It should be red to add festive. Han Chinese into the red as a happy, successful, Zhong-yong, and a symbol of justice, in particular, that the red and there is evil of body effect. So New Year’s Eve, people are early to wear red underwear, red belt, or tied, and some players also wear ornaments hung with red silk cord, to meet their own Benming years. Think that in order to avoid danger, avoid disasters. These evil spirits for years, the red belongings Benming what is often said, “Benming red.”
Every year there are people Benming worship “Benming God” customs, in order to life extension. Benming God’s claim comes from Taoism. Taoism absorbed a popular “Benming,” saying that “Benming Star”, “Benming Year”, “Natal Day” theory. Where I was born in the year 60 Jiazi Ganzhi called Natal. Yuan Chen, also known as Natal years. As a Chinese native religion, Taoism nature and the Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches, Chinese zodiac has a natural affinity and relationships. For the Tibetan Gods, and some place called “Benming Shou-life Xing Jun,” and some called “Benming Yuan-chen”, collectively referred to as 60 jiazi God. To Jiazi years led sixty people who were born in different years can find their own Tibetan Gods. Such as the national hero Yue Fei was born in the year 1103, traditional Chinese lunar calendar 癸未, his Benming Xing Jun as “癸未 Tai Sui Ren-2 Great General.” Accordance with the Taoist view, Xiuzhen Lian Xing must make efforts to Benming Yuan Chen, Benming years or normal years Sunday Benming Yuan-chen, will be fu misfortunes has become a popular practice so far.
About “Benming years” there will not be unique to the Han people, in fact, some of China’s ethnic minorities also have a similar view. According to the old Tibetan saying, each have a fierce and auspicious day, which is calculated according to the birthday. One Lord, one Earthly Branches each end of the Tibetan calendar, the second at the beginning of the Earthly Branches, when a “Duo” (meaning threshold, that is, Xiongnian) so each person’s 13-year-old, 25-year-old, 37 years old (and so on) That year taboo to go out and contact with the Chow Sang Sang, it should only recite the sutras, put in more multi-Busch, in order to avoid disaster. For China’s Khitan ethnic minorities, too “Benming Year” of this practice was first born Khitan people to celebrate the beginning of a custom. In the Liao Dynasty, over “Benming Year” ceremony, also known as renewable or re-birth ceremony, due to the time of the Liao Dynasty in 12 Chinese Zodiac Calendar, Chinese Zodiac cycle of once every 12 years, to the Zodiac that belonging to each birth – year, will hold a ceremony to commemorate their own the origin of-sheng, repay the mother’s parenting of the TU.
Overall, Benming years blessing or a curse, or the majority of people believe it: Benming years, get things in motion along a Fortune take the lead, irresistible; carrying around a barrier, eyeful are threshold, bad luck to say home It is still uncertain. But what is certain is that Benming years Xiongnian this argument is no scientific basis. However, in Natal, the people are often not Suixin encounter many things, or do some ridiculous things that people find it very strange that this “Benming” phenomenon in the study of folklore is still a blank. Therefore, people tend to over Benming years is very worried about their good fortune this year, would like to use any way over that threshold is the majority of people the biggest thing Benming year. What is even more ironic is that, every year is approaching, businessmen took full advantage of the psychological characteristics of people to stay out of trouble, and vigorously promote “Benming Year” commodities – such as what the red underwear, red underwear and so on, to seize the business opportunities big money . Today’s Benming years have, and our traditional customs, like some other lost its inherent meaning, become a business of a beak head propaganda. Most of us will come to “prefer to believe them, not be trusted that it had no” ‘The attitude of conformity to such a trend, or when it is a new fashion “Benming Year” wear red clothes, red belt nor the Department of simply in order to “evil spirits”, which has become a popular fashion.

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