Fire horse
The fire horse or fire horse ( Bingwu , Chinese 丙午 , Pinyin bǐngwǔ , or Japanese ひ の え う ま Hinoe uma ) is the 43rd year of the Chinese calendar (see table). It is a term from the field of Chinese astrology and describes those lunar years that are linked by a connection of the third heavenly stem ( amm , bǐng , element fire and yang ) with the seventh earth branch ( 午 , wǔ ), symbolized by the horse ( 馬 / 马 , mǎ ) are characterized.
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Animal 地支 |
子 |
丑 |
寅 |
卯 |
辰 |
巳 |
午 |
未 |
申 |
酉 |
戌 |
亥 |
Year 天干 地支 |
1 甲 子 |
2 乙 丑 |
3 丙 寅 |
4 丁 卯 |
5 戊 辰 |
6 己 巳 |
7 庚 午 |
8 辛 Unfilled |
9 壬 申 |
10 癸 酉 |
11 甲 戌 |
12 乙 亥 |
Year 天干 地支 |
13 丙 子 |
14 丁 丑 |
15 戊 寅 |
16 己 卯 |
17 庚 辰 |
18 辛 巳 |
19 壬 午 |
20 癸 Unfilled |
21 甲 申 |
22 乙 酉 |
23 丙 戌 |
24 丁 亥 |
Year 天干 地支 |
25 戊 子 |
26 己 丑 |
27 庚 寅 |
28 辛 卯 |
29 壬 辰 |
30 癸 巳 |
31 甲 午 |
32 乙 Unfilled |
33 丙 申 |
34 丁 酉 |
35 戊 戌 |
36 己 亥 |
Year 天干 地支 |
37 庚 子 |
38 辛 丑 |
39 壬 寅 |
40 癸 卯 |
41 甲 辰 |
42 乙 巳 |
43 丙 午 |
44 丁 Unfilled |
45 戊 申 |
46 己 酉 |
47 庚 戌 |
48 辛 亥 |
Year 天干 地支 |
49 壬 子 |
50 癸 丑 |
51 甲 寅 |
52 乙 卯 |
53 丙 辰 |
54 丁 巳 |
55 戊 午 |
56 己 Unfilled |
57 庚 申 |
58 辛 酉 |
59 壬 戌 |
60 癸 亥 |
According to the Chinese calendar , such a connection occurs every 60 years. The last Fire Horse year began in 1966 and lasted from January 21, 1966 to February 8, 1967 due to the deviation of the Chinese from the Gregorian calendar year .
In the area of influence of Chinese astrology, which today is no longer limited to parts of the population in East Asia, but has also spread to the western world as a result of migration, the Fire Horse Years are considered to be particularly eventful in the good as well as especially in the bad sense, which is why, for example Great San Francisco earthquake in 1906 was associated with this constellation.
According to a traditional notion that is still widespread today, women who are born in a fire horse year bring harm to their own family and that of their husbands and are therefore particularly difficult to marry off. Therefore, according to a study by Kanae Kaku occurred in 1966 in Japan to a significant increase in the abortion rate of women and the mortality rate of newborns that as an indication of possible cases of by these superstitions motivated infanticide should be assessed. In 1966, the number of newborns in Japan also fell by around 500,000. This corresponds to a decrease of around 25% compared to the level of previous years. In the following year 1967 the old level was reached again.
Fire Horse Years
In the Chinese calendar cycle, the year of the fire horse 丙午 is the 43rd year. (at the beginning of the year wood snake 乙巳)
literature
- Kanae Kaku: Increased induced abortion rate in 1966, an aspect of a Japanese folk superstition . In: Annals of Human Biology . 2, 2, 1975, ISSN 0301-4460 , pp. 111-115.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reiner Klingholz and Gabriele Vogt: Demographic new territory - Japan has to find answers to a shrinking and aging society faster than Germany . P. 11; Berlin Institute for Population and Development, 2013